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Wkd Box Office - 12•28-30•18 - Jan 4th update: Aquaman now the highest grossing DCEU film ever with $888M worldwide.
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There's not much of it, but I really liked the bond between Arthur and his dad, both performers sold that well.
Yeah Momo and Amber had zero chemistry, but that's the case with most comic flicks. WW has the best romantic tale in the genre, and I thought Chadwick and Lupita were both great together in BP.
Yeah Momo and Amber had zero chemistry, but that's the case with most comic flicks. WW has the best romantic tale in the genre, and I thought Chadwick and Lupita were both great together in BP.
The movies take a lot of shit (and deservedly so), but Garfield and Stone were great together in the ASM movies. Though obviously, since they were actually together at the time...
I agree with you. It's just I find digging at the acting all of a sudden seems like people looking for ways to run it down.
Don't get me wrong, I love a strong script and strong acting in an action movie, but when they are merely average I don't single that movie out for criticism on that front.
Pre-credits.
On hindsight, the
Atlanna-Thomas subplot
But I swear to god, this movie felt like a throwback to that post-Spiderman 2002 era of comic book movies.
The acting is fine in Aquaman. Not sure where this bizarre ass critique is coming from. It's no worse than any recent superhero movies. The only weak link from the main cast is Amber Heard, but that's about it. And you get plenty of performances like that in the recent MCU and DCEU movies in general. The only criticism would be there's no standout performance like Jackman in Logan or even Tom Hardy going balls to the wall in Venom, but that's rare anyway. It's a throwback adventure movie and pulls it off well.
They did a fantastic job of selling the idea that they had been involved, sorta were and sorta weren't anymore, and that feelings were complicated. Acting and script both on point and came together seamlessly.
Aquaman/Mera on the other hand don't have *bad* chemistry, they just don't interact in a personal way. It doesn't seem forced so much as just completely overlooked by the movie and...
The kiss as the end wasn't really sold. They seemed more like friends/co-adventurers until that point.
I've noticed around here recently that anyone describing a new movie as "fun" or "fine" is the first indication that the movie isn't very good it's just that particular person enjoyed it for their own personal reasons, criticism be damned. Nothing wrong with liking a movie whilst also acknowledging problematic aspects :)
The acting was alright, it's just that it was super cheesy comic book dialogue that folks confuse with bad acting. Amber though is a huge bore
Amber looked like she didn't want to be there for the most part.
And 3 different companies represented, which I think is a first
(And believe first non Disney/Universal one is like 5 years?)
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They can afford to take some time I guess. Aquaman's sequel would probably be 2022
I liked that there was actual character growth and Arthur showed an understanding and remorse for his earlier actions and a desire to do better, and then does better. I love that his strongest superpower in the end is that he can talk to people no one else talks to.
WB is just gonna keep adding zeroes until its worth his time.
But I think he'll get something like Nolan had with Batman. Given all the time he wants, can even work on projects they'll fund in-between to keep him happy. So if he wants to do Saw Returns and come back to Aquaman in 2022 they'll be fine.
I do wonder if they wanna wait that long. I know a lot has been made of their failures, but they've also been not as great at capitalizing on successes. We're going at least 4 years without a Suicide Squad sequel (though we get a Harley spin-off), and 3 years between Wonder Woman movies.
People have to realise over half of Wonder Woman's grossing came domestically ($412M of $821M).
Internationally Wonder Woman did less than Homecoming, Ragnarok, Guardians Vol.2, Justice League and not much higher than Logan either last year. This year Infinity War, Black Panther, Venom, Deadpool 2, The Incredibles 2 and even Ant-Man and the Wasp made more overseas. Most of these aren't even close.
When all is said and done Aquaman's international total is going to be near double of Wonder Woman's.
Wonder Woman simply didn't capture audiences outside of North America. Personally I think the movie was good but overrated and very poor in parts too (e.g. final act). Can't say I'm surprised it didn't.
Aquaman would probably have a longer wait no matter what due to the massive amount of post. The first one wrapped filming like 16 months ago.
Why am I not surprised.
WW underperformed overseas because it didn't have the spectacle that many other superhero movies do. Overseas audiences love that.
It was just mediocre. Let's not lump all international audiences in as some monolith that only like spectacle. That's nonsense.Why am I not surprised.
WW underperformed overseas because it didn't have the spectacle that many other superhero movies do. Overseas audiences love that.
Success or not, Captain Marvel will show the world the numbers an actual great female led superhero movie can do.
Based on the trailers, I expect a relatively tepid response to that film, but we'll see.
It will do fine and be profitable of course, but I bet it will land somewhere in the Ant Man / Doctor Strange realm.
To be fair, MCU trailers have kind of sucked for years barring maybe the Black Panther teaser. Like they're being edited on autopilot.
This forum...
I could certainly do with less blatant cheerleading for certain brands/studios in these threads. Unfortunately, I can't say other box office discussions around the web are much different.
Seems like the embargo is up?
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/how_to_train_your_dragon_the_hidden_world
Weird, not showing any reviews for me on the mobile site which is why I assumed it wasn't.
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