Another Ant-Flop?
I doubt this movie will make $500m. Although I am sure the Marveltards will buy extra tickets to artificially inflate the box office.
shareThe first two movies didn't "flop" by any rational measure. They made good money.
If every movie has to make 1 billion+ these days to be a "success", the film "blockbuster" industry really is in trouble.
And if you want to talk about fans artificially inflating box office, do you mean like Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel and Black Panther, "because diversity"?
Wonder Woman was actually a good movie, cant say as much about the sequel. Captain Marvel was artificially inflated though. Black Panther made money because people were curious about it. Thats why people slow down to rubberneck at accidents. I even watched BP to see what the hype was about.
shareI've never seen either WW, not much interest. I found Black Panther and Captain Marvel "on the side of the road", just out of morbid curiosity. BP was hardly a bad movie, but it wasn't anything special either, IMO. Just your basic action film, with a huge budget, and very Afro-Centric. People thought it was "special" because it was "the first mega-budget mostly black movie", etc. etc. *shrug* That isn't a metric as to whether a film is "great" or not. People wanted it to win an Oscar for Best Picture LOL. And I do know for a fact some people purposefully saw Panther repeatedly, because they thought it was "important" for it to do well. I saw people bluntly saying so on social media (that they themselves were doing this).
Even if I hadn't already had a bias towards the wooden/unlikable actress, Captain was easily one of the most dull of the MCU. It is unfathomable to me how that movie made as much as it did, except that a lot of people bought lots of tickets or went over and over, wanting it to do well "because feminism". It didn't deserve that money, that's for sure.