[DrCaleb]

FieryVulpine FieryVulpine:

Tricks Tricks:

Honestly, if the characters are more or less faithfully represented on the big screen, I'm going to see it and enjoy the fuck out of it.

And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm more bothered by people on YouTube who are treating these films as "serious business," which reminds me of my behavior from 2016-18. I was in a frothing "DC Fanboy" mode until I realized how miserable it was making me so I just withdrew from the "Fan Wars" and went to see the films I wanted to see without caring what anyone else thought. My life has improved since then.

^^

Exactly. It's not rocket surgery, it's entertainment. If it entertains me, it served its purpose.

[Tricks]

Exactly. Seeing Iron Man, Thor, etc. on the big screen do big crazy shit. Count me in. Or best yet, Deadpool being arguably the most faithful representation of a comic book character... ever. God damn I love those movies.

My issue comes in when they ruin a character. See Mystique in recent x-men or Batfleck or recent Supes. I enjoyed the fuck out of batman begins and dark knight. I love the animated DC, but they tried to change how the characters act in recent DC offerings. It feels off.

[peck420]

Tricks Tricks:

My issue comes in when they ruin a character. See Mystique in recent x-men or Batfleck or recent Supes. I enjoyed the fuck out of batman begins and dark knight. I love the animated DC, but they tried to change how the characters act in recent DC offerings. It feels off.

Batfleck was a perfectly missed opportunity by DC.

Batfleck could have easily been spun into a movie about Batman failing, coming to terms with his age. Followed by the next movie...Batman Beyond.

DC had a golden moment, and decided to not take it, imho.

[Tricks]

peck420 peck420:

Tricks Tricks:

My issue comes in when they ruin a character. See Mystique in recent x-men or Batfleck or recent Supes. I enjoyed the fuck out of batman begins and dark knight. I love the animated DC, but they tried to change how the characters act in recent DC offerings. It feels off.

Batfleck was a perfectly missed opportunity by DC.

Batfleck could have easily been spun into a movie about Batman failing, coming to terms with his age. Followed by the next movie...Batman Beyond.

DC had a golden moment, and decided to not take it, imho.

Oh man a Batman Beyond would have been great.

[BartSimpson]

BRAH BRAH:

One thing going against Captain Marvel is the release is to close to End Game. Why would anyone pay two times to see her in two movies so close together?

They're certainly not paying to see her because it isn't as big as the image I just posted.

[bootlegga]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/03/13/new-reports-of-empty-theaters-at-captain-marvel-add-to-movies-controversy/

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New Reports of Empty Theaters at Captain Marvel Add to Movie’s Controversy

New reports of empty theaters for Captain Marvel’s weekend showings are the latest in the movie’s ongoing controversy.

A number of Twitter users indicated there were empty seats at a number of Captain Marvel showings over the weekend.

(Screen shots on the page - go to the link to see them)

We spoke with a movie theater manager who asked for anonymity. He told us they had “exactly 25 no shows for every showing of Captain Marvel on Thursday through Saturday.”

The manager told us this was definitely abnormal, “It’s definitely not normal. People usually show up when they pay for tickets…I’m not sure what it is, we’ve seen big groups not show up before, but they get refunds.”

I asked whether or not these tickets were purchased in bulk, but that information isn’t available, “I’m not sure if they were bought all at once because Fandango doesn’t give us that information, but exactly 25 no shows for every show is probably statistically impossible.”

The manager would add, “I would say it’s someone trying to make the ticket sales look better than they really were.”

He would also indicate he saw significant drop offs in ticket sales from Sunday at his theater, “Sunday for Captain Marvel wasn’t good and Monday and Tuesday were terrible. They were like a 75% drop off from Sunday.”

Box Office Mojo reports Captain Marvel’s Sunday take was only $38.8 million at the domestic box office. A drop of over 26% from Saturday. On Monday, the decline was even worse. The film dropped nearly 72% bringing in less than $11 million putting its total gross at over $164 million so far.

Captain Marvel has been mired in controversy. One America News Network’s Jack Posobiec called for fans to avoid seeing Captain Marvel and instead see Alita: Battle Angel following Brie Larson’s comments insinuating she wanted less white men covering her on the press tour and reviewing the movie.

What do you make of these reports of empty theaters? Do you think people were trying to prop up Captain Marvel during its opening weekend?

I'm not saying they did this, but it wouldn't cost the studio all that much if they decided to do this, at least on the first weekend.

Blockbusters like this typically 'earn' in industry parlance, meaning they filled the theatre they played in. Earns can rake in 90+% of the ticket sales, so if a studio exec did this, it would only cost a buck, maybe two per ticket.

So if a theatre had 12 shows (four/day) on the first weekend times by $2/ticket times by 25 tickets per show, it'd only cost $600 per theatre. Do that at a couple hundred theatres and you're still talking less money than the cost of an ad on TV.

But it would boost ticket sales and grab headlines about a huge box office and maybe influence more people to go on the second weekend.

* takes off tinfoil hat.

[Thanos]

FieryVulpine FieryVulpine:

Tricks Tricks:

Honestly, if the characters are more or less faithfully represented on the big screen, I'm going to see it and enjoy the fuck out of it.

And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm more bothered by people on YouTube who are treating these films as "serious business," which reminds me of my behavior from 2016-18. I was in a frothing "DC Fanboy" mode until I realized how miserable it was making me so I just withdrew from the "Fan Wars" and went to see the films I wanted to see without caring what anyone else thought. My life has improved since then.

Let's say the end credits scene in the next Avengers movie has a rift on Earth opening up due to the cosmic trauma caused by the last fight against Thanos. A human hand appears in the rift and starts pulling itself into our world from wherever it's coming from. Suddenly three eighteen inch long adamantium blades pop out of the knuckles on that hand, previewing the arrival of Wolverine and the X-Men into the combined Marvel/Disney universe.

That'll be the mother of all mark-out moments for we nerds. The theatres will erupt in the biggest collective nerdgasm seen since Luke destroyed the first Death Star. And all this whiny snowflaky offended-fanboy BS over Captain Marvel, and all of this other "culture war" bullshit attached to it as well, will be forgotten in a heartbeat.

[bootlegga]

Thanos Thanos:

Let's say the end credits scene in the next Avengers movie has a rift on Earth opening up due to the cosmic trauma caused by the last fight against Thanos. A human hand appears in the rift and starts pulling itself into our world from wherever it's coming from. Suddenly three eighteen inch long adamantium blades pop out of the knuckles on that hand, previewing the arrival of Wolverine and the X-Men into the combined Marvel/Disney universe.

That'll be the mother of all mark-out moments for we nerds. The theatres will erupt in the biggest collective nerdgasm seen since Luke destroyed the first Death Star. And all this whiny snowflaky offended-fanboy BS over Captain Marvel, and all of this other "culture war" bullshit attached to it as well, will be forgotten in a heartbeat.

That'd be the mother of all end credit scenes!

[Thanos]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Thanos Thanos:

Let's say the end credits scene in the next Avengers movie has a rift on Earth opening up due to the cosmic trauma caused by the last fight against Thanos. A human hand appears in the rift and starts pulling itself into our world from wherever it's coming from. Suddenly three eighteen inch long adamantium blades pop out of the knuckles on that hand, previewing the arrival of Wolverine and the X-Men into the combined Marvel/Disney universe.

That'll be the mother of all mark-out moments for we nerds. The theatres will erupt in the biggest collective nerdgasm seen since Luke destroyed the first Death Star. And all this whiny snowflaky offended-fanboy BS over Captain Marvel, and all of this other "culture war" bullshit attached to it as well, will be forgotten in a heartbeat.

That'd be the mother of all end credit scenes!

They could also really piss off the fanboys and have some major fun watching them tantrum by going with two adamantium claws instead and having the hand belong to X-23 (Laura) instead of Wolverine. Kevin Feige would probably set a record for the number of enraged death threats sent to a movie producer by frothing apoplectic fans.

[DrCaleb]

I would totally nerdgasm at X-23.

[N_Fiddledog]

xerxes xerxes:

Do you have a link for that, or is it a case of "some people say...."?

I hear it on you tube fan bitches. I can't remember exactly where it comes from. I think it's one of those unnamed sources things. It pops up repeatedly though.

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So if it's not the broflakes who are hating on the movie, then what is this?

I imagine you've heard of "Gamergate." Have you heard of "Comicsgate?" There's a circle where that's a thing you hear about. And now it's moved into movies. Basically they see an ideological force moving in on their culture, messing with their fun and they don't like it. The Captain Marvel thing isn't about misogyny. They love Alita and are connected to the strong female characters of the past. The "Ripleys." What they are opposed to are the insults and the lies about who they are - not just from Larson (although she started it), but from Disney, the media, and the general machine behind the movie.

Want to see some interesting stuff? Do a search on "Captain Marvel Fandango Rotten tomatoes attack."

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Because as far as I can tell, the hate being generated from the unshowered sewers of the internet for Captain Marvel and Brie Larson is because of her feminist positions.

And just what ideology is the movie promoting? The idea that women can be strong by themselves?

This is a recurring theme in lot of the recent movie "controversies" lately. All the fanboys and women haters can't stand it when there's a strong female character in a movie. That's why the hate for The Last Jedi, or the all female Ghostbusters remake and of your usual examples of "get woke go broke".

I think it began with an idea that Captain Marvel was being brought in to reimagine the Marvel universe behind her. She was a failed character from the comics brought in to if not replace then restructure the traditional characters and push them into NPC status. It wasn't that she was a female character. It was that she was an undeserving, deux ex machina brought to push an agenda as the new flagship character with their favorite characters disappearing or falling in line behind her.

Speaking of 'Some people Say' stuff though, here's another one that's entertaining.

Some people say Disney has filmed two endings of End Game. There's the original one where it's Captain Marvel who defeats Thanos and saves the universe. Because apparently only she could.

But there's another ending. They say it's been filmed. They say if this Captain Marvel movie fails it will be Captain America and Black Widow who come through at the end with the solution.

It will be interesting if the second ending happens. It will mean it wasn't just what "Some people say" but it will also add credence to this conspiracy theory about Disney buying prepaid tickets to seed theatres with non-viewers.

[Thanos]

Here's some good news that every single one of us is probably happy to see. James Gunn, who got fired after being "outed" by rotten SJW's for JOKES on his Twitter account, has been rehired by Disney to do Guardians Of the Galaxy 3 and more Marvel movies in the future:

https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment ... 3c9c14f0c9

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James Gunn is getting a second chance.

After being fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the writer-director has reportedly been reinstated by Disney to the cosmic superhero franchise.

The news was first reported by Deadline Friday afternoon.

Gunn was fired by the Mouse House last summer after a series of controversial old tweets from the filmmaker surfaced.

In a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter at the time, Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said: “The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him.”

The tweets were dated between 2008 to 2012, years before Gunn took the reins of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.

In one tweet, dated June 10, 2008, Gunn wrote: “Laughter is the best medicine. That’s why I laugh at people with AIDS.”

Thanks to the GOTG cast who stood up for Gunn and against runaway political correctness, especially Dave (Drax) Bautista who threatened to quit the character altogether if Gunn wasn't rehired.

[peck420]

If Disney had a pair, they would open with Wolverine: Enemy of the State.

A nice post-Civil War Wolverine story.

[Tricks]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

BRAH BRAH:

One thing going against Captain Marvel is the release is to close to End Game. Why would anyone pay two times to see her in two movies so close together?

They're certainly not paying to see her because it isn't as big as the image I just posted.

Is that how we judge who we watch now?

[Tricks]

Thanos Thanos:

Here's some good news that every single one of us is probably happy to see. James Gunn, who got fired after being "outed" by rotten SJW's for JOKES on his Twitter account, has been rehired by Disney to do Guardians Of the Galaxy 3 and more Marvel movies in the future:

One mistake, it wasn't SJWs. It was far right people who didn't like him dumping on Trump.

But also that's outstanding.