Woke new Disney movie "The Marvels" flops as expected

[AWillis]

People are still obsessing over comic book movies?

don't see how, they are boring as fk. i cannot remember the last one i watched.

does the first transformers count?

[freeburn]

Yeah. I skipped this one and I grew up reading Marvel comics and a fan of the earlier MCU movies.

I read that Beast(from X-Men) showed up though in the end.

That said, excited for Deadpool vs Wolverine next year! Only Marvel release too.

I wonder why beast showed up

Shi'ar and Xmen coming maybe?

[Dave22reborn]

I thought phase 5 was all about the astronaut wife beater?

He's supposed to be the next big bad, and the Avengers phase 5 are supposed to be all females, but will all of these flops, will they even make it that far?

Hell, the Blade movie was going to make him a thrid supporting character, and have his daughter be the main star of the movie...... I guess the actor was on the verge of walking away.

They still have no idea what they're going to do with the movie.

[baldbrah]

He's supposed to be the next big bad, and the Avengers phase 5 are supposed to be all females, but will all of these flops, will they even make it that far?

Hell, the Blade movie was going to make him a thrid supporting character, and have his daughter be the main star of the movie...... I guess the actor was on the verge of walking away.

They still have no idea what they're going to do with the movie.

I quit watching marvel and Disney star wars years ago. But I still like watching nerderotic and critical drinker make fun of them.

[stevebec]

I get why they did them for so long and they made a killing. I wasn't a comic book kid but even I liked a few of the origin ones like Iron Man.

This. It's low hanging fruit. They find a formula that works and just keep riding it, although this time they probably pushed it a bit too far. It's not like TV is any different:

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NCIS LA
NCIS New Orleans
NCIS Hawaii
NCIS Sydney

[psai]

good, this woke chit in movies is getting out of control. they should really take a hint from older movies with actual badass female leads instead of blaming misogyny and patriarchy.

i don't think there's a single guy out there who's complaining about ellen ripley in alien, or sarah connor in terminator.

[Muzzlrpress]

[chrsschb]

Brb intricate plot spanned over 12321 different movies and if you don't remember every single one you won't even know the plot

We were fine when the plot was maybe 4 movies a year. Now you get a bunch of obscure characters no one gives a chit about in solo movies and 30 Disney+ shows that all suck ass and it's just draining. No one is watching this chit.

This is all of course ignoring the woke chit. Reality is the movies are all just trash.

I wonder why beast showed up

Shi'ar and Xmen coming maybe?

So that movie reviewers and comic nerd youtube channels would say, "X-men easter egg in new marvel movie" and hopefully get some extra attention/ticket sales.

That clearly failed.

[hockeyman1]

all dem marvel movies are sleepers for me.

[JUSA]

Looks like this one is going to lose even more money than The Little Mermaid (250M production cost, 140M marketing and pulling in 570M world wide by the end of it's run).

Sadly, for the Little Mermaid, even with Disney grossly overpaying itself for the streaming rights, it still did not break even.

The Marvels looks to be even more open and shut, at this rate it's not even going to cover it's production and (probably much lower) marketing costs with the worldwide gross, so there won't even be drooling dimwits who mistakenly forget that movie theaters take a massive chunk of the ticket sales and by no means does it all just get send forward to Disney.

I did not watch this movie but I saw a few commercials, I am surprised a direct sequel to the Thanos vs Avengers movie, with callbacks to all the original Avengers and bringing back Thanos, just as the commercials made it seem, but even with all that - it's a little surprising to see it perform so poorly.

[Soonerjohn]

Couple of things:

1. I had no idea this movie even existed.
2. After Endgame I have no desire to see super hero movies. Endgame was like watching Ali fights in his prime. Everything since is like watching Ali vs. Holmes.
3. It goes beyond woke being stupid AF. There is no sense of character development in all the new stuff. It is like you are females super hero, you have succeeded at everything you have ever done in your life, but wait, lets invent some fake ass scenario in which the patriarchy tried to suppress you but failed.

[JUSA]

3. It goes beyond woke being stupid AF. There is no sense of character development in all the new stuff. It is like you are females super hero, you have succeeded at everything you have ever done in your life, but wait, lets invent some fake ass scenario in which the patriarchy tried to suppress you but failed.

These are woke-isms, though. Woke isn't some movie that happens to have a female lead. Nobody cares.

Woke is activism, not all of these sins but often many: unproven writers, directors and/or actors of the right gender, color or sexuality. Diverse-swapping for no reason characters away from male, white and/or straight. Untalented female writers who insert themselves in as the leads. Movies full of women who are not feminine and men who are not masculine. "Heroines Journeys" that simply have the female hero realize she was perfect all along.

Disney and Lucasfilms are probably the most blatant and worst offenders. Having not seen either The Marvels or the original Captain Marvel, I can't speak to this film specifically - but part of it's failure is surely the after-effects of other failed woke movies.

[Dave22reborn]

These are woke-isms, though. Woke isn't some movie that happens to have a female lead. Nobody cares.

Woke is activism, not all of these sins but often many: unproven writers, directors and/or actors of the right gender, color or sexuality. Diverse-swapping for no reason characters away from male, white and/or straight. Untalented female writers who insert themselves in as the leads. Movies full of women who are not feminine and men who are not masculine. "Heroines Journeys" that simply have the female hero realize she was perfect all along.

Disney and Lucasfilms are probably the most blatant and worst offenders. Having not seen either The Marvels or the original Captain Marvel, I can't speak to this film specifically - but part of it's failure is surely the after-effects of other failed woke movies.

The thing is, it's affecting movies/shows that are actually good.

I heard Andor is actually a great show, but nobody watched it, because of how bad the other Star Wars shows were.

The last 2-3 seasons of GOT were terrible.

Luckily House of the Dragon is good, but it's pretty much following the book from what I understand.

[baldbrah]

The thing is, it's affecting movies/shows that are actually good.

I heard Andor is actually a great show, but nobody watched it, because of how bad the other Star Wars shows were.

The last 2-3 seasons of GOT were terrible.

Luckily House of the Dragon is good, but it's pretty much following the book from what I understand.

They did race swap one of the most important houses, and make the son a closet homo lol. They still inserted blatant wokisms it's good in spite of that.

[chrsschb]

They did race swap one of the most important houses, and make the son a closet homo lol. They still inserted blatant wokisms it's good in spite of that.

And the main character is a they/them.

[Tuga88]

They did race swap one of the most important houses, and make the son a closet homo lol. They still inserted blatant wokisms it's good in spite of that.

And the main character is a they/them.

.....

Luckily House of the Dragon is good, but it's pretty much following the book from what I understand.

Not sure if srs.

[brooootal]

They ran out of ideas. IDK how long they thought they could milk the MCU. I will say that Loki season 2 ending was amazing and mogs pretty much everything they have done since Avengers.

[JUSA]

They ran out of ideas. IDK how long they thought they could milk the MCU. I will say that Loki season 2 ending was amazing and mogs pretty much everything they have done since Avengers.

What a shame last season Loki was treated like a joke, put in a time loop where a strong female character repeatedly kicked him in the balls for eternity and a new perfect female Loki was introduced who was a girl boss who didn't need any man. Meaning: most people did not bother to check out season two.

Oh and the character was already killed and this is just some time fragment version of Loki, not the one we actually saw in any of the movies.

That last mistake, this is the problem facing the MCU at the moment. Not as big a problem as their M-She-U woke direction, but a big one -- this idea of multiple versions of everyone, so much that characters dying or anything happening hardly matters any longer. Just bring in a new one and anything that happens to that new one: won't matter up until the actor playing them doesn't resign, then they just disappear (like Captain Marvel is about to).

[Dave22reborn]

They did race swap one of the most important houses, and make the son a closet homo lol. They still inserted blatant wokisms it's good in spite of that.

Wasn't he gay in the book? Also, the Valeryians being black isn't bad, especially since the actors are so good.

[Dave22reborn]

And the main character is a they/them.

The younger actress is, I don't think the older version is.

[Dave22reborn]

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Not sure if srs.

Whats the problem with the show?

[JayJ350]

don't see how, they are boring as fk. i cannot remember the last one i watched.

does the first transformers count?

They all have the same exact storyline lol. Random phucks gets super powers, some big evil bad guy tries to take over a city or the earth or some bullchit, superheroes have an epic CGI battle with bad guys and save the day, the end, setup for sequel where hero is just dicking around until new bad guy comes along with world domination scheme, rinse and repeat.