this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2024
51 points (81.5% liked)

movies

1775 readers
303 users here now

Warning: If the community is empty, make sure you have "English" selected in your languages in your account settings.

πŸ”Ž Find discussion threads

A community focused on discussions on movies. Besides usual movie news, the following threads are welcome

Related communities:

Show communities:

Discussion communities:

RULES

Spoilers are strictly forbidden in post titles.

Posts soliciting spoilers (endings, plot elements, twists, etc.) should contain [spoilers] in their title. Comments in these posts do not need to be hidden in spoiler MarkDown if they pertain to the title’s subject matter.

Otherwise, spoilers but must be contained in MarkDown.

2024 discussion threads

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
maegul@lemmy.ml
Blaze@lemm.ee
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk
orangeNgreen@lemmy.world
neidu2@feddit.nl
Emperor@feddit.uk
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
maegul@lemm.ee
51
Emma Roberts says internet culture doomed Madame Web (www.joblo.com)
submitted 4 months ago by UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk to c/movies@lemm.ee
29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Madame Web co-star Emma Roberts remains loyal to the movie, suggesting it never stood a chance against the internet.

Considering what I posted earlier, this is perfect timing! πŸ˜†

all 30 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 103 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I watched the movie. I am the target audience for the movie. I want an expanded spiderverse.

The movie was bad. Really bad. Direct to VHS bad. Terrible movie. The actors were OK, but the script was garbage and the plot was nonsensical. Why did the bad guy sound like Schwarzenegger in Hercules in New York? Why did the special effects look so bad? None of the super powers made sense. The costumes looked ridiculous and amateur.

The movie was bad.

There are a lot of misogynists online that took special glee in watching the movie fail. They piled on to make everyone aware of how bad a female-led superhero movie was.

There are a lot of film critics who are tired of comic book movies and enjoy trashing every comic book movie as it comes out. They also piled on in the hopes that they could signal the end of comic book cinema.

So, she's not wrong. This movie never stood a chance against all of the people online who were hoping it would fail, because this movie was a hot, wet, splattery fart.

If we want to talk about the way people trashed The Marvels, that's a different conversation. The Marvels wasn't great, but it wasn't nearly as bad as critics and misogynists wanted it to be. Pro-tip, anyone using the word "woke" in their critique is a dipshit with an agenda. Disregard their opinion whole cloth.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I just watched the marvels a few weeks ago. It was fun!

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago

Exactly! It wasn't meant to be some sort of heavily philosophical Seedish impressionist movie. It was fun and entertaining.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Until you think about Dance Party planet and how it was destroyed.

Once it was over, I had the feeling Disney only made it so they had a place to put the after-credits scene.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

I thought they made it so they'd have a place for a Bollywood dance scene.

Which I'm not against. Bollywood dance scenes kinda rock.

[–] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I really liked it. Definitely could have been tighter, and the ending was not well thought out, but absolutely a fun movie. I like Ms Marvel as a character.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Direct to VHS bad

That might be the most scathing review I've read yet. Damn πŸ˜†

[–] Shadehawk25@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

These people love to shit on "angry incels on the internet" for their movie doing poorly completely ignoring all the loved successful female led movies that aren't hot garbage.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sarah Connor, Ripley, spiderverse Gwen are all great characters.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It's worth mentioning that each of those characters have been in poorly received movies. Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, Genisys and Dark Fate, and the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies (all of which I enjoyed more than most people, except for Alien 3 which was actual garbage).

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You're right, but angry incels on the internet exist. They shit on everything they think is "woke" and feel validated when movies like this fail. They should not feel valudated. I'd rather go see a shitty movie than give a bigot the benefit of the doubt. In this case, the movie was bad, but not because it was "woke." So both things can be true.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 36 points 4 months ago

It never stood a chance against people watching it, and then telling people that it sucked.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Emma Roberts is a domestic abuser (on top of being one of the less talented nepo babies), so I really don't give a shit what she thinks about anything.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hadn't paid attention to her, as her choice of roles tended not to get on my radar, but she sounds to be quite something.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

That is an article looking for a controversy, not journalism.

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago

Everyone else is responsible for our own poor decisions!

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I’m gonna say it was the shitty script

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

I’m actually curious about that - I think it had significant reshoots and many of the villain's lines are badly ADR’d. I’m guessing the final product had very little resemblance to what was in the script.

[–] Shadehawk25@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Oh come on "he was with my mother in the jungle researching spiders when she died" is top tier writing!

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 14 points 4 months ago

It's a movie about magical CPR. That's the most boring premise ever. And it paints CPR as being easy and more effective than it is.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 9 points 4 months ago

It was a shoddily made mess. If she wanted to correctly apportion blame she should do what Dakota Johnson has done and be honest about the problems during development which doomed the film before they started filming. Or just quietly erase if from your CV and move on.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I saw it before I heard anything from the Internet. Snd let me tell you, it was rather terrible and hilarious at the dame time.

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

wasn't this the lady who was racist and transphobic on the set of AHS

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 6 points 4 months ago

No marketing convinced me to see the movie. I haven’t seen the movie. No beef against the actors and the others involved, but you do need to do more to make me watch your movie.

[–] Chuymatt@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago

Against the script and the editing?

As far as the acting, I’d say the cast did their level best with that mess.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I watched that movie on an airplane last week, and it was fine to me. What was the internet's problem with it?

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

From what I've heard, mostly Dakota Johnson's lack of talent and charisma with a side of mediocre writing.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

I really wanted to like Madame Web. I avoided seeing reviews and scores for the movie, and then I saw it in the theater. After watching it, I thought it was just okay, I expected it to get a 40-50% Rotten Tomatoes rating. I was shocked to see that it was at 17%.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I started this the other day but didn't make it past the films prologue. I had a similar experience with morbius.