From World of Reel we get the following. ‘Captain America: Brave New World' Bombs at Test Screening
Two different cuts of the film test screened last week, and plot details for one of the cuts have leaked online. The person who attended didn’t seem to like the movie all that much.
Based on the folks I’ve spoken to, those who attended were either given a red or green bracelet and were split up into two different theaters. The reactions I’ve heard have not been very kind to this movie, which is being described as “inessential” and “flat.”
Given what the trailer showed us earlier in the year, this is not too surprising.
Sam Wilson, formerly The Hawk, should not have been given the mantle of Captain America. The Hawk is a perfectly good story, and they could have promoted him with a SOLO movie.
But the Disney/Marvel no longer do solo movies. The stakes have to be stupidly enlarged.
Of course they can't be bothered to actually write a story, or hire people who respect the legacy of Marvel, so it is hardly surprising that none of the stuff they are producing is working.
But even watching Disney set fire to a couple of hundred million dollars of cash a few times a year isn't really that entertaining any longer.
Dave Cullen gets the the hat tip with his video This Looks Meh…
The budget for this film is currently listed at $350 million. If they spend $100 million on marketing, which would be low by Marvel standards, they would need to make $950 million at the box office to break even. And the budget will turn out to be larger, if we ever get final numbers, and they will spend at least $150 million on marketing. Counting on making a billion dollars just to break even is a foolish choice.
Almost totally unrelated, I've been meaning to ask you if you've heard anything about that Disney+ series Agatha All Along. I've run into nothing - good or bad. I thought Kathryn Hahn had a good role on Wandavision, maybe a bit too over the top, but also playing that way deliberately. Didn't seem like it would be worth it for a TV series of her own.
ReplyDeleteI guess the end of Marvel was when Stan Lee passed away. The storytelling went down the tubes, and they just don't produce interesting content anymore.
I haven't been watching it myself. I have to make some effort to see anything on Disney+ and I'm just not interested.
DeleteDisparu is the only channel I've seen doing a full review of each episode, but I haven't been watching.
Critical Drinker published a 12 minute excerpt of a panel discussion of the show-to-date: Drinker's Chasers - Agatha All Along Isn't Even Worth Laughing At
I've pretty much given up on Marvel, and it wasn't so much when Lee passed away, since he wasn't that involved in the movie side of things, but when Bob Iger fired Ike Perlmutter. Or at least booted him out of the movie side of Marvel in 2015. He kept the budgets in check, and made them adhere - at least a little - to the source material. Things went fine for a bit, but eventually Kevin Feige started doing things his way.
No one currently working for Disney has any connection to the comics. The writers are encouraged to avoid the comics, and not talk outside their project. It says Marvel on the logo, and the characters have names that were used in the comics, but the characters and the stories are completely divorced from the Marvel, even of the early 2000s.
I haven't seen anything from Marvel in ages. Same goes for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and the rest of Disney. It is all soulless sludge, written by committees that don't believe in good or evil, but only in power.
To be fair, the Critical Drinker only covers Agatha for the first few minutes... and then they go off to more TV that is better, particular Penguin.
DeleteAnd I haven't completely given up on Marvel. I have watched bits of some of the new stuff... but mostly I've been going back and watching everything starting with the late 90s Blade movie. (It is good, and yet not as good as I remembered, and the CG is not good) The first and second Spider-Man movies are worth re-watching. That's as far as I've gotten. I'm sure I will see more over the winter