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    This movie will not even break into the top 10 movies domestically. Not even for a short time. This year has been brutal to franchise movies.
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    Exactly and it is encapsulated with the term woke: woke : aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice) This is from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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    Exactly. Barbie was always woke. This isn't anything new with this movie.
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    Other examples, the introduction of Black Panther (Fantastic Four #52), the Liberators (Avengers #83), Sue Storm being the strongest members of the FF (which came later in the 1980s), etc.
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    And if you think about it, none of this is new to today's movies. Hollywood has been doing this for a long, long time. It can be argued it is more blatant today (although there are examples, like the original Planet of the Apes movies, where I feel it was just as blatant). If you go into movies looking for it, you can find it in many, many movies. To make this relevant to comics, Marvel is notorious for doing this in their comics starting in the 1960s which is one of the reasons they are as big as they are today. Marvel was woke before woke was coined as a term.
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    If this holds for the weekend, this movie will have earned $15 million less on its second weekend than the previous MI movie Fallout domestically. The good news is this is the standard 60-65% drop that would be expected for a movie with a big opening weekend and not something worse due to Barbenheimer. This year has been brutal to franchise movies.
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    As a Disney stock holder (which I acquired from my purchase of Marvel stock many years ago), I have faith Eiger will fix things. Everything he announced this week are encouraging. Scaling back the output from Marvel and Lucasfilm is a step in the right direction. I feel for the Hollywood writers. They are striking at the worst time with box office disappointment after box office disappointment. I won’t be surprised if this strike goes for a few months. It will be interesting to see the Marvel roadmap in 6 months.
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    I like that Legendary Entertainment has reasonable expectations on how these movies will do at theaters and therefore continue to make them and budget accordingly. I wish Universal Studios had the same expectations with their monsterverse. I was looking forward to the Universal Monsters returning to the screen and eventually the crossovers. Oh, well.
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    Drotto, I changed my post because I confused the timeline on his ouster with this year’s attempted takeover. Thanks for jogging my memory.
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    Ike Perlmutter claimed it was because of his stance on budgets but it was much bigger than that.
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    This brings up another thought I was having. Usually, when a movie from a series comes out, I could watch the earlier movies on Netflix or Amazon Prime for free. None of the MI movies are on either service for free. I know it is on Paramount+, which, unfortunately for Paramount, does not have nearly the subscriber numbers of the bigger streaming services. I do not subscribe to that service. I wonder if that factors into casual viewers going to see a movie like this.
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    I agree, but it looks like at least one studio head, Eiger at Disney, realizes the budgets are unsustainable. Disney got bit hard this year by the ballooning budgets.
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    I saw the movie last night and it was good. None of the action sequences were new but they were well done. They repeated the mission and stakes so many times, I felt they were talking down to the audience by the last one just before the climax. It was almost laughable how many times and this could be turned into a drinking game. Show, do not tell. As an action movie, I would give it 9/10. Where it failed for me was as a MI movie. For that I will give it a 7/10. The main villain did not click with me. One death was done poorly and one long chase scene was poorly edited. I will elaborate more once people have time to see it. Definitely worth seeing but it does not live up to the hype. I would rank this #4 after MI 4-6. Fallout is still my favorite.
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    I do not think the problem is necessarily the characters so much as the stories. Give us smaller stories that make us care about the characters. Build to the giant spectacular crossovers. And please, please, stop doing crossovers until we are invested in the characters. Not every movie needs a plethora of other heroes which just dilutes the story and balloons the runtime. And all this should be done with a reasonable budget. A few $400-$500 million dollar movies is what they should be shooting for and they should be budgeted accordingly.
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    This will be another movie that will probably not make back its money at the theater. The budget is $291 due to covid. Covid ballooned quite a few movie budgets that released this summer. I suspect this movie will do better than some recent big movies however. With that said, I have tickets for tomorrow night. I cannot wait.