Man, I hope hat movie really knocks it out of the park. I'm not even a fan of Carol but I'm pretty tired of seeing people jumping at that low hanging fruit.
Wonder Woman now tracking to have opening on par with other DCEU movies
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Man, I hope hat movie really knocks it out of the park. I'm not even a fan of Carol but I'm pretty tired of seeing people jumping at that low hanging fruit.
Would have been nonsense for Black Widow to be all Gung-ho about fighting Aliens and God-like beings when she was just a highly trained human/spy. It makes sense based on her history and who she is. The movie played to what her strenghts were instead of just going for cheap 'strong woman' like Harley Quinn with her baseball bat.
I doubt you complained about Batman not running in to fight Doomsday. Because that would have just been dumb.
MHWilliams
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They're pretty much going to remake the character from the ground-up.
Rodney McKay
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I really hope this is good, it's probably the last chance I'll give DC before going exclusively "Wait for it on BLuray/digital rental".
My girlfriend really wants to see it too so this will probably be the first DC movie I've seen in theaters since Man of Steel.
My girlfriend really wants to see it too so this will probably be the first DC movie I've seen in theaters since Man of Steel.
It's not confusing, but you have people in this thread legit acting like an 83 million OW is bad for this sort of movie when it's on par with other movies in the genre.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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Will be there opening weekend.
The thing is, WB is sitting on a gold mine with Wondy. This movie should be the DC equivalent of the MCU Iron Man/GotG/Capt America...but maybe even moreso.
There is a very large audience waiting for a female superhero to champion. All the young girls (my daughter included) who went batshit crazy over Rey from SW7? Yeah, they'd be all about jumping on the Wonder Woman train.
This movie should be a guaranteed blockbuster for WB.
There is a very large audience waiting for a female superhero to champion. All the young girls (my daughter included) who went batshit crazy over Rey from SW7? Yeah, they'd be all about jumping on the Wonder Woman train.
This movie should be a guaranteed blockbuster for WB.
People said that about Iron Man.
And it is.
Nothing is promised. I just feel like with an article like this it gets people to think that unless this movie does over 1 billion. It's a flop.
Not with this sort of OW and if the movie has good WOM this would be a pretty damn good outcome and would solidify a sequel.
Hell. SS made it's money off the back of Margot as Harley, and Will Smith as Deadshot.
And lets be real. More people were paying attention to Harley and clearly want to see more of Margot in that role.
And again. What's bad about an 83 million OW of what is essentially an origins story?
DarkLordMalik
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Holy shit! I had no idea Mamma Mia! made more than half billion. That's... wow.
Netherscourge
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Aquaman is like:
OH YEA?
HOLD MY BEER, KHALEESI.
OH YEA?
HOLD MY BEER, KHALEESI.
not the same industry, but Square Enix brushing asid 3.4 million sell-through's of Tomb Raider says a lot about corporation expectations vs reality. they all sufffer from the 500 days of summer syndrome.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
That opening would actually be pretty good. Tracking isn't that reliable this far out though.
Like many said. Look at Logan. The best comic book movie I've seen in a long while and it is just under 600 million.
And WW's budget seems fine. So I don't think there's anything for WB to worry about on that front.
How tragic would it be if it did worse than the fictional version in Entourage
somehow it still makes sense
Flying Toaster
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I want this to be a sleeper hit. Please we need these characters Wonder Woman and Aquaman could be such great franchises.
She's not going to resemble her comic book counterpart about as much as Starlord and Tony did theirs before GOTG and Iron Man came out.
They're going to turn that character into a hit.
Dash_Riprock
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I'd rather have a good film.
Gordon Shumway
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Hmm..
MugiwaraCole
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Just let the movie be good. Everything else will take care of itself.
If they could stomach BvS failing to reach a billion I'm sure they can stomach WW making 500-600mill.
Gordon Shumway
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DCEU fans bring babies to the movies, bravo, monsters
CadetMahoney
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godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
But it is the reality. It doesn't help Wonder Woman isn't a great superhero movie, but when shit superhero movies with male characters perform better, then it is obvious. The audience for superhero movies just doesn't dig diversity as much as we all would want.
They kind of have to, because there's not that much there to her, and what Marvel's tried to put there has been mind-boggling.
What exactly are you basing this on?
Why would you want a shitty movie to be successful? If this movie is shit, the best thing that can happen to this franchise is for the movie to flop.
Hell, if BvS and Suicide Squad actually flopped, the DCEU would probably be in a better position right now than WB trying to force feed us more Zach Snyder bullshit.
Pop-O-Matic
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To be fair, in 2006 a $115M opening weekend were the numbers of an insane success rather than a huge flop.
I read an article the other day saying it's a decent estimate, then come to Gaf and it's the end of the world
Mister Wilhelm
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And this is BEFORE the reviews hit.
Not looking good.
Not looking good.
TalentAlwaysWins
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You know exactly who paints this as bad. 2 month tracking... the desperation. I'm glad DC made this movie
LifeBrandRobot
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Good. After seeing Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad In theatres, I will no longer be contributing money to this terrible cinematic franchise. Glad to hear that others are thinking the same.
Starlord and Tony totally resemble their counter parts
As I wrote earlier, it should be obvious what conclusion Hollywood would draw from this. We live in a world where Elektra and Catwoman have been used as an excuse for not producing female superhero movies.
Jigolo
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Looks bad from the trailers and other movies from the same universe have been bad, and what the fuck I just realized the first trailer was from over a year ago. Feb 2016. That's a long ass time ago and the hype definitely has deflated especially with other juggernauts coming out around the release of this movie that either A. has had amazing [and recent] marketing (Alien, Pirates, GoTG) and B. have actually had good movies within those series or universes or w/e you call them now. Also the fact that this is Wonder Woman aka not part of the elite superhero crowd that banks which is only like 3 heroes (the most popular characters in the world). Hello the only other 2 movies from this Universe that have come out have been Batman and Superman films.
$$$$ team
Bats, Supes, Spidey, recently Iron Man (this one is weird to me, though)[anomaly]
B team
WW, Cyborg, Ant Man, Thor, Black Panther, Dr Strange, Flash etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, (pretty much any other super hero here)
But honestly who gives a fuck about the money. Please just be good
$$$$ team
Bats, Supes, Spidey, recently Iron Man (this one is weird to me, though)[anomaly]
B team
WW, Cyborg, Ant Man, Thor, Black Panther, Dr Strange, Flash etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, (pretty much any other super hero here)
But honestly who gives a fuck about the money. Please just be good
Agreed. They just exaggerated the best parts if anything.
Please don't ask me what the best parts of Carol Danvers are. Resist the temptation.
This times 100 ^^^
PanSexual_Peacock
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No it's not. 83 million is good. Marketing push hasn't even started yet. Don't pay attention to the thread title. It's purposely misleading.
Tony is a neurotic quip machine with all sorts of weird hangups and a jokester and Starlord is basically a big kid that never grew up and surrounds himself in a cloak of 80s pop culture familiarity.
I never really saw a lot in common between those versions and their comic book selves outside of familiar backstories and certain aspects of their character/costume designs.
It feels like the only MCU version that is straight out of the pages would be Captain America.
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