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Seems to me like TLM is doing exceedingly well domestically. I think it's the third biggest one after lion king and beauty and the beast? Could get to 400M domestic with strong legs which is huge. People seem to be saying it's doing poor overseas, how exactly is it's opening comparing to past Disney's remakes openings overseas?

I mean not only is that not a bad number but isn't it kind of like... A very good number? Compared to past Disney remakes it seems like this should easily end up well over 100M for the OW

How are the OS opening numbers comparing to F9? Do we think it'll recover at all from how large it fell compared to Fast 8? Or will it end up around the same?

I didn't care for Toy story 4s ending as much as 3s but I still thought most of the movie was really good

So when are the reviews gonna start coming in?

Well Thor 4 opened almost 20% higher then Thor 3, which is pretty sizable considering how long Thor has been around at this point. Quantumania was up almost 40% which is pretty big. Not to mention these both (especially antman) had to deal with bad reviews before they even opened, causing a lot of hype to die before people even got to see it. Both had the potential for even higher openings

"superhero fatigue" didn't harm doctor strange, thor, or antman, considering all three opened higher then their predecessors, two of them by quite a lot. They just all got bad reception which kinda killed their legs. Only one that felt like it started with much less hype was wakanda forever, but that was harmed by the fact that a lot of people just didn't care as much about it without Chadwick boseman. If GOTG opens a bunch lower then last I'm guessing it's more about the quality of recent marvel films then people being just tired of marvel.

People keep saying that tracking has been disappointing. Is it really looking that bad?? Kinda surprised honestly, I know that recent Marvel movies have been subpar to the average moviegoer, but GOTG are some of the most popular characters left in Marvel and this is supposed to be the final one

hehe I remember that one. I've been popping in ever since Hunger Games, though I don't think I post enough for anyone to know who I am lol

English markets really are a very spoiled market for films lol. I consider myself to be a big movie person and even I will only watch maybe one or two foreign language films a year if it happens to break out big. The general audience just NEVER watches anything not in english. Also maybe it's just my family but most older people here still think watching an animated movie becomes a crime or something once you pass the age of like 12

Not that I speak for everyone in my generation but I really don't think DnD is a "boomer game". It may have started decades ago but it's incredibly niche amongst older generations and a lot of them still only remember it for supposedly inspiring satanic cults. It's far far more popular amongst people in their twenties. Almost everyone I know plays it at least a little. Perhaps this is an issue of it not appealing to people who actually play the game, and more to people who just see it as a fun fantasy movie?

I definitely want this. So that's at least one

Puss in Boots has definitely cemented something for me. Dreamworks and Illumination have definitely been showing the last couple years that Disney has no excuse for how garbage they've been doing lately. It's not just "COVID" or something like that. Sure maybe that has effected how high some of these movies can go, but Pixar and Disney Animation have CERTAINLY been self-sabotaged at this point. Encanto was huge, yet failed because they decided to rush it to Disney+. Pixar has essentially become an irrelevant brand because they do zero marketing for it and shove all their movies to streaming with no theatrical release.

I'm not very knowledgeable on this subject but assuming the numbers people have stated are true why is it that most big blockbusters seem to have Caucasian percentages in the 30-40% range for most big films? I would assume that it should roughly be similar to the population. Some movies would skew based on what age range they are targeted at, but Caucasian population is still at least 50% for even young adults I think. Plus if anything I always assumed older people were more likely to go the movies as young people were more into streaming and other media.

I just saw Antman and honestly... it wasn't that bad? Like was it a top tier film and one of the best MCU movies? No not really. A lot of it felt a little irrelevant and it ran through a lot of the typical Marvel plot points and cliches, and was a little heavy on the CGI, but at the end of the day I felt it struck a much better balance between humor and drama, had a stronger story overall, and felt more consistent than the last couple (Like Thor, and MoM). Like was it perfect? No. But reviews making it look like the worst MCU movie yet? Really? Not by a long shot is it that bad

Was fantastic, one of the best films of the year. The thing that most stood out to me that I enjoyed was how a lot of times with these movies, the trope is that although the villain is a violent sociopath it is always "justified" because he is only taking his anger out on the worst of the worst of society. This film however, had a lot to say in regards to priviledge and how the rich treat the poor, but it doesn't necessarily try to portray Ralph Fiennes as the "necessarily and justified evil", and sometimes he'll just be like "I hated you in this movie you made so I added you to my kill list"

My family just saw Puss in Boots and wtf who the hell sat down and put so much effort into that movie. It had no reason to be that good after the first one was so meh (not to mention more than a decade ago) and even the last couple Shrek films were kind of phoning it in. Honestly lowkey one of the best films of 2022. Also that wolf was actually terrifying. And in regards to the Shrek 5 talk, me and my girlfriend's families both have a lot of Gen Z kids who speak only in memes and I can confirm that whatever bonus they may have gave to minions, it will pale in comparison to the tsunami of meme support that Shrek 5 has waiting for it

Is the audience score for this really that concerning? Us has a 60% so this seems a good chunk better than that

Let's not forget it wasn't just the quality holding back the 2007 blockbusters. All 3 released in May and cut into each other's grosses hard. All three were supposed to be enormous record breakers but ended up scheduled right after the other. That was a crazy summer, had transformers and OotP too

Not as good as ragnarok, but still great. Story was nonsense but all the stories in marvel are these days, but it was hilarious and definitely knew it's story was nonsense. My only complaints were that they had the GOTG fuck off like 5 minutes into the film, after setting up the Thor/GOTG adventures, and also that the pacing went a bit fast and I think they could have fit more in. I had the same complaint with MoM so maybe I've just gotten used to them giving me almost 3 hour movies

Lol idk why everyone is so salty about this one. Just saw it and it was great. Story was nonsense but no more nonsense then pretty much any marvel movie anyways, but it was hilarious and fun. A couple complaints on it but no where near as many as multiverse

Lol whys everyone so depressed. You guys do realize this movie is almost going to match the first one in its OW alone right?

No 600M grossers for the next 10 years is certainly dramatic. Take a look at the very start of 2010 (start of this decade). Marvel was simply one above average comic book movie and one terrible movie. Star wars hadn't even been purchased by Disney yet with no plans on the horizon, and you have films like Jurassic World which were predicted to make like 200M not even a week out from release. 10 years will bring lots of inflation as well, not to mention if no film makes the mark for a while the don't underestimate the power of multiple years of box office lul suddenly empowering a random crowd pleaser to insane heights

Honestly at this point I never really know if William Hurt really IS going to appear as General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross or not

Been awhile but the list is once again up to date