Very unfortunate. What is getting to me is seeing the number of commenters that are mocking anyone who says the movie was fun. Yes, apparently now it’s a bad thing that anyone had fun watching The Marvels.
Personally loved it, while one can disregard the trolls of toxicity/gatekeeping/misogyny/racism/etc, there’s no arguing that this movie performing poorly does not bode well for more of its ilk and that’s depressing for those of us that enjoyed it and want to see more of the characters and style.
and I for one hope future MCU movies are still exciting, thrilling, enjoyable and FUN TO WATCH.
I wonder if part of this is that they are cannibalizing themselves with their streaming service. Up until the pandemic, I watched every Marvel movie in the theater. Now I just wait until it hits Disney+.
We saw The Marvels over the weekend. As I sdaid, we couldn’t get in to see it opening weekend. I bought tickets in advance for last Saturday’s showing, and the only seats we could get were around the periphery – all the good central seats were sold out hours before the show. You couldn’t prove by my experience that this film is flopping.
Not my favorite MCU film, and I didn’t really engage with it (the only Marvel comics with Captain Marvel have ever read or own have the character as male. In most of them he’s wearing a white and green costume). But it was clear what was going on, and I knew enough about the new young character that I wasn’t at all lost or confused.
Too bad Box Office Mojo doesn’t give breakdown by area. But for Saturday it made an overall average of $1105 per screen. I don’t know the average ticket price or number of screenings per day, but say $8 per ticket, 7 screenings per day. That’s 20 people per screening. If you are in an area where it is getting much higher than that, then of course there have to be areas getting much lower.
I saw it last night and liked it. The movie had an uphill climb in that it was based on 2 TV series for backstories as well as a Marvel movie that didn’t do well. I liked it and felt it was entertaining and solid. Iman Vellani was great. I noted Brie Larson didn’t wear a helmet at all, which is quite understandable.
The stingers were great. Wish it had all been more practical and less CGI, but that’s just my personal choice.