During its opening weekend, it grossed an underwhelming $55 million at the domestic box office. In its second weekend, that dropped 72% to a mere $15.3 million, with some pundits already predicting this will be a box office bomb.
According to Luiz Fernando, the film is estimated to earn $280-310 million globally in its theatrical run. When pitted against The Flash’s $200-220 million production budget, $150 million in marketing, and the fact that studios don’t take all of their box office haul, the movie may lose $200 million for Warner Bros.
Fernando believes they may have lost less money by releasing it on Max or not releasing it at all.
I would settle for movies that tell a complete story within the time alloted to them
I want a begining a middle and an end all within an hour and a half
Even a lot non capeshit have cliffhangers so sorry its over
I don't even want a good movie just a movie that contains a complete narrative
Every movie is required by law to have one plot thread introduced and left unresolved in order to get everyone to think, "what about a sequel maybe?"
This gets people to say things like "I wish they would have done more with X" which increases engagement, a metric that does not matter for movies. Kino will forevermore live in the long shadow of series view bump ticket sales.
I was into comics before Superhero movies became a thing (or at least like, at the same time). The Cinematic universe stuff is just the comic book shared universeification of films and I like that. I like long ongoing stories. I want to write long ongoing stories. Idk I think its one of my autism tics because a LOT of people seem REALLY annoyed with the shared universe stuff in a way I just don't understand. I have an argument with someone who was like "no comics aren't like that the stories end" and I was like really? No? The same characters have been being used for like 50 years in comics.
But I haven't enjoyed any attempt at a Cinematic Universe that isn't the MCU or DC's animated one thats over now. So eh.
Yeah I think that works for comics but I don't think it works for movies. I like limericks but I don't think a song should only be 4 sentences long. Different artforms demand different ways of telling stories.
For a movie you demand over an hour of attention followed by a year or so of them doing something else. That's a medium where telling the complete story in the time your given is more important than comics where the next edition can be out next week
Yeah I can understand how it doesnt work in film for people but I stand by liking the MCU even post-Endgame where a lot of fans seem to have abandoned it. Idk maybe I'm just an easy lay for Capeshit (I am) but I like the shared universe stuff and returning characters. Like I'm a hyped up little baby that Ghost from Antman 2 is going to be in Thunderbolts. Shit like that gets me going.
in matters of taste the customer is always right. If you like the product you don't need to justify that to me you literally can't be wrong about what type of film you like
I would prefer there to be more films of the kind I like as well but in fairness those films do get made just not as much as I would like