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'Fantastic Four' Box Office Dive Is a Bad Omen for Marvel's Future - The MCU’s appeal beyond its most hardcore fans is in question after its second-weekend “First Steps” drop (www.thewrap.com)
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[–] 14 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

This is true. Sure they’re Marvel’s “First Family” but even before the MCU or any of the fox movies they were less popular than The Avengers, who were less popular than the X-men.

Also, putting the movie up against Superman, who is DC’s #1 or #2 character, was a bad call.

I thought the movie was great though.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    MCU used to be able to turn B- and C-list heroes into the biggest stars. I'm pretty sure Fantastic Four was more well known than Guardians of the Galaxy when that came out.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I’d like to see it but not enough to drop $20 for a ticket and being forced to watch an hour of ads

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Cannot get my head around this complaint. They don't lock the doors at show time, so roll in 20-minutes late. That's what we did for Superman. Caught a couple of trailers then the movie started.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Because calling it the “start time” is a lie.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fine, be offended by the lie! No problem. But my point was that no one is forcing you to watch the ads and trailers.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It also means that I don’t know when the movie ends because the run time doesn’t matter anymore.

    But it’s mostly the lying.

    And the ads.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Meh. You're smart enough to figure the actual run time. Hating the lie is good enough! I just won't ban theaters over it. Rare enough that we go anyway. Once a year at most? And even then, only for something that excites me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I went on Tuesday for $10 and didn’t buy snacks 🤷‍♂️

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