Comment on Box Office: ‘The Marvels’ Gets Grounded With MCU’s Second-Lowest Opening Day Ever

• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mock all you want, there are plenty of incels and conservatives out there that don’t want to see women succeed at anything other than domestic motherhood. And the venn diagram of those groups and comic book fans has a lot of overlap

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Marvel/Disney is going down in general. Nobody is speaking of secret invasion or Loki. Nobody cares anymore.

    Thinking that some incels going to the movies made multiple billion dollar movies and now them not going are making The Marvels fail you’re really overthinking it.

    I don’t have intention on watching it, but I don’t think I’ve seen less than half of the stuff released after Endgame and the only things I don’t regret are Spiderman and maybe Wandavision. Going to a movie now knowing half of the stuff was probably set up somewhere else and a lot will be set up for something else it’s just exhausting.

    Might check for free on D+b if they don’t crack down on account sharing

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They did it to Barbie and that had no discernable effect. Barbie set several box office records and at 17 days, “Barbie” tied the studio record for the fastest time to hit $1 billion globally, matching 2011’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2”.

    Incels and conservatives can’t beat a good movie, or an interested female audience.

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  • NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t prevent other people from watching the films. Sounds like even you haven’t even gone out to watch it, and I doubt it’s because they stopped you from going out and seeing it.

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    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As I said in the original comment, I don’t care for the character since she’s a Mary Sue like Superman

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      • NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which is why the theory proposed seemed a leap, since you yourself gave an example of why a non incel doesn’t have interest in it. Add in the complaints of Marvel since the end game and the TV shows increasing the quantity of content but not necessarily the quality and I think that starts explaining why Marvel movies went from a can’t miss cultural phenomenon to either a skip or wait for disney+.

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