Amy Adams apparently thinks she's done with the Worlds of DC movies.
It's a shame if she is done, I liked her Lois.
It's a shame if she is done, I liked her Lois.
DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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Amy Adams will always stand out as Lois to me simply because she was the only Lois in the entire history of the character who was not fooled by a pair of glasses.
She was never given the opportunity to be fooled.
Shouldn’t the headline be “Adams set free from the DCEU”?
Or “Run, Amy, Run!!!”
Or “Run, Amy, Run!!!”
I've said several times that, the many failings of the DCEU notwithstanding, Adams is probably my favorite Lois ever (though Elizabeth Tulloch gets her chance to change my mind in about 35 minutes). Adams plays her with a searching intelligence, and a palpable humanity that renders her relationship with Clark the emotional center of the entire franchise. She makes the role more character than caricature, to its great benefit.
Not the only one. Margot Kidder's Lois figures it out in the Richard Donner cut. And Teri Hatcher's Lois eventually figures it out in the second-season finale. Not to mention that the Lois of the '50s comics and TV show suspected that Clark was Superman but was simply unable to definitively prove it, because he kept finding alibis and tricks to avoid admitting it.
And does Adams's Lois even count? She met Clark and learned of his powers before he started wearing glasses, IIRC. So that doesn't really count as not being fooled, because she was in on the secret in advance.
Then again, some Loises have been fooled even without the glasses. There's a '50s TV episode where Lois sees an amnesiac Clark in bed without his glasses on, and she doesn't recognize him as Superman.
Then there's the bizarre case of the last kryptonite story on the '40s radio series, which also involved Superman losing his memory. He wanders off and became a star baseball player due to his superpowers, and when Lois and Jimmy are assigned to cover this amazing new player, they see him without his glasses, speaking in his Superman voice, and performing superhuman athletic feats, and they immediately recognize him... as Clark Kent! Sometimes it's pretty clear that the writers of the radio show were churning out scripts in a hurry and didn't have time to think things through.
Everything stated here is, of course, wrong.
I'm not sure it's wise to wait until December 21 to release it. What with all kinds of people traveling, doing last-minute shopping, and otherwise prepping for Christmas, the WB is putting a whole lot of faith in a basically untested (Justice League minor role notwithstanding) big-screen superhero to make his mark. And with competition from Mary Poppins Returns, Bumblebee, and Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, it's not as though there's a wide-open field, either... and with a reported 160-200m production budget, it's also unclear (at best) if a solid first- or second-base hit will cut it.
The busy Christmas season has not posed too much of a problem for films to succeed. Further, the Poppins film is a question mark as to its appeal, while Bumblebee and a non-MCU Spider-Man film could do well, but not become runaway blockbusters enough to threaten anything else.
In the Aquaman thread, a link reports the film already doing better than DC and MCU films in China, so after 10 years of superhero overflow at the theatres, for AM to perform so well, that might be an indicator of how it will do elsewhere.
Aquaman has already earned 93 millions dollars in China. Link. Tracking suggests that it's going to do quite well here.
A few months ago, Aquaman was tracking for under $50 million opening weekend. That was before the news of runaway success in China, or the positive word of mouth on social media though. I think the RT score will make or break this movie in the US. Having said that, money is money, so if it makes most of its money in China, so be it.
They don't need to be "runaway blockbusters" to threaten Aquaman. With a production budget of $160-200m, Aquaman needs to be a straight-up home run on its own to take off.
It might, and it might not. China doesn't care about Star Wars; the US loves it. I doubt Aquaman the character has been the butt of decades of jokes in China. And one of China's biggest recent hits was a movie called 美人鱼/美人魚 (2016). It was released over here as The Mermaid, and made about $3.2m. So, China might be uniquely primed to enjoy a movie about mer-people, and I'm pretty sure a smaller chunk of Chinese grosses makes it back to American studios than domestic grosses do. Anyhow, we'll see.
I was surprised to see that Bumblebee is siting at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes so Aquaman might have some serious competition.
Christmas is the second biggest time to for major movies releases behind summer, so that's probably not going to hurt it.
China also didn't "grow up" with Star Wars like the US. Their first taste of Star Wars was the prequels. lol.