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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 WEEKEND THREAD
Hatebox replied to Eric Prime's topic in Numbers and Data
Guardians is such a weird franchise. I didn’t follow tracking at all, so a week ago if you’d told me it’d get 175m ow I’d have had no reason not to believe you. They seemed popular enough before now. -
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 WEEKEND THREAD
Hatebox replied to Eric Prime's topic in Numbers and Data
stop threatening me with a good time -
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 WEEKEND THREAD
Hatebox replied to Eric Prime's topic in Numbers and Data
TA1 was the last MCU film I saw at the cinema. I remember thinking the first half hour was really bad, like, how the hell is anyone calling this a good movie bad. But by the mid-point when hulk appears it really clicked, and by the last third I was practically laughing out loud at how fun it all was. I think there have been a handful of superior entries since but none have captured the unmitigated, large-scale joy of that first finale (yes, even Endgame). -
No marvel fan has a leg to stand on when it comes to complaining about critics (and to be fair not many are, on this thread at least). The series has had, to my mind, kind reviews for over a decade. The good but hardly rapturous reception we’re seeing now just makes me think ‘what took them so long’.
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Batman ‘89 is of my favourite movies of all time. I have an almost primal nostalgia for it. So I should be a really easy target for this marketing campaign. But it’s not worked on me, because every time I see images of Keaton it’s not ‘89 Batman that comes to mind… it’s Birdman. There’s no going back after that movie. It was the final word on his relationship to the character.
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I’ve been to the the cinema twice a year in the last three years. Maybe I’m projecting (pun intended) but I really do think the medium’s long term prospects are dire. A business model in which a handful of movies make a shitload of money while the rest fight for crumbs isn’t sustainable. It’s not like when tv was invented and cinema still offered superior drama and spectacle: tv can now easily compete.