• 1bluepixel
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    10 months ago

    Superhero fatigue must be a thing…The reviews for this movie are pretty positive, but I still don’t feel like checking it out.

    I can already imagine the protagonist being torn between his newfound role as a superhero and the demands of family, only to realize after a long series of humorous situations that he can serve both by being true to himself, and… Yeah.

    • @ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com
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      1610 months ago

      I was done with the whole genre after watching just about everything leading up to Endgame. Once that saga closed I’ve seen like 2 superhero related things and just can’t muster the energy to watch it. Even seemingly great movies like the Spider-Man stuff, particularly Into the Spiderverse looks awesome but I’m just so done with it all. That said it’s not like I consume all that many movies outside superhero stuff either so yeah.

        • Jordan Lund
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          810 months ago

          Maybe they should wait for the 3rd one. 2nd is kind of a cliffhanger.

          • makeshiftreaper
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            810 months ago

            Cliffhanger is a generous term for “the movie doesn’t have a 3rd act”

            Don’t get me wrong, I liked it but it just kind of stops instead of ends

            • @SPOOSER@lemmy.today
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              310 months ago

              People saying it’s a terrific movie are being incredibly misleading. Across the Spiderverse is 100% setup, 0% payoff.

      • @maegul@lemmy.ml
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        710 months ago

        I was done the moment I realised they weren’t brave enough to be experimental with their formula and tone/vibe. I think the high points were Iron man (1) / Winter Soldier / Ragnorok / Endgame / Loki (TV) … because they all did something new for the genre. Everything else has been bland, or, sadly IMO, had fans decry it for not being a comic book movie (looking at MCU fans criticising Eternals).

      • @protokaiser@lemmy.world
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        610 months ago

        At this point the only thing I’m interested in is the Loki series everything else I just can’t muster the energy/desire to want to watch.

        • 1bluepixel
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          610 months ago

          Loki had my interest until the last episode of season one. Now I’m worried season two will be an extended trailer for Kang Dynasty.

    • Scratch
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      1110 months ago

      I watched it last night and you’re not close. Still not sure I’d recommend it, though.

      • @jballs@sh.itjust.works
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        610 months ago

        Really? I watched the trailer and that was the exact vibe it gave off. Maybe that formula works so well that they decided to advertise the movie that way, instead of showing what the movie was actually like?

        • Scratch
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          210 months ago

          Trailer companies don’t have access to the whole movie. They just hack together whatever they can maybe with some director input, iirc.

    • edric
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      1010 months ago

      Superhero fatigue must be a thing

      It is for me, at least for Marvel. I think the last one I saw in theaters was Black Panther 2. I’ve never seen any other Marvel movie (or series) since then. DC not much either, but it’s more because they’re terrible. I watched The Flash at home and I’m so glad I didn’t waste money in the cinema for that cgi garbage.

    • @lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      Actually no. The family steps up. Nana kicks ass. It’s refreshing that the main cast aren’t just fodder for the plot.

  • Jordan Lund
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    2510 months ago

    And I helped! :)

    But seriously, even among comics nerds, B.B. is largely an unknown property and the super generic trailers didn’t help.

    • @UsernameLost@lemmy.ml
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      2110 months ago

      Doesn’t help that it just looks like an off-brand Iron Man. I saw one trailer and had no desire to watch anything related to it

      • Jordan Lund
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        1110 months ago

        Like I said, the super generic trailers didn’t help.

        It’s Iron Man, but replace the alcoholic billionaire with a broke fresh college graduate, and replace Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan with a multi-generational Hispanic family.

      • Jordan Lund
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        310 months ago

        It’s a good comics movie. They did a pretty good job of covering 83 years of comic book history spread across three characters.

  • Cralder
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    1010 months ago

    I had no idea this movie even existed before now

    • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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      510 months ago

      Honestly isn’t that kind of nice to be out of the advertising loop? I’m in the same boat. I think maybe I am once heard something vague about it years ago. But had no idea that it had released.

  • wilberfan
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    410 months ago

    Why are box office numbers always framed as a competition in the USA? Did I read once that, for example, movies in France report the number of people that attended–not how much money was spent?

    • Margot Robbie
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      310 months ago

      First Oppenheimer, now Blue Beetle.

      I still don’t get what my movie has to do with either one of these movies.

    • HobbitFoot
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      210 months ago

      It has become an easy way to create a narrative in American movies, especially after Covid cleared the slate on how movies used to perform.

  • @Deftdrummer@lemmy.world
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    410 months ago

    All still trying to cash in on even a glimmer of what Nolan’s Dark Knight accomplished. That’s the reality. It has been ever since that time.

  • ElPussyKangaroo
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    410 months ago

    This movie was meh. I tried. I really did. I wanted to like it. But it wasn’t it.

      • ElPussyKangaroo
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        110 months ago

        Idk man… It felt like they forgot to include scenes that would connect shots together? Idk if I’m making sense (it’s been a while since I saw it and I only saw it once so…).