Semper's Stupendous to Infinity and Beyond Everything Marvel Movie/TV Thread (1 Viewer)

[DaveXA]

It really isn't, though. Avatar 2 is on pace for like 2.3 billion world wide even with a dampened Chinese box office.

We had Top Gun Maverick last year do 1.5 billion and become the biggest movie of Tom cruises career.

Creed III just had the strongest opening weekend of any movie in that series.

This is people bailing on the MCU. People will still go to the theater if it's a movie they're interested in seeing.

I think it might be somewhat true because a lot of people have the D+ option and know they can just wait the couple of months to see it. I think if the wait is 6 months or something you'd see something different.

Those other movies are massive sequels to massive originals. Marvel is just a different beast. I do think they're doing too much and need to scale back.

 

[bonnjer]

Video killed the radio star, streaming is killing the movie theater.

Ehh, to a certain degree. My son and I are about to head to the theater to watch the Demon Slayer anime. Could we wait a few weeks until it arrives on streaming? Yes, but we'd rather see this in the theater first. While Ant-man looked alright, I was always fine with waiting until it hit streaming.

 

[Sailorsaint]

Ehh, to a certain degree. My son and I are about to head to the theater to watch the Demon Slayer anime. Could we wait a few weeks until it arrives on streaming? Yes, but we'd rather see this in the theater first. While Ant-man looked alright, I was always fine with waiting until it hit streaming.

There will always be movies that people want to see on the big screen. Big productions like Top Gun and Avatar being among them. If they put out another Star Wars movie, I'll be seeing that in the theater. Otherwise, there are a ton of movies out that I can wait on, AntMan being one of them. I waited on Love and Thunder as well. All the early phases of Marvel, I saw in the theater, right up to Endgame. After that, I'm content to wait.

 

[Loco Hornet Fan]

We didn't go see it. Combination of being too busy and just waiting for it to hit Disney +. I think a lot of other people probably have the same idea.

Yeah, this was our same deal. The reviews certainly made it easier to skip it in theaters.

 

[Loco Hornet Fan]

I think it might be somewhat true because a lot of people have the D+ option and know they can just wait the couple of months to see it. I think if the wait is 6 months or something you'd see something different.

Those other movies are massive sequels to massive originals. Marvel is just a different beast. I do think they're doing too much and need to scale back.

This is pretty much my thinking as well. It is certainly not universally true and it is awesome to see that certain movies can still do very well, but I do think streaming has hurt a lot of movies.

Streaming can make it easier for people to skip the theater and wait for the movie to stream and it creates a mountain of options that can make it hard for “middle class” movies to break through.

There are also big movies that never even make it to theaters, such as “Glass Onion” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” (with DiCaprio, De Niro, and Scorsese).

 

[Saint by the Bay]

I still never miss a Marvel movie opening night, but I do feel like now I'm doing it more out of a 15-year tradition than actual excitement and entertainment value. I used to be able to tell you exactly what movie was coming out and when. I'm not sure what the next Marvel movie or show is and when it's going to be released. It's just become so routine at this point.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Ant-Man is the second MCU movie that I've missed opening night of (Wakanda Forever being the first). I don't regret the decision in either case.

 

[Taurus]

Marvel needs to:
A: Stop crippling, nerfing, ignoring their established, popular characters. (Looking at Dr Strange, Thor and Hulk)
B: introduce some characters about whom we give a flying fart, with interesting stories to tell.
And C: if you're going to tell a long, ongoing character arc, the character has to *change*. We were set up for a brash, goodhearted but un-empathetic Thor to become a wise, heroic King of Asgard after Ragnarok and Infinity War, but he's reverted to being a dooshbro joke.
Dr Strange got two movies where he gets birch-slapped by the bad guys for two hours and wins by convincing the BBG to give up.
The less said about Hulk, the better.

 

[Merl]

I quit going to the theater years ago. The last time was GOTG 2 and only went because a group of friends at work talked me into it. It had been at least 2 years before that I had gone. The experience was terrible. Paid more for a soda and bag of popcorn than the ticket cost, there was someone near me that had already seen it and couldn't help but out loud tell everyone when a funny line was coming or a key point. I now always wait until a movie comes on a streaming service I am subscribed to like HBO Max or Disney+.

 

[DaveXA]

I quit going to the theater years ago. The last time was GOTG 2 and only went because a group of friends at work talked me into it. It had been at least 2 years before that I had gone. The experience was terrible. Paid more for a soda and bag of popcorn than the ticket cost, there was someone near me that had already seen it and couldn't help but out loud tell everyone when a funny line was coming or a key point. I now always wait until a movie comes on a streaming service I am subscribed to like HBO Max or Disney+.

Yep, and when you have a home theater...then there's little point in going to the real theaters.

 

[tenordas]

We're going to see AntMan in the theater this weekend as we'll have both kids home from college. We didn't see either "Thor: Love and Thunder" nor "Wakanda Forever" in the theater. Having now seen both on Disney+, I'm very glad we didn't bother. Wakanda Forever wasn't the disaster area that Love and Thunder was, but it was decidedly underwhelming (and a good 30 minutes too long).
We may regret paying to see AntMan in the theater, but I'm highly interested in the Kang arc, and the trailers certainly make it look a lot better than those last two MCU films. One reason we didn't bother with Thor and Black Panther 2 was that the trailers were pretty underwhelming.

 

[DaveXA]

We're going to see AntMan in the theater this weekend as we'll have both kids home from college. We didn't see either "Thor: Love and Thunder" nor "Wakanda Forever" in the theater. Having now seen both on Disney+, I'm very glad we didn't bother. Wakanda Forever wasn't the disaster area that Love and Thunder was, but it was decidedly underwhelming (and a good 30 minutes too long).
We may regret paying to see AntMan in the theater, but I'm highly interested in the Kang arc, and the trailers certainly make it look a lot better than those last two MCU films. One reason we didn't bother with Thor and Black Panther 2 was that the trailers were pretty underwhelming.

Yeah, I was just ok with the Thor movie and actually liked BP2. But I didn't see either in the theater. Had planned to but just never got around to it. Same can be said about Ant Man. Marvel doesn't have the best track record with their sequels. And it's showing up in the numbers because people can simply wait for D+. If we didn't have that option, I probably would have gone to see all of them in the theater.

I'm an MCU nerd tho.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

We're going to see AntMan in the theater this weekend as we'll have both kids home from college. We didn't see either "Thor: Love and Thunder" nor "Wakanda Forever" in the theater. Having now seen both on Disney+, I'm very glad we didn't bother. Wakanda Forever wasn't the disaster area that Love and Thunder was, but it was decidedly underwhelming (and a good 30 minutes too long).
We may regret paying to see AntMan in the theater, but I'm highly interested in the Kang arc, and the trailers certainly make it look a lot better than those last two MCU films. One reason we didn't bother with Thor and Black Panther 2 was that the trailers were pretty underwhelming.

Crap, forgot about Love and Thunder. Make that three MCU movies.

 

[bonnjer]

Crap, forgot about Love and Thunder. Make that three MCU movies.

It's bad when not only did you not see the movie, but you forgot about the movie. Nobody was saying, "Oh, I forgot about Endgame." It's time for MCU to step it back up.

 

[livefromDC]

The more I think about Antman, the more I realize its faults. What I've concluded was that it wasn't an Antman movie. That's what's bothering me. It felt more like a clash between a Thor and Star Wars movie than an Antman movie. Seriously. Everything from the zany surprise guest star (ala Jeff Goldblum) to camera pan shot of an alien filled bar.