The Marvels Is a “Box Office Bomb,” Opening to Just $47 Million Domestically and Marking a New Low for Marvel Studios

Denpepe said:
not me
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I saw it once. My sister, who would have been 13 at the time, saw it around 25 times, but might have been more. Me liking it or not liking it was basically irrelevant to box office performance compared to her having watched it that many times.
 
Endgame said:
If you want to see a review that doesn't call it trash, literally the first review on my google search of "The Marvel's review"

The Marvels review: There's still some magic left in the MCU
www.vox.com

The Marvels, goofy and bold, shows there’s still some magic left in the MCU

Beneath a layer of slapstick, The Marvels is a warning about hero worship.
www.vox.com www.vox.com

As for slamming 12 year olds liking a movie, wasn't it 12 year old girls that basically made Titanic a success? Sounds like a pretty solid market to cater to.
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In today's world most people just like to call things trash before they see or do anything themselves. They really love to review bomb games and movies for example, and it's only getting worse unfortunately. It's all in the mindset you take into whatever you're doing or watching.
 
I tend to go by word of mouth from friends, family, and coworkers since I usually have an idea of where they're coming from and expecting. I'll still read some reviews but I consider it a given that most are going to kiss up to certain genres and filmmakers as if doing so will get them invited to an event while trashing anything, and I do mean anything, that doesn't fit within their frame of view.

When Marvel was in its hey day in pulling a around half billion to over a billion per flick the reviewers took great pleasure in trashing those films but yet just about everyone I knew went to them and enjoyed them, even when I stopped going to the theaters. Meanwhile how many projects did the reviewers, and studios, promote as the 'must see of the year' only to be unable to draw more than ten to fifty million which at current ticket prices doesn't equate to a whole lot of viewers? Sure there were exceptions, maybe a half dozen out of the hundreds per year but it took dozens of Marvel films to get released over the span of a decade before we really saw them consistently flat lining under $50-60 million.

Comic movies, for now, are done. That's a given but I don't give squat credit to reviewers for any credibility on what I want to watch. I've lost track how many times I felt they, not the studios, should be refunding me the ticket price, plus my time, for watching what they praised.

After a hundred whatever films burnout was bound to happen and even if the quality was great burnout would've still occurred. Just look at James Bond. Ups and downs throughout the decades. Take a break put the work in and then comes back at some point. Same will, eventually, happen here but most of us are burnt out at this point. Even if all of the post Disney SW movies didn't have their issues it would've happened there too. Sooner our later every franchise or genre enters a sleeper mode until folks are ready for more and someone gets it right for that time period.
 
I for one am not tired of superhero movies, but then again I also do not watch all of them only the ones that interest me.

I am not under the assumption that every movie that gets made should be one that I like, same goes for TV shows, video games or music albums,I pick and choose what's for me and don't care about the rest, there is another audience for those.

I said this b4, movies for me are mostly entertainement and I don't need a great story (although I'm not against one) as long as I'm entertained.

I'm also not someone who goes to movie theaters a lot, for one, there are none near me and usually reserve those rare visits to something that I think will benefit from the theatre experience.
 
Grimlakin said:
Last movie I felt I needed to see in theater... Dune. And I will probably see the sequel there too.
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That reminds me, if I have the energy perhaps I'll put that on the wall tonight or this weekend. I can't remember if we watched it that way yet and it would be a good one for the projector.
 
Grimlakin said:
Last movie I felt I needed to see in theater... Dune. And I will probably see the sequel there too.
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And part 2 would have come out this month, if it hadn't been for the writer's strike. Now we gotta wait until next spring or some sh1t. And then I gotta wait even longer for the BD version so I can get a rip.
 
I think we've been overwhelmed with superhero movies, when there's too much to keep up, people lose interest, now you have to pay attention to not just what's in movie land, but also streaming on TV with shows, and people just don't have the time for all that.

Plus, people go the theaters a whole lot less now, the interest isn't as great with options to watch at home now.

The evolution of TV and movies is evolving in front of us, and nobody knows the final form yet.
 
Brent_Justice said:
I think we've been overwhelmed with superhero movies, when there's too much to keep up, people lose interest, now you have to pay attention to not just what's in movie land, but also streaming on TV with shows, and people just don't have the time for all that.
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I was into comic books back in the early to mid 80's and this is what stopped me from collecting was the having to read another title to tie into a story I was already reading. I finally just said no. I honestly don't feel the need to keep up with the movies and series either as I just watch them for what they are for the entertainment value. As you said I don't have the time nor the energy to try to connect the dots.
 
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