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Bucky is def in Thunderbolts because they don't have faith the concept will sell the film alone.
Shame they're not growing their friendship further when it's the thing people like most about Mackie's Cap.
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22 minutes ago, dudalb said:
As far the screeplay goes, Dune Messiah is going to be a lot harder to adapt then Dune. You have to have read the novel to fullly understand , but Messiah just does not have the story elements for ac tion and spectacle the way that Dune does. This isnot knocking it, but Messiah is heavy on the political and religious drams and short on scenes with huge action potential..where they are built into Dune. And then.....
There's a couple of action scenes they can add. Denis has been good at showing scenes only mentioned in the book.
-The Jihad/Holy War could start the film off.
-There's some Stilgar battle mentions they could show while Paul is dealing with the politics. Show how Paul is no longer in his element now that he's ruler.
-The attempted kidnapping of the worm that fails.
-Denis could add a knife fight scene between blind Paul and Hayt/Duncan as Duncan tries to break his mind control.
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I love, love, love Villeneuve's foray into sci-fi. But I'd love to see him tackle another realistic drama after Rendezvous with Rama and Dune Messiah. Prisoners and Sicario gave me a sense of dread and anxiety I haven't experienced since and that's because they feel like reality.
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Poor Things stole Barbie's lunch. No two ways about it. Poor Things is R-Rated (nearly NC-17) Barbie. It goes further in its exploration of the same messages Barbie had to restrict itself because of its rating. Barbie is baby's first Feminist lesson while Poor Things is a Freshman majoring in Feminist Studies at university. It even overtakes Barbie's cinematography with its own experimental camerawork.
If Poor Things didn't release last year, Greta and Margot would be nominated.
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3 minutes ago, Avatree said:
this is the third time this week I've seen someone say Lovecraft was an awful person. What did he do that was so bad?
Google the name of his cat...
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Somewhere along the way Marvel forgot the massive team up films (Avengers, Civil War) weren't just culminating the most recent story, they just huge chances for a character to steal the show and break out.
Avengers allowed Hulk to be a scene stealer while Thor and Loki got a boost in popularity. While Cap wasn't the best character, he still got a boost by association. This paid off as Thor 2 and Cap 2 had decent increases. But it also helped the OG team feel closer as Cap and Widow teamed up in Cap 2.
Age of Ultron didn't have a break out character, but allowed Wanda and Vision to become well known to general audiences and they eventually found their fan bases.
Civil War was absolutely essential in Black Panther and Spider-Man becoming as huge as they were. But having that built in trust with Cap and Tony starring made sure those two were exposed to audiences who didn't really know who T'Challa was yet and putting faith in another Spider-Man so soon after Garfield's.
Them waiting for Kang Dynasty is killing the anticipation of a new Avengers team. Kamala should've made her big screen debut in an Avengers film in a scene stealing role. Shang Chi needs major exposure as his debut film was in the middle of COVID. General audiences know nothing about Sam Wilson's Cap. These character absolutely needed an Avengers film with already beloved characters like Spidey, Strange, Hulk, maybe Thor or Bucky on the team to bring exposure to them. Even Cap Marvel would've benefitted from having a significant role instead of a 5 minute cameo.
Now we're left waiting on an Avengers film that may or may not happen before the phase ending extravaganza with a team that barely knows each other and may lose to set up Secret Wars and every nostalgia cameo they can find.
Edit: Forgot how Infinity War, Endgame, and No Way Home made Strange as well.
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1 hour ago, grim22 said:
Perfect place to set the climactic fight of a CBM. No problem of having to account for civilians being in danger.
"He is moving the fight away from danger into a showing of The Marvels"
Ryan Reynolds wishing he wasn't joining the MCU so he could make this joke next year.
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2 hours ago, eddyxx said:
Wakanda Forever. Shang Chi. Eternals for all it’s flaws was not butchered in the editing room.
WF and Eternals def should have been sent there.
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If Cap 4 is a team up film, then Marvel/Disney might seriously consider calling it Captain America: New Avengers.
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I have an anecdote regarding Captain Marvel. I taught children overseas in Asia a couple years ago. I showed Endgame's opening and final battle for the last day of the semester. When Carol carried the Guardians' ship to Earth, one of my girl students went "Wow." Then when Cap Marvel beat up Thanos, she couldn't hold back her excitement and yelped in joy. After class, she asked me who Cap Marvel was, then she said she would watch her movie at home.
This shit matters, worldwide, and Disney/Marvel deserves all this failure for not capitalizing on Cap Marvel's brief popularity following her film and Endgame.
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In a way, I think the negative press about presales is creating a game with audiences. How low can we get this opening weekend?
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1 hour ago, BadOlCatSylvester said:
Honestly, if I were Sony I'd try to take back Spider-Man again. I actually think they'd get cheered on and succeed this time, as Marvel's standing in genre culture has weakened drastically since Sony's first stunt back in 2019. Even a "bootleg" fourth Tom Holland movie would probably make more money than most of the forthcoming proper Marvel fare.
Holland would declare retirement if that happened lol.
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15 minutes ago, DInky said:
I legitimately felt like I was coming home from a funeral and a wake when i was walking out of the theater. Didn't help that they added to the overall sense of misery by killing Queen Ramonda as well.
Still don't understand that decision. We already had the loss of Chadwick in real life and T'Challa in universe. Why did they need to add Queen Ramonda to that? It made the film unnecessarily bleaker.
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1 hour ago, TheFlatLannister said:
If I’m Feige I would start canceling all the fluff MCU projects: which include all the Disney+ series. Change Loki season 3 to a movie with a brief recap of season 1 and 2 (also add Hemsworth to attract more GA)
Replace the fluff MCU projects with movies that actually build up to Kang (the exclusion being spidey since he’s an IP on his own)
Preach. This is what I said a few pages back. Audiences have limited time and money now. They don't want to see projects that have nothing to do with the grand picture.
Edit: To add, what are projects like Echo, Armor Wars, IronHeart, Agatha, Wonder Man, even Thunderbolts adding to this saga? Kang Dynasty/Secret Wars is the end goal. What are those stories doing to lead to that? They need to brainstorm again. We should not have 5 different plots leading to 5 different endpoints. Audiences are trained and comfortable with Avengers films as bookmarks. Don't tell them Avengers films aren't even finales anymore. They don't want multiple finale type films because that's overwhelming.
When they announced Agatha, based off her popularity, I knew they were losing focus.
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Nothing they do going forward will be clean if they course correct, but they seriously have to think about finishing the Multiverse saga ASAP.
I'm talking canceling/postponing any projects that aren't leading to Kang Dynasty/Secret Wars. No Armor Wars, no Thunderbolts, no un-important Disney+ shows. I'd even go as far to Zaslav some stuff already filmed just to not dilute the brand further. Cut the fat. Keep it lean from here on out.
Don't focus on stuffing Kang Dynasty with as many characters as possible. Leave the cameos for Secret Wars. Push Loki as a main character for Kang Dynasty as he and his show is still popular. And it's the only project pushing the story forward lol. Get KD out sooner rather than later. Any sequels should be dealing with incursions or a post KD universe if the comic version of Secret Wars is anything to go by.
Cut their losses on this saga and move into the X-Men saga ahead of schedule.
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I kinda hope they release the first trailer for Aquabro 2 after the movie releases lol.
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17 minutes ago, SchumacherFTW said:
Endgame will forever be seen as the nexus point in terms of cbms, it's an off ramp entirely and a point where people became more picky.
COVID happening the next year did not help. Momentum was halted. And when they did come back to cinemas, their big return was Black Widow.
In a perfect world post-Endgame, they could've went full steam with the X-Men and the Mutant Saga while slowly building up the new Avengers team for the eventual Multiverse saga.
But there's too many hypotheticals in that situation.
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Hope we don't regress back to only Batman and Spiderman CBMs. Those were dark times.
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8 minutes ago, grim22 said:
MI:DR-P1 is actually in danger of becoming known as a bad movie because of the bad box office. This happens from time to time when the box office decline can't be blamed on anything in particular, so the narrative moves to "it must have done bad because it was bad". Clearly there's word of mouth issues to some extent because it wasn't doing great at the box office even pre-Barbenheimer as it consistently came in below expectations.
Can't wait to see a bunch of "I just watched Dead Reckoning Part One on streaming. Why didn't it do better at the box office?" articles and Reddit threads. 😐
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It cannot be stressed enough how important it was to cast Margot and Ryan as Barbie and Ken. They not only look perfect, they embody the characters.
If they had gone with ironic casting like Amy Schumer as Barbie and maybe someone like Michael Cera (he's already in the film) as Ken, then you're looking at a drastically smaller opening weekend.
It's still important to cast for accuracy and embodiment for pre-established iconic characters because multiple generations aren't interested in irony or changes.
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I'm just so happy we're having a pure celebration of cinema after the past few years of the industry/theaters taking major hits. Movies have been a major part of my life for so long and everything turning up streaming has been alarming to say the least. Things probably won't get better going forward, but at least we have this weekend of positivity.
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8 minutes ago, Torontofan said:
how the fuck we at 41 pages by 10am est friday lol
Barbieheimer Mania running wild!!!
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I predict 19.99m previews for Barbie for the lols.
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13 minutes ago, Dominic Draper said:
One could argue every business decision made by the Gunn and Safran regime have been a disaster so far.
I truly do wonder how audiences are going to react to 2 separate Batman film series running concurrently.
Not multiverse Batmen. Not Batfleck cameos. Actual two different actors portraying two different Batmen in two different film series.
Weekend Numbers | estimates | 15.01M CHALLENGERS | 7.73M UNSUNG HERO | 7.22M GODZILLA×KONG: TNE
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Jumping in a little late to the "audiences want original ideas" talk. I've always found audiences mean they want IP's that haven't been milked to death yet. They want something familiar, but in a fresh coat of paint. It's why you can take Dune - a story that's been copied over and over - and turn it into a 700 million blockbuster. It's why Barbie and Mario were the biggest films of last year. It's why Last of Us and Fallout are massive hits for television. Audiences don't actually want original ideas. That want stories from other forms of media that are treated with respect and of high quality. Then when those are done, and the nostalgia has been milked decades later, they move onto the next untapped IP with potential.