Woke "Dark Phoenix" set to lose about 100 million in lackluster opening.

Overmind One

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https://news.yahoo.com/dark-phoenix-bound-lose-100m-184707428.html

EXCERPT:

Dark Phoenix was not the X-Men movie that moviegoers were looking forward to: Critics showed that with a 22% Rotten Tomatoes score, while audiences demonstrated that both in exits (B- CinemaScore, lowest ever for the franchise, and an awful 69% positive on PostTrak) and with their wallets, only spending $33M stateside, the lowest debut ever for the Fox/Marvel mutant franchise.

Even though Dark Phoenix is the No. 1 winner around the globe with $140M –down substantially from the worldwide launches of X-Men: Days of Future Past ($262.9M), Logan ($247.4M) and X-Men: Apocalypse ($166.6M), finance experts tell us that the tale of Jean Grey will burn out with an estimated $100M-$120M loss after ancillaries, off a combined production and P&A estimated cost of $350M+ (which includes reshoots).


You don't say...:rolleye0014:

OF COURSE it bombed. Somebody at Disney is seriously into boring looking blondes with boyish bodies and lackluster personalities being stars of superhero films, huh? Brie Larson and Gene Gray could be almost clones in real life in terms of build and appearance, only the Jean Grey they have in the film has her hair dyed to a strawberry blonde color. This movie is considered to be a bomb already. Disney thinks it's woke feminist films are what people want, but after a few more fails like this one, perhaps they will reconsider? Look at the similar ways they are pushing this "The Force Is Female" narrative across all of their properties.

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We do not want these movies! Not because they star females, but because it isn't just about the actresses it is the story which is infused with feminist garbage nobody wants to watch.
 

Joelist

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It doesn't help that neither Brie Larson nor Sophie Turner are exactly good actresses or charismatic.
 

Overmind One

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It doesn't help that neither Brie Larson nor Sophie Turner are exactly good actresses or charismatic.

OMG, the "get woke go broke" has bled into the Disney theme park attendance numbers already! Making a thread...
 

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The main complaint from those who have been allowed to preview the Galaxy's Edge park is too much stuff from the new films and not enough from the classic trilogy.
 

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The main complaint from those who have been allowed to preview the Galaxy's Edge park is too much stuff from the new films and not enough from the classic trilogy.

There is NOTHING from the Original Trilogy. Unless you want to count Chewie. Even the Millennium Falcon is the square antenna one. The park is almost empty according to my friends who live in Anaheim, and many are calling it a "ghost town". No crowds for Galaxy's Edge. I am planning to get a 360 VR camera and I will go there and take video. I need to set aside a couple of hundred dollars and go there to review it.
 

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Have you seen the story about Dizley denying a father to put Spiderman on his 4 year old son's tombstone ? It was his son's last request to have Spiderman on his tombstone .
Stinkin rat faced mouse dizley is .

:beckett_new050::beckett_new050::beckett_new050::icon_mad::icon_mad::icon_mad:
 

Overmind One

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Have you seen the story about Dizley denying a father to put Spiderman on his 4 year old son's tombstone ? It was his son's last request to have Spiderman on his tombstone .
Stinkin rat faced mouse dizley is .

:beckett_new050::beckett_new050::beckett_new050::icon_mad::icon_mad::icon_mad:

YES! I did read about that, and it is getting around. The Galaxy's Edge expansion at Disneyland is not failing because of some organized rebellion or a boycott, it's just not very interesting for Star Wars fans or non Star Wars fans. The prices at Galaxy's Edge for food and drinks and stuff vs the value is insulting. Disney is trying to spin on itself, saying that blackout dates for season passholders is the reason. But the fact is that Disney blacked them out because they anticipated massive crowds and fan swarms to fill the whole park to capacity and make things unmanageable. But the masses never came. They still haven't come, even though some of the blackout dates have been lifted! Talk about subverting expectations!

I think that the biggest wakeup call will be Episode IX.

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Overmind One

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There is NOTHING from the Original Trilogy. Unless you want to count Chewie. Even the Millennium Falcon is the square antenna one. The park is almost empty according to my friends who live in Anaheim, and many are calling it a "ghost town". No crowds for Galaxy's Edge. I am planning to get a 360 VR camera and I will go there and take video. I need to set aside a couple of hundred dollars and go there to review it.

On second thought, I will not be going to Disneyland to review this Galaxy's Edge because enough people have now done it online and you can watch their videos. For the price of one Disneyland adult ticket, I can take a date to Universal City and visit Harry Potter land. :)
 

YJ02

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On second thought, I will not be going to Disneyland to review this Galaxy's Edge because enough people have now done it online and you can watch their videos. For the price of one Disneyland adult ticket, I can take a date to Universal City and visit Harry Potter land. :)

dude take a few puffs and chill.....

:smiley_joy:
 

YJ02

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i didn't read any of the stories, but did anyone see how the DISNEY heiress (or is she just a member of the family?) trashed her experience at DISNEY theme parks?
 

Overmind One

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i didn't read any of the stories, but did anyone see how the DISNEY heiress (or is she just a member of the family?) trashed her experience at DISNEY theme parks?
Yep I did. And she is appalled at Iger's salary vs the wages at the park.
 

Overmind One

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nothing

just sounded like you were on a rant and roll there

and rants ARE MY territory buddy!! :)

Well this thread is about Dark Phoenix, so perhaps I should move those posts to the GE Flop thread? BTW, another family I know also went, and it is still flopping.
 
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