The Marvels looks like it might be fun, but I’m totally burned out on superheroes whose eyes glow every time they use their After Effects powers.
Maybe just once they should introduce a superhero whose ears light up whenever they summon their powers just to mix things up a bit.
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Glad to make a new topic! (blurred because the one box includes spoilers)
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Nerdy teenager Royce Randal gets bitten by a radioactive firefly and discovers he has all the powers of a firefly plus his ass lights up!
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Good news for fans for superhero films with no special effects other than trampolines and sped up film
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It was a lot of fun, absolutely worth it.
Good news - there are also glowing fists!
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-deleted trough embarrassment-
Glowing eyes, glowing fists… Amateurs.
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‘The Marvels’ bombs with worst MCU opening yet
That’s a pretty weird way to say “top grossing movie of the weekend”.
I mean, it earned more than five times the second highest performer, and having been in theatres all of five days, it’s also the top grossing movie for the month.
Just saying.
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Comparing movie openings today with openings pre-Covid seems like a bad idea. Theatres have shut, people seem to prefer streaming, they are still wary of crowds for various reasons, they can’t keep up with the MCU, they can’t afford it. So the expectation that theatres will be filled with excited fans is the unrealistic part. The comparison to other films opening at the same time makes much more sense.
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Glowing, growing…umm, well, er…
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LASERFISTS! GLOWHANDS!
TASERFACED!!!
(sorry.)
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If I really think about it, I recall some vague information about it last year, mostly in a “Hey! This movie will eventually come out with one of my favorite Marvel heroes, Kamala Khan. Cool!” But then I didn’t see anything else about it, so forgot it.
My first actual information about the movie being released were from various stories talking about how badly it did in the box office in the first weekend. Wha… ? I understand that getting that big bolus of cash in the first weekend is cool and all, but I’ve always felt that this was a really crappy way to judge the worth of a movie. This is even more true today when many of us wouldn’t go to a theater if we were being paid to go!
We’ll be happy to watch this one at home, thank you.
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“The big baddie had a hammer just like the big baddie in Guardians of the Galaxy.”
You mean, because they were each bearing the weapon of a Kree Accuser? I mean, that is what they both were, and that is the weapon of the Accuser - the Universal Weapon. So, comic book accurate but you don’t like it. That’s fine. Maybe if she had carried a screwdriver instead?
“The “unidentified” items that randomly appeared on the space station were obviously space cat eggs”
I agree here, but mostly because of AMC’s marketing of Flerken-eggs at the concession stand made it obvious.
“And it was pretty lame that they had the space cats instantly trained to swallow humans, then cough them up back on earth. It didn’t make any sense.”
In a world where people can fly, this is where you draw the line. Got it.
“Young Avengers. Blech.”
Ah, got it. If it isn’t a comic book from before 2005, you aren’t interested.
Seriously, this is what fandom is becoming… it is disappointing.
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I agree with all that you have said. It doesn’t make sense. The way they judge film performance never really made sense and is frustrating to those of us who read these articles about a film’s performance issues. But they’re never going to change and are constantly looking at validation for the status quo. People are wary of theaters and love streaming, but that’s ignorable thanks to the successes of Top Gun: Maverick and that whole Barbenheimer thing. The exceptions prove to them that the audience is exactly the same and they just need to make “better films,” which means whatever it needs to mean to them in the moment.
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A big part of it has to do with Hollywood accounting and who gets paid more from early revenue streams versus later revenue streams. Some actors negotiate a chunk of the opening night gross instead of later residuals, and theaters get $X percentage of the first week’s ticket sales versus $Y percentage of the following weeks.
I don’t know the specifics of how that stuff works, but I know it’s a general thing that happens, and weighs heavily into that opening weekend’s receipts being so scrutinized.
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