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

[Chewy]

Just now, dashrendar44 said:

This "Hollywood and Film Twitter is conspiring to protect Ava Duvernay" must be the most random conspiracy lately aside "All critics are anti-DC on Disney payroll" and "Thor franchise is being ostracized by Marvel studios".

The number of atrocious critic takes has skyrocketed over the past year, feels like almost everyone has one these days

[Barnack]

18 minutes ago, dashrendar44 said:

This "Hollywood and Film Twitter is conspiring to protect Ava Duvernay" must be the most random conspiracy lately aside "All critics are anti-DC on Disney payroll" and "Thor franchise is being blackballed by Marvel studios".

The bolded one must be the winner here (considering no Marvel Superhero got more movies than Thor, all entries got giants budget and release..... or do you even start that one, need a lot of creativity)

Edited February 27, 2018 by Barnack

[The Futurist]

Everything is fucking.

[That One Girl]

I'm pretty positive that critics will judge this as a film, and not based on who directed it.

[Porthos]

 

INSIDE THE SECRET MEETING OF FILM TWITTER Y'ALL!!!!  

[Eric is Quiet]

33 minutes ago, dashrendar44 said:

"Thor franchise is being blackballed by Marvel studios".

That...that's not actually a conspiracy, is it?

[dashrendar44]

11 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

That...that's not actually a conspiracy, is it?

[ZeeSoh]

12 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

That...that's not actually a conspiracy, is it?

Oh it sure was. T’was perpetrated by our resident extreme Thor fanboy with a rage boner for anything about Russo Brothers. 

 

It was funny and annoying at the same time and kinda ironic considering the conspiracy was being bandied around when Thor Ragnarok was doing great business everywhere

[Eric is Quiet]

12 minutes ago, ZeeSoh said:

Oh it sure was. T’was perpetrated by our resident extreme Thor fanboy with a rage boner for anything about Russo Brothers. 

 

It was funny and annoying at the same time and kinda ironic considering the conspiracy was being bandied around when Thor Ragnarok was doing great business everywhere

Ehh, that’s just one guy. A real conspiracy is when there are multiple people who believe the same thing.

[AniNate]

Maybe there is some hesitancy to publicly pan the film at this stage, but it's not like everyone's going to remain silent forever. 

[Zakiyyah6]

4 hours ago, CoolEric258 said:

I'm pretty sure the social media embargo was stated to be next Monday or Tuesday by the trustworthy source who announced the review embargo but go on ahead and do your insipid "critics are dumb" song and dance routine.

 

 

I didn't say all critics were dumb.

[AniNate]

Much as I've grown pessimistic about this movie all the empty speculation about what its lack of reactions means is still greatly irritating.

[Zakiyyah6]

You must have never visited one of the comic book movie threads then.

[TalismanRing]

2 hours ago, Barnack said:

The bolded one must be the winner here (considering no Marvel Superhero got more movies than Thor, all entries got giants budget and release..... or do you even start that one, need a lot of creativity)

The proof is that the Frost Giants were short.  If they cared about Thor and making him look appropriately badass they would have made them each 5 times bigger.  But as we know, 100 20 ft Frost Giants are much cheaper to hire than 20 100 ft Frost Giants.  Cheap bastards.

 

 

Edited February 28, 2018 by TalismanRing

[Zakiyyah6]

The fact that Marvel didn't bring back Terminator Genisys to direct Ragnarok showed that they cared about Thor. Unlike another studio they don't keep hacks around after they have failed once.

[MovieMan89]

For the one zillionth time, this movie is targeted at families. That audience by and large couldn't care less about review embargos and critics. If Disney was going to go out of their way to stop reactions from getting out as long as they can for a movie they thought was a dud, it would be for something like MCU. The target audience for this isn't going to pay attention to reviews. All they do is give an idea of what kind of WOM it might get, but even that is iffy, since tons of family aimed films that are rotten go well over 3x+. 

[Zakiyyah6]

Why didn't the family audience that doesn't care about reviews show up for Tomorrowland?

[That One Girl]

1 minute ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

Why didn't the family audience that doesn't care about reviews show up for Tomorrowland?

 

Because Tomorrowland is barely even a family film.

[Zakiyyah6]

2 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

Because Tomorrowland is barely even a family film.

It's a PG rated family film, what are you talking about?

[MovieMan89]

10 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

It's a PG rated family film, what are you talking about?

It's PG because there's nothing in it to make it PG-13. However, the tone is not that of a family film at all, even in the marketing. Tomorrolwand didn't know who the hell it was for. It was a sci-fi film starring an older teen girl and an elderly man that tried to deliver an ill advised message about society that went way over kid's heads. Was it going for kids? The YA audience? Adults? Hipsters? Clearly none of the above, at least not successfully. WiT's protagonists are kids and the marketing is laced with a fantasy element. It is far more appealing to the family audience than TL ever was. At least from a marketing perspective. Also, TL's multi wasn't exactly terrible either given its reviews and lack of knowing who it was made for. 

 

Long story short: this is highly unlikely to miss 100 DOM, no matter how much many of you would seemingly like it to. Only way it does is it it really turns off families and WOM is bad among them. 

Edited February 28, 2018 by MovieMan89