How a movie can be one of the top ten highest earners of the year and not break even theatrically is beyond me.
And that's relevant to your day-to-day life...how?
Maybe not Day-to-day, but month to month, or at least year by year -- i would like to see more of these movies and shows.... low box office is a major way to kill that.
Dungeons and Dragons was a good movie this year that bombed at the box office for no particularly good reason.
People argue this about Blue Beetle too.
Fact is, not only terrible movies are bombing at the box office these days.
Indeed,,,, and ones that were seriously expected to make a lot of money are
not winding up in the top 10. I mean, you should see how we who did the
TrekBBS Box Office Predictor game are doing....
Just to be clear I'm not asking this to start a fight, I'm honestly curious. Are you saying The Marvel's is terrible just because nobody is seeing it, or have the reactions you've seen actually been that overwhelmingly bad? Most of the reactions I've seen have been good. You are literally the only person I've seen call it a bad movie.
@TREK_GOD_1 has a serious bias against most Marvel productions
The only thing I have seen Anthony Mackie in as a lead is Altered Carbon - he was so wooden I thought someone had thrown a chair on-screen.
well, he definitely is
not a character actor te way, say, Gary Oldman or CHadwick Boseman are. The Sam Wilson role is perfect for him.... just other stuff, like you mentioned, may not turn out great.
Xolo from Blue Beetle, has only just started marketing his movie, since he is only now allowed to do so without betraying the Union, but its too late. He thinks that if he can start a positive word of mouth, that he can save his first movie, and maybe his career.
The strike was some bad juju.
yeah the strike really hurt Blue Beetle... also, CObra Kai fans failed to support him too.
My quick thoughts on the box office situation.... yeh, there are
some movies doing very well, but i think there is definitely a post-COvid effect...as well as things like inflation. It reminds me of the AUstin Powers ad... "If you only see one movie, this summer.... see Star Wars. If you see TWO movies this summer, see AUstin Powers"... people are getting more choosy as to what they see, and only a few are really drawing in the biggest swath of people.
And Barbie's particular success included not just the marketing (for example, in Chicago they did a Barbie-themed pop up restaurant made from Cargo containers ), but also the perception that Barbie was for little kids...i saw soooo many families with little kids, who i really don't think liked the movie as much as women did.
Also, have you guys not noticed that it seems like
none of the movies released since The Marvels will come close to the top 10. Even Taylor Swift will be beat out by Sound of Freedom. There is
definitely a trend of movies in general (with definite exceptions) not being as successful as before
And i forget if i talked about the movie itself way back when ... we went to see it opening weekend. Definitely
not worth the IMAX, but overall a fun movie... i would
not have expected it to be a Captain Marvel level of success, but i think a confluence of factors, including the constant re-scheduling and actors strike preventing Iman from talking, were huge factors in hurting it,
