Thunderbolts* (2025)

Haus said:

Is her bra on backwards in this pic? Or she's like an owl and has turned her head around 180 so that's her back? Right? because if not, then we need to face the fact that I probably have a nicer rack.

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You didn't watch Oppenheimer?

She looks much more attractive in Oppenheimer than she does in that pic, by far. She has a kind of square face and body and a lot of her real life looks accentuate that instead of minimize it.

Chanur said:

Free is about what I was waiting for to watch this.

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I don't even download these movies anymore. They're all slop.

My time is still worth more than what I'm willing to give up for this crap.

I always think of Pugh as the anti-Brie Larson.

Personality-wise, she comes across as quite charming, in press and Black Widow / Hawkeye.

Physically, she's near the bottom of Marvel gals, with her squat stature, pug nose, minimal breasts, and (lack of) muscle tone. (Not that Evangeline Lilly was done any favors by Marvel either.)

Bald Brah said:

Is that adjusted for inflation or just raw numbers? Seems like it should be a bigger turd than this.

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Adjusted for inflation, it's in a dead heat for second worst with The Eternals, within a million of each other, depending on which inflation index you're using.
If anything overtakes The Marvels, the franchise is over.

Wombat said:

Adjusted for inflation, it's in a dead heat for second worst with The Eternals, within a million of each other, depending on which inflation index you're using.
If anything overtakes The Marvels, the franchise is over.

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That makes more sense.

Gravel said:

I don't even download these movies anymore. They're all slop.

My time is still worth more than what I'm willing to give up for this crap.

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Standard modern movie. Watch the first 5 minutes and turn it off, or watch the last 5 minutes and turn it off.

Wombat said:

Adjusted for inflation, it's in a dead heat for second worst with The Eternals, within a million of each other, depending on which inflation index you're using.
If anything overtakes The Marvels, the franchise is over.

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They really gotta stick with the money makers; what are effectively "new" IPs being inserted into the MCU have shown repeatedly that they aren't going to do well without some absurd word of mouth and a very talented director at the helm. G.O.G. is an anomaly; not an average. When you start just inserting storylines for IPs that aren't popular even among comic book nerds (relatively speaking) you're going to have a hard time pulling in normies. The comic book nerds will take their kids and then shit all over it if it is not faithful, but being faithful means having to put what is almost always going to be absolute schlock on screen. Most comic storylines are complete nonsense trash and have been for like 3/4 a century at this point. The few standout stories are typically written by actual writers (Miller, etc) and the overwhelming majority are written by "comic book writers" which are D-tier on their average day.

Marvel rode the goodwill of some very charismatic actors and competent directors/writers to some extremely popular movies, and those movies alone are the only reason shit like Thunderbolts or any of the C through D tier content gets made into movies. And in almost all cases, they vastly under perform because the source material is schlocky trash, and they aren't putting their best and brightest up when it comes to adaptations or directing.

Pugh's russian accent felt like a SNL skit.