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GloriousGbola:
when hogwarts legacy was released there was so much noise on twitter about boycotting the game. in the rea world the game sold like no mans business. social media is ultimately not a reflection of reality. it is just a reflection of first world problems

You're totally right😂. Hogwarts Legacy made a 1 billion dollars plus in sales after J K Rowling wahala. They're also saying they should boycott Harry Potter Series which is impossible😂

abduleez1:
@ Bolded..... Lmfao, dey play....

Poor Things with Emma Stone as the lead actress has a big lead as the most prominent competitor in the Best Actress category. It's a huge gap.
Based on the trades I'm seeing currently, there's no way she misses out on Best Actress nomination. She's the favourite to win it sef.

So, all in all, it still in the favour of Poor Things and it's also a Best Picture contender at present, based on the trades.

We wouldn't need to wait much sef, since in the next few weeks we'll start seeing nominations for awards bodies and the awards season will kickstart to full swing proper.

You no fit see shït to take use me do Dorime this season.

I don't think she is. Killers of the flower moon actress and the actress in Color Purple are the main contenders

abduleez1:
Lol, as usual you begin to cry when someone starts poking holes in your logic.

Twitter and Reddit are known echo chambers and the majority of general audiences don't have their major section as Film Twitter.

Using Nairaland as a case study, majority of peeps here aren't even on film twitter and care shït for it. Some don't even know the intricacies of franchises and just watch shït as the spirit leads. Abi no be this thread if people start in depth analysis of Hollywood and filmmaking business, half the thread will start shouting "DEVIATION" or "DERAILMENT".

So assuming online nerds/enthusiasts or industry professionals on social media as general audience is a funny assumption.

The Marvels and any other films you'll want to use as examples, were they loved or supported by the fans?? CBM fans already hated these movies long before they came out sef.

There's no successful comic book movie that doesn't have the support of the fanbase first before general audience. The fanbase are the ones that are going to jump in watching this movies on early screenings, premiere night and so on. They're the ones that will create the initial Word of Mouth before general audiences now flock in to decide if it's worth their time.

The Marvels in particular was already hated cos it's Femcentric and features characters no one gives a fvvk about. Is the movie good? Is it an important character?
If the fanbase themselves don't love a project, there's no way general audience will support especially when it's a mediocre film in the first place.

So anyone lacking these context, I'm sorry I can't take your position seriously. Especially when you're a known propagator of "what-aboutism".

I'm sorry if I task you extra special to bring facts about the problems facing CBM at present. I feel someone just saying "Superhero Fatigue" as the sole reason barely knows what he's saying or just goes with the crowd; which is easier to do since almost everyone is currently shitting on it. So it easily hides the deficiencies in one's argument.

I'm too enmeshed in CBM social media discourse that's it hard to just come and drop cliché statements like CBM fatigue and I'll believe you. Just making blanket statements and I'll know you're bullshiting.

Exactllly my point

The Exorcist 3 - 9/10
The part 2 was so bad that I decided not to watch any Exorcist movie but Stuckmann posted about this one and I decided to give it a try. One of the most horrific movie I've ever watched fr

abduleez1:
True.
I actually forgot about that movie. Have it downloaded already during this year's Oscars nomination season but yet to watch it.

Very depressing movie

abduleez1:
This ain't Marvel but DC.

Don't mind me, I was talking of superhero movies as a whole

abduleez1:
Lol, I no dey fear for these ones.

Poor Things is more than assured to get a Best Picture nomination. Saltburn also seems very likely too.

Joker had less than stellar RT score and was very divisive but was a Best Picture nominee and Best Actor winner. In fact, it was nominated in almost all the relevant categories.

The same goes for The Whale

Baddestguyp:
that Captain America looks like it will flop so bad...

Just a guess

It will definitely do except they bring something unique to the movie apart from Black Captain America

BlackManta:
The number one point is funny.

The MCU is not interested in cutting down on content.

After Deadpool 3 next year, they intend to release 4 movies in 2025 alone.

Have you noticed something about Marvel - we already know the movies that'll be successful in the box office already eg. Deadpool, Joker 2

Baddestguyp:
Bro...the fact is that Superhero Fatigue exists...

You want proof? I myself am proof of it already...
And I know many people that are the same. They are burnt out by these movies cos they follow the same structure.

A great way of fixing this is by subverting from the norm.
A lot of Superhero movies troupes and structure are already tiring to the audience.

The Batman works because it's more grounded...it didn't follow the usual format we see these movies follow.

Same as why a Joker 2 movie will perform well. Because it is a Superhero movie that doesn't feel like one...as it doesn't follow the same overused structure and troupes...

Guardians 3 and Spiderverse are movies with characters that the audience already resonate with before the Superhero Fatigue became a thing...and as such, the audience would follow the characters to their conclusion.





Also, what I can assure you is that one guaranteed way of killing CBM is to focus on the MULTIVERSE.

You should have seen comments when the news broke that Invincible S2 would explore the MULTIVERSE. Even on the subreddit they discussed how Marvel and DC had completely killed the concept so much that the regular audience hate that word.

Luckily so far Invincible is handling it in a way that isn't exhausting.

Regular Audience don't want to hear the word "Multiverse"

I get your point but I won't necessarily call it fatigue - it seems like you're saying people don't want to watch superhero movies anymore but that's not entirely true. The problem is just over saturation of superhero movies- and this movies don't feel Unique and different anymore- so fans of the genre just decide to pick a good superhero when there are just so many, take a look at Gen V - it's already one of the most watched shows in Amazon because it's different, and very interesting. The problem is not superhero fatigue, it's just boring oversaturated superhero content

phr0nesis:
Best picture contender in the mud

It's actually one of the best movie of the year to me. Rotten tomatoes isn't as trustworthy as they used to be

I'm not surprised

Baddestguyp:
First look at ‘SNOW WHITE’, starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot.

In theaters on March 21, 2025.


They finally changed it back to dwarves. But CGI dwarves

Mumu choice

Reasons why i dont trust Rotten Tomatoes any more. Old Dads is the best movie i watched this week, it was just so funny to me. I'm sure critics wont love it because it is taking shots against modern culture an how stupid they are
I just watched Five Nights at Freddys and i would say - it is not th best movie out there, nut it is definitely worth wathing - It wasnt scary but just really really creepy

What're the banned words in Nairaland🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ because wtf! I've been banned again

New Saw X Poster - Masterpiece

So someone was saying it is not worthy of note

Barbie just crossed a billion

Nova15:
How much has it made so far?

400mil

Kaycee7:
You are allowed to have whatever opinion you want about the movie but this claim that y'all didn't know the movie was going to be woke or they hid some agenda from you na fugazi.

Studio no go reveal plot twist to you for trailer just because you fit accuse them of "agenda". There was enough in the trailers to know the movie would be a feminist movie and Ken was portrayed as stupid but adorable in his promotion spots.

There are so many different levels of wokeism and you know that. Take Little Mermaid for example - it was woke but it didnt go overboard - Bro, the whole plot of the movie is effing about destroying masculinity, they werent hiding it in any way.

IngeniousLeez:
Did Rings of Power have any agenda before it was ravaged by the anti WOKE mob??


Let's wait and see... If Barbie is truly WOKE and inappropriate the audience will stop going to see it and it'd have negative word of mouth. This means it's second weekend at the box office would suffer a massive drop. Over 75% drops.

Let's see about that. I actually have two youtube accounts - One is very liberal and one is conservative - so i get to see the two sides of the stories; even 30% of the left are saying it was too much not to talk of conservatives that were deceived. It has a queer character - so it wont be showing in the Middle East - Indians are already leaving the theatres in droves - Dont even say anything about the Chinese - no one there cares about Barbie

IngeniousLeez:
Nah, just people that wanted to complain. I've read the book and it wasn't stated clearly Corlys Velaryon race. His skin colour was never mentioned. Also no one knew much of his mom, the Velaryons was a seafaring family and met various cultures and people so he must have mingled with Black people as there's talk that his mom was from one of the islands known for dark skin.
So that's the loophole HBO worked with.
Also people who actually read the source material are the ones most likely prone to shout race swapping or other differences of some sort.


Anyways, I don't think you're getting my point clearly or you missed it.... I'm saying these WOKE complaints is usually very amplified and gains traction on "poorly written projects". Projects that have great writing mostly find a way to quiet the anti WOKE crowd.
Eg, The Last of Us, The Sandman, HOTD, Interview With The Vampire.

All the Series you mentioned are not 'woke' enough. Look at Snow White - even though it has the best writing and screenplayed by Greta, it is too woke not to ignore.

itspreshh:
I think you're jumping to conclusions...
There are lots of things that affect people going to cinemas...

The cinema culture has been on a downward trend even abroad...

It's not just money, but time, stress, convenience etc

I didn't see Avatar 2 despite wanting to see it so badly because of convenience...
The movie came out during festive period when most cinemas are stacked full which leads to waiting in long queues for hours...

Add time in traffic in Lagos since the cinemas aren't that close to my house, and also the fact that the people I could have seen it with also have a busy schedule...

Like I said there are many factors to consider before spending hours to go watch a movie...

Even saw some posts on Reddit where people complained about the stress and inconvenience of spending 7 hours on the road, queues, etc instead of waiting to watch it on a streaming service at home

Personally anytime I think about the stress of going to cinemas to watch a movie, I get a rethink...since the closest to my house is always pretty crowded...
I only go when I want to watch with some people

Exactly, i couldnt watch the Way of Water because the queues were so long in FilmHouse Cinemas and I wanted to watch it on iMax. I just decide not to again. The stress is too much esp if you're going alone

abduleez1:
And this is why I show support for some of these movies like The Little Mermaid. It's not as if I love it or I'm invested in it but it's the crowd that seem to slap WOKE on anything they feel is woke agenda, especially ones empowering women or pushing diversity real hard.

Look at how HOTD handled it well. How many people are shouting WOKE and all that nonsense with the Velaryons being Black?? If woke shït is so good, they hardly have little to nothing to rant about especially when it's HBO.

I dont see anything wrong with making the Little Mermaid black (even though it was still a bad movie) but what most people are against is why Disney felt it was necessary to do so; they had no real ideas but decided to come up with an excuse to make the movie as bleeped up as possible.
Btw, the only people who complained about the Velaryons being black are people who have actually read the book which is not a lot so it wont gain enough tractions plus it is not as bad as the others

Kaycee7:
Anybody claiming they didn't know Barbie would be woke is either lying to themselves or probably can't identify the "woke" themes they claim to have an issue with, until social media tells them.

Like i said before, Barbie is a feminist already; the movie was just straight out scary - it was too much bro; the end of the movie was so stupid - I thought this feminists were asking for equality (which is stupid in its own way) but now their agenda is to tell everyone masculinity is bad, men are evil and women should be in control.
Also, the feminist angle wasn't mentioned at all in the ads there were displaying everywhere - they hid it till the end - everyone thought the movie would be a fun movie, who would have thought Ken was just stupid and had no sense (everyone always thought Ken was Barbie's girlfriend). In the movie, all the Barbies had a Ken and they werent love interests - then what were they- slaves or what? The fact that a guy would come out of that movie and say great movie is so absurd and shows how we all have grown without thinking straight

abduleez1:
Yes!!
Funny how I forgot to include when it was the show I was thinking about, especially that their annoying "No Black Elves" or "Black Harfoots" forgetting Harfoots have dark skinned tribes in the books.

The anti WOKE mob just pick and choose which project to attack and they go for easy pickings.

I remember when they tried that shït with The Last of Us. How that shït ended in two weeks. 😂😂😂
The common denominator thats almost ALWAYS constant in projects that suffer anti WOKE pushback are the ones with weak writing.

What the hell are you saying? HOTD never had any agenda plus it is not a show meant for kids, it isn't indoctrinating anybody. The Barbie movie is dangerously woke, that's why they kept their agenda out of advertising. Muslim and other folks with real life sense will go into the movie thinking it would be a fun watch not knowing it would be a vomit. I regret paying to watch this shit

NeoWanZaeed:
Seems you don't understand what shock and involuntarily action means bro.

Go study human psych boss.


Besides, if the rest is boring to you.. Then you are among the amigos that only watch fight scenes in movies lol

I trust you are the kind of person that'll do something like that
I don't watch movies for action by the way, like I always say, I love movies for great cinematography, dialogue and comedy, and you really can't convince anyone that the Flash has any of that - bland CGI everywhere, I don't think the actor's whole body had enough screen time, bad and cliche jokes by equally a bad actor and they were two of them! Can you imagine.

With the way Barbie and Oppenheimer are trending, they could be making bank like Super Mario mostly Barbie

NeoWanZaeed:
Go see it and rate

I watched it in cinemas and digitally. First 30 minutes was good, but it started getting lame with srsly lame jokes😏

By the way, when Flash's father told him to call 911, why did he run outside 👀 just to call 911

I stumbled upon a website that votes Barbie and Oppenheimer for president😂😂

NeoWanZaeed:
Flash 2023

9.8/10

For real?

majesticguy:
The Flash came early... Probably due to UK's digital release today, it ought to tomorrow as per USA digital release.

What of across the spider verse, I thought it should have dropped yesterday