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Osgood Perkins' "The Monkey" opens to $14.2 million, second best ever for Neon

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

is 68% a normal dropoff for 2nd week?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

I don't mean to shit on what's his name that took over the Captain America role, but dude has just no fucking screen presence, charisma what so ever, Joel Kinnaman fucking killed it on altered carbon season 1, then this dude, Mackie?, took over in season 2, and god damn it was a hard watch.

He reminds of that dude that played the Boomerang guy in suicide squad, then he was kyle in Terminator: Genisys, that fucker is the same, 0 screen presence, no charisma.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

His portrayal of Boomerang and his character in Spartacus were great though. He’s just not built for main lead roles, which I guess applies to Mackie too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

100% AC was dead for me as soon as this guy took over. Same with Cap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I heard Clarence's parents have a real good marriage

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

It wasn't a bad movie, but it had problems.

The big problem, and this is pretty common with Marvel, was a weak villain. The Leader just wasn't a big threat. He spent most of his time in the shadows. He got very little screen time. And his motivation was also really weak. He wanted a pardon... But he was also completely capable of starting world war 3, like that doesn't make sense. Like an iron Man 3, The Mandarin started off the movie as an epic threat... Only to be revealed to be an actor and the actual bad guy was Killian... Who was an awful villain. But you don't even have to have a villain that's super strong or even has great motivation as long as they're well written, like Mysterio. Red Hulk ends up being wasted on this movie, because they had no faith they could write something people would want to see, because post Thanos they've kind of been fumbling the ball. But I think they seem to forget is Thanos wasn't there from the beginning they eventually led into him.

They either needed to really lean into The Leader, or Red Hulk. Not waste both on a 2 decade late Hulk sequel that doesn't have Bruce or the Hulk.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Lost interest after Endgame.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Same. I enjoyed Infinity War a decent amount, but Endgame didn't quite sit right with me for some reason; maybe because it felt like the pulling of strings to make the narrative fit certain things was more apparent. Lost all steam after that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

I lost interest after the first Iron Man movie.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I enjoyed some of the shows like Wandavision and Loki but I’ve pretty much fallen off watching any of this stuff entirely now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

The only thing I've been looking forward to recently is the new Daredevil series. Wandavision was decent. Moon Knight was good. She-Hulk had lots of potential but just dropped the ball IMHO. We never finished Loki season 2 (just lost insterest). We ended up canceling Disney+ because the Marvel shows were a dud for the most part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I enjoyed Agatha as well, but didn't watch it until just recently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Loki was the only one I really liked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I still enjoyed the latest Spiderman but the rest seems quite uninspired.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I wouldn't say I lost interest, but rather that Endgame was a great ending for the MCU. Why would I want to watch past the end?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Could it be that after milking that sorry Marvel franchise for all it was worth for years, Disney fails to excite people with their nth ultra-samey, ultra-low-originality rehash?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

They're just not willing to take the risks they were talking when marvel was still going solo before it's Disney acquisition. Disney isn't big on risks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What risks did they use to take? As long as I remember the Marvel movies have been formulaic copies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago (1 children)

Giving creative control to specific directors to let their vision shine through the project: Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor Love and Thunder, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

I mean, Iron man was like literally the first movie in the MCU (discounting that Hulk movie), it also literally started the trope of Bad Guy has literally the same skillset/power as the good guy that was replicated a bunch of times.

GotG, and Thor: Ragnarok are the only movies that are unique and carried by their directors.

Love and thunder is a dumpster fire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Some of the TV shows have been more creative. The current movies are just rehashes though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

These comments are depressing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 42 minutes ago

Marvel is depressing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

The marketing for this movie and been atrocious. The Cross advertising spots I've seen are terrible cash grabs. Marvel is done.