Comment on Disney lost nearly a third of a billion dollars on two Marvel movies

Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I liked the Marvels =(

  Meanwhile, I’ve heard such bad things about Quantumania that I haven’t watched it yet lol.

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I liked Quantumania. Sometimes you just want something fun and it delivered.

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    • PhAzE@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I also liked Quantumania. It wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t Thor 4 bad either.

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    • WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hm… Maybe I’ll give it a try sometime then. That’d kind of how k felt about The Marvels and the other Ant-Man movies. They weren’t mind-blowing, but they were mostly a fun time.

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      • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The bad guy in Marvels was 100% forgettable. I can’t tell you who it was or what their motives were.

        But the main cast had great chemistry.

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  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m a 40 year old dude and thought it was fun. I feel like it’s the kind of thing that will really connect with young girls and later on it will be looked back on fondly.

    Dads, watch it with your daughters. You won’t regret it.

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    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree on quantamania, it’s a fun turn your brain off movie. Introduces some cool concepts to the universe and has some interesting visuals. Marvel movies aren’t meant to be your forest gumps, people seem to forget that sometimes.

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  • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I enjoyed the Marvels but I rate the Captain Marvel highly.

    I thought Quantumania was pretty pointless, doubly now Kang has been dropped.

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t mind the Marvels. I thought it had problems, and parts were cringy if you’re not into it. But the biggest flaw was the writing. It’s like they had these ideas for set pieces, and then tried to bring it all together as an afterthought. It wasn’t as bad as certain people wanted it to be.

  Quantumania was unfinished. It was like they ran out of money and time and just submitted the minimally viable movie. Paul Rudd is always charming, and the actress playing Cassie/Stature is going to be a net plus to the Young Avengers. I think Michelle Pfeiffer was poorly utilized, and of course Kang became a PR problem. But the writing had some high points. The story was engaging, the stakes were real, and the characters all had arcs. The CG was shit, and the Giant Goof schtick is overplayed. Letting go of the physics is a prerequisite for any Superhero movie.

  They did poorly because Disney was rushing. They wanted to generate energy and enthusiasm by deliberately releasing each new movie before the last one was available on streaming. But instead of creating fomo, they fostered indifference because the product wasn’t good enough. Nothing post-endgame felt like must-watch content. The tie-ins were half-assed, because the studio clearly did not have faith that they would ever get to wrap up each dangling plot thread.

  The Marvels was better than Eternals. Quantumania was better than Wakanda Forever. None of them are great movies, but none are as bad as anti-woke or anti-superhero critics suggest.

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  • LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Werewolf by night was lit. I loved that one. Man thing character aside, it was fun and suspenseful.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do not understand Paul Rudd’s appeal at all. He just seems like a normal dork that isn’t ugly. Nothing against him, I just don’t get the gushing everyone else seems to do.

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    • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you seen his role as Celery Man?

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Have now. Still not seeing the appeal, but then it takes more than seeing someone in something funny for me to like them specifically. I’m far too old to be fanatic about much, and Tim and Eric style silly sketches are hit and miss at best. Sure, the hits are really funny, but absurd is not funny in and of itself to me.

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like most of the marvel movies

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• realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s completely unfair. There was really good stuff in the first act, the writers played into the tension between the three Marvels quite well. Everything after that was boring and by-the-book, but it wasn’t bad.

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