Dash_Riprock
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I'm watching it right now.
Holy fuck Batman straight up murdering people in his Batmobile. Guess the no gun thing doesn't count if its mounted on a car?
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Batman V Superman Takes A Dive With -70% Second Weekend
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I'm watching it right now.
Captin Quacker
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In other news:
Subpar Spatula
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What Batmobile hasn't had guns attached to the car?
Batman has always killed they just never show it.
……forgetit
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I saw it opening night, it's a piece of shit that deserves the hate it gets and doesn't touch the worst marvel movie, but I enjoyed it due to the pure hilarity of it all.
Obliterator
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Man some serious changes and conversations have to be going down at WB right now. Horrible drop
Its such horseshit man. People are in denial..
No man, we all loved TDK and it did just fine without an overdose of humor. We packed the fucking theatres for many weekends loving the universe he created, and no one accused us of "expecting the wrong thing" back when they were making billions.
But now that BvS failed to execute a similar tone properly suddenly the fault lies with me the viewer because I never gave it a fair shot? Well that's surprisingly convenient man.
Seriously, its getting annoying watching people try to blame viewers for this shit.
The first sentence of what you quoted was:
The definition of the bolded words literally do not work when the 'majority' agree on the state of the film. Period.
IdreamofHIME
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Said it a million times that the 2nd weekend was the most important for this movie. No way was it gonna flop last week like so many was dreaming about.
But unless the movie got great reviews then it would tank week 2, Batman and Robin styleml.
What do you mean once rumoured?
BVS was supposed to be released that weekend. But Marvel had it slotted for an unannounced movie, but when they revealed it would be Cap Vs Iron Man WB blinked 1st and moved BVS.
But unless the movie got great reviews then it would tank week 2, Batman and Robin styleml.
What do you mean once rumoured?
BVS was supposed to be released that weekend. But Marvel had it slotted for an unannounced movie, but when they revealed it would be Cap Vs Iron Man WB blinked 1st and moved BVS.
Frozenprince
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echoshifting
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Somebody would have eventually blinked because that scenario would have been bad for both studios, not just WB.
Very relevant. If I wanted to see something about two superheroes debating philosophically about their differences, I'd sooner watch Daredevil and Frank go at it again before ever going back to BvS.
……forgetit
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What's amazing is people love daredevil and binge watched the shit out of it A WEEK before this movie came out. It being "too dark" or "too serious" is freaking ridiculous and honestly kinda hilarious.
Actually Daredevil season two has the same concept, so it's even more hilarious.
Frozenprince
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Yeah I know. I was surprised at the time that it wasn't Marvel considering it would have meant fighting Batman in the middle of peak season.
After BvS, I never want to read complaints about how Iron Man 2 was just a set-up for Avengers. I didn't think the scenes in IM2 were all that bad, but the JL scenes in a BvS were so obviously shoved in there to set up future movies.
ShadowSwordmaster
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Some of those images are cringe worthy.
Would have destroyed it week 1 at least, and that's with my Marvel fanboy glasses on.
Frozenprince
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I'd kill for a full feature of the good parts of BvS.
I'v said it 100 times, but there is a GOOD movie in there. It's just mired in so much shit, the worst editing in a blockbuster I think I'v ever seen, and a functionally flawed sense of direction that you need to completely retool it to get that movie out of there.
The first twenty minutes are incredible.
Eehhh, that would have depended on the reviews of Civil War.
I saw it under the best conditions possible and still didn't like it. I even have a panorama of the theater minutes before the movie started. Spoliers:
I will admit, I have cursory knowledge of the box office side of the movie industry. But I feel that a Batman V Superman movie should have had more people in seats than a Vergil Autograph Signing.
So this news does not surprise me.
There was barely anyone there.
So this news does not surprise me.
Pop-O-Matic
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Don't insult Morrison like that. BvS was straight-up Cry For Justice tier.
I watched it and thought it was trash garbage. What now?
Perhaps. I haven't read too many Iron Man comics, so I don't know if they got his character right, not that it really matters to me. The movie was entertaining. I'm not saying it's bad. It was just a very simple popcorn sort of movie. Didn't want you thinking too hard. That's alright, but I'd rather take something like MoS over that on a lot of days.
……forgetit
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I'll be honest, this first moment when I knew something was wrong was when lil Batman rose into the air jesus style, but yeah, the movie doesn't understand how to tell a story. It's editing is awful, lois and clark have zero chemistry and the justice league threads are out of no where. It probably has an 1 and 45 minutes of a good movie if they just focused on the story.
There is no goodwill, there never was or will ever be. I'm convinced people, critics and some Marvel fans will have hated this film even if it was mildly good. DC can never win with these people no matter what they do.
THEY WANT IT TO FAIL. THEY LOVE TO GLOAT AT ALL THINGS GOING BAD AT DC.
Heck even Dark knight trilogy which is universally acclaimed has some of these people biting their tongues. "Oh it's not a real superhero film - just a Mann film with someone dressed up as Batman".
Feel sorry for WB. The one studio who isn't afraid to take risks and back innovators like Nolan and Wachowski sisters projects no matter what. Feel this might spell the demise for them if they don't sort it out.
Reviews didn't affect BvS's first week gross, though, and I reckon the combined brand recognition of Batman and Superman would have easily beaten Civil War to the extent that even with the best legs ever Civil War would have struggled to overhaul it.
Bam Bam Baklava
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So judging from these pictures in this thread, the people who support this movie don't give a damn how shitty it is as long as it has Batman and Superman in it?
ElBoxyBrown
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Someone would have died that day.
Reviews would have mattered more if both films were opening the same weekend, that is what I am saying.
Manmademan
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it had no legitimate competition. It still would have done huge numbers, but it's crazy to think that an opposing blockbuster wouldn't have stolen eyeballs with reviews that bad.
echoshifting
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What a bunch of bullshit...I can't even tell if you're serious or trolling
Citation needed on the bolded, please
Frozenprince
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Oh just stop. This wasn't some innovative but flawed masterpiece that didn't resonate. This is a bad movie that god bad reviews and bad word of mouth.
It set records OW, people were obviously excited to see it, I was excited to see it. Then the word of mouth hit, then reviews hit, then it spiraled and people realized that this was a bad movie with some good elements too it.
Just because the tone is different, doesn't inherently make it a good movie, it had an insane amount of goodwill simply because it has "Batman" in the title. That goodwill is gone now.
Yikes.
Based off what? The movie opened worse than Iron Man 3 with no competition.
Mushroomer25
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They absolutely never would have gone through with it, but I think you would've seen two massive opening weekends - followed by Civil War consistently topping the charts for the weeks to follow. The curiosity is still there, the fanboys will still turn out. CW eats absolutely any non-enthusiast audience turning out for BvS post opening weekend. But it's the afterglow that separates a moderate success from a smash hit.
Pop-O-Matic
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This post deserves a YTMND of someone reading it in a funny voice.
NYR
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You're insane and so incredibly wrong. I've never heard anyone call TDK trilogy a Mann movie but you, are you hearing multiple voices in your head? It would explain what is going on with your post.
He can't because they're "biting their tongues." He just senses it behind your wall of silence, you hate the Dark Knight trilogy.
Father_Brain
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In fairness, Daredevil has a much lower budget than any MCU film, and it's highly unlikely that any superhero film with a similar tone would be able to make anywhere near a billion.
Discotheque
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So many nerds around here parrot that "it's a good movie but not a good BATMAN/COMIC movie" narrative
Frankly I'm with the both sides were lame camp. Some people caped way too hard for this haha but also some of the people rooting for its failure were pretty insufferable too.
……forgetit
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The dark knight had similar tone and made a billion. Seriously this movie doesn't have an excuse and their's no conspiracy, it just sucks.
echoshifting
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The jig is up!
darkistheway
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I thought it was pretty good. They tried to jam a bit too much into the film but it was far better than the naysayers on here would have you believe. Not even close to the incoherent mess it's touted to be.
It's really not that serious, and most people don't care about the financial successes or failures of a movie.
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