Teyonah Parris Responds to 'The Marvels' Box Office Fizzle: "You do not have to like something, but give it a chance by actually seeing it and forming your own opinion"
Actress Teyonah Parris, who plays Monica Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, responds to 'The Marvels,' now on Disney+, underperforming at the box office. 'You do not have to like something, but give it a chance by actually seeing it and forming your own opinion,' she tells PEOPLE.
I am not spending movie theater prices to give a movie a chance. That's why I only go once or twice a year for something that is guaranteed to be good.
The Marvels is on my watch list, so I'll be giving it a try eventually. The slowness is more about Marvel stuff not being as entertaining for me as they used to be.
I think it was two things. First, there were a lot of people who were predisposed to hate it because they thought it was "woke" like the first Captain Marvel. You can't ignore the insidious undertones of a lot of critics, but that doesn't invalidate all of the criticisms.
It wasn't a great movie. None of the recent movies were great, but none were as bad as people made them out to be. Critics are just tired of Marvel movies. They have seen a lot of really bad superhero movies, and casual viewers don't know differentiate between Aquaman, Madam Web, and Love and Thunder. So when the latter isn't as good as Ragnarok, it's "just another bad comic book movie" adding to the fatigue.
So there exists a built-in set of anti-fans who feel validation when any of these movies is less than perfect. Deadpool will be fun, and then gird your loins for Captain America because that's going to be a chew toy for all of the worst people.
I liked the first marvel film but thought this one was awful. just from memory, the singing planet made me want to jam pencils in my ears. The antagonist was inexplicably as powerful as all 3 marvels (come on, carol alone went toe-to-toe with thanos). And then she just... blew herself up. So good job, I guess? And the whole b-plot on the SWORD station with Fury and Ms Marvel's family could have just been cut with nothing of value lost.
It could be the best thing they have done since Thanos snapped his fingers and I still wouldnt give a fuck. Its just done for so many people at this point.
I stopped going to nearly all movies at the cinema. I have a good-enough 5.2.1 sound system and large television with appropriate cinema seating distance, so why should I go out if all I need to do is wait 8-12 weeks and see it on a streaming subscription?
For me, the movie would need to be compelling enough to warrant a drive of about 120 miles to see it in a Dolby Cinema theater, of which only Oppenheimer met in the past year.
I thought it was about average for a Marvel film - which is good, because “about average” for many other franchises isn’t positive at all. Definitely doesn’t deserve the negativity.
Saw it in the theater, bought the 4K disc for home... it's largely unobjectionable. It's fine. It's very safe. Doesn't really do much interesting. Some of the visual effects are pretty bad, but not as bad as, say Black Panther's big fight at the end.