Brand recognition plays a part in attracting customers/an audience for any product.
Of course less people will flock to a release that has a lot of unknowns about it.
If it was a new independent studio, with a first time director and no recognizable actors, would you predict even 35 mil for the opening weekend just based on any trailer and a title?
I doubt it.
But the fact is, Marvel has a build in fanbase AND a great word of mouth going for it which is founded on generally well received movies.
There is no risk in going to see the movie to have a great entertainment experience.
Personally, I treat the whole franchise much like an ongoing TV show that I like. So of course I want to see the next outing no matter what. I don't even need to see the trailer or read other infos.
Good post! I'm actually avoiding the trailers for Age of Ultron and Ant Man just because I
don't want to know anything ahead of time. I'm strange that way.
I made my point. You miss it.
Oh and when the teaser came out and it was (at best luke warm) no one could have given it more than a 35 million opening unless they just went "It's Marvel it'rs Marvel." The fact that I feel the same is true after the (admittedly better) full trailer changes nothing
I got your point, but it's so small of a point that it's really hard to see or understand the point of it's existence.
I see it as: Yes they've made lots of great movies that have made lots of money and that's what they are basing AntMan's estimated success on, not the movie itself. ok.
And everyone else is saying, with varying degrees of civility, that you can't divorce the makers of the film from the film and judge it in a vacuum with no preconceived notion of how good it could be based on who is making it. That's simply not the way things are done. Maybe you'd like them to be but we don't always get what we want.
If Marvel had just shit out many turds in a row would you be so quick to decry them saying Ant Man will be another flop and how do they stay in business ahead of time because "we're not giving it a chance?"
I respect not jumping lockstep in with the crowd and many things that are popular I don't like and them being popular is an actual deterrent to me rather than a positive, and I wonder if that's not what you're feeling.
I'm just happy that popularity makes it possible for more movies that I may like to get made. I've enjoyed lots of movies that are now considered "cult classics" and wished they could have done better, but that doesn't mean I like them less, but it does mean there are less of them simply because some similar movie I might have like was not greenlighted to make some more romcoms or other movies I wouldn't want to see.
And if the next Marvel is a romcom, I might just skip it, even if it is Marvel. But, then I'm trusting Marvel not to do that to me.
By the way, FSM, I don't mind so much your opinion, that I disagree with, but you do seem to be a broken record. I'm not attacking or mocking you, but are you trying to be Cassandra? Constantly predicting a disaster no one wants to hear? Maybe if one flops, which statistically is a safe bet, then you can be the one who said it all along?
Maybe you like Superman better than Marvel and felt upset at the general disappointment of MOS even though it made a lot of money it wasn't as much as a "Superman Movie" should have made and here comes a raccoon and a tree and they kick ass? I could see how that would set off someone. But your crusade to make your one single opinion know by all that can read the forum is becoming tedious for everyone else. Maybe start a seperate thread called
FSM's rant against Marvel and keep it in there? And I say this as someone who has tried to see your point in the past rather than just tell you shut up already.
