Frodo
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Thing is, when compared to Civil War or Spider-man: No Way Home. It shows that the film could have had more cameos and could have worked fine. Even at their most minimal. We have seen it work before, so there is no excuse really. But for whatever reason though i guess they cut them out. But its not like the Illuminati were used very well anyway. Even by those number of cameos it almost felt like they had already hit their limit as they were not used particularly well. They shortened it down to 5-6 cameos and couldn't even do that very well. Even though they were all in the same scenes.
TBH the film was better without the Illuminati. Sadly they were not the hype point of the film that you would expect them to be. My theater audience didn't really react to them, or their deaths.
You really did have to go into this movie with low expectations. I went in with mild expectations and i liked it. But i did expect a little bit more from it.
I also think a few more quick cameos would have been fine as long as they fit organically into the story as with Civil War.
And truthfully, I doubt there'd be too many in fandom complaining now about too many cameos had some more fan favorites appeared in quick scenes.
I highly doubt these boards would be filled with complaints had that been the case.
Cameo's are only an issue if there really isn't any there there in terms of story, and the cameos are the best part of the film.
It depends on the story ,and if the cameos serve the story it can work.
So I don't buy into the idea that the film would have somehow would automatically have been worse with more cameos.
That said, my issue with the film isn't that there weren't enough cameos, and at the end of the day, I'm fine with what we got.