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'Madame Web' trailer released by Sony Pictures
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DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
The problem with this movie isn't "woke" anything...
The FIRST problem is who Sony hired to make it... People who had NO affinity towards the source material
The SECOND problem is that they told a story that had NOTHING to do with the comics! They INTENTIONALLY didn't read any comic books about the characters. It's like they just did a cursory Wikipedia read of Madame Web and that's it!
The THIRD problem with the movie, and probably the most egregious, is that they wrote it with NO sense of joy, wonder or excitement! Dakota Johnson is wooden... Other than Celeste O'Connor (the black spider woman) and Adam Scott, EVERYONE delivered their lines like their vocal chords were made of wood .. or were being held captive at gunpoint to make this movie.
This is why I'm not worried about the new DCU... It's being spearheaded by a known comic fan (James Gunn), the man is infusing a lot of comic lore into the franchise and the man knows how to write characters AND dialogue! Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1-3 is proof of this! No matter the changes he made, he still made a damn good trilogy of films!
Sony should just stop or actually get someone who's a comic head and have them shepherd their Spider-Man adjacent films with a unified vision.
The FIRST problem is who Sony hired to make it... People who had NO affinity towards the source material
The SECOND problem is that they told a story that had NOTHING to do with the comics! They INTENTIONALLY didn't read any comic books about the characters. It's like they just did a cursory Wikipedia read of Madame Web and that's it!
The THIRD problem with the movie, and probably the most egregious, is that they wrote it with NO sense of joy, wonder or excitement! Dakota Johnson is wooden... Other than Celeste O'Connor (the black spider woman) and Adam Scott, EVERYONE delivered their lines like their vocal chords were made of wood .. or were being held captive at gunpoint to make this movie.
This is why I'm not worried about the new DCU... It's being spearheaded by a known comic fan (James Gunn), the man is infusing a lot of comic lore into the franchise and the man knows how to write characters AND dialogue! Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1-3 is proof of this! No matter the changes he made, he still made a damn good trilogy of films!
Sony should just stop or actually get someone who's a comic head and have them shepherd their Spider-Man adjacent films with a unified vision.
Goalus
Member
That's a lot of spandex.
Grildon Tundy
Member
In other industries with far less money at stake, and with hundreds of people chomping at the bit to replace someone, you get sacked when you have a Morbius-scale screw-up.
Yet Hollywood continues hiring these writers? They must be better at writing their own real-life Cover-Your-Ass narratives than they are at writing screenplays.
Yet Hollywood continues hiring these writers? They must be better at writing their own real-life Cover-Your-Ass narratives than they are at writing screenplays.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I'm no comic book pro, but I never heard of this character before. I doubt many others have heard of this character too. I dont think this character has done much. If you skim the wiki page, it looks long but it's a lot of filler like every appearance gets a giant paragraph.
Will likely bomb based on reviews and unknown character. Based on Wiki page budget, surprisingly only $80M budget. So maybe it will make some profit.
Will likely bomb based on reviews and unknown character. Based on Wiki page budget, surprisingly only $80M budget. So maybe it will make some profit.
Eiknarf
Banned
Ohhhh ok. The press run is to blame for the shitty Box Office performance :
www.tmz.com
Dakota Johnson's 'Madame Web' Flops at Box Office After Cringey Press Run
Dakota Johnson's "Madame Web" had its strands snipped during its opening week ... tanking at the box office -- and recent interviews might deserve some blame.
www.tmz.com
AREYOUOKAY?
Member
Fake
Member
Ohhhh ok. The press run is to blame for the shitty Box Office performance :
Dakota Johnson's 'Madame Web' Flops at Box Office After Cringey Press Run
Dakota Johnson's "Madame Web" had its strands snipped during its opening week ... tanking at the box office -- and recent interviews might deserve some blame.
Incoming 'white men are to blame' quote.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
No. Stop trying to drum up preemptive outrage.
The movie is bad. It's been universally acknowledged. By EVERYONE! No on likes it!
Fake
Member
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
I doubt it. Given that WOMEN reviewers have absolutely SKEWERED this movie. Even feminists like Grace Randolph and my favorite geek reviewer Fantastic Frankey.
Papa_Wisdom
Member
Fixed that for you
Saber
Gold Member
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Lmao my god dude haha
He explained it was a joke... The movie is so bad NO ONE would try that argument. Women who've seen it HATE this movie.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
Spider man low buget???
Reizo Ryuu
Member
The decision to give the bad guy spider-man lenses and the girls no lenses are both equally terrible decisions.
Darkmakaimura
Member
I've known about her since I was a kid but I could not tell you what her powers were. She was originally an old woman with a blindfold sitting on a throne in front of a big spider symbol. She looked nothing like the characters in this movie.
Soodanim
Member
I'd like to echo the sentiment that it's baffling to see people who have no interest in source material releasing dogshit adaptations in this day and age after so many examples of that going poorly and examples of faithful material doing well. It makes you wonder what the ulterior motive or big thing we're missing is, because the goal can't be to make good movies.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
"The viewing public is dumb... we can release absolute TRIPE and they'll lap it up because it's NEW! We'll make so much money!"
- Sony Pictures
Vyse
Gold Member
Just got back from watching. It was fine. Kept my interest and joked a lot with my friend during the movie.
Story was pretty dumb, but I was prepared going in. Not sure this is at the level of terrible it’s getting. Much better than the Marvels.
Wonder what the editing process took out.
Story was pretty dumb, but I was prepared going in. Not sure this is at the level of terrible it’s getting. Much better than the Marvels.
Wonder what the editing process took out.