Marvel's Black Widow

I'd agree with that. Its bad, and I dont say that lightly. Waiting for the extra scene after the credits its unreal to see how many people worked on this movie. And I have no doubt they worked very hard and very long hours. Which makes it more painful that the finished product is so poor. Its the story thats the problem.......there is no story and without an engaging plot, it doesnt matter about anything else really. Saw the fast and the furious 9 a couple weeks back and Black widow makes that movie look like The Godfather.

I think you're seeing completely different reviews than the ones I read because the critics were falling over themselves trying not to say anything that could in any way be perceived as not bigging up the female leads.

Yeah, sorry fan boy.

No such thing.

The last act truly was garbage.

It's not that the fight scenes before were totally reasonable, but they were reasonable enough. They also tried to do this see-sawing Ocean's 11-style reverse plot reveal thing, and invented a plot device and then resolved it within 30 seconds with Ray Winstone's magic smell.

That stuff only works when you work it into the plot earlier so you can actually register its effect, and don't know how it's going to be resolved. Then you can be surprised when you're shown the flashback outlining the plan, and get to experience momentary dramatic irony before it jumps back to the present and the plot point is resolved. It's like they wrote themselves into a corner, and realised they had an explosion quota to meet, and another 15 minutes of film to fill up.

I really really hated the line about the only unlimited resource being young girls. That's not a thing that makes any sense to say. He may as well have twirled his moustache and said "I sure do like killing puppies".

"Watch this giant corporate behemoth punch misogyny in the face, literally! Girl Power!" Also, watch these long shots following Scarlett Johansson's arse.

I also don't see the point in getting a bunch of English and American actors to put on Eastern European/Russian accents. The only one who's actually from that neck of the woods in the film didn't even get any lines. This surely didn't need to be a vehicle for David Harbor. At least with the Winter Soldier, they got a guy who can actually speak about 12 languages and is from Eastern Europe.

In its own right, it was passable. As an element of the ongoing story of the MCU, it was largely pointless. It would've been slightly better if it had been released after Civil War, but it quite possibly would've been a different film then.

Even if you look at Thor: Ragnarok - what I think is genuinely good on the merits as a comedy adventure film, and not just enjoyable mush you stuff into your eyes, the weakest parts are, by a distance, the fight scenes, other than the one between Thor and the Hulk, which is probably down to the non-fighty stuff in that scene - the cutaways to Tom Hiddleston, and the one-way conversation Thor is having with the Hulk.

I don't know whether they did the same system of divided labour between the "filmy" stuff being done by the director, and the "explodey" stuff done by some egg-heads, but at any rate, the quality of the film was in how it played to the strengths of the cast and the director.

I don't know if that's always been a problem, and I don't think it was the case for the Russo Brothers films - whatever you think about them, I don't think there's the same sense of detachment from the action in those films.

With the sort of rotund, scraggly greying beard thing going on, I assumed it was more a Weinstein jab.

I don't think the way you have a jab at people who make snobbish criticisms about your films is to portray them as human traffickers.

not a horrible film just boring and a bit meh, interesting start to see where it might be going, just fell apart after that , no real momentum in the film. Kids would be bored with this too with the lack of pace. And let me get this straight, the Widows are female because there are too many girls? what kind of weird ass writing is that?

Looks like it might struggle to turn a profit, it had a huge 2nd week drop off.

any male MCU directors have a lot of help with actions/cgi scenes having not done many before ?

cate shortland (half-jokingly) said she was hiding from marvel because she didn't think she could do it, they've picked many directors who had a big leap in budget and scale of film Im sure they all had to depend on the other department heads

So I didn't hyperlink Ryan Coogler's name and it is, so that's new.

I thought it was good.

Something about the actress playing the young Natasha (what was with the blue hair) reminded me more of a young Milla Jochovich rather than Scarlet Johannssen.

Going forward with Florence Pugh. I hope they keep the accent and don't americanize it like with Scarlet Witch.

Them making $262m with substantially less advertisement than if it was getting a global theatrical release, traditional box office is the full door price so includes cinemas cut. But $262m with a $200m budget plus whatever they did spend on advertising.

30 for premium plus whatever amount of new Disney plus subs they got (which probably wasn't included in figure), who might now stay around watching Wandavision, F&WS, and Loki plus all the Star wars stuff.

Hard to know what it'd make in a normal year, it's not 1bn plus but would have probably been 600-750. Cinemas make 50% in US at opening weekend and then more as time goes on and the studios get's less outside US. I'd say they're probably going to come out ahead in the end after another few weeks of which they're still going to be making the full $30 rather than a ever decreasing cut of ticket price.

Going forward I'd say a lot of kids movies will still continue with the premium as it makes so much more sense for them (plus plus subs for the rest of time), and then it'll depend on the particulars for the rest. If they've Thor on premium then they are fully behind it as that will probably have been a big one and is far enough away that most places will be back up and open.

Wandavision was the series that had people most interested and it completely missed its mark which then harmed the shows that came after.

didn't particularily like the car chase, would have preferred to see more taskmaster fights up close, it was them two talking and then taskmaster killing or injuring a load of people in the APC, maybe it was supposed make TM seem like the terminator that didn't care about people at all, suggesting it was a robot of some sort...

Looking at boxofficemojo site. (first that came up when googled for mcu movie box office

I wouldn't have expected it to do as well as it has in comparison to other films. Though I am curious how well it would've done if cinema only release and/or there was no pandemic. And would the premium fee count as box office to go to her percentage?