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Time to eat crow regarding Ant-Man
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Subpar Spatula
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Since you're the OP, can you articulate how my quote is wrong?
PeskyToaster
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The whole "crow eating" obsession Marvel fans have is so off-putting. It's funny when it's a real ranty post or something but just pulling these one-off predictions gaffers make as part of a wider discussion is sad. Especially the way you guys were talking about it in the Rotten Tomatoes thread. It made me sad to see how fans of Marvel movies react to the successes of the movies. Very childish but I expect it to be some sort of complex after how disappointing AoU was.
Frustrated_Grunt
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Guardians crow thread worked because there was a ton of doubt going into it, and it ended up breaking box office records. Ant-man, I don't remember getting so many negative predictions.
And_Gignac
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The movie's numbers are not even good. They are "meh" and the legs are yet to be determined. So this thread is unrequited tbh.
Comic-book Stan, thank you very much.
I think it was mostly people doubting it would be any good since Edgar Wright wasn't directing it anymore.
PeskyToaster
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I could still see Edgar Wright's handiwork in a few aspects. But it was like Edgar Wright-lite instead of full-on.
And you don't even have that weird butt man avatar anymore!
Byakuya769
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Yeah. "Eating crow" is only a marvel thing here...
Nikkuthulu
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OP what is your invested interest in the franchise of "Ant-Man" that you care how much it makes?
Why do you even care about crow from people who are quite frankly still going to reply: "Who cares, it's still Ant-Man."
Why do you even care about crow from people who are quite frankly still going to reply: "Who cares, it's still Ant-Man."
PeskyToaster
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It's not, but the way they were discussing it in some Ant-Man threads was really off-putting to me. Especially for this film because it's not a runaway success or critically acclaimed. No one was really wrong enough to "eat crow".
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
people saw his tag right? i didnt see much reaction
I think it's important to consider context here. This is part of Marvel's non-avenger line of movies and any good marketing group will estimate along these numbers instead of operating under the expectation of another GotG success. I believe you'll see similar numbers for Black Panther. 58M is still a really good opening.
Graphics Horse
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It's a bit silly to do this when even Marvel thought it looked fucking terrible.
That tag is like 5 minutes old.
It's a good one
SwiftDeath
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Tag is pretty fitting judging by how some of the posts in OP "deserving crow" are negative towards the trailer or have no idea about ant man at all. Like how is that something worth "eating crow" over when the movie doesn't seem to have opened that high nor to that great critical acclaim?
I actually quite enjoyed the movie mind you but I wouldn't call out someone who thought it looked bad after that first trailer or if you didn't know who ant man was.
I actually quite enjoyed the movie mind you but I wouldn't call out someone who thought it looked bad after that first trailer or if you didn't know who ant man was.
N7Commander95
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Tag well deserved
PeskyToaster
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Everyone is digging through OPs old posts to find the good shit now.
Gentleman Jack
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There was a lot of commentary on how poorly marketed the film is, as seen in the quotes from the trailer threads that Dalek mistook as hating on the film's prospects.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Disney/Marvel is like a religious entity of some sorts.
IdreamofHIME
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Lowest MCU movie since Increidble Hulk?
Despite the quality of the movie, there's no crow to be eaten on it's performance. Against a bigger oppenent, it probably wouldn't even be #1. He won't be getitng another solo movie, that's for sure.
Despite the quality of the movie, there's no crow to be eaten on it's performance. Against a bigger oppenent, it probably wouldn't even be #1. He won't be getitng another solo movie, that's for sure.
Weird thread, but FWIW I went to see this with a friend the other day. I wasn't keen on going, mainly because of the development hell and it hasn't looked great ahead of release. He wanted to go because 'it's a Marvel film'. Afterwards, I thought it was better than expected, he thought it was shit. There will be 100's of thousands of people just like my friend - box office takings do not correlate to people thinking its a good film.
Edit: nice tag!
Edit: nice tag!
FelixOrion
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dat tag
Like Sony is on the gaming side.
What I said in the last thread.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=123736871&postcount=231
It was stupid then and it's stupid now. I'll make sure not to say that Civil War might not be that good or you might quote me in a year.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=123736871&postcount=231
It was stupid then and it's stupid now. I'll make sure not to say that Civil War might not be that good or you might quote me in a year.
Hester didn't show off her A, dude.
I'm strutting.
Eh. Everyone loved the GOTG thread, and hated this one-so don't worry, no Civil War thread.
For doing something so creepy on an internet forum that you were basically branded for it?
For doing something so creepy on an internet forum that you were basically branded for it?
Acting like this thread was really an attempt to get a tag?
damn, Dalek should just take the L and ask a mod to close this
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