Johnny Tran

I'm not sure we will see this one in theaters but if we can get there we will. I really want this and Oppenheimer to save this mediocre af Summer movie season. The reviews look really good. I had a good feeling about this since the first teaser. Looks like a lot of fun but I bet there's some heart in there too. Greta is awesome.

The more RT "opens the door" the more of these types there are. You just gotta let them do their thing. What can be done. I don't read their reviews because I feel like they are clout chasers.

I get the criticisms sometimes. Interstellar was a remarkably ambitious movie but when it's time to get to the 'cool shit' it falls a little flat, like there's not much imagination behind it. I still really liked it and enjoyed the movie experience. Dunkirk was a technical achievement but the characters were just there... Sometimes there's a reason to nitpick a little bit with Nolan. But he doesn't outright miss. This movie from the first teaser looked like it was going to be a masterpiece. His masterpiece. I'm beyond excited at the raves.

This sucks. This whole summer has sucked. The movies themselves, some of them have been good but it doesn't seem to matter. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. Travel is apparently down this Summer. Disney parks attendance is way down. People just aren't spending money on entertainment.

I'm genuinely shocked. We just saw Mission Impossible and it's really good. It's a rollercoaster. The last act is really tense. The stunts are again really crazy and well done. So why am I shocked? I think everyone who has seen it feels the same way. Rave reviews. Why are people not showing up?

We went and saw Indiana Jones tonight and to be honest we enjoyed it. It was a fun little throwback type of action/adventure which I will usually like unless something goes off the rails. I thought it was better than the 4th movie. There's some laughs, some heart, some solid action sequences. There's also some bad CGI. I guess everyone has that now. But it was decent. Too bad about the flop. I think families would enjoy this but it looks DOA. Terrible Summer at the box office continues.

I always go in with a positive attitude with most blockbusters. Comic book movies have a whole different type of toxic conversation surrounding them. Blockbusters that land outside of the comic book world don't sour me as much because there's not a bunch of stans talking positively or negatively about them.

We are going to see Indy 5 tomorrow night though. I was on the fence but I was talked into it and I'm kinda into the idea now because I was just watching Raiders of the Lost Ark tonight.

Also, this doesn't excuse how badly The Flash performed at all but if there's something that WB can take from these other outcomes, it's that The Flash probably never had a chance to begin with. The theaters aren't completely dead but it takes something really special to get people in the seats. This is a bad Summer. It doesn't bode well for the future. Maybe Hollywood will start to get a little creative and learn something from this but I doubt it.

Hate to be on some "I told everyone" but I did say that I just didn't see it possible for Indy to open to $80-$90M. I would have been shocked by that result. It could have some legs because I do think the crowd will skew older but what kind of legs can you really expect from this opening.

I nailed the Transformers drop of 67% on the money last week. But that's because I thought The Flash (and possibly Elemental) would do pretty well and what actually happened is everything is flopping left and right. R.I.P. Summer 2023.

I'm telling yall. It's mostly because the reboot is coming so audiences are seeing these as "don't matter"

Elemental's numbers are worse than The Flash. Wasn't that a $200M picture as well? jesus

That Deadline article is amazing. The numbers have nothing to do with Ezra Miller not doing press. WB rightly kept him stashed away. Him being out and about would have made things far worse.

Is Elemental still bombing as well?

With that Flash number I'm going to say it's down in the high 50s for the weekend, maybe $57M. So there's no real reason to focus on legs at this point, the movie is DOA. Like I said, I think the reboot is putting these in an early grave.

I'm not disputing that though I think more like $60M-$65M it's the quality and legs that I'm not really sure and cautious about, but as always I would like to be proven wrong because the box office has mostly been a graveyard.

That doesn't say much. Indy and Flash Lol.

Nah. You watch. It's got a hype machine going no doubt but interest will wane and I don't see it actually being a "good" movie either.

I don't think anyone said that did they? James Gunn said it was one of his favorite movies of the year and that's his right to say that, it doesn't mean you have to believe it. The CEO of WB hyped the movie up but that's also what he's supposed to do. If you feel slighted somehow because a studio head hyped up a movie then you are going to be feeling slighted an awful lot. Remember when Feige said Eternals was a masterpiece? And that ended up being trash? This stuff happens all the time. Get used to it.

Sorry but let's bring some common sense back to these threads. I'm tired of fanboys and their dumb narratives and agendas. I like comic book movies as much as the next person but some people are insufferable about them. I feel like Scorsese had a point.

I don't know why people think 70-year olds are going to cram the theaters for Indy. I just don't see it. This isn't Top Gun. It has nothing going for it, sounds like it's a fairly average movie at best. I think it's DOA. Barbie is not going to break out either. DOA.

Everyone wants to focus on the studio and Ezra Miller's issues but let's be serious, the biggest reason why The Flash is underperforming is because they told you months ago that Shazam 2, The Flash and Aquaman 2 are lame duck movies. I don't think they had a choice either. If you are going to reboot then you need to announce that you are going to reboot. But it killed off a lot of interest in the projects that were already in the can. People want to get their narratives in, everyone has an agenda, etc. but that's the biggest reason. People rightly think that these movies don't matter. Aquaman 2 is mostly by itself around the holidays and will probably get more women viewers so it could be "ok" but it's going to drop severely from the first one. There's no doubt about that.

I said it before as a neutral bystander that this thread would bring out both the DC fanboys/Snyder fanboys to conduct their civil war as well as the MCU fanboys would need something to smile about after Thor and Ant-Man were garbage and Guardians being good but only because of James Gunn who is leaving. And it looks like everyone is right on time.

We enjoyed The Flash well enough. Probably a 7/10 type of movie. Keaton was a blast. Ezra Miller did a really good job with what he was assigned to do here. There's quite a few heartfelt scenes throughout. I can see why it was getting some hype but there's also issues. The CGI isn't good, although it's more noticeable in some scenes than others. The third act is a little too convoluted for my liking as well but I wouldn't say "bad"