Not saying that many people thought it was in the same universe as the Avengers films but many think it’s by Marvel and that’s enough to attract interest. The MCU made the Marvel label even more powerful. People are even more willing to give a new Marvel property a shot. Similar to how Chris Nolan’s name on posters and trailers. Audiences don’t think his movies are all set in the universe but it’s by him and that gets their attention. All of his movies after The Dark Knight have made at least hundreds of millions.
This is a pretty crazy theory. By that line of reasoning, you're saying every film with a Marvel label in front of it should technically be at least baseline successful, or do Venom type numbers? And also by that reasoning, no X-men movie should have ever been a failure? ... People/GA may not be as in the know as people like us are, but they definitely know the different between an MCU/Avengers film and not.
And the Nolan thing is also pretty crazy. Not saying his name doesn't carry more weight after TDK trilogy, bc it definitely does, but that's absolutely
not the reason his movies post-Batman made millions. They make that money because they all range from great to spectacular. He was also already a very well-respected filmmaker before then, if not necessarily mega-mainstream. And his 2 movies since made significantly less than TDK and TDKR
I think some of you forgotten that since Spider-Man is in the mcu most people will think this is connected. I mean come on. I had people in the theater ask if he’ll be in the next avengers movie. I’m sure a good amount think this venom is mcu connected
I don't wanna be rude, but these are spectacularly ridiculous statements/sentiments ... '
Thinking Spider-man was in this' doesn't lead to $800M+, plus good WOM, plus repeat viewings... PLUS record-breaking numbers in territories that opened MUCH later. Do people think viewers in China thought 'Spider-man was in this' by the time it opened in their country? Obviously not, and it did gangbusters there, so that argument is instantly rendered moot by that alone.
And to both of the bold sentences, I firmly believe that first one is hyperbole when I hear it. I believe people may have heard one or two people saying this, but definitely not a significant amount. Those kind of statements scream bs to me, pardon the rudeness, and they also only ever come from people who had negative feelings about this movie ... I've never heard one single person IRL say anything at all about thinking this movie was connected to the MCU ... And even if they do, that has absolutely nothing to do with it's current success, considering THIS film had absolutely nothing to do, or no shared characters, with the MCU.
And to the second sentence, after viewing this film, there's absolutely NO reason to come out thinking, or even
suspecting Venom is or will be connected to the MCU. There wasn't even one microscopic morsel included in the film to indicate this ... Especially Brock's line about his disbelief of Aliens.
Now this doesn't preclude potential MCU involvement for Venom in the future, which they could always figure out a way to do, but it does stop me from buying the argument '
People just thought this was connected to the MCU, so they were interested..'