Because it's good. Not much negative about the film either critically or with audiences, which is somewhat rare these days with Disney films. That usually translates to a pretty big box office.
No-one here cares about "daddy Bob". You're pretty much the only person who keeps bringing him up.
Making excuses for bad Disney product is the same thing
With All due respect the thing you don’t seem to understand is that the product is not 100 percent bad in the eyes of everyone. And I know you’re going to respond to this with some (probably flimsy) metric that tries to prove that the majority of people aren’t happy. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about people who you constantly say are “making excuses” we are not. We defend the product we like and criticize the product we don’t.Making excuses for bad Disney product is the same thing
This thread is A minefield with those buried everywhere
And the day is young
Disney is a mass market product
I think Disney makes movies they want to make and hope for the best.
Woah…I think Disney makes movies they want to make and hope for the best.
Sometimes they make money, sometimes they lose money.
No worries, they have the theme park revenue to pay for it
Well it looks like that from an outsider looking in....
And you couldn't be further off in what modern Hollywood actually is today, in a post-pandemic streaming world. As noted previously in a direct quote from the earnings, Disney is aware and accepts the box office IS NOT the profit center for a movie anymore. They accept and expect that a movie in general isn't going to make its money back during theatrical. That its new profit center is post-theatrical. And so they set the movie up for that purpose.
Critical praise providing a bump would involve people reading…
But don’t you remember? Captain America was the film that was going to be a return to form. But then when that flatlined, the spin was that Thunderbolts* was the first film from Fiege after he righted the ship. Now it looks like this one will come and go without really improving the health of the franchise.
The eternal argument can now end.
"Lose big" is relative in this case, as I don't think most of their movies actually do have huge losses. But yes this should be the end of the argument but its clear that some can't accept that the box office isn't the primary driver for a movie anymore.The eternal argument can now end.
Disney is aware and accepts when they lose big at the box office.
By all accounts Thunderbolts IS a shot in the arm that the MCU needed in terms of quality. So the issue ISN'T the film itself, the issue IS regaining the trust and focus of the audience. The hope was that word of mouth would help with that, but its clear that its going to take more than one film to do it.
Instead of playing these "inside comment" games just state what you mean. Very few actually know what you mean half the time, so state it plainly so everyone knows instead of assuming that people do.