DInky
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1 minute ago, Ryan Reynolds said:
another middling cgi fest, reviews around BoP won't move needle much , it may be ok like the last one
Says the guy who starred in Green Lantern.
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1 minute ago, Lucas said:
I have no idea how this is still a major issue with every single embargo drop. I feel like I even have some distant memory of a time when it wasn't this bad, but these days that feels like fantasy.
I remember a time when it wasn't like this as well.
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Just now, Lucas said:
I have no idea if this is the latest update or if Rottentomatoes is fucking up again and showing an early score, but it just appeared on the front page.
It's been flickering between 70%, 73% and 83% for some time now.
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If the budget is only 100M then it basically needs to make 200M worldwide. Normally I'd consider the marketing budget but I don't think there is any for this movie.
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I feel like I haven't seen any real projections for this film. What are we expecting it to make this week?
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24 minutes ago, Spidey Freak said:
They'll go the Hulk route and make them supports in other people's films like Captain Marvel, Thor, Fantastic Four and Black Panther. Maybe they'll split them up into smaller groups to appear in these films.
The only reason they haven't tried another Hulk solo movie is that Universal has the distribution rights.
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By the sounds of it Eternals differs from previous films in that it's more serious in tone and it features characters who are less relatable because they're god-like beings who stand apart from humans. That's very much a Jack Kirby thing, The Eternals, the Inhumans and the New Gods are all similar in that regard. So I'm not sure this movie strays away from the Marvel formula per se but they're trying to adapt characters who don't have that "from regular Joe to hero" origin story that people enjoy.
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3 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:
Should the big takeaway from this film be that Marvel should just stick to their established formula?
I for one hope it won't make them too risk-averse.
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Just now, Lucas said:
I can't say whether or not making an Eternals movie was a good or bad idea, I know absolutely nothing about them, but are these thoughts forming now just because it seems like the movie appears to have failed? I'm sure there must've been some way to get a functioning movie out of them, like they have for some other characters. The problem I can tell from the outset though is something like Guardians of the Galaxy is a lot easier for a newbie like me to pinpoint who they are wia their distinct looks, while the Eternals look astoundingly dull and same-y with their costumes. Is there something about this property that doesn't work for film, or did they just not get it right here?
It's funny that you mention them looking same-y because they have way more varied looks in the comics. I remember being disappointed when they first revealed the costumes because they were so uniform. When you adapt a Kirby creation then you might as well go all out. I can't speak to the stories in the comics though, I've read a fair amount of Marvel comics over the years and I have yet to read an Eternals comic except for an old Inhumans issue where they guest star..
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Just now, WittyUsername said:
Possibly, but for whatever reason, it doesn’t seem like Kevin Feige was ever particularly interested in that property. The only reason there was supposed to be an Inhumans movie in Phase 3 was because Perlmutter was desperately trying to use them to replace the X-Men, who Marvel couldn’t use at the time.
The only reason I can come up with is that Feige didn't think a royal space family that owns slaves is very relatable. The slaves part could be taken out of the movies, of course, but it'd still be hard to make them feel grounded. I guess they could have done a Game of Thrones in space type of movie with the Kree Empire as the antagonists. I hope that they will be eventually introduced in one of the FF movies.
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Do you guys think an Inhumans movie would have been a better choice?
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So a 8.1 score is bad I take it?
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If it makes 10M opening weekend and around 20M total like The Rise of Skywalker then that would be horrendous.
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I haven't seen Chalamet in anything else but I thought he was great in this.
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11 minutes ago, iHeartJames said:
The fact that Dewey or Gale are gonna die this movie gets me emotional. I hate it here
Umm...is this a legit spoiler?
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Scream to me is such a 90s franchise. I love the first three movies but the fourth one did very little for me. And I don't think anyone involved with the film is to blame. It's just hard to recapture the 90s feel of the original trilogy 10 or 20 years later.
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Quite a few new markets next week.
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37 minutes ago, excel1 said:
I'd be shocked if Dune opens that high, though it does have seemingly every star in Hollywood and the marketing has been everywhere.
Don't think it will open that high either. WB's biggest OW this year is still GvK with 32.2M. Dune making twice as much is a tall order.
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60M opening weekend would be great imo. Even if HBO Max absolutely destroys its legs it should reach 100M domestic.
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On 9/25/2021 at 9:33 PM, Knights of Ren said:
Why would anybody care for what critics have to say about Venom anyways? This film was going to be panned by critics before it was even made. It’s not meant to be taken too seriously.
You really think a movie about Venom could never appeal to critics? I kind of hate the fact that so many people have just accepted that these movies are trainwrecks. If we reward garbage then we're only going to get more garbage.
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4 minutes ago, ThomasNicole said:
Pandemic as well.
The movie is heading to 300-350M despite HBO Max and pandemic, it's enough to be one of the biggest movies of the year, this is what trully matter in this context, not the marketing costs.
There are talks about this being a possible colossal failure, it's not and it's actually possible that it turn out to be profitable considering Warner probably paid some % of the costs for Legendary because of HBO Max like they did with GxK.
I agree with everything you just said.
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8 minutes ago, Joel M said:
Not again with the marketing budgets. I don't know if Deadline started this trend of bringing up marketing budgets whenever you want to downplay a movie's success but I'm blaming them.
But that's a real thing you need to take into account...
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I think Quantumania started in the mid-60s (RT).