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15 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:
Only three more hours and the wait is over
Also known as one Way of Water.
Anyway, I can't recall a blockbuster sequel where the OW #s were less relevant to the overall picture than this one. And I do mean that. I expect WoW to have monster legs.
I'm going with $165m OW, $625m domestic, $2.1b global.
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IMO the trailers focusing on tone and emotion over plot was the right way to go.
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DC fans will get over it, because a new (and well adapted) Superman on screen is better than no Superman screen, and I do not believe Gunn is going to screw this up. I have full confidence in him.
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1 hour ago, Korra Legion said:
Let’s get those rankings goin’:
ATLA S3
ATLA S2
ALOK S3
ATLA S1
ALOK S4
ALOK S1
ALOK S2
My list is the same as yours, after flipping the S3s. You know... I'd also put LOK4 --> TLA1
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Avatar The Way Of Water is without a doubt the worst film I currently have a ticket booked for, out of all the movie I plan on seeing this weekend.
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QoS --> Spectre and NTTD (too long and too cluttered with plot, and didn't balance the wacky with the serious very well). Olga Kurylenko --> all except Eva Green, and Mathieu Amalric always underrated.
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20 minutes ago, omark said:
From his review:
"You might recall that at the end of the last film, the Earthlings were dramatically sent packing from Pandora. Well, it turns out they just came back a year later."
This is totally false and a big mistake.
It is well known from various materials, statements, comic books Avatar The High Ground, etc.. that the humans return 14 years later.I mean... how can I believe the opinion of a guy who blatantly doesn't even seem to have followed the most basic events of the film?
I will say, this is not the only review I've come across that mentions the humans returning 1 year later.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see this work it's way up to 88%
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Hoooooooooly shit
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The Menu was an absolute delight, 2nd best of the year for me behind EEAAO, just ahead of Banshes of Inshirin. And with Glass Onion, Fabelmans, and Babylon all out soon, finally getting some quality cinema in a big blast.
I wasn’t expecting it to lean so much into the dark comedy, I thought that was more the side flavor but it’s a dark comedy through and through, and a biting one.
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1 hour ago, Eric Killmonger said:
Yeah Thanksgiving sounds about right. They'll probably do a similar strategy that the first Jurassic World did by having the trailer play during a Thanksgiving Day football game.
I had that thought too... none of the Thanksgiving games are on ESPN/ABC though, and there's no way Disney would hype up the Indiana Jones trailer for a different network to take advantage of. If it's football, it's going to be Monday Night Football.
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On 11/16/2022 at 7:35 PM, KJsooner said:
Good grief. Been hearing this same b/s color palate argument about mcu films since 2011.
The first Black Panther was much visually richer than Wakanda Forever. Here's a good article about this film's subpar visual quality: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/black-panther-wakanda-forever-cinematography
I caught some flack on here for saying this a few months ago, but it ended up being true:
QuoteSomething hadn't been sitting right with me for a while re; Wakanda Forever, and I just realized what. In liu of Coogler's choice of cinematographer (he brought his Fruitville Station DP on for Black Panther), this time Marvel Studios brought in their Loki cinematographer. And Wakanda Forever has a much more digital visual feel as a result.
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5 hours ago, Morieris said:
Considering how heavily integrated into the MCU the US Military is both in and out of universe, I can 100% imagine them having military recruiters in the MCU version of MIT and word of what Riri could do got back to one of them.
Perhaps, but given how central this was to setting up the entire sequence of events that made up the "plot" of this movie, there should have been a bit more of an explanation, because it came off as contrived. I still expect my blockbusters to establish proper logic.
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11 minutes ago, cmbbox2390 said:
My read on that was since Riri had invented the detector, he wanted to go straight to the source of the invention. Cut the head of the snake situation.
And I’m pretty sure from the beginning, Namor suggests to Ramonda and Shuri during his first introduction to become allies to stop invaders from stealing vibranium. He thinks Riri(the American scientist) was one of the invaders by indirectly helping them to find it.
I still don’t quite understand how the technology she developed ended up in the hands of the CIA… it was for a university project? So her professor is a CIA asset? Whatever they said, it was hilariously brushed over. And of course, Namor had no interest in actually figuring out what was up. Just so contrived.
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I loved the characterization and performance of Namor. I hated how he was used from a narrative standpoint. That core conflict (wanting to kill Riri because Selina Meyer used her science project in blah blah blah, then he wants to pick a fight with everyone) was contrived to begin with and kept doubling down with more boneheaded character decisions. What should have been his real narrative thrust (his lingering resentments toward the surface world) was ignored in favor of him going Anakin Skywalker ("If you're not with me, then you're my enemy" vibes) until very late. And the potential to show the world through the eyes of a 500 year old antagonist who's watched society evolve was squandered.
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Clunky. Very clunky. It wasn’t dumb like Black Adam, or tonally all over the place like Thor 4, but could have been a lot more streamlined narratively like Strange 2. This had a lot going on, the pacing lacked flow, several character decisions didn’t feel true, and yikes at a couple of the VFX shots.
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56 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:
PSA on Strange World - no presales, yet, but my 1st Cinemark at least has assigned a showing set and it's getting SINGLE screened for presales.
I can't remember the last time a Disney Thanksgiving animated got that single screen set - it's pretty much being set up as a throwaway movie for the holiday.
This theater has set 75% of its screens now for that week, and holdovers not named Black Panther still have to get a few, so there's not gonna be a lot of room if this somehow goes nuts when sales start...
I'm not saying it's gonna open Lyle, Lyle or Super Pets level, but I'm not saying it's not, either...
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Heading over to my true-IMAX showing off Black Panther: Wakanda For 161 Minutes
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10/10, A masterpiece and masterclass in cinematic minimalism. I still favor EEAAO for awards season (in an ideal world, Banshees takes original screenplay and editing, EEAAO takes directing & best picture) , and while it's objectively more cohesive than Seven Psychopaths, that's still my favorite McDonagh film.
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93% at 96 reviews, a lot better than I was expecting in the first wave of reviews. I'd expect this to settle around 88% or 89%. Seems like the primary criticism is the plot is sprawling and unfocused. Glad to see there's more to the film than just melancholy, even if that still dominates the proceedings.
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3 hours ago, Ericstein's Monster said:
When I first heard the title, I assumed it was a Kung Fu Panda rip-off about a cartoon dog that knows karate or something. Not what I got!
That's alright. When I walked into "Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank", I thought I was about to watch a serious progressive western drama.
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"Black Adam Box Office Hits $100M Faster Than Any DC Movie Since Aquaman"
I don't know what's funnier, the fact that hitting the very high bar of, uh, $100m, faster than another film is something The Rock thinks is celebratory, or that you have to pretend Joker and The Batman don't exist to get this headline that you're celebrating.
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I'll up my RT prediction from 70-75 to 75-80 based on the social reactions. Don't want to stray too far from my original guess.
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My RT (after settling) prediction, based on nothing more than the film's marketing, is 70%-75%. Putting aside the emotion over Chadwick's passing, this film just doesn't look as visually gripping, culturally innovative, or narratively focused, as the original. I count at least 3 different story threads that seem designed to setup the future of the MCU, whereas the first BP always presented itself as self-contained. I'm actually getting Iron Man 2 vibes in that regard.
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A2 WEEKEND THREAD | 134.1M DOM OW | Thurs 17m / Fri 36m / Sat 45m / Sun 36m
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Are people actually freaking out over this preview number? It's a 4 hour commitment on a Thursday night for a film where people who have been looking forward to it are going to plan for a quality screening. It's not like there's a rush to catch this before spoilers, it's not like there's a need to catch it before the next blockbuster release.
Relax folks. This was always going to be a long-haul track, and I think that's a very respectable preview #. What were people expecting?