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'Venom' Box Office: Dramatically Diverse Audience Makes for Record October Opening
- Thread starter Loudninja
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But other genres are doing far far better than superhero films, hell when even video games are doing better than you, you know you're in a bad spot when it comes to diversity. I really don't want to call the bare minimum "diversity".
I still have yet to see it I'm going to in a couple days but everyone I talked to so far said it's not TERRIBLE just a good popcorn flick
I had a great time and my diverse audience did too.
This sounds like a very good thing.
It is a very fun movie and very different from most super hero movies. It was very fresh if you ask me.
I am interested in seeing how Morbius movie fares. There is tons of potential there if they can pull it off.
The real superhero comic universe waiting to get adapted (that also would get that not white cash):
LUCHAVERSE
Wait, is that Pentagon and Fenix?! Is there a comic about Drago and Aerostar as well?
1 black dude and 2 girls at work said they loved the film, plus several people in my close friends group are all eager to go see this. we're all latinos.
i was pretty shocked, gonna have to go see this tomorrow with my friends against my better judgement.
i was pretty shocked, gonna have to go see this tomorrow with my friends against my better judgement.
I'll probably see it a second time. The humor in the movie is great. I would agree that the villain could have been a lot better but it's a great start for Venom.
But Shadow the Hedgehog is a 2000's creation. That movie is dead on arrival without that edge.
Audience enjoyed it.
EEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ive talked to friends and seen on my twitter that people went to see the movie knowing it was bad, but ended up enjoying it overall anyways
Is Venom like JW Fallen Kingdom bad but fun, or like a Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil bad but fun, for example? What's the closest bad but fun movie analogy? I'm guessing it's not The Room or Neil Breen bad but fun.
I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be Miles Morales, but okay.
Think Mortal Kombat.
It is not "bad" but ridiculous, cheesy and really fun.
Really surprised that my 10 year old daughter enjoyed the movie as much as she did. We got home and she started drawing Venom right away. Somehow with her, Venom is up there with Alice Angel/Bendy and Five Nights at Freddie's characters, other characters she likes to draw a lot.
I haven't seen JW Fallen Kingdom as I really didnt like Jurassic World, so would say it is like the Resident Evil films. Dumb, but has enough going on and is consistent enough that you watch it and enjoy it. There are a lot of flaws with the movie, but it comes together just enough to be fun, with random scenes throughout that keep you wanting to see what dumbshit they might do next.
Of course not.
They use sampling from interviewing people (or FB demographic data sometimes from ticket purchasing sites).
How are they getting such accurate numbers on which ethnicities are going to the cinema? Cineworld just ticking a tally chart against each race?
That's really weird, my local cinema doesn't have any 3D screenings of it. I didn't even realise there was a 3D version of the film.
I keep seeing this and like shit, it's not just 90's children, it's the adults and teenagers who read the comics that are like "yes, this bad ass who wants to eat brains is getting his own film"
I'm sure having an actual monster as a super-hero movie come out around Halloween helps as well.
I wish. I doubt post-proc 3D helps with the CGI and 3D glasses with an already dark setting.
I want to see it, though.
So I had another look, the only showings the cinema I go to has in 3D are the ones in the 4DX seats. Bizarre, usually they're force feeding everyone the full 3D IMAX for every film.
Lessee, a heavily marketed "event" film that dropped in the middle of the autumn downtime with no major competition. Of course it was going to do well.
It still set a record for a film released at this time. There is definitely something worth trying to unpick in why the film did well with the audience it brought in.
Personally I really enjoyed it. I think Paul WS Anderson is a good reference point. It said nothing at all. There was zero depth. But it was funny and exciting and different. Tom Hardy put in a really great performance and I hope he isn't pissed off at the final product so much he doesn't come back.
Found another showing in a (much bigger) theatre for 5 and 2D even though their cheap day is Wednesday. Huh.
45 min train ride, but maaaybe I'll go.
It's a surprisingly good film, imo. Nowhere near as bad as the critic score sould suggest.
My mum invited me to see it with her (her second viewing because she has a crush on Hardy) and insisted on paying for my ticket or I would have skipped it, and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Hardy was clearly having a great time and it came across on-screen, there were some genuinely funny moments, and the Brock/Venom relationship was really well done.
A sequel that irons out the issues, has a more compelling villain and better pacing, more/better use of Venom/Brock could actually be very good.
Dislike saying it, but this was one where I feel like critics wanted to jump on it due to the advertising and initial hate train going. It's not F4 or BvS levels bad. It's around phase 1 for Marvel.
Don't forget that McFarlane gave us Spawn, a black lead comic character, in the 90s. Rather groundbreaking.
