Same boat. There was a time, briefly, where I had ditched my mask. I had my vaccination, covid was slowing down, Delta Variant was more like some rumored distant thing in another country like the first Covid strain before it. Seemed like we were turning the corner. But like you said, a certain political party seems very pro-covid, so they didn't vaxx they didn't mask and Delta is no longer so distant. So my mask is back on, and I'm holding my breath as I pass the many anti-masker people around here because Alabama is sadly a lot like Texas.
Media newsletters use the "underwhelming B.O." to get clickbait headlines.
"Black Widow Does Surprisingly Well Amidst Pandemic" apparently doesn't have the zing that "Black Widow, Box-Office Failure!" does. Same goes for every superhero movie this year.
WW84 largely ignored that because everyone was looking at the streaming numbers, since same-date releases were so new. But now it's back to using negative publicity and clickbait titles.
~I just keep swimming through these threads~
What does any of this have to do with people treating every DC movie like its a failure for some arbitrary reason or another? Marvel movies are not the only ones subjected to this kind of annoying behavior.
Writing off Fisher's experiences as him being a "bitter actor" isn't just insulting, its kind of hypocritical given how often you've attacked Disney using John Boyega or Chadwick Boseman to attack certain fan demographics you don't like. You haven't exactly been singing WB's praises either since the DCEU began.
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I like the Aquaman stealth suit, it immediately reminded me of the comics blue suit.
How is it underperforming when it just smashed the Labor Day weekend record? Granted I'm aware that Labor Day is a notoriously slow movie weekend but so far Shang-Chi is hardly underperforming. It got the best pandemic weekend in the UK as well. It doesn't need to do Black Panther or Captain Marvel numbers to be a success, if it does anywhere between Ant-Man and Doctor Strange numbers, it's clearly going to be seen as successful.
Last edited by Johnny; 09-05-2021 at 11:27 PM.
This is true
Marvel's success is a good thing but its also utterly segmented the DC fandom
They've resorted to cheerleading for DC properties to fail because that means the current regime has failed and they'll have to start over again in another decade
The argument about Dick not getting a HBO Max movie(he's already in Titans mind you) as opposed to Zatanna or Black Canary is just stones throw away from complaining about female centric DC movies
THANK YOU!! It's obvious from the box office receipts of BW that we are not in the post-pandemic era. Black Widow made only $370 million at the box office. That is not at all what the MCU is used to pulling in. When you give people the option to watch something at home, they'll do it. People don't wanna leave their houses if they don't have to it seems. I wonder why that might be...
I've read that the Labour Day record it beat was Halloween (2007), so the title doesn't mean much. This why I am general skeptical of box office "records" because they tend to be misleading. I could be wrong about the movie being a flop, I'm not really hitched to the idea as I am to Black Widow.
#InGunnITrust, #ZackSnyderistheBlueprint, #ReleasetheAyerCut
Proclaiming Shang-Chi as a flop the day after it doubled the industry-projected holiday weekend total is beyond moronic. Take away the tickets from Labor Day Monday, and it's traditional Fri-Sun opening made more than the three DCEU pandemic film's opening weekends combined.
If you're hitched to announcing a $200 million dollar film a flop after making $500 million (375 BO/125 D+) during a pandemic, than I hope you're consistent and label every movie released the past two years that didn't receive a China release all flops, and consider Birds of Prey, WW84, and Suicide Squad 2 to be monumental, catastrophic failures.
Done with DC. Can't handle the constant whiplash! Time to go on a hiatus!
DC needs to hard reboot or it will continue to flop