Disgruntled Walt
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One thing's for sure, the SAG strike ended just in time for this, allowing DeBose to make the rounds like she has.
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Wish (Walt Disney Animation - November 2023)
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Disney Irish
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This is not the end of the world. Even if the critics give it bad reviews doesn't mean that audiences will react the same way.
We'll have to wait until audiences actually see it to see if they respond to it or not.
First of all, I’m not planning to harm the critics, I just hate them! I’m not like that. I’m just upset with them right now.
TP2000
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I write the posts that make the whole world sing, I write the posts of love and special things.
I write the posts that make the young girls cry, I write the posts, I write the posts...
Great, now I'll be humming Barry Manilow all evening.
In better news, I just checked and Wish is up at 63% now!
Well, I hope it keeps going up, because I well you know.I write the posts that make the whole world sing, I write the posts of love and special things.
I write the posts that make the young girls cry, I write the posts, I write the posts...
Great, now I'll be humming Barry Manilow all evening.
In better news, I just checked and Wish is up at 63% now!
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brb1006
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As somebody who's been on this board since late 2015. TP2000's critical posts about Disney is tame compared to @WDW1974's posts. Spirit was brutally honest when it comes to everything Disney's been doing these past couple of years. To the point that Spirit used to make dedicated threads covering Disney's actions and inner workings which can get very passive-aggressive at times. I don't think you could handle Spirit's posts (although he's been less active on this board in the past).
Really? Thank you for telling me.
Jon Turner
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I did take a look at the Letterboxd reviews to see what THEY thought of the movie, and a majority of them are saying that it's not a TERRIBLE movie per say, just an OK to average one. Which I would at least be fine with. A terrible movie, though, I wouldn't. Nonetheless, I'm sure the film will find its audience. The people screaming over the film destined to be a bomb are kinda misremembering. This could be another Elemental. That film opened with average reviews and yet audiences responded to it. The same could happen with this one depending on how audience response is.
LittleBuford
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If you yourself enjoy the film, that’s all that matters. I would just ignore the critics and focus on your own personal experience. I hope you like it!I kind’ve feel better now, but I’m still shocked and upset of the critics giving Wish mixed reviews. I just hope it’s a box office success.
Jon Turner
New Member
Exactly. You should take words of the critics with a grain of salt.
Phroobar
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Wouldn't it be great if it turns out that Chris Pine's character was actually the good guy and Asha was just misinformed while she tries to stop him. She ends up causing havoc and Pine has to put things right at the end. It would be like the wizard Yensid putting things right after Mickey made a mess. That would give the movie a nice unexpected twist but Disney would never think of such a thing.
Thank you. I’m planning to see it with my friends.
Yeah, I was and wasn't surprised by the common complaints brought up in the reviews -- they reflected pretty well my own misgivings from the preview material but I didn't expect them to bother the professional critics who saw the whole thing so much. There are next to no rave reviews coming out thus far, and that's surprising for a "traditional" Disney fantasy musical.
One thing concerning is that many of the less enthusiastic reviews cite that there is no clear theme or message; that the "rules" of the film's universe are overly complicated, unclear, and raise too many logical questions (at least one reviewer saying that if it picked one or two of those questions and explored them, the movie would be better for it). If a complaint like that is so common, that suggests a fundamentally broken story, or at least one that the film's other elements (characterization, humor, visual artistry, music, etc.) can't overcome. We'll see if audiences are more forgiving; they might be. Good reviews have never guaranteed a box office hit, and bad ones never a flop.
Tha Realest
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So I had been bullish on this film based on the expectation it would be received more like Encanto or Elementals than Strange World (72% RT). It’s currently at 58% (down from 63%). That’s…terrible. I don’t think RT scores are a 1:1 indicator of how a Cinemascore /WOM rating is, but they’re not usually that oppositional.
I hope these early reviews are really just an aberration, because the early tracking wasn’t looking great and if you couple that with bad word of mouth…
I mean, right now at 58% it’s below Trolls 3 (59% as of this writing).
Disgruntled Walt
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One of the reviews brought up "The Greatest Showman" and "This is Me," just as we were discussing the other day! Spot on observation!
TP2000
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I updated this last at about 5:00 pm Mountain Standard Time. But now seven hours later Wish is down at 58% on the Tomato website thing.
It got a green splat symbol. I have to assume that's bad. Will it get back above 60% before next Wednesday? Will it make the $600 Million at the global box office it needs to break even? An interesting position that Disney has put themselves in while celebrating their 100th Anniversary with this movie.
The faces of the girl and the farting goat are probably the same faces on Burbank executives this weekend....
It got a green splat symbol. I have to assume that's bad. Will it get back above 60% before next Wednesday? Will it make the $600 Million at the global box office it needs to break even? An interesting position that Disney has put themselves in while celebrating their 100th Anniversary with this movie.
The faces of the girl and the farting goat are probably the same faces on Burbank executives this weekend....
Jedijax719
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People talk about RT scores not affecting box office and that is true about some films (we're looking at you, Mario). However, with some, it really does matter. Mario has a following. People tend to really look at RT scores of Disney films these days with Disney under scrutiny and all. When comparing to Tangled, Frozen, Moana, Raya, Encanto, and even Frozen 2, the score for Wish is going to be BLARING. It will still get families with, shall I say, little girls. But other audiences who otherwise turned out for movies like Frozen and Moana, would give this a pass, especially in the age of D+ which Frozen and Moana didn't originally have.
I say that Wish will end up in the Encanto box office range of around $100 million domestic. Not great considering we aren't in the pandemic any longer. Yes, these are VERY tough times for Disney movies for sure. MCU has been on the down swing, remakes aren't living up quite as much as hoped or expected, Pixar is struggling and can't make $200 domestic, and now we have a new Disney princess movie that is rotten. Disney can't catch a break.
I say that Wish will end up in the Encanto box office range of around $100 million domestic. Not great considering we aren't in the pandemic any longer. Yes, these are VERY tough times for Disney movies for sure. MCU has been on the down swing, remakes aren't living up quite as much as hoped or expected, Pixar is struggling and can't make $200 domestic, and now we have a new Disney princess movie that is rotten. Disney can't catch a break.
I’m sorry, but