IbrahimMav:


Seems like you underestimated The Batman whilst overestimating Thor 4.
Which is very peculiar, seeing as The Batman is a much superior film.
It also is a testament to Marvel superior PR.
It doesn't bode well for DC when a mediocre film like Thor 4 could gross a comparable revenue to their Marque IP.

abduleez1:

I'll make sure to keep you on my list of mockery when time comes.

That movie no dey smell one billion. Forget am.
The first movie relied on it being a novel idea. Whoa "Blacks are one powerful race with world dominating technology the world has never seen".

Na that Lamba make dem dey whine themselves with that Academy nomination.

This time eyes don clear.

abduleez1:


Yea. X is the better movie.

But I dey wonder why almost nobody talked about Pearl since before I drop rating. I was beginning to think the movie went below movie watchers radar here. Cus na only one review I see last month before mine and no adjoining discussion.

AnfieldFan:


He's production company and it's subsidiaries worked on the movie, that inflated it's budget I think....

The Rock's plan was to have Supes face off vs BA, thereby skipping Shazam( didn't do a cameo in Shazam)
I wonder if it will work out the same considering the movie's B.O and Gunn being in charge...

ShaqFu:
Ah well, time will tell. If Thor, Love and Nonsense can gross above 600 million ahn ahn Bros you sef think am now.

Sentiment is what always drive Marvel movies most of the times, and I believe it might work for them again.

Beorn:


Batman would've likely made a billion if not for that stupid decision to take it straight to streaming. It was still riding high on its positive reviews and had momentum. This is one of the most stupid decisions I've seen from WB.

They'd have milked every penny out of it at the cinema.

AnfieldFan:


We don't need another 1.7 billion prediction here


Anyways, I took a peep on DCeu's thread, you guys are salty

ofcourse I'm salty
I dey try manifest shit wey no gree manifest cos of an unfair bias.

abduleez1:




Pu7pl3 wey that remaining $900mn for Black Adam dey come from. It's not even the BO gross that's really annoying but the amount they spent on producing it. I honestly don't know why WB gave The Rock $200mn to splurge on shït especially on a first character appearance movie.

A $120-150mn budget woulda worked best. If I was in charge, that movie no fit collect pass $130mn adjusted for inflation.

abduleez1:


Yep, I'm aware 7Bucks was a production company to it. Still doesn't mean anything.
Other DC movies also have multiple production companies working on them. In fact many movies has this. There's no inflating any budget. His production company was definitely going to join from the start. I knew that even before movie started shooting sef.

Simply put, The Rock was given too much leverage and free hand to determine how the movie go.

I like Gunn being in charge and putting him in his place. Dude was just mouthing off "The hierarchy of power is about to change" without changing the hierarchy of writers. Now I ain't even motivated to see the movie in theatres.
Johnson earned a fat pay of $30mn as an actor and would still get other gratuity since he's a producer as well.

I think they just increased the budget cos it's the Rock and assuming he'd make big bucks as well as wanting to please him. It's now clearly evident in today's era, only a top actor can't sell a movie.

His disgust for Shazam is also funny. I'm somewhat weirdly happy his movie ain't all that and he'd have to cooperate with Shazam no matter what. His priority should be facing Shazam first before Supes.

pu7pl3:


Kilar wey dey do like person wey dey chop weed.

ShaqFu:
The Internet never forgets!

AnfieldFan:


For your sake, I hope they're nice feathers...

pu7pl3:


That movie needed all the money it could get bruh, CGI has to be on point. 200m was okay.
You should be blaming all the unfair criticism it's been receiving, word of mouth was too poor for no reason.

pu7pl3:


He can still face both of them at the same time bruh...
The writers did nothing wrong, this was exactly how a first black Adam movie should have panned out storywise.

You should go and see it for yourself before judging.

phr0nesis:


Lol
Weldone o. See how you are wishing your fellow man poops feathers.
1 bill nonetheless

Mecka:
That reminds me. Between american english and british english which do you prefer in film?

abduleez1:


I don't really mind much the type of English either British, American or Aussie.
But my preferred would be American anyway since I mostly consume yank shows.

Nickshrapnel:
That’s one way to say it

Another way would be that Shuri took advantage of his physiological weakness

abduleez1:


I still think $150mn is more than enough to do anything they want in that movie. Aquaman was around $175mn, while Wonder Woman was $150mn.
Look at Dune's budget. If that movie could do all that visual feast for $165mn even with that humongous top A-List cast and also earning academy awards and nominations for its visuals, costume and design; then Black Adam had no reason to be as big as a tentpole DC movie. Not for a relatively unknown character and a first movie.

You expect critics to give BA a Dwayne Johnson DC flick a favourable rating when Black Panther was 3 weeks away? If Thor: Love and Nonsense could get around 60% RT score, then you'd see how bias these w@nkers can be.
Most of the reviews you'd see it's just pure vitriol and hate they spewing and not anything to do with professional criticism.

With that inconsistent rating I think critics identities should be made very public... I ain't talking about the few popular ones. So they can come and defend their opinions online.

abduleez1:
Ouch....

BlackManta:


COVID may have something to do with the big budget....That is, if it was indeed filmed during COVID

Batman originally had a 100m budget, COVID came and the budget rose to $200m

BlackManta:


I think this franchise can still do well....on streaming like all those Star Wars shows

I don't think general audience are ready for a pirates movie without Johnny Depp

BlackManta:


Oh so he has a physiological weakness?!

MCU stans on Twitter were comparing the Namor guy to Aquaman, like he could beat him on land cuz he's faster and has the ability to fly and sh!t

GloriousGbola:


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