tonytr87
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This. Netflix also has a crazy amount of debt. Add in the overspending and the lack of many new original series hits, outside of maybe 1 a year (Squid Game last year), and they're in a bit of trouble.
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Fun trailer, but if you look closely there's a potential here for this to be one of the weaker MCU films. Some of those effects are Terrible with a capital T. I'm surprised nobody here has mentioned it given A. how bad they look B. that's all Twitter is talking about re: this trailer
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Great movie. Most fun I've had at the movies this year. Not quite a masterpiece as some reviews had been suggesting. By that I mean...it's much more of a sequel to the original in tone than the trailers indicated. Definitely some cheese here and there. And I was expecting better from Lady Gaga.
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Sounds like another coming-of-age film where I'm more interested in the political stuff happening in the background i.e. the protests in Roma.
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Still felt like a cartoon anyway with the basic production design inside the Baxter building, that silly yellow hover chair, and Black Bolt looking like a CW reject.
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Black Bolt kinda ruined the scene for me. His costume is so terrible I felt like I was suddenly watching a cheap CW show.
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I liked it well enough, mostly for being a pure Sam Raimi movie. But Marvel is losing their touch when it comes to building out their universe. The interconnected thing is only fun if it's building towards something. Between Egyptian Gods, Chinese dragon dimensions, Book of the Dead magic, and multiverse madness, it's currently all over the place. And if it's true that Reed was a part of the reshoots, that makes sense. He looked like he wasn't in the same room as the others half the time.
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This is a problem across Marvel. Just goopy, bright red/purple/pink energy beams or blobs. The visual creativity is really lacking, seems like they just lift everything straight from the comics. Like Black Bolt...worst Marvel movie costume ever.
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I'm just ignoring Loki for now. Seems like it has no bearing on what is happening multiverse-wise in the movies, at least so far. The rest of it is pretty uncomplicated.
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LOL remember when Feige said you wouldn't need to watch the shows to follow the movies?
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Booksmart was overrated and I don't much like Wilde after what happened with her and Sudeikis, but this admittedly looks quite good.
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I'll say this though. It's pretty weird how historical epics went from being near-guaranteed money at the box office in the 90s and early 00s to basically box office poison in the span of a single decade.
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Theaters are the best form of marketing and I've seen trailers there plenty of times. People don't watch network TV so ads there aren't going to do much. Internet marketing has come a long way, but the results are mixed at best.
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Things are looking up lately with Uncharted grossing well over 100 mil and The Lost City opening really well. The problem in March is studios were skittish and barely released anything. For some reason they decided to cram it all into April, much like October last year.
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They're definitely deciding what the poster and trailers look like, but as long as the movie itself is his vision, it's all good.
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It's by far the best. Force Awakens is held back by ending up a New Hope clone. Last Jedi is held back by not being ambitious enough or being too ambitious, depending on who you ask. And Rise of Skywalker is a shitshow. Rogue One is a good story well-told, with the best ending of the Disney era.
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Also the allegations against him are some of the flimsiest of the MeToo movement.
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Who said anything about audiences? Voters aren't audiences.
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Pretty sure this year we're going to see a pretty big divergence between critics and voters. So don't expect reviews to necessarily be a good bellwether, not with grumpy critics mixed on movies like Nightmare Alley, Being the Ricardos, and Don't Look Up.
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West Side Story definitely will. What I mean is the complete floppage of those other movies doesn't negate the fact that In the Heights disappointed theatrically. That being said, through HBO Max it certainly had more people watching it than those you mentioned.
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Wouldn't call it "decent," but it certainly did better than all HBO Max movies outside of GvK and Dune.
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Studios and publicists just need to ignore Twitter. Social media is not reality, it's a bubble of puritanical, illiberal folks who think of themselves as the opposite.
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I'm not convinced WOM is a thing anymore during COVID, but they're welcome to give it a try.
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My point is one wonders how their original films garner so many viewers and yet nobody talks about them. There's a strange dissonance there, but perhaps it's simply due to the lack of effort it takes to hit Play. If the experience is less memorable, perhaps folks just aren't inclined to talk about it like they would watching Shang Chi in a theater. That's what I'm talking about. Where's the WOM if tens of millions are watching these movies?
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I mean, they still haven't won the big prize. And very few Netflix movies have crossed over, implying their numbers are BS (supposedly Triple Frontier had 50 mil households viewing it...that's a 500-mil grosser at the box office!). They support good filmmakers and produce some great movies, but until they figure out how to create WOM hits with movies outside of Bird Box, Extraction, and a few others, they're going to be the odd man out.
