She said she needed the full power because there wasa possibly the children could get sick or injured.She wanted backups.
I’m assuming they explained away that psychopathic way of thinking by saying she was possessed by the book thing, yeah?
I pretty sure it's implied the book corrupted her.
No. It did not feel that way to me.
Considering Dr. Strange ends up reading the book and all he gets in the movie is a shitty cgi third eye I think its still meant to be taken that she was responsible for her actions.
Doesn't the opened third eye represent enlightenment in Buddhism?
She more or less wished most mutants out existence at one point because she was sick of being one.
I think it resembles in enlightenment in some far eastern mythic mambo jumbo but being an ignorant American who could care less about other cultures I can't be too sure which.
Hinduism actually, having an Indian homie comes really handy at times like these.
At this point it just feels like a normal Villainess thing to be hot. It's like the villain mostly being cooler than the hero. Not that I'm complaining, I'm into it.
Whatever it was it made him do a weird nikocado avocado face and that shit ain't enlightening
People need to look at this objectively. The thing made 600 million in ten days with no China, and it's not going to streaming next week. It'll have legs. 600 million was about what Doctor Strange 1 did in it's entire run, and 2016 was peak MCU shillary. Whether or not people liked it (and I'll put the shill hat right back on and say a healthy chunk of the films detractors have retarded reasons for disliking it), this thing is far from a flop. The "grand finale" was just, shockingly, treated as a massive spectacle and received massive spectacle money.
With no real competition it had a Friday to Friday drop off of 81% and Variety is predicting a second weekend drop of 67%. It's also getting CinemaScore audience score of B+ and metacritic scores of 6.3 (I've long since abandoned RT as a credible source). Legs? Maybe but maybe not.
I think failure is subjective. 600 million is good for an average movie, but this is the MCU. A billion is not only expected, but the target for an average success in this franchise. Disney wants No Way Home to be the standard, not the outlier. In order to get those numbers it isn't just required for every MCU mark and their mother to see the movie, it requires every MCU mark and their mother to see it multiple times. No Way Home is the kind of movie that warranted those repeated viewings. This one... I'm not so sure.
Well the Illuminati is its own thing, it's just the writers are lazy and didn't set it up properly and also put Sharon Carter in there which is kind of smart but also kind of dumb (again because it wasn't set up properly). One of the problems with these films/tv shows is all the fucking backstory. Because now when Fantastic Four comes out it will have little nods to this film but if you haven't seen this film it won't be a nod at all. Like I hadn't seen Wandavision so some stuff confused me but I rolled with it because brain don't need engage when MCU film. The average audience member who hasn't seen Wandavision? Maybe that's why the film doesn't do so hot.
600 mil in total? Yeah, not great. 600 mil in ten days? Not so much. Of the billion dollar Marvel movies, only 3 hit that with no Iron Man, one of them got there because of Endgame hype, and the other because Spider-Man is a money printer. As a follow up, someone offsite updated the ol "every movie needs twice it's budget to make a profit" thing, and insisted MCU movies need triple or quadruple their budget in order to go into their black. Even the most deluded producer alive would never try that more than once, let alone genuinely expect that as a solid business plan. Hell, it's really significantly closer to 700 than 600 at this point.
Then it’s on them to reset their expectations. There’s no universe where every MCU movie smashes a billion+ in its first two weeks by default just for existing.
I'm just saying what my hunch is. Very possible that I'm wrong. I'm just reading into the company that was underwhelmed by Age of Ultron only making 1.4 billion, 100 million less than the first Avengers movie. As it stands, if the downward trajectory that Hollywood/Chinese relations have taken, not to mention the Middle-East banning their movies, I would suggest that Marvel start updating their expectations as well. Mind you, I think Doctor Strange 2 is far from the failure many are claiming it to be. I just think that Disney wants more out of these movies.