• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    This is true. Sure they’re Marvel’s “First Family” but even before the MCU or any of the fox movies they were less popular than The Avengers, who were less popular than the X-men.

    Also, putting the movie up against Superman, who is DC’s #1 or #2 character, was a bad call.

    I thought the movie was great though.

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      5 days ago

      MCU used to be able to turn B- and C-list heroes into the biggest stars. I’m pretty sure Fantastic Four was more well known than Guardians of the Galaxy when that came out.

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        4 days ago

        But in a bad way, in this case FFs reputation works against it. Pretty much all the previous movies were panned.

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        Cannot get my head around this complaint. They don’t lock the doors at show time, so roll in 20-minutes late. That’s what we did for Superman. Caught a couple of trailers then the movie started.

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            4 days ago

            Fine, be offended by the lie! No problem. But my point was that no one is forcing you to watch the ads and trailers.

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                4 days ago

                Meh. You’re smart enough to figure the actual run time. Hating the lie is good enough! I just won’t ban theaters over it. Rare enough that we go anyway. Once a year at most? And even then, only for something that excites me.

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            4 days ago

            I actually timed it at the last two movies I went to because I find that annoying too. It’s 18 minutes, including trailers (which I don’t mind) where I live.

            So I planned to show up 10 minutes after show time.