The Marvels...done your MCU homework yet?

[Monterey Jack]

Yep, only us stinky men hate it...

Apparently not...

[Monterey Jack]

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[Monterey Jack]

Disney stockholders right now...

[Monterey Jack]

The Marvels isn't even gonna crack $100 mil in the U.S. Even the MCU movies released in Coronaville 2021 all topped $150 mil in the U.S. alone. Yet another catastrophic bomb for Disney.

[AndyDursin]

Already off on the wrong foot with Fantastic Four. Pascal is completely miscast. Seems they didn't want to pay $$ for a big star. Sad!

Fans pissed...

https://www.facebook.com/share/uy2vKd6k ... tid=Na33Lf

[Monterey Jack]

Reeks of "Well, we've already got Pascal under contract for The Mandalorian..."

God forbid they cast a white actor for the role. ["You RACIST...!"]

And I like Pascal, but it's miscasting.

[AndyDursin]

He doesn't even appear as The Mandalorian now, it's another guy in a suit and he only does the voice! If the helmet's not off its not him.

Reports are they went through Jake Gylenhaal and Adam Driver who both wanted too much $$

And Emma Stone apparently wanted too much money also.

Budgets starting to matter to Disney. Should've paid Krasinski but he doesn't need it now anyway.

[Monterey Jack]

This can't POSSIBLY be true...can it?

[Monterey Jack]

[AndyDursin]

Everything about the way Disney makes movies is so wrong, prioritizing release dates and socio-political agenda above things like, you know, completed screenplays, stories that make sense, and characters audiences like.

THE MARVELS was doomed at conception. I'm sure Brie Larson and her ego loved sharing the spotlight with two minor league heroes, both basically Disney+ series characters, right? Would DC have ever asked Gal Godot to do that with WONDER WOMAN? The other issue here is CAPTAIN MARVEL wasn't a beloved movie like WONDER WOMAN. Yes it made $$ off the Marvel name at the time but you can't do that anymore, as evidenced by the last year and box-office in-take like this.

Either way, maybe that Disney hostile takeover is in the works after all...especially with this latest loaded money loser from the studio.

[Edmund Kattak]

https://babylonbee.com/news/to-save-mar ... mTFhinJUt8

[Monterey Jack]

Everything about the way Disney makes movies is so wrong, prioritizing release dates and socio-political agenda above things like, you know, completed screenplays, stories that make sense, and characters audiences like.

The reason why Disney movies cost so damn much is the endless tinkering and reshoots, which would not be necessary if they commissioned GOOD screenplays right off the bat, and actually left the filmmakers alone to realize them. The fact that an Indiana Jones movie cost almost $300 million (not including marketing!) is obscene. They wouldn't have needed to tack an additional $100 million onto the price tag had they not went with that awful "Replace Harrison Ford with Fleabag" idea in the first place. Hell, they would have been better off had they released that version, because the film still would have bombed, but at least would have cost $100 million less.

It's funny that Elemental had a "disastrous" $29 million opening weekend, yet legged out to just under $500 million (one of Disney's few quasi-successes this year) due to good word of mouth, yet The Marvels won't even get to $200 million. Worldwide.

[Monterey Jack]

It's noteworthy that Avatar 2 made more than the last four MCU movies COMBINED.

[AndyDursin]

It does say something that really the only Marvel film that was ever made by a director, that really FELT like that director with little compromise, was GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. A comic book with no vast following that was so weird/unknown they basically left Gunn alone to do whatever he wanted with it. Then for the sequels he had carte blanche basically to make whatever he wanted. There's really nothing else in the Disney-made Marvel movies that feels like an "individualist" film as that one does, nor will there ever be, because it's just not how they make movies -- and it won't ever change either. They need traffic cops, not filmmakers.