Better get their act together fast. Just saw my annual sub went up a ton and I have to decide whether to stay on annual by the end of the month. Very likely I will at least switch to monthly and stay unsubbed for part of the year when nothing new/decent is coming out and when I’m too busy.
The Beekeeper is a work of art!I honestly need a break too. I definitely feel superhero’d out after last year. Its good to get some counter programming in this year like Dune and Furiosa and Gladiator II and…..The Beekeeper
You take that back
Oh God we may get a good Lex this time!
I watched the clip. It’s all he knew. He is forgiven.
I didn't see major issues with Multiverse of Madness as the story is explained well enough and largely makes sense even without WandaVision. There are some references, but the main driving force of Wanda's actions was from Infinity War.
Other than Deadpool, I really struggle to think of much I want to see coming out soon. It just looks so unappealing. At least last year had stuff like Guardians, Mission: Impossible, and Oppenheimer, and I thought that year was bad. This year is a wasteland. Gladiator is one of my favorite movies and I still have zero interest in the sequel.
My family had absolutely no idea what was going on with Wanda and barely remembered her at all. As such, they found no reason to care about anything that was happening in MoM. She had less than 10 minutes of screentime in movies they saw 3-4 years prior. That’s fine for fans, who will surely rewatch stuff to refresh their memories. Too much to ask of a lot of the GA though.
The Avengers films were seen by enough people where I don't think it was that much of a problem to most of the audience, and Wanda seems to be a popular character. MoM did gross almost a billion dollars after all, a leap of $300 million over the first Doctor Strange.
I'd disagree. Wanda's entire motivation in the film is almost completely reliant on the audience having seen WandaVision beforehand. It's built completely around her relationship with her children. The casual audience member is going to be massively confused by that. Infinity War is completely irrelevant honestly as her relationship with Vision is a complete non-factor for the most part.
Agreed, and I would add last Summer had Barbie also. But this year is just....ugh. I refuse to see Gladiator 2 unless trailers are silly good and it gets like a 98% RT score. Gladiator is one of my favorites as well, and a sequel to that is just stupid.
She wants the children she never had (and her alternate universe counterparts did) because Vision was killed by Thanos. That much can be understood from just Infinity War.
But again, I’m talking about the pattern of decline. That was the first movie where my family - who were all about going to see the latest Marvel flicks up to that point - had that disconnect. That’s their point of “ok this is too much to keep track of now.” And it was 100% because they didn’t watch WandaVision and Wanda was otherwise too insignificant a character in the movies for them to actively care about. MoM’s bad CinemaScore is evidence that other audience members felt checked out of that one too. And more and more people are experiencing that with each subsequent Marvel flick, and that’s showing in the numbers. It’s obviously taking a toll imo.
It was like a D-Plot in Infinity War. Hardly something most casuals are gonna remember or care about.
Except that's not how the film paints it. It explicitly says multiple times that she wants her children back after losing them. Her and Strange argue about it multiple times as to if the children she lost were even real, with her insisting they were. She hardly cares about Vision in the film.
It does, which is why I acknowledged it does reference the show. But it is close enough that her motivation is still understandable without it.
