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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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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fantastic Four have never been a very profitable property

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 19 points 1 week ago

20th Century Fox kinda destroyed any hype for new Fantastic Four movies.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 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.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

But in a bad way, in this case FFs reputation works against it. Pretty much all the previous movies were panned.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 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.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days 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.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I’m gonna see an hour of ads I don’t want to pay anything

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I actually timed it at the last two movies I went to because I find that annoying too. It’s 18 minutes, including trailers (which I don’t mind) where I live.

So I planned to show up 10 minutes after show time.