Anon

I just think Hunger Games is a lot more accessible than people are thinking, if the first HP prequel which were way less Hogwarts oriented can perform well enough for a sequel, I don't see why Hunger Games prequels which can be seen as a stand alone would suffer. And out of CM/Dune 2/HG, it relies the least on it's stars since it doesn't have any.

Imo THG is being severely underestimated. The games part of the movies always sold well, and this movie has that unlike Mockingjay. If Lionsgate sell that hard it can overperform easily.

The concept of a Barbie movie didn't have that much hype before the set pics leaked which is Greta's vision, the sets, the Kubrick homage all of that is her idea so yeah the marketing created the hype but it was based on her work. A geberic movie about Barbie would be treated like one of those VOD movies or at most 50 shades of grey movie, a sucess but not a phenomenon like this and something which people are embarrassed to be associated with.

People said the same thing about cable, and radio before that. And as all those mediums learnt (what streaming is about to as well) that you can't make this business model work without Ads which is going to lead this industry in the same path it has been before.

Not really a fan of most of the episodes especially the Finale. Ultron was so OP in ep 8 so the finale was disappointing. The best episodes was the Fury detective one for me. Is it just me or is Cap Carter too similar to Steve? I just don't find her character interesting b/c her story beats and character relationships are the same as Steve's.

What are you talking about? That was such a small subsection of reviewers. Most reviewers have given MCU movies great reviews (too great in most cases imo).

I already lowered my expectation because of how bad I found episode 8 to be but episode 9 was even more disappointing. The fight with Agnes was way too easy, the goodbye was basically meaningless since we already know about White Vision, MCU has wasted QS twice and done the multiverse fakeout twice as well. At the start of the series it seemed like MCU was doing something new to compete with how much quality superhero TV there is (Watchmen, The Boys, Doom Patrol) but by the end it seems mediocre.

I know that for my younger cousins, it would be the lack of songs and good marketed comedy.