Box Office: ‘The Marvels’ Gets Grounded With MCU’s Second-Lowest Opening Day Ever

Marvel fatigue, superhero saturation and the death of cinema.

I'm guessing the fact that no one could even talk about the movie until like 5 minutes ago didn't help. I had no idea it was even coming out until a couple of days ago because the SAG strike kept everyone from doing press.

It's almost like people are getting sick of the constant Marvel drip feed of content that's been going on for years now.

I think the first captain marvel was horrible. I think that plays a huge part.

There was a new Marvel movie?

After seeing Dr. Strange and not understanding the entire movie engine because I don't have Disney+ I stopped watching MCU movies. I'd love to go see this movie now that I know it's out but why spend time and money watching actors in front of a green screen doing things I don't understand because I didn't watch multiple TV shows?

I want to see it, been looking forward to it, and will when it comes out for home viewing. But if already basically stopped going to theaters before the pandemic except for the biggest films, and the pandemic killed off the last interest I had in any of the disgusting expensive theaters near my home.

And now they’re raising prices for all the services… so we’ll see if when it gets to home viewing it it’s affordable enough to watch or not.

I mean, it also opened during an ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike that severely hampered promotion of the movie. So there is that.

I took the family to see it and we all loved it. I thought it was great personally.

Watched it. It is a pretty OK. Typical forgettable marvel movie. There is a villain and heroes do something, and the day is saved. That is all I expect from these movies t.b.h. Mild entertainment.

I don't understand the hatred received for it though. Most of them either seem to be on either their expectations not being met or they are tired of these superhero movies.

Well if it didn't meet your expectations, don't keep it so high for these movies. And if you don't like superhero movies, don't watch them. Solved.

They keep trying to push Kamala Kahn, but I never found her to be a very compelling character. Even less so now that they changed her powers. I watch almost all the marvel stuff but I couldn't make it through that mini-series, and I'm not very interested in this movie either.

Genre fatigue. Too formulaic now as well.

Interesting to see the general negative impressions contrasted with the other column here saying how great it is.

I’m still deciding whether to see it in theaters - I’m a huge fan of the Marvel universe and still want more superhero movies. Iman Vellani does a great job with an excellent character, and I loved how the story connected with her culture. Fantastic. However Captain Marvel was pretty much a non-entity and we had no idea who Monica Rambeau will be yet - I hope the movie gave some much needed character development

It was a legitimately awful movie. If you asked chatgpt to make you a superhero movie for teen girls and the plot didn't matter, this is what it would be. I'm hoping that's the audience they're trying to pull into the giant universe, because everyone else is going to be left underwhelmed.

Just let it die. Start making original scripts.

My best friend is a total mark for Marvel and didn’t even know that a new one was out.

WNBA of movies.

Who asked for this? I also heard they are reshooting the next Capt America, which was almost complete and now moved from 2024 to 2025, to take out a new hero called Sabra, a zionist superhero who works for the Mossad (I am not kidding.) Gosh, I wonder why. Who green-lit this?

This movie was already catching heat because they went with Black Falcon as their next Capt America, instead of, or I don't know, rebooting Steve Rodgers, the original Capt from decades of comics. This is why we can't have nice things.

Throw it on the pile with the others. I'll get to it, probably never.

This is literally the first I'd heard of the movie. If it's anything like the other marvel movies, it'll be overwhelmingly OK (not terrible, not great).

They spent $220 million to produce the movie…

Superhero movies are infantile comfort films, art is supposed to be challenging and interpretable. When you know the ending from the genre it's a bad movie.

Yet pseudo-nerds will sperg out over the meaningless cameos and "cannon implications."

Why only make series, when you can make siries out of movies? right? I get it, there are fans who still follow and watch the movies and series, but for normal people, like me, wont watch all this.
They expect to make money, like they did with the big ones, but IMO it has gone far away from that, the only ones interested are the ones who like this content. In the end, its more like a machine making, where they have to make more movies and more.

It's the lowest adjusted for inflation, not sure why they aren't doing that that. They mention it in the article body.

I haven't gone to see any movies for a while now. The effort to go to a theatre and all that just feels not worth it. I'd rather wait for the films to be available on something I can watch at home.

I feel like Disney already knew and was expecting this. The original Captain Marvel wasn't very well received, and they seem to understand now that not everyone wants to consume every piece of MCU media all the time with the new "Spotlight" tag. I expect it'll get a fast turnaround onto streaming.

I think people over estimate the Marvel brand. You can't just keep unearthing dozens and dozens of niche characters and comics and expect them all to have an established fan base.

Think, Disney.

Ironman? Yeah no shit. It's fucking Ironman.

Thor? Duh

Hulk? Yes, but get it right.

Antman? Pushing it but yeah he dope.

Captian America? Might as well said superman.

Gaurdians? Wonderful.

Captain Marvel. You lost me.

Eternals? ...

It's no mystery as to why not every franchise is going to be a hit. Just think about it.

It was actually a really fun film

Hmm.....maybe we should talk about Secret Wars and see if that doesn't make a huge hit? Sure we want to see Marvel split into three people with quirky outtakes and cats that are aliens. But watching the Wrecking Crew take on the X-Men and Ultron fight Thor with Dr. Doom and Ultron facing off against Cap and the Fantastic 4 and Venom being born.....nah. They are making it now, but it looks like they are going a different direction than the comic.

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