tonytr87

This thread is why I barely come here anymore. Nothing but negativity. Flash bombed for reasons that have nothing to do with the health of moviegoing right now. Fingers crossed Elemental can have good legs, excellent and underrated movie.

My local IMAX showtimes are close to selling out already. Make of that what it's worth.

I'm skeptical about the hosannas I'm hearing about this one. I liked Into the Spider Verse but wasn't crazy about it

I think it's as good as the original Avengers. Fight me.

The recovery is in slow motion. It takes time. But also, I think Black Panther and Captain Marvel overperforming on opening weekend (not to mention the gargantuan success of Endgame and Infinity War) has trained people to believe any comic book movie can attain such heights right out of the gate. That window for Marvel was very special, and was never replicated for DC. Consider: Man of Steel - 115m Dawn of Justice - 166m Suicide Squad - 135m Wonder Woman - 103m Justice League - 94m Aquaman - 72m Shazam - 53m Birds of Prey - 33m (skipping Wonder Woman 1984 & Gunn's Suicide Squad for COVID reasons) Black Adam - 67m It's not a coincidence that the opening weekend returns became lower and lower following Dawn of Justice & Suicide Squad. Audiences did not invest in the DCEU like they did the MCU.

Grow up, dude. People are more complicated that this.

Don't underestimate the incoming reboot factor as a deterrent for some audiences. Also the fact that Justice League (the ONLY DCEU movie featuring Flash) was six years ago and was terrible. Most people haven't seen the better director's cut and think of Ezra's Flash as the fast dude from that terrible movie years ago.

I think it boils down to America's racist past being worse/more recent than some of these other places. Because of that, modern day racism feels worse here than in Europe or Asia. It's perception more than reality. Although, without knowing much about the way it is in Europe or Asia, I tend to think it must be worse here.

I liked Isle of Dogs, but it felt like a dog movie made by a cat person.

I'm not surprised. Mangold is a weird director. When he goes for Oscars (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, Ford v Ferrari) the results are exceptional. When he goes for broad adventure (Knight & Day, The Wolverine) the reception is typically middling. Logan was so good because he was combining those two modes.

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Where did I say it wasn't?

There's a book. Look it up.

I have doubts about Oppenheimer's chances, not due to quality, but due to the Academy trending away from epic historical films towards smaller modern films. Assuming they're great, would be nice to see the Academy embrace epics like that one and this movie again though.

Barbie is going to break out so this comment is moot.

I'm convinced a Batman Beyond movie would work best if Bale ever decided to come back.

This guy clearly doesn't now visual effects.

Over or under 100 mil?

Animated films not included, obviously.

I prefer to get more for my money. No more 90 minute blockbusters, thanks. Fortunately, we haven't gotten those in some time.

Such a weird decision of theirs to abandon the franchise structure that got them to the dance. Phase 4 is essentially a random assortment of characters and plotlines. There could've been an interesting throughline via the multiverse stuff, but instead they gave us like 5 different reasons for the incursions, worsening the already fractured nature of the phase.

Writers are a lot like journalists/film critics (who are often writers themselves), they're very sensitive. Only way to explain how they turned a harmless throwaway comment from her into something more.

The first trailer did not look small in scope. So I predict you're full of it.

LOL What the hell is John?

I'm not here to point out for you all of the films not only aimed at the 18-34 demo that have performed well over the past two years.