Posted on 11/11/2023 10:19:30 AM PST by Rummyfan
The Marvels is anything but marvelous so far at the box office.
Based on Friday earnings of $21.5 million, the Marvel Studios and Disney superhero tentpole is headed for a domestic opening of $47 million to $52 million to rank as the worst start in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Marvels marks a new low for Kevin Feige‘s Marvel Studios, which for years was unrivaled in its success, and bolsters the theory that superhero fatigue is a real thing as fanboys grow weary of a glut of titles and are far less forgiving.
Until now, rival DC was the superhero studio that endured the biggest ups and downs, with a good number of its films opening to $50 million or less (in comparison, many MCU releases started with $100 million or more domestically). This summer, DC’s The Flash debuted to a dismal $55 million domestically on its way to topping out at a paltry $270.6 million globally.
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the trailers I have seen.. is SO bad! the effects look like something from a power rangers episode.
It’s like the Fast & Furious franchise. There are ten movies on that series. I like Vin Diesel, but for ten friggin movies? I saw the first two, dropped out, came back at movie #10. I don’t miss the seven I didn’t see.
Back when I was young superhero movies were relegated to cliffhanger serials but few major movies were made. They were given a “B” budget to be shown in B&W on the bottom half of a drive in movie double feature under Hercules and the Women from Mars.
Today they are given a top rated budget, great color and special effects. As Siskel and Ebert said decades ago,
“The first movie makers were raised on great books and made movies of Great Books. Today’s movie makers were raised on....comic books.”
In looking at what was showing at our local six plex theaters, a horror movie, four superhero movies and one kid movie. It never seems to change.
I have not been to a theater since 2010 to see the remake of True Grit. I might go back to see NAPOLEON.
marvelous crap when they give you a lesson instead of entertainment ,LOL
I should add that the first Superhero movie I saw in color was a stinker called Argoman(1967) And man, it stank!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061500/
After he makes love to a woman he loses his superpowers for several hours. SO, after a love making session he is beat down, (look at watch) beat down more (look at watch) beat down some more (Look at watch) then the vehicle he is in explodes with bad buys flying everywhere! when they look up there he stands as ARGOMAN!
Same here. I was outraged when they started charging 12 cents an issue. I collected quite a few of the early Marvel comics, many first issues of the heroes including all the well-known ones. When I moved out at the age of 18, my mom was pissed and threw out much of my stuff, including my comic collection. I managed to keep a dozen or so I had taken with me. My wife's brother still collects comics and has more than 100,000 comics in his home. We're both in our 70's, and I don't see any reason to have them.
my thought exactly
heaven forbid someone writes an original script
the star of snow anti-white
did a great job of popping the woke bubble
namely the two Guillermo Del Toro “Hellboy” movies,
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Those were some great movies.
Yep, I’ve being seeing the trailers on Youtube and agree it looks pretty bad.
Is that the same woman from Black Panther Wakanda? Marvel and DC are doing their best to promote anti white heroes lately
They should have just changed the title to Snow Brown
They (all the ‘blockbusters’) need to return to movies with engaging, realistic plots and characters with a bit of the CGI spectacular instead of literally un-believeable plots, over-heated special effects, cardboard cutout heros, with wokeism weaved all through.
The glut is not the issue. The woke crap is the issue. No one wants to see a superhero doing disgusting things with their sidekick.
Capeshit fatigue.
The first Pacific Rim was really good too.
I enjoyed the first couple of Spiderman movies, as that was my favorite childhood comic book. I had all the Marvel comics except for the first three Fantastic Four. I’d ride my bike to the store and buy all dozen or so of the Marvel comics.
Stacks of them remained on shelves in my room at home when I left out later in life. Later, after realizing they had gained considerable value, I found someone hd made off with all of them.
The super hero movies quickly got way too outlandish for my taste....super hero woman tossing an automobile 50 feet at the baddie or some such. No thanks. Super quickly came to mean stupid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtl157_wA7Q
Her first Marvel feature did quite well, but she had a good script, plus three excellent supporting actors.
In this film, both of her co-leads are ethnic quota females, and the trailer ads are lame.
According to Wiki, the film got a $55 million subsidy from the UK government.
Final cost (says Wiki) was $220 million, but we never know if that includes advertising, which can be very expensive.
Rule of thumb - $440 million box office just to break even, maybe more if high ad costs.
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