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Making horribly bad movies after already perfecting the formula for some of the best movies in terms of superhero fare.
Compare how good Captain Marvel was to The Marvels.
Captain America 3 to Captain America 4.
Thor 3 to Thor 4.
And the worst offender Dr Strange 1 to Dr Strange 2.

Your personal tastes aside the box office for all those movies paint a different picture.
Box office means absolutely nothing about the quality of a movie, there have been tons of movies over the decades that absolutely bombed at the box office, and took off thanks to home video or TV and are now considered all time classics. And for recent movies like those, I'd say looking at the review both the professional ones and the fan ones are a much just better way to judge the quality of a movie rather than the box office. All the box office tells you is how many people went to see a movie, it doesn't necessarily tell you if they liked it.
No closed captions, no pause button, excessive cost and, sometimes, unruliness from folks keep me firmly in the group that would much rather view things at home unless I think it is something that might be served by the group experience.

Superman, for me was such an experience. Heck, I’m not sure I’ll see any other DCU film at the theater even though I absolutely love the movie.
For me it's the size of the screen, not the communal experience that draws me to the theater for some movies. I'm not a fan of people, so the communal experience is the worst part of the movies for me, but there are some movies that really need to be seen on the big screen at least once.
Brother, same.... I totally understand why cinema's have gotten expensive. Hell, either heating or AC depending on season is nuts. But I can't justify sitting there while people are being rude and my beer is 6 bucks for a bottle that costs 1,09 in a supermarket, not even mentioning the prices of chips or M&M's.
And I'm Dutch. I'm not sure how true the video's are but those brainless Americans screaming, shouting, clapping, cheering, laughing and whatnot DURING the movie at a noise level that makes it hard to understand the movie..... Fuck that shit. I've got a 49" flatscreen with several apps for streaming, better beer than the macro shit they serve at my theaters and a 300gr bag of chips that cost me less than the 100gr bag they're selling of there. Fuck that shit.
I go to movies all the time, and I've almost never had people yell or cheer or anything like that. The only time I can remember that happening is one person cheer once during Superman, but that was it.
It's hard to imagine a better WW than Gadot at this point.
She was great in the role, but we've already had a lot of other great Wonder Women over the years, so I'm sure the next actress will be at least as good.
 
Gadot may be generational as Diana; replacing her is a little like replacing Christopher Reeve would have been for a Superman film if he'd been available and willing.

Of course, one aspect of that is that has no strong public identity as a actor; she's not known for much of anything else that's super popular. Momoa, OTOH, is becoming as ubiquitous as Pedro Pascal. :lol:
 
The comfortable couch, my more than adequately sized television screen, the affordable food, the ability to pause when I have to use the tinkletorium, the complete total and utter lack of other people...

Yeah, it's hard to drag me to a movie theater.
Agree completely. Plus, I've already paid the streaming service that will air it in a few months anyway.
 
The comfortable couch, my more than adequately sized television screen, the affordable food, the ability to pause when I have to use the tinkletorium, the complete total and utter lack of other people...

Yeah, it's hard to drag me to a movie theater.

The device used to display captions for the Deaf is such a kludge. It doesn't show the captions on the movie screen, you have to look at the device to read them. It resides in your cup holder so you have to hold your drink or hope the other seat isn't occupied.

This link describes the frustration movie theater caption devices cause me to have.


Or I can read the captions on my TV...at home.

If they really wanted my money, they'd make captions easily accessible. But they won't.
 
So? I could care two things about that; jack and shit.

If I like a movie, I like it. Don't care what others think, don't care about box office. Yes, financial succes is important, if it means they'll make more MCU. If they stop making MCU stuff, my life won't be over. There will be others things to watch.
It's all so tiresome.
And just because these movies didn't make a lot of money, it doesn't mean they were bad.
As I said, it's all very tiresome.
Those movies didn't make money but similar movies in the same category did in the same timeframe.
Which, obviously, means those movies didn't click with the moviegoing audience.
It means people didn't go to the cinema. I can name, besides myself, at least five people who are visiting the cinema's less and less because of rising costs. And time issues. So I'll wait for the movie to be released on D+ or Netflix or whatever.
Deadpool and Wolverine would love to say hi.
This has been explained to you, but you choose to ignore it because these facts would force you to change your worldview. And you don't like that.
I personally didn't like the new Jurassic World, Superman or the Avatar movies but I can't deny that they definitely clicked with the audiences and hence they were hits.
How is that worldview hurting anyone?
And who the bloody fuck do you think you are to determine what worldview I should have or not?

Movies that don't make enough money = movie didn't click with general audiences = movie is 'bad'. Simple as.
All your dancing around the subject of box office isn't gonna change that.
 
Or I can read the captions on my TV...at home.

If they really wanted my money, they'd make captions easily accessible. But they won't.
Weirdly Equalizer 3 on netflix does not have the hardcoded Italian subtitles it should have - rendering large sections of the film incomprehensible for non-italian speakers unless you use CC which is not the intent of the film.
 
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