Disney's A Wrinkle in Time | 9th March, 2018 | Frozen's Jennifer Lee writing, Ava DuVernay directing. 45% on RT

[babz06]

4 minutes ago, Marathon said:

Well, the incoherent trailers were certainly a red flag. While coherent, easy-to-grasp trailers don't necessarily guarantee a good movie, incoherent trailers tend to guarantee a mess of a movie, because if the pros cutting the trailers aren't finding a core narrative, it most likely isn't there.

 

Plus, the whole affair seems so culturally specific to (North) America that it's hard to see it resonating much with overseas audiences. In fact, cruel as it may sound, for overseas it's hard to envision anything other than major bombage for this movie.

how does it look american? It looks like a (bad) fantasy  film to me. 

Edited February 24, 2018 by babz06

[Marathon]

The novel it's based on isn't really known overseas, and the day-to-day scenes in the movie look pretty specifically "American" (I guess).

[meriodejaneiro]

32 minutes ago, Marathon said:

Well, the incoherent trailers were certainly a red flag. While coherent, easy-to-grasp trailers don't necessarily guarantee a good movie, incoherent trailers tend to guarantee a mess of a movie, because if the pros cutting the trailers aren't finding a core narrative, it most likely isn't there.

 

Plus, the whole affair seems so culturally specific to (North) America that it's hard to see it resonating much with overseas audiences. In fact, cruel as it may sound, for overseas it's hard to envision anything other than major bombage for this movie.

That's the thing, incoherent trailer with disconnected narrative. 

 

It has some interesting/intriguing shots and visuals like this

 

 

 

 

 

 

But then, you get this:

 

(a red-eyed Sasha Baron Coehn) 

 

(three drag queens abandoned in the middle of nowhere)

 

(where's Maria and her guitar?)

 

(a flying gigantic lettuce)

 

(and a cheap halloween drag make-up) 

 

 

Edited February 24, 2018 by meriodejaneiro

[BeastByTheBay]

Looks like a Narnia movie 

[Jonwo]

4 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

Still, it would be bad news for Ava.  I wonder how much she's kicking herself for not accepting Black Panther instead.

 

 

 

Some directors make the jump from mid budget to big budget quite well like Coogler, Jenkins etc and some do stumble and it does look like Ava might have stumbled with Wrinkle. 

[BeastByTheBay]

1 hour ago, Jonwo said:

Some directors make the jump from mid budget to big budget quite well like Coogler, Jenkins etc and some do stumble and it does look like Ava might have stumbled with Wrinkle. 

You know who i'm surprised that he did well in that category? Kong's Jordan Vogt-Roberts considering Kings Of Summer was his only movie prior. 

[Dementeleus]

You guys read way too much into the tea leaves. It might be great, it might not be great. (More likely, some will love and others won't). Trying to predict based off trailers and embargo dates is really dubious and the unfortunate side effect is everybody takes it as gospel, creating a whole false narrative that people feel the movie has to overcome. 

[That One Girl]

11 minutes ago, Telehilation said:

You guys read way too much into the tea leaves. It might be great, it might not be great. (More likely, some will love and others won't). Trying to predict based off trailers and embargo dates is really dubious and the unfortunate side effect is everybody takes it as gospel, creating a whole false narrative that people feel the movie has to overcome. 

 

You're stanning for this movie (or at least rooting for it), correct?

[Dementeleus]

I'm rooting for it but the trailers haven't hooked me. 

[La Binoche]

Looks horrible. 

[Ryan Reynolds]

could do worse than Tomorrowland, think The BFG

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bfg.htm

[Spidey Freak]

[Spidey Freak]

 

[Porthos]

World Premiere is tonight so we might get some reactions if folks break the social media embargo.

[stephanos13]

Wasn't invited to see A WRINKLE IN TIME with my peers tonight. While I've heard mixed things about the film itself, the one thing everyone seems to agree on is that Storm Reid is a STAR. So that's encouraging...

— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) February 26, 2018

[Porthos]

7 minutes ago, Porthos said:

World Premiere is tonight so we might get some reactions if folks break the social media embargo.

One other thing.  I haven't actually seen confirmation on just when the social media embargo lifts.  That one twitter account made a vague comment about it being three or so days before release, but I have yet to see independent verification of that.

 

Regardless, I think it will be very very hard for any sort of social media embargo to actually be enforced tonight IF there actually is one.  

Edited February 26, 2018 by Porthos

[MovieMan89]

Tbh, this is probably headed for the usual 50-70% range of most live action Disney fantasy films. Again, I really don't see that making much of a difference in terms of how it does at the box office. Didn't for Alice, Oz, Maleficent, BatB, etc. 

[TalismanRing]

4 minutes ago, Porthos said:

One other thing.  I haven't actually seen confirmation on just when the social media embargo lifts.  That one twitter account made a vague comment about it being three or so days before release, but I have yet to see independent verification of that.

 

Regardless, I think it will be very very hard for any sort of social media embargo to actually be enforced tonight IF there actually is one.  

They can never enforce fan/audience reactions but studios do have social media embargos on the press.  If they break them they don't get other invites.

[MovieGuyKyle17]

This movie will bomb but I am looking forward to seeing it. 

[MovieMan89]

On 2/24/2018 at 4:54 PM, meriodejaneiro said:

 

(three drag queens abandoned in the middle of nowhere)

 

 

 

Three Drag Queens Outside Ebbing, Missouri?