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Damn...that CGI...
But...damn...that MBJ acting
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6 minutes ago, The Futurist said:
Male Leads is just so 2016.
Female leads are just not making their money's worth at the box office: take Scarjo and Jlaw, for example.
Flop after flop after flop...
Just take them...
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5 hours ago, The Futurist said:
It s just so beautiful watching progress progressing just in front of your eyes.
What a time to be alive.
We are progressing.
We finally reached a point at which Jennifer Lawrence is irrelevant and an MCU film is flopping with audiences.
If that is not progress, I don't know what is.
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2 hours ago, The Futurist said:
Wonder Woman was such a beautiful love letter to the MCU.
It made me emotionnal watching it.
Feige is a huuuge WW fan.
Love Trumps Hate.
You go girl !
Your trolling is getting sloppy.
This is literally a cut-and-paste of a previous post.
By the way...The entire MCU ouvre is a beautiful love letter to Richard Donner's Superman (minus the heart, the soul, and the actual wonder).
LOL
Now, keep fapping to pictures of Jlaw in her last three flops.
How is her career going, by the way?
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Eh.
Every big star plays themselves (or varying shades of themselves) in their major films.
Unless your name is Meryl Streep or Daniel Day Lewis, playing themselves is what box office stars do.
The Rock isn't any differnt from Tom Cruise, Angelina, Jennifer Lawrence, Sandra Bullock, at al.
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8 hours ago, grey ghost said:
So Marvel movies aren't emotional?
Someone should inform my box of tissue.
Almost every year there's a Marvel tearjerker.
Iron Man (mentor's death)
Cap 1 (last dance, sacrifice)
TA (Iron Man's sacrifice)
GotG (Groot's sacrifice)
GotG2 (Yonfu's sacrifice)
SMH (Peter crying out for help)
BP (emotional rollercoaster for me)
IW (Gamora scenes were very powerful imo)
I'm not sure what was so emotional about WW. The third act was Captain Planet level cheesy.
You are just being callous on purpose (and I could dismiss any of the scenes you mention with a "meh, what's so emotional about those?" But I won't):
Diana leaves Themyscira; the moment when she says goodbye to her mother is incredibly sad and poignant
- Antiope's sacrifice to save Diana's life
- Diana leaves Themyscira; the moment when she says goodbye to her mother is incredibly sad and poignant
- No Man's Land was simply an iconic moment in modern cinema that neither you or anyone can deny it; everybody who praises it raves about how emotionally resonant and powerful it was
- The death of Steve Trevor was a tear-jerker as well as the moment when Diana spares Dr. Poison's life when she recalls Steve's words about humanity being good.
- The Trafalgar Square celebration scene was an absolute tearjerker
And 'cheesy'? MCU fan calling other films cheesy is sooooo IRONIC.
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27 minutes ago, Lucasmessi12 said:
Ant man And Wasp budget is $162m according Deadline, its so big as Suicide Squad or Jurassic World, and bigger than Wonder Woman, Logan, Deadpool 2, Budgets, Why do some people here talk like the budget of this movie was one of the smallest in superhero/blockbusters movies ever? he is not, he has a budget as big as most blockbusters, and bigger than some others blockbusters.
Again, because it is the MCU, and people here love to make excuses for those.
The film is the rare MCU film that is not making audiences enraptured, so let's not pretend that the WOM is fantastic.
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4 minutes ago, SteveJaros said:
What @That One Guy said was irrelevant, arguably dumb. Doesn't answer my question. 👎
AMW could rebound, but right now it's looking pretty weak.
AntMan2 is at 28 million now? That's a 62 % decrease from its OW.
Hmmm, I suspect this won't rebound like SMH.
What's good for other films is good for this. If other films drop on this level and are immediately deemed "WOM flops," whyc can't this one?
Doesn't seem like audiences are loving this or that WOM is stellar.
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4 hours ago, SteveJaros said:
Why is everyone afraid to call Ant Man 2 a flop?
Because it's the MCU.
People always want to spin it into gold when the MCU underwhelms.
Imagine what will happen when they get their first full-fledged, undeniably tanking flop.
If Wonder woman1984 or Shazam had the kind of second weekend this is having, the last word they would use is "doing aight."
Double standards...
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Scarjo was, is, and continues being trash, and I am 100 % sure that this has nothing to do with her non-existent ethics. Marvel "advised" her to drop the role. After two high-profile flop films (Rough Night, Ghost in the Shell), Scarjo was not exactly a hot commodity, and MCU brand loyalty or not, the last thing Marvel need is continued bad buzz and badwill over Scarlett's callousness.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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2 hours ago, That One Guy said:
We all know that Cher + movie musical = smash hit. How did Burlesqued do again?
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I agree with Baumer.
This looks like wicked fun and I cannot wait to see what's up.
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1 hour ago, Napoleon said:
Wonder Woman captivated audiences because of the romance, the sincere and innocent character that Diana was, and because it was not afraid to embrace the emotions. None of this is part of the MCU formula. It's very reductive to compare it to Marvel just because it was lighter than the Snyder movies.
Not to mention that, except for a couple of supporting players in BP, the MCU still has not done justice to any of their awesome female characters. The jury's still out on Capt. Marvel (I hope it is a huge hit).
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13 hours ago, Cmasterclay said:
Congratulations to Scarlett Johannson on landing another starring role
LOL!!!! She could play ALL of the boys. She is that talented...and since she is such a big draw, you know...
Now seriously...how much you wanna bet that they create a fictional white character just for the film (a character that is either an investigator or a DA or a reporter...something really substantial, just to cast a big American star and have them be "the eyes" of the audience. Ugh.)...
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Maybe Jlaw could play Yelena Belova.
That way she could wink-wink at her Red Sparrow fans...
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Futurist dislikes any movie that is a) not MCU or b) does not star JLaw simply because they are not MCU or don't star Jlaw.
That's just how Futurist rolls.
Also, he simply cannot respect any action blockbuster that is not as generically bland or predictable as the latest rent-a-film from the House of Feige.
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2 hours ago, Ozymandias said:
why anyone would want to be part of the failed Snyderverse at this point is beyond me
Wonder Women doesn't really count because its a standalone and more Marvel-esque
LOL
Another moron calling WW a "Marvel-esque" film.
As if the MCU invented straightforward storytelling, solid directing, and fun cinematic narratives.
Oh, Marvel, what would modern moviegoers do without you?
Everything about good cinema came from the womb of Kevin Feige.
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6 hours ago, CoolioD1 said:
cool, now that they've finally got a director, i can't wait to see who they cast as black widow.
They better cast Idris Elba as Natasha.
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8 minutes ago, Morieris said:
I was excited.
Though as one who doesn't watch a lot of period pieces like that, are there any where the problem isn't that one woman can't produce a heir?
It's either that or "woman is too liberated for the time, which causes all sorts of dramatic conflict."
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7 minutes ago, Rebeccas said:
Umm $400m+? Yeah, let's chill on that for now.. 200m would be a realistically good result.
I never said that 200 million would not be fantastic.
I just feel that the premise has lots of potential to capture audiences beyond the typical CBM crowd. No, I don't think it will make BP money...but I could see a scenario in which it makes Wonder Woman money.
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5 minutes ago, Hades said:
Not enough humour and explosions...Give the rights to Disney....
Quick, someone call @The Futurist and tell him that there is a new film for him to slam as "boring, stuffy, and not as cool as the MCU masterpieces."
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It has been said before, but I really think that the premise of this film (pretty much Big Meets Superman) has the potential to make it the biggest domestic DCEU film yet.
If families take to this, its domestic box office will be bigger than Wonder Woman most likely.
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2002
We all what the biggest story that year was, at least in terms of big-budget studio pictures, right?
An ordinary teenager found himself in extraordinary circumstances, learning about power and responsability, and taking audiences for an unforgettable spin.
2002 was also the year that gave us one of the leggiest films of all time (which also gave a shot-in-the-arm to the romcom genre, becoming in fact the highest grossing romantic comedy of all time...(still has not been dethroned), and also gave us a thrilling movie musical that captured moviegoers' attention as well as the attention of the Academy Awards.
Oh, and a rapper actually had a hit record with a rap song that went on to win the Best Original Song Oscar...
Oh, and Jodie Foster unofficially became an action heroine...
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On 4/4/2018 at 12:03 AM, Chaz said:
Love it, B! 2001 had one of the most infamous bombs of the 21 century. I love this piece of shit movie.
Glitter made $4.2 million on a $22 million budget. Mariah Carey signed the biggest recording contract in history for a female artist at Virgin Records in late 2000, and the soundtrack to Glitter was going to be her first project at the label. The soundtrack sold a measly 700,000 copies after an extensive promotional campaign that was derailed by Mariah's increasingly bizarre behavior. Her striptease on TRL in August of '01 went viral before viral was a thing, and she started leaving alarming voice messages to fans on her website. She was eventually hospitalized for 'exhaustion.'
Virgin Records paid her $33 million to walk away from her contract after the disastrous reception of both the Glitter film and soundtrack. It was the biggest contract buyout in music history. Mariah eventually came back in a big way with 2005's The Emancipation of Mimi, but Glitter is still seen as one of the worst films of the decade.
To be honest, although the film was awful indeed, and the soundtrack was one of her less inspired works, 911 (which took place exactly ten days before Glitter opened) truly "stole the thunder" of everything related to entertainment that year.
Unless your name was Enya (whose fifth album A Day Without Rain actually sold incredibly well [16 million copies worldwide, her biggest album still] thanks partly to how the news media used "Only Time" in most of the 911 reports as an unofficial anthem of the tragedy and the healing post-9110), people were not having it with your silly movies, records, and TV shows. The collective spirit of the country was not in the mood for anything...
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Girl, please.
Captain Marvel will easily put the MCU right back in their 100-million-plusOW-300-million-plus-Domestic happy club.
As for BW...Scarjo deserves another flop.
Hopefully the tagline will be "watch her play a cis white woman in her first solo adventure!"