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@therealsilvermane

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  1. @therealsilvermane
    First of all, they were the ones getting mad and throwing names at me. Second, it was on Facebook and that's where they "unfriended" me so I'm not sure how official it is, though I haven't seen or heard from them since. Look, people got real passionate in their dislike of that movie and me being maybe the #1 or 2 Captain Marvel fan on the planet, some bridges were going to get burned.
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    It wasn't that big a deal. I gave my thoughts on the movie, they were casually dismissed by some and others who respect my opinion seemed a bit surprised. I actually didn't care that much either way as I didn't care that much about the movie. I thought it was fine, no big deal. Things didn't get bloody until Captain Marvel years later. I think I've lost a friend or two over that movie as a few folks I thought were friends called me things like "commie fascist" or a Nazi because I eagerly championed the movie, that's how crazy it was. A close relative of mine, though, said the only reason he saw Captain Marvel, even though he was a MCU fan, was because of me and he ended up actually liking the movie. It's mostly happy stories. I still can't believe people I personally knew threw hate terms at me over a comic book movie and me telling them they were wrong about it.
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    omg First, the #metoomovement took off in 2017 due to the high profile sexual harassment cases involving Harvey Weinstein, a big time Hollywood producer, and Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News. These two high profile cases encouraged women across the country in all places of employment, from Hollywood to pro sports to corporations to bars and even schools, to speak up about their own sexual harassment stories. It caused a national, even global, shake-up and made society rethink the way it treats women everywhere, not just in Hollywood and at Fox News. The thing with 2016 Ghostbusters wasn't just an organized group of trolls. It was a sentiment that you don't remake Ghostbusters and turn them into ladies. If Ghostbusters had been remade with Chris Rock, David Spade, Adam Sandler, and Andy Samberg for example, it probably would have gotten like 10% of the hate that the actual movie got. Heck, it might have even been cheered on with those guys.
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    This was 2016, before the #metoo movement took off in 2017. I think a lot of men questioned their stance on things regarding women and maybe had regrets after that.
  5. @therealsilvermane
    It wasn't a small group of people. It became the narrative. Some of my own male friends were bad-mouthing the movie before it had released and some called me a traitor (in jest, obviously) after I saw the movie in theaters (yes, I'm a dude).
  6. @therealsilvermane
    I didn't say the remake was better. 1984 Ghostbusters is an obvious classic. I just said, in comparison, the lady Ghostbusters actually do on-screen ghost busting which we don't really see in the first movie after the scene with their first job where they bust Slimer. Not taking away from the 1984 classic, the fact that we see the 2016 Ghostbusters crew actually do a substantial amount of ghostbusting on screen is a plus for the remake.
  7. @therealsilvermane
    That was the long range forecast from Box Office Pro. Box Office Pro also long range forecasted Shang Chi to make between $35-55 million. It doesn't mean Eternals is a box office bomb and Shang Chi a magic trick. In the days before Eternals' actual release, Hollywood Reporter said the forecast had lowered to $67-69 million because of the mixed reviews. So Eternals' weekend box office actually beat some expectations or was at the low end of expectations after the review embargo lifted.
  8. @therealsilvermane
    "wild fanciful statement"? You obviously don't remember the news making internet attack on the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, before the movie arrived in theaters, and the racist attacks against Leslie Jones on social media.
  9. @therealsilvermane
    Yes. I remember it. Do you? The reaction to the idea of a remake of Ghostbusters with all women was horror and near universal anger. I believe it was the first movie to get widely attacked the way Last Jedi and Captain Marvel would get attacked a few years later. Leslie Jones got death threats. There was a near nationwide boycott of the movie. The actual reviews of the movie weren't bad. I saw the movie in theaters with some kids. I, and they, actually enjoyed it for what it was, a dumb action comedy.
  10. @therealsilvermane
    No, the reaction to the idea of a remake of Ghostbusters with SNL women instead of men was HORROR. Very few people went to see the movie in theaters because so many people already made up their mind about it. I saw the movie in theaters and it was okay. Not great, but not bad, either. It was fine. The SNL gals were funny and Chris Hemsworth was very funny. And at least in the lady remake, we see the Ghostbusters actually bust ghosts(plural) unlike the first movie where we see them bust one ghost, Slimer, and the rest being a "Ghostbusters" song music montage where we never see them bust a ghost until the finale with Gozer and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
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    According to Wall Street analysts, Disney's investor sell-off in its stock was due almost 100% to the drop-off in Disney+ subscriptions which is seen as the main financial driver for Disney during this pandemic. Yes, Eternals opening weekend was slightly below expectations, but the Disney parks are doing well again. It's all about the reaction to Disney's video streaming service new subscriber numbers that caused the sell-off. On the other hand, analysts also say it was more of an emotional sell-off as Disney saw record numbers of new Disney+ subscribers during the height of the pandemic and that an eventual slow down was unavoidable.
  12. @therealsilvermane
    No, I said or meant, in response to the "don't spoil the movie" poster campaign that came out for Venom 2, that nobody cared about spoilers for the movie's main story or plot details. I had no idea that the "spoiler" that Sony was referring to was a mid-credits scene where the MCU and the Venomverse cross over. I admit that's pretty big and you don't want that spoiled. Nobody still cares about spoilers for the movie's main story including what happens to Carnage, Scream, or whoever. A blue chip Marvel Comics character, lame movie franchise. The sooner Disney gets the rights to Venom, the better, because Sony could never ever get the expanding symbiote mythos right in a hundred years.
  13. @therealsilvermane
    Remains to be seen if Eternals passes F9's $173 million. Either way, it's a wonderful world we live in.
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    I think that non-interest carries over to this new movie, even though it seems to be getting positive first reactions. It'll surely take the #1 spot, but I still think a lot of people will also go see Eternals that weekend and that GB comes in under expectations. Disney's Encanto will demolish all Thanksgiving weekend. We'll see.
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    I think there is very little interest in a new Ghostbusters movie. Nobody showed up to the lady Ghostbusters movie and I think this movie will come in below expectations. First, people want their ghosts scary. That's the trend. The funny ghost thing is dead. Second, this movie missed its best release window when Halloween passed. SOmeone should be fired for letting this movie's release not coincide with the spookiest day of the year. I'm not saying Eternals will threepeat at #1 next weekend, but I also don't think Ghostbusters 3.0 will cut into its potential earnings that much, either, even if Paul Rudd just got voted Peeple's setsiest dude on the planet. That's my prediction, anyway.
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    At this point, I think even the slightest whiff of the character will trigger the China ban alert if the bans on Mulan, Shang-Chi, and Eternals are any indication. I don't think it's worth the risk for Disney to greenlight Fin's use in the MCU considering the character isn't that important to Marvel canon and how much money Disney is losing by missing out on the China market.
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    Yeah, Gemma Chan was great. Even the actress who played Sprite really turned it up at the end. The cast did a great job for the roles they were given.
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    I kinda don't get a lot of fandom's h***on for Galactus in the MCU. An intergalactic being who eats planets. Okay. As a villain, I don't find that very compelling cinematically considering the breadth of the cosmic side of the MCU so far. Unless Marvel Studios does something more interesting with Galactus, like make the character a hero or even a victim or something, I find the character a little ho hum cinematically as is. Either way, I think the current trajectory of Phase IV isn't more cosmic stuff but rather the Multiverse and cross-dimensional energy as the new power source.
  19. @therealsilvermane
    We will never see Fin Fang Foom in the MCU. Though you may not see it as you're probably not Asian, the name is offensive. It's already been noted by Simu Liu as such and a reason why new monsters were created in liu of ol' Finny. As much as China seems to be in full Disney boycott mode right now, I don't think Disney will give up on China and at the least will bury any past Marvel content deemed offensive to Asian countries, which is the right thing to do regardless. With that, I feel sorry for collectors who spent an army and leg for Strange Tales #89 in hopes it'd show up in the MCU.
  20. @therealsilvermane
    So who is Chukwudi Iwuji (behind Gunn in photo above) playing in GOTG3? A new Guardian? The villain perhaps? Is he the High Evolutionary?
  21. @therealsilvermane
    Kids will like it, at least some kids in my theater seemed to love it. I think there's enough action, monsters, and costumed heroes to keep kids engaged. There is a love scene, fyi.
  22. @therealsilvermane
    I've observed and noted that the Phase Four movies are/will be groupings of versions or types of singular characters. We already got Black Widow, Loki, and Eternals. Even FWS featured an appearance of different versions of Captain America. Coming soon, it seems like No Way Home will be all the Spider-Mans in one film. Multiverse of Madness is more and more seeming like a team-up of Marvel's wizards like Strange, Scarlet Witch, Jericho Drumm, and Clea. The Marvels will be the Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel characters. And it looks like Wakanda Forever will be a face-off of Marvel's kingdoms: Wakanda, Atlantis, and Latveria.
  23. @therealsilvermane
    Obviously Feige has never said it, but as I see it, if the blue print for the first Thor movie and its world just doesn't fly with audiences, I don't see the blue print for the first Avengers movie flying with audiences, as Thor Loki and the cosmic element were such a big part of that story. But Feige and co. found a blue print that worked and that laid a foundation for the cosmic MCU going forward. I acknowledge that Guardians was also instrumental in shaping and evolving the cosmic side of Marvel, but it just seems to me that Thor's importance is highly underrated.
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    What I mean is for that the the cosmic element of the still developing Phase One and Two MCU to work on screen, and that included the story of the first Avengers movie, Marvel needed to pull off the first Thor movie, which introduced the cosmic element, with a degree of success. They did and the rest is history.
  25. @therealsilvermane
    I've read a lot of the critics reviews and it tells me that the biggest issue most critics had with Eternals is the constant returning to the past. It is almost half of the movie. Sure, some of the present day plot details could have been a little smoother or tweaked, but those don't earn it the ravaging critics have given the film. It's the movie relying on scenes from the past that they had a problem with, I don't even want to call it "flashback" anymore because they were more than just quick flashbacks. Even Peter Rainer, my favorite critic, complained that just as the present day drama was gearing up, the story goes back to the past again and halting the momentum. Except that was kind of the point. I also did not say that general audiences couldn't keep up, because general audiences by the majority liked this movie. General audiences don't care about flashbacks or sticking to filmmaking dogma. Critics do and I'm 99% certain that the fact that almost half of Eternals is told in "flashback" is why a lot of critics gave the film a negative review.