Legion Again

I think long runtime exacerbates the poor reception issues fwiw. It’s easier to sink 120 minutes into a movie outing you’re a little skeptical of than like 200. I don’t think I would want a shorter cut though. I had concerns about it before seeing it, but to me it felt just right. If a buffer of 25 monstrously successful and well-received films doesn’t buy you a buffer of one like this (actually the buffer is a lot more than one, but that’s neither here nor there) then what’s the point?

Before reviews dropped, it was tracking for a preview number that would have put it above 90 with a typical A/A- level reception.

Could also try to hide behind a pandemic fig leaf, but I have been arguing against that for movies I’m not personally attached to and I’m not changing my assessment there just because one I loved is getting crushed. Is it a 0% factor, no. Is it a primary factor here, no.

67% drop, finish below Bond domestically. A terrible terrible result, perhaps a full 50% below the potential with SC level reception. The consolations are: personally liked it overperforming OS I trust Feige not to kneejerk overreact

And +45% or whatever is a far cry from dang near double

This is not factually accurate.

The reason spider can’t ask this is that the real answer is “oh, well… we could 😅”

2x post lead achieved

#notARecord

DS2 will be the first CBM eldritch horror, rest are just eldritch action comedies 😏

Are you sure? I have this weird feeling all of existence might be destroyed a killer robot if I decide not to. Nah, I’m happy with the results of the sacred timeline there

I’m sorry, but I find this unacceptable. I will go consume eldritch horrors for a few centuries instead.

Just trying to predict SMH accurately. If you’re from the future maybe you can tell me whether I got close.

I predict a 117M OW for 880M WW.

Anyway the trade war and senate vote of no confidence stuff is why PT is easily better than OT and ST

Only the Sequel Sequel Trilogy can save us now

TA did its 623M as the movie following TFA’s 176M.

The meltdown bar looms 👀

There is definitely some irony here that I enjoy. People have been moaning and gnashing their their teeth for like a fucking decade about the “marvel formula.” It’s so dull. So repetitive. Why oh why can’t marvel be bold and take risks with more unique movies. Well, guess what — turns out, the formula is good. Not merely good — it’s great! Critics like the formula. GA likes the formula. More enfranchised fans like the formula. It's just Marvel and formula. Formula and Marvel and their movies. Marvel and formula, forever and forever, a hundred years marvel and formula.

I think people pay a little too much attention to critic reception and audience reception and not enough to Feige reception. As far as predicting future impact, I mean. Obviously, you’d prefer to hit a triple, which is what the mcu usually does. But the implications moving forward for a movie with poor critic and audience that Feige personally thinks is great are probably quite different than poor critic and audience+Feige personally thinks is kind of weak. Could all be PR BS of course, but based on the difference in reception among fans and GA I suspect that Feige genuinely thought, and still thinks, that this movie rocks (which is fair, ‘cause — it does). Actions speak louder than words so we’ll see how it all develops in a year or three, but I just don’t see much of a kneejerk change of plans being likely.

great: Eternals good: BW BOP didn’t see it: Mulan

Actually 102M though.

Oh, I did a mental math error, should have been 13. It will be at 7.7M off a 3.6 week so that is only around 40% drops — I don’t think it will get squeezed too much by Clifford. Maybe 11 or 12 but certainly not sub 10, not luck required.

My off the cuff, not much thought remark from last weekend thread: More serious analysis: Duel — 11 dispatch — 14 Soho — 15 Halloween — 93 Can Richard+Gucci go below 63M? Sure, why not. Maybe we can throw Spencer in too. We haven’t seen this kind of movie attract the GA to cinemas yet and I’m not betting on it until it happens.

The “ceiling” (dumb concept) is whatever TFA would make if it released for th first time this Dec. 750M+ imo