In fact, looking at the overall landscape years out, I have to say, this very moment in cinema is the most excited I've been in a long, long time. Probably since 2014 or so, when things like Interstellar and Star Wars were on the horizon (before we actually saw TFA and TLJ), knowing what was coming in the MCU, etc. Heck, even the DCEU was still full of potential and excitement back then.
But I can't remember being this hyped and hopeful since. Not only in terms of 2020, but Endgame was obviously an all timer, and then we have the end of the Skywalker Saga this year with Episode IX, along with Ad Astra, Joker, and a few other year really great-looking dramas and Oscar hopefuls over the next five months.
And then, 2021, for all of its sequels, seems like a ton of fun as well. We get a brand new Batman take from an amazing filmmaker, we get another Mission: Impossible movie from Christopher McQuarrie (and then another in 2022!), along with Thor: Love and Thunder, James Gunn's return with The Suicide Squad, and a ton more. Even the eye-roll-inducing sequels that year are at least interesting... a third Jurassic World with the original Jurassic Park cast, one last Indiana Jones with Harrison Ford, the first Avatar sequel... I can't say I'm particularly looking forward to any of those, but they'll at least be kind of "fun" to track.
Beyond that, 2022 begins the next iteration of Star Wars, the MCU heavy hitters likely return (Black Panther 2, GOTG3, Spider-Man 3), and, again, more Mission: Impossible, more Avatar, etc. It's not all going to be great, obviously, but it's definitely not going to be a bland next few years.
Add to that all the streaming services that will be releasing this year and next - and supplementing a lot of this material - at it really does feel like we're on the cusp of brave, new new cinematic world...
