Yeah right...
WTF?? "Blackwashing", plain and simple.
Posted on 11/05/2017 9:47:28 AM PST by SMGFan
Disney and Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok got the 2017 holiday movie season started in strong fashion, debuting with over $120 million as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to fill theaters. Additionally, STX's A Bad Moms Christmas brought in over $20 million for its five-day start, but it's the road ahead that will tell the full story as it hopes to play well into the holiday season. Overall, the top twelve delivered a combined $166 million, which is a massive improvement over last week but still falls short of the $183 million for the same weekend last year, which not only featured the $85 million debut of Doctor Strange, but openings for Trolls and Hacksaw Ridge.
With an estimated $121 million, Disney and Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok delivered the seventh largest opening for a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, topping the $117 million debut for Spider-Man: Homecoming earlier this year. On average, films in the MCU deliver 2.72x multipliers, which would put Ragnarok's domestic run over $330 million if it merely holds to the average, but we're expecting it to play a bit better thanks in large part to strong reviews and opening weekend audience reception
>>>> Elsewhere in the top ten, Atlas's Let there be Light expanded into 642 theaters (+269) this weekend and brought in an estimated $1.6 million, signaling only a 6% drop from last weekend. The film's cume now stands just over $4 million.
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“In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she's not Norse...she's an extra-dimensional alien that the ancient Norse people incorporated into their myths, which gives Marvel an in-universe rationale for "diverse" casting. ”What he said. ;)
Holiday season.
What holiday is that?
Halloween?
Day of the Dead?
Guy Fawkes Day?
It isn’t Veterans’ Day yet.
Yeah right...
WTF?? "Blackwashing", plain and simple.
It is insulting to even call these comic book movies.
Comic books have a lot more plot than these simpleton computer gamer tales.
For instance, the “alter egos” of these “heroes” are non-existent for the most part in the movies.
It’s a convenient costume change in their down time but that’s about it. Their “alter egos” just existed at the beginning of the films where their boring, nobody really cares, origin stories are told (repeatedly in the case of reboots).
Having “a lot of stuff happen” isn’t the same thing as having a plot, a story arch, or a compelling narrative.
Those illustrations are from Marvel comics. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is set on Earth-199999, an entirely separate continuity from the mainstream Marvel universe of Earth-616, the setting of most Marvel comic books.
http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Brunnhilde_(Earth-199999)
(yes, I am a nerd)
40 years ago Star Wars was released.
That’s almost 2 generations raised with Star Wars always being available on home video.
http://episodenothing.blogspot.com/2014/10/star-wars-comes-home-history-of-1977.html
It has tremendously altered the landscape of movie making.
Siskel and Ebert referred to a type of movie that could be summed up on 4 glasses available at a fast food franchise.
Star Wars didn’t invent this marketing tool but ran with it anyhow
http://www.metv.com/lists/10-collectable-fast-food-glasses-we-still-want
$30 is too much to spend on a one time viewing experience of a recorded program (technically there is no film, shot on video, projected digitally).
You can buy even high end DVD titles for under $30 (much less if you shop around or are willing to buy closeouts or even used discs online or locally, sometimes as low as $1-3).
Even if you gamble on a movie, watch it once, and sell it (yard sale, amazon, ebay, craigslist) you’d come out ahead.
It’s funny that even with lower than ever distribution costs, movie prices and digital albums haven’t lowered the price points to viewing/hearing the work.
Yeah good points. I miss the great dramas and comedies, but enjoy watching old movies a lot.
Yup 20% sounds like a good prediction.
Who's senior editor there now?
THIS passes for a cover artist these days? Looks like low to mid level fan art from a zine.
Compare and contrast, discuss among yourselves.
(1987)
(1972) 
(1968)
While your point about the (lack of) quality is well-taken, I would point out that the cover in question is from 20 years ago.
Type in a movie you want to watch and you will come across sites like this: https://gostream.is
Movies and tv shows from here and europe and asia.
Definitely see it. “They” are saying it’s the funniest Marvel comic book movie of all time and it really is.
Thor starts out with long hair and you know how Stan Lee always has a cameo in any of his movies? Yep; he’s the barber.
It’s one of those a person could watch several times and still enjoy it if they like the genre to begin with.
Yes, I see your point.
Justice League is also coming out this month. I doubt it will do as well as Wonder Woman, Guardians, Spider-Man, Logan, or Thor (it might, but DC has a spotty track record so far), but it will help to push the superhero movies to above 20%.
I think that is why just about the only movies that are doing well anymore are comic book and science fiction with lots of special effects. Unless a movie looks much, much better on a movie screen, why go to the trouble and expense to see a movie in a theater when you can watch it on your own 50" TV screen at home?
Just seen it. Loved it. As soon as Led Zepp kicked in for the first fight scene, I was hooked.
A Marx Brothers film or other comedy works well with a packed house.
It doesn’t effects to please the audience.
It takes entertainment.
Do they have money? When you spend a couple hundred million making a movie you’re intended audience is anybody with money in their pocket.
She’s a good actress, suck it up.
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