There Is No Getting Back On This Ride - Aftermath
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It's not cinema, it's user retention

Because I work in a nerd-adjacent field, I’ve been asked a lot over the last few weeks whether I was going to go and see Thunderbolts, and every time I’m asked I give the same answer: lol absolutely not.

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The reality is that it’s going to be a really hard sell to get surface-level comic enthusiasts and general-superhero-movie-lovers to buy into stories about minor characters they’ve never heard of.

    but that’s exactly what they did with Iron Man, Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy… they just need to make quality films. if you build it they will come.

    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachtsEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I feel like those ones, with the exception of Guardians, had enough of a surface level fanbase to garner attention, but those examples also had stellar casting and production. Guardians has a unique enough cast of characters to pull in even folks that weren’t familiar with the comics.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      Iron Man and Thor are two of Marvel’s biggest heroes even before the movies came out. They’re kind of like Marvel’s “Big Three” (DC has Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman) along with Spider-Man.

      Guardians is where they started bringing in more “obscure” heroes and characters.