Horror Blumhouse and James Wan to bring us M3gan

[Snow Queen]

 

[Lily Adler]

It's like a failed attempt at rainbow capitalism or something.

 

[Sithborg]

Honestly shocked by those that thought the marketing for this was good. It was so grating and showed what felt like a truly unappealing movie.

I see the logic. I mean the first trailer leaned heavily into the SNL skit. There may have been some retooling of the movie as well, as the one cringe Megan fan wasn't in the movie. As it is, I'm not entirely sure they even had Xerox Skynet when they cut the first trailer together.

 

[Sithborg]

It's like a failed attempt at rainbow capitalism or something.

One does wonder. The first trailer implies that Gemma is married, she very is much not in the movie, along with being very opaque on her preferences.

 

[legendkillin]

Should have stopped after 1, this one was too long and too over the top. M3gan does not need to be
a end of a world type of movie. It had predictable parts and bad cgi and dubbing. The movie wasn't as funny as the first 1, may have laughed 2 times.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I see the logic. I mean the first trailer leaned heavily into the SNL skit. There may have been some retooling of the movie as well, as the one cringe Megan fan wasn't in the movie. As it is, I'm not entirely sure they even had Xerox Skynet when they cut the first trailer together.

Not sure I follow. What do you see the logic in?

 

[Sithborg]

Not sure I follow. What do you see the logic in?

To the extent that they are trying to recapture what lead to the first movie breaking out. There is stuff in the first trailer that didn't make it into the movie, because I assume enough test audiences told them to cut it out. It is weird, I look at that first trailer, and I start to realize some of where the movie was cut up.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Dave McFly]

was gonna see it this weekend but I was busy and tired from doing stuff around the house I have my hours temp changed to days this week up till before the 4th me and my brother's family plan on seeing it sometime in the next day or so as a end of the school year thing for my niece.

 

[Lily Adler]

Megan was designed after Elizabeth Holmes.

 

[Drizzle]

I totally forgot that this was coming out, not that I was ever going to see it in theaters anyway. But as bad as the marketing was for Elio, I at least saw some ads for that around its release. I've seen nothing for M3gan 2.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

To the extent that they are trying to recapture what lead to the first movie breaking out. There is stuff in the first trailer that didn't make it into the movie, because I assume enough test audiences told them to cut it out. It is weird, I look at that first trailer, and I start to realize some of where the movie was cut up.

The marketing for this movie did not match the original's. The first remembered it was a horror movie. That was the joke. This one tried to paint a T2 aesthetic where M3gan is your pal instantly defanging it.

 

[blueharvest]

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[DarkKnight88]

Respect to Jason Blum for talking about what went wrong immediately after.

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[Pennywise]

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[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I had a good bit of fun with this one myself. Megan was still was still asleep bratty and funny as ever but they actually developed her this time around. She had an arc along with Gemma and Cady and I liked where they went with all of them.

Some of the effects were off but Clement and Sakho were really good editions that brought a lot of fun. The 3rd act twist will turn some people off but I liked the ridiculousness of it all and of course the final battle which gave me Superman 3 vibes. I hope somehow, someway it's not the last we see of the characters, but the legs would have to be ridiculous at this point.

7/10

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Respect to Jason Blum for talking about what went wrong immediately after.

Jason Blum Opens Up About the ‘M3GAN 2.0’ Flop, the Blumhouse Slump, and Bouncing Back - The Ringer

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www.theringer.com

Then responds with what feels like the wrong answers.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Lily Adler]

Oooooo the return of the unrated cut where the blood is red instead of grey.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

They should have released this version in the first place

 

[Dave McFly]

gonna see this over the weekend my niece wants to see it, as you may or not know she was Megan for halloween a few years ago and she slayed it

 

[Dave McFly]

saw it yesterday with my niece, we both loved it, the girl who plays AMELIA killed it, she was just so good

PS the Knight Rider bit got me good

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Dave McFly]

it's a bummer it did not do as well as the 1.0 film but I still enjoyed it, and as before Jenna Davis killed as Megan she is such a talent

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I was due to see this again last night but with my family this time. The screening got cancelled so we went to see Jurassic instead. Doesn't look like the movie has done too well here.

They should have had this as an August release, it would have done better there I think.