I watched the movie. I am the target audience for the movie. I want an expanded spiderverse.
The movie was bad. Really bad. Direct to VHS bad. Terrible movie. The actors were OK, but the script was garbage and the plot was nonsensical. Why did the bad guy sound like Schwarzenegger in Hercules in New York? Why did the special effects look so bad? None of the super powers made sense. The costumes looked ridiculous and amateur.
The movie was bad.
There are a lot of misogynists online that took special glee in watching the movie fail. They piled on to make everyone aware of how bad a female-led superhero movie was.
There are a lot of film critics who are tired of comic book movies and enjoy trashing every comic book movie as it comes out. They also piled on in the hopes that they could signal the end of comic book cinema.
So, she's not wrong. This movie never stood a chance against all of the people online who were hoping it would fail, because this movie was a hot, wet, splattery fart.
If we want to talk about the way people trashed The Marvels, that's a different conversation. The Marvels wasn't great, but it wasn't nearly as bad as critics and misogynists wanted it to be. Pro-tip, anyone using the word "woke" in their critique is a dipshit with an agenda. Disregard their opinion whole cloth.
I really liked it. Definitely could have been tighter, and the ending was not well thought out, but absolutely a fun movie. I like Ms Marvel as a character.
These people love to shit on "angry incels on the internet" for their movie doing poorly completely ignoring all the loved successful female led movies that aren't hot garbage.
You're right, but angry incels on the internet exist. They shit on everything they think is "woke" and feel validated when movies like this fail. They should not feel valudated. I'd rather go see a shitty movie than give a bigot the benefit of the doubt. In this case, the movie was bad, but not because it was "woke." So both things can be true.
Emma Roberts is a domestic abuser (on top of being one of the less talented nepo babies), so I really don't give a shit what she thinks about anything.
I’m actually curious about that - I think it had significant reshoots and many of the villain's lines are badly ADR’d. I’m guessing the final product had very little resemblance to what was in the script.
It was a shoddily made mess. If she wanted to correctly apportion blame she should do what Dakota Johnson has done and be honest about the problems during development which doomed the film before they started filming. Or just quietly erase if from your CV and move on.
No marketing convinced me to see the movie. I haven’t seen the movie. No beef against the actors and the others involved, but you do need to do more to make me watch your movie.
I really wanted to like Madame Web. I avoided seeing reviews and scores for the movie, and then I saw it in the theater. After watching it, I thought it was just okay, I expected it to get a 40-50% Rotten Tomatoes rating. I was shocked to see that it was at 17%.
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