Arlborn

Does that make Tom Holland the next Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise? no, it doesn't make sense

Great start, I like the content of the reviews, they make it seem like this movie could have great WOM and explode with the GA if they market it just right. I will really need to try to watch it, gotta make my avatar justice I guess.

People love (me included) saying the budgets nowadays are way too big, but I wonder what would we get if someone took the, say, top 20 yearly budgets of the last 5 years and compared the totals. Would the increase follow inflation or not? But then again, that’s not fair because of budgets inflated by COVID, is it? Which brings us another question; are we sure we are not just overreacting to budgets being inflated by COVID and/or by a couple of Apple movies? I don’t know myself, just throwing scenarios out there.

Yeah, I took one look at these stills and went to watch the trailer again and came to the same conclusion. Mid action sequence stills can look pretty bad for any movie, so that’s a silly thing to point out. I wonder if the problem some people seem to be having with the visuals here is a problem of expectations.

Has he ever had problems like this before, or since? That sounded more like a Star Wars franchise problem than an Edwards problem to me, but I could be wrong obviously. Movie turned out well liked as well, the most liked of the Disney era by many actually, which is funny considering everything.

Strange World feels like it should have been rewritten a couple of times before it was filmed. It’s very bare bones, which is a pity because the concept is cool and it did wow me in a couple of places. Shame it’s surrounded by blandness. it’s very inoffensive, makes for a fine nap lazy Sunday watch.

Disney should really be giving more movies to someone like Gareth Edwards, for example. Reliable filmmakers who can do well in a studio system and keeping to realistic budgets.

Movie theaters really need Wonka and Aquaman to be well received… Otherwise this might really become a bloodbath where everyone in the industry loses. And that’s not good for the audience in the long run either.

I think they would never have moved the needle for a movie like Wonka in any time period, ever. They used to move the needle for movies with heavy fan rush, like YA movies or CBMs, but I agree that nowadays even that has diminished a lot. Even RT doesn't move the needle as much for many movies as it used to. I think many people now have just gone back to literally waiting on WOM before deciding to get a ticket, which is definitely not good news for the industry.

Peyton Reed is generally a competent director. George Miller is on another level. I haven't been to the movie theater so much this year (life), but I'll try m hardest to be there for this one. I really wish I had seen the first one on a big screen back then, I regret I haven't.

No surprises here I guess, everyone has been expecting bad numbers for months, and then guess what, bad numbers are coming. The Marvels prepared everyone for this one doing similarly. It’s rather tedious. Itll probably get some movement with social media reactions and reviews. When are these coming?

This is pure everything

It's not about video games or CBMs, or animes, or toys. It's about strong IPs with nostalgic value. It doesn't matter where the IP actually comes from, if it touched enough people during their childhood and the film is half decent, or at least gives people what they want out of that IP, it will do well. That's the actual trend that has gotten very strong since COVID. Nostalgia is comfort, people need comfort.

This is depressing, streaming really killing family interesting.

There is only one thing guys like him believe in, and that’s making money. Everything they do and say is all about making money, you can’t really trust anything they say especially when they’re trying to save their own ass, as I’ve said earlier. As a CEO of a big company you gotta be really good at saying what you think your shareholders need to hear at the time, facts be damned.

Solid numbers, Deadline though.

It's hilariously sad how out of touch Iger sounds. Just trying to save his own ass, I guess.

Feige should never ever been in the position to having to oversee the TV side and the movie side of the MCU at the same time. It's so obvious that he's stretched thin as hell and everything MCU suffered as a result, it's not even funny. Whoever decided(him or Iger or someone else) to let him handle everything without delegating stuff really messed up. This is actually not a bad analogy at all. I am sure this disconnect is big inside Disney.

I sometimes feel like this forum puts too much stock on RT ratings. In the past it seems like it was mostly a meme to use it to laugh at CBMs (RT watches for big CBMs were a huge thing here in the past) but people didn't care so much about it when it came to anything else. It feels like this one will be a lot more about WOM than RT.

What? It's literally the second best rated in imdb by far after the first one. What an odd argument that doesn't help you at all. I didn't even know people who disliked Prey as must as you seem to even existed. It's a very solid action flick.

People are well aware of Adam Sandler's contract with Netflix and have had already a long time to digest that Adam Sandler isn't coming to the theaters anymore I guess. Yup, Netflix is mostly in the business of making Direct to Video movies nowadays, movies that would just be flops, but they release on their platform and people watch them automatically. It's comfort food, simple as that, that's the Netflix model. Occasionally they release something a little more special just to change things up a little, but it's mostly just fast food.

Eh, I guess we aren’t talking about Bruno then.

Starting to feel more positive about my 300M club again. I trust in Paul King! Let's hope it translates into good reviews and then good WOM.

Imagine telling Ryan Reynolds that he'll need to soften Deadpool after the experiences he's had with Green Lantern and X-Men Origins and how much he's worked to get this particular Deadpool done. No really, you do the imagining, because I can't.

I've always said we should've gotten a movie or a TV show in between the two of them literally just dealing with that. It didn't need to affect the main story at all, just some mid-level superhero dealing with a world in grief and the trouble that came with it (Hawkeye comes to mind). But in the end all we got were a couple of OK TV shows and a Spider-Man movie dealing with the consequences of these people disappearing and then coming back(and the Spider-man movie only tangentially), rather than anything during that time period itself. Lost opportunity there.