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Wkd Box Office - 12•12-16•18 - Spider-verse buries Mortal Engines domestically. Clint does fine. Aquaman rules the world with $262M overseas.
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Yes, my opinion is truly strange and unheard of.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ant_man_and_the_wasp
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/venom_2018/
Venom is much more entertaining because it's terrible action-comedy slapstick with Hardy attempting his worst Cage impression
But critics are fake news and are very bias !!! They hate DCEU movies like venom.
Remember Divergent? And that TV spin-off that totally was gonna happen when they cancelled the last film, Buzzfeed does and they did an article. Official confirmation at last:
I would post a gif from one of the films for snark but Google knows me so well that it just gives me shirtless gifs of the lead dude who I can't tell if he's cute or just tall and white and that doesn't really reflect the mood I was going for.
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Sure. Critics were fine with it, they are usually fine watching those films.
Can't argue with results. I rather watch 50 movies like Venom than whatever AM&TW was. Regardless of how fresh it is.
Venom was god awful, but Antmayne 2 was as mediocre, average and forgettable as a movie can be, which is its own kind of awfulness tbh.
All hell will break loose the moment Aquaman's RT Score falls below Thor the Dark World (66%). I don't know if that's going to happen or not. Honestly feels like it could go either way.
Fascinating opinion, please indulge us with more of these RT links lol
There's this weird thing where y'all are rubbing your hands wanting drama around Aquaman and there's...not. The review thread was so mild it's just MCU dorks stalking random people on Twitter or talking about The Last Jedi. There's only like one DC fanperson doing the conspiracy thing.
Helps that the movie is out many places, with early America screenings, and a bunch of posters already watched it and most seemed to have enjoyed it.
Yes, they generally are fine watching good films rather than bad films.
I was responding to someone who couldn't understand why I think Ant-Man and the Wasp is a better movie than Venom.
Linking him to RottenTomatoes is a perfectly valid response to his faux-shock at the opinion that Ant-Man is better than Venom.
when arguing your opinion, linking to others opinions is not always the best idea. Would have been better off quoting what some of the Critics said to reinforce your thoughts.
Venom and AM&TW are both relatively mediocre but there's no question in my mind that Ant-Man and the Wasp is a better-made movie. The action is actually interesting to watch and coherent. All Venom has going for it is Tom Hardy's bonkers performance, which gets it pretty far tbh.
Again, I was responding to this:
Someone pretending to be shocked that a person thinks Ant-Man and the Wasp is a better film than Venom. (Which was brought up randomly, out of nowhere.)
I'm not arguing my opinion of the film. I'm responding to my opinion being called weird when it is clearly not uncommon.
They also prefer to watch films made by the book. Who do you think forms the focus group by which Disney's factory generates these mediocre productions? Critics themselves.
Edit: Also, it's not that you liked Ant man better, is the fact that you feel the need to defend such a clearly mediocre film from being called mediocre that shocked me a bit.
I am not saying Ant-Man and the Wasp isn't by-the-book.
But it's incredibly strange to act as if Venom is some groundbreaking film rather than a standard superhero movie just because Tom Hardy acts wacky.
There is no conspiracy against the DCEU. You misinterpreted what I said. Critics are not immune to fandom, that's all I was implying. They are humans like the rest of us, I have nothing against them for praising Marvel at any opportunity even when it's undeserved.
Anyways hopefully this sudden hit on Aquaman wont have too much of an effect at the BO.
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Spiderman deserves a billion dollars. Such a great movie. My girlfriend said she doesnt like spiderman but loved this movie so much
Someone is apparently taking this Venom conversation very seriously.
A random person is now harassing me on Twitter because I said Ant-Man and the Wasp is better than Venom. Haha.
A random person is now harassing me on Twitter because I said Ant-Man and the Wasp is better than Venom. Haha.
If not for the things that make things different everything would be the same. The dynamic between Venom and Hardy elevate the film into an entertaining one.
That doesn't make much sense considering many movie critics often laud films that are many times not by the book. If you said this about general audiences it would have made far more sense.
I totally get that. But I also think the different in Venom was bad. lol
Not really. The goal isn't Oscar bait with Marvel films. It's certified fresh and positive meta.
Lol, well, I liked it. I guess I'm entertained by what you consider flaws. It was an interesting wrinkle in the CBM formula.
Oh, for sure. Likely someone who got banned, says he hates the site, but still lurks.
It absolutely fucking does. I'm not sure how they did it, but the flick definitely had depth to it. Specifically on the street shots
Reviews coming in for Welcome to Marwen. They're honestly not as bad I was expecting (by which I mean they're C's as opposed to F's).
A number of reviews just came in on RT. 16%, 4.8/10 at the moment from 19 reviews.
Movie is going to bomb like I expected. That late embargo was a bad sign.
Spider-verse had a strong 1st Tuesday bump. It could be a sign that word of mouth is having an effect, and Tuesday reflect some of the unrealized OW potential.
Now all it needs to do is keep showing Ferdinand+ percentages and it will do around 230m Dom :D
First Tuesday
LEGO Batman 5.0m +84.9%
Spider-verse 4.3m +55.5%
Ferdinand 1.8m +49.5%
LEGO Movie 3.1m -10.4%
Grinch 4.95m -53.6%
Now all it needs to do is keep showing Ferdinand+ percentages and it will do around 230m Dom :D
First Tuesday
LEGO Batman 5.0m +84.9%
Spider-verse 4.3m +55.5%
Ferdinand 1.8m +49.5%
LEGO Movie 3.1m -10.4%
Grinch 4.95m -53.6%
I've done my part. I've been telling anyone who'll listen it's easily one of the best films of the year.
Huh, Venom has a higher audience score than Ant-Man. Interesting...
This doesn't really deserve a thread so imma put it here; The F&F spinoff about Rock and Statham's characters Hobbs and Shaw has a title finally
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
https://ew.com/movies/2018/12/19/dwayne-johnson-hobbs-and-shaw-first-look/
That is on brand as hell, love it.
(give me a Fast & Furious Presents: Han and Gisele next please)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
https://ew.com/movies/2018/12/19/dwayne-johnson-hobbs-and-shaw-first-look/
That is on brand as hell, love it.
(give me a Fast & Furious Presents: Han and Gisele next please)
I did and if I end up seeing Aquaman in theaters I'm buying a ticket for Spider-verse to get through the gates. :p
China weekend estimates:
Spider-verse bumped to almost twice its original opening projection of 15m. Zootopia opened to 24m in China (to be clear, it grossed over 200m there, but it was a very solid start for an animated film in China).
It's not China's Kung Fu Panda 3 opening of 51m usd, but that'll do bear, that'll do. An opening like that makes matching the UK gross for LEGO (56m) much more likely.
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