The Marvels | November 10, 2023 | Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter

[The GOAT]

When does the Pre-sales for this movie start? 

[The GOAT]

8 minutes ago, ZattMurdock said:

I see that absolutely nothing has changed on this place, especially the reason I left the board. Same old power plays, same old Cartman’s ‘respect my authority’ schtick.

 

Oh well, I’m glad that The Marvels got the IMAX screens. Excited for November.

Welcome Back!

[Bob Train]

16 minutes ago, ZattMurdock said:

I see that absolutely nothing has changed on this place, especially the reason I left the board. Same old power plays, same old Cartman’s ‘respect my authority’ schtick.

 

Oh well, I’m glad that The Marvels got the IMAX screens. Excited for November.

[HummingLemon496]

Do you think the Loki finale will affect The Marvels's Thursday previews?

[BadOlCatSylvester]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this thread is locked by the time tickets go for sale. It'll also likely be locked during the movie's opening weekend just for good measure. Because those events are going to make this thread go nuclear in ways not even Dr. Oppenheimer would be able to comprehend.

[HummingLemon496]

Which event (probably) around the beginning of October are you more excited for?

 

Loki Season 2

The Marvels official tracking (from pre-sales)

[JustLurking]

1 hour ago, BadOlCatSylvester said:

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this thread is locked by the time tickets go for sale. It'll also likely be locked during the movie's opening weekend just for good measure. Because those events are going to make this thread go nuclear in ways not even Dr. Oppenheimer would be able to comprehend.

if they didn't lock the flash they aren't locking this one

[SchumacherFTW]

3 hours ago, ZattMurdock said:

I see that absolutely nothing has changed on this place, especially the reason I left the board. Same old power plays, same old Cartman’s ‘respect my authority’ schtick.

 

Oh well, I’m glad that The Marvels got the IMAX screens. Excited for November.

Such an insightful post. If you don't like it, continue your self imposed exile. 

[Liiviig 1998]

This is peanuts compared to TLM OW threads .

[SpiderByte]

5 hours ago, HummingLemon496 said:

Do you think the Loki finale will affect The Marvels's Thursday previews?

Absolutely not. This has been discussed at exhausting length.

So all those under 90 minutes takes were...not true at all.

[DInky]

12 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

Absolutely not. This has been discussed at exhausting length.

So all those under 90 minutes takes were...not true at all.

 

 

The number that was being thrown out previously was 98 minutes so just a 7 minute difference. At 105 minutes this is still the shortest MCU movie and excluding credits it's only 95 minutes.

[SpiderByte]

I mean it's only 10 minutes shorter than Doctor Strange and not even as short as the first X-Men movie. I think people mistakenly conflate longer to mean "more worth it" with ticket prices or more quality but we can look at Creator vs Saw X to see that's not necessarily true.

[toutvabien]

Actually kind of excited this is just 105 minutes... some movies just don't need to be longer. If this was yet again in the 120-130 minute range, I'd see it more as a studio restriction, sticking to a narrative formula. This is a bit refreshing.

[DInky]

54 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

I mean it's only 10 minutes shorter than Doctor Strange and not even as short as the first X-Men movie. I think people mistakenly conflate longer to mean "more worth it" with ticket prices or more quality but we can look at Creator vs Saw X to see that's not necessarily true.

 

I've often felt that MCU films would benefit from having more slower character-focused scenes to break up the non-stop action. So that's why I'm worried. That and, as I pointed out earlier in the thread, historically most of the really short comic book movies have been awful. Then again, I acknowledge that there are people who think that MCU movies are bloated so to each their own I guess.

[Hatebox]

Short is good. I’ve no idea how anyone could look at all the SH films we’ve gotten over the last 20 years and think “damn, I wish this were 140 minutes!”

[SpiderByte]

The short runtimes aren't the thing the bad Fox movies have in common, it's Fox. They sat on the Deadpool movie for the better part of a decade before the leaked trailers reaction got it greenlit.

[TheFlatLannister]

9 hours ago, ZattMurdock said:

I see that absolutely nothing has changed on this place, especially the reason I left the board. Same old power plays, same old Cartman’s ‘respect my authority’ schtick.

 

Oh well, I’m glad that The Marvels got the IMAX screens. Excited for November.

Welcome back Zatt. It’s going to be a fun month of tracking for the Marvels 

[PlatnumRoyce]

2 hours ago, Hatebox said:

Short is good. I’ve no idea how anyone could look at all the SH films we’ve gotten over the last 20 years and think “damn, I wish this were 140 minutes!”

 

It's just a goofy discussion to have without having watched the actual film. For example, yes: "damn, I wish Black Adam were 140 minutes" is a real response I have to watching something that's both very close to being a really good movie and something that's clearly been scrambled around multiple times in the editing room. I wouldn't say the same about Morbius despite that film clearly wanting to have a 120/130M minute final cut. 
 

"Short is good" is why studios prefer bad short films to bad long films but the length of the final cut isn't exogenous to film quality. The anti-105 minute runtime case would just be a bet that the film was reedited based on poor test screenings. However, if thats the case, the actual contents of the film will provide a lot more evidence than runtime. 

[SpiderByte]

The only thing that seems consistent from the test screenings is they cut a bit of the musical planet, but it doesn't seem like it was like an additional 30 minutes or anything so it can't have been that much longer anyways

Edited September 29, 2023 by SpiderByte

[filmlover]

Given how long movies in general have become recently, I welcome a relatively "short" picture with no fat on it.