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Again feels like a Mario. The fans/GA really don’t need a good movie, they just need the beats to hit to be satisfied. Once they put in Levy, that’s were expectations more or less should be as his best reviewed movie is Free Guy.

Again, Mario was always the vibe, in that story and character work are secondary and held by shoestring but the action sequences, fun vibes and fanservice carry it a lot except don’t see enough reviewers to get it to the negatives. If you really please the fans and GA, film quality doesn’t matter at the slightest. A range from 65-80% on RT felt right from the jump, especially when Shawn Levy’s best reviewed movie is Free Guy at 80%.

Dudes are just losing the plot, on god.

Iron Man was once a C-tier character at best. So was Deadpool. And Doctor Strange. And Scarlet Witch. And Black Panther. And Thor. And Captain America in general.

In fairness, think if NWH were 23/24 film, think reviews would be similar to Wakanda/Guardians 3 on RT.

I mean, for better or worse I get why D&W has high expectations as this is a character from Fox going to MCU. Very much felt like if that was fumbled then yeah there’d be actual dips greater than last year, like an Avengers or Spiderman being mediocre. That said, I don’t think the MCU is dead. Don't think it’s as strong as it was in Phase 3 and there is proof that GA have been underwhelmed this saga but if Marvel was dead, Deadpool wouldn’t have as much hype as it does now. Think they’re back to their 2008-15 days in that whilst the big events are big, everything else will thrive more or less on their own accord. Like back in their Phase 1-2 days. I’ve said before it matters much more to the MCU and Feige that their next batch of films are well received vs just one thriving.

This could get literal Mario reception at like 57-ish and it’d still be fine on pace for being a major hit. Reactions seem to show it would be something fans and the GA would really enjoy and tbh like Mario so long as it plays the right notes, that’s all it needs to do for an A/A+ CS and decent legs. There’s no glaring red flags like say Quantumania or The Marvels or Strange 2’s reactions. Audience reception for blockbusters even the MCU is far more important than critical reception. Deadpool is not the be all or end all of the MCU, but it’s looking to be a step in the right direction and keeping up momentum. It’s up to Cap 4, Thunderbolts and TF4 to pick up the slack to restore goodwill for the rest of the saga.

Thinking somewhere from The Adam Project (68%) to Free Guy (80%) in terms of RT score. The Funko critics really digging it suggest that audience WOM should be very healthy and tbh could see an A+ CS like NWH if the notes seem to be hitting, but we haven’t seen much of the more critical critics but the vibes suggest that It feels like something that’d annoy the non-Marvel friendly or those tired of Deadpool more than other MCU joints. I’ll be seeing this with my family on Friday so my thoughts then but am starting to get more excited in it than I was a few months ago.

The vibe in here is still mostly positive and the reaction in question is just one negative reaction.

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In more Endless Animation news, both Jake Wyatt (My Adventures with Superman, Steven Universe) as well as the duo of Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner (Scavengers Reign) have signed on development deals for animated projects. Details are scarce for both projects but seem to be for Endless Animation’s slate of adult animation movies.

So they really are going to rush into Doom huh, 😢 (also Doom should be Romani)

Southeast Wisconsin Tracking Update - 7/17/2024 - North Shore, Menominee Falls, Brookfield Square and Majestic Cinema Twisters (T-1): Tickets Sold: 22/28/13/101 - 164 - 112.5% of Furiosa’s T-2 ($3.9m) - 82.4% of Bad Boys: Ride or Die’s T-2 ($4.84m) Twisters Early Access: (T-12 hours) Tickets Sold: 4/31/107/26 - 168 - 107% of Bad Boys: Ride or Die’s EA T-1: (???) Sorry for lack of updates, been busy with work this month and am out of town, but was able to do a quick update. Not going to lie, was expecting more from this but not caring for the comparisons I see. However think it should be pretty walkup friendly so $50-55m OW is my guess.

I believe the rumor was rushed before the strike occurs and not rushed to finish.

I'm surprised you don't know Kai Cenat?

Cool why didn't you address the Yasuke example or The Little Mermaid or Black Panther franchise which for the most part actual had decent reviews WOM wise for audiences? I'm not denying criticism at all here nor am I saying that everyone who dislikes the movie is racist so please don't use that strawman but it tends to be factual, most times when their a PoC lead regardless of quality there is a higher amount of dislikes on a trailer than normal (do think the Sabra/Ruth thing is another part of larger dislikes ratio but not as much as). Even the awful or mediocre things seem to have a very weird dislike ratio, like I haven't seen The Acolyte but its not a coincidence that it has an oddly low 14% on Rotten Tomatoes audience score. That's very odd for a geek media thing to get.

Historical tentpole movies or games with PoC leads tend to be dislike-bombed or have an oddly higher amount of dislikes than normal: case in point The Little Mermaid, the Captain Marvel franchise, Gladiator II, that new Assassin Creed game with Yasuke, heck even the Black Panther series had a larger amount of trailer dislikes than the average MCU series.

Hmmm. Pencil me in for 85m four day/190m DOM/400m WW, more similar to about the Phase Four/Phase One origin. Trailer views are okay, more in common with The Marvels but on the bright side, the vitriol (though the dislike count is higher sadly because incels can't handle more than one black lead in geekshit) doesn't seem as strong as The Marvels and has a better hook. I also think Black History Month/President’s Day weekend can really help tie in for the movie with a dry month without a serious action movie since like November. (However that didn't help The Marvels but that was more like a death of a thousand cuts). I don't think the budget is $350m+ like rumors suggested but more like O/U $250m range. It's likely to underwhelm theatrically but it matters more on if Cap 4 is a good movie more so if it's a box office success. Deadpool 3’s impeding success regardless part from big sequels, MCU is back in its Phase 1/2 era for origins due to burnoff of goodwill after a saga worth of content in 2-3 years, most of which not raved about.

Looks aight. Want to see how trailer does before predicting.

Its not even a matter of that but why would they attach a superhero trailer to a kids movie when they have Mufasa and likely Elio or Snow White to promote. We will probably get it around Comic Con imho, maybe stealth attached to Deadpool because aside from Alien what else can Disney attach?

https://deadline.com/2024/07/channing-tatum-box-office-fly-me-to-the-moon-despicable-me-4-1236004684/ DHD says 9.1M

Nice. Guessing they wanted it early for Twisters and Deadpool attachment. Honestly though they’d stealth drop a trailer with Deadpool showings and Comic Con extended trailer of the theatrical one online the Saturday but this makes sense as next month should have a lot of Cap 4 news.

You know the old saying: if its all white, it’s all ri-.

I’m more interested in this than Deadpool