Brie Larson the frontrunner for Captain Marvel

~~Leo656~~ · 02-26-2019, 01:09 AM

This is all just theater. It's absolutely going to do better than Wonder Woman. It has everything that movie had insofar as being an "important" movie, PLUS a "Marvel" sticker on it.

I don't think it'll be bad, but even if it was, it really wouldn't matter. There's an automatic guaranteed return on these things. Even the "Ant-Man" movies made a good chunk of change, despite "Ant-Man" being right there in the title.

I don't plan to see it, but anyone expecting it to fail, or even be bad, is being silly. Marvel films generally aren't for me but it's not like they're incompetently made. They're entirely Populist Crowd-Pleasers designed in a focus group to achieve maximum impact across all demographics, and they succeed in that, every time out.

Like "Black Panther", I expect that they've gone the extra mile to insulate the project from any and all criticism, but that even without that it will do fine.

02-26-2019, 01:09 AM	#11
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	This is all just theater. It's absolutely going to do better than Wonder Woman. It has everything that movie had insofar as being an "important" movie, PLUS a "Marvel" sticker on it. I don't think it'll be bad, but even if it was, it really wouldn't matter. There's an automatic guaranteed return on these things. Even the "Ant-Man" movies made a good chunk of change, despite "Ant-Man" being right there in the title. I don't plan to see it, but anyone expecting it to fail, or even be bad, is being silly. Marvel films generally aren't for me but it's not like they're incompetently made. They're entirely Populist Crowd-Pleasers designed in a focus group to achieve maximum impact across all demographics, and they succeed in that, every time out. Like "Black Panther", I expect that they've gone the extra mile to insulate the project from any and all criticism, but that even without that it will do fine.