I think @Diacanu started the trend of using the term on this board, but it's origin is from the 1984 movie CHUDs, which stands for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers". It's a catch-all word for loser fanboys who pretty much hate everything.
Yeah, I would put The Marvels above about a third of the MCU quality-wise. It was better IMO than Captain Marvel, Iron Mam 2, all Thors besides Ragnarok, all Ant-Mans, The Eternals, Black Widow.
I think that the subpar box office for Aquaman 2 suggests either a) superhero fatigue is real and/or b) studios have to adjust their expectations drastically for box office in the post-streaming, post-COVID era. Where people might see a movie twice or more in theaters in 2013-2019, there's little reason to when it's going to be available for home viewing in 3-5 months. Why pay $20-ish plus (concessions/etc) per person for a ticket for a single show when I can watch it with as many people as I want as many times as I want with the food and drink I want at non-hijacked prices?
You forgot option c): the first movie sucked so only the diehards bothered to venture out to see the sequel in theatres. But I do agree that studios absolutely need to adjust their expectations as well as their release schedules.
I think fatigue is real, I caught The Flash on a flight, so I can't comment on the CGI for such a small screen, but the whole film was a pretty decent comic book movie. Wasn't a good movie movie though. People want a bit more quality, and I think also name recognition. If GotG were released today I think it'd struggle, despite it being a tour de force of world building. Flash had all the elements of a great movie at hand, just didn't use them. Zod was the perfect foil for Barry - Barry had just replaced a world out of loss and pain, Zod was preparing to, so there was a lot meat to be chewed there. He had two Batmen to compare and contrast the nature of pain, I mean, one thing Star Trek V did well was the whole "I need my pain", and Flash could have really drilled into that, and allowed Barry to see himself with powers but without that pain, rather than the Dumb and Dumber routine we got. Why have baby Supes killed? Didn't the Keaton spaghetti incident allow for a different Batman V Supes, thus giving conflict between Keaton Bats and Kara? Not to mention a better battle for Bats against the Kryptonians? It all made for something that works in comic book panels, on the screen? Just for some of us who enjoy reading comics, and have the spare cash. The pile 'em high and rake it in attitude has to stop.
So... anyone else been watching the new season/daily drops of What If? Looks like the same as last time with all the stories coming together for the big end battle... Like the Native character origin story that serves to bring her into the main storyline/reality. Impressed that they did it all in the language...
Almost by definition, What If is going to vary as to the quality of a given episode. I wasn't a big fan of the Native American episode, I liked the Hulk Hogan/Die Hard homage, the Iron Man/Gamora pair, but thought the Capt. Carter sequel was a letdown. I needed to go to IMDB to remind myself of the Nebula and Quill ones, so that's how little impact they had on me.
In fairness, the MCU has a much better track record than the DCU, so audiences pretty much expect a DCU movie to flop these days. But still, I agree that there is absolutely an element of misogyny to the whole Marvels and Captain Marvel criticisms.
I suppose there is the element that it's better to "punch up" at Marvel than continuing to kick the DCEU when it's down.
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I first heard it in the New York episode of the Simpsons, Homer's retelling of his terrible day in NYC ends with "...and that's when the CHUDs came at me."
God, if the movie's box office was affected by people robbing theaters that show this, I would half-advocate a crime wave to disincentivize people making such obviously shitty seeming comic book movies. It is weird to me how much of an adverse reaction I have to this movie. But it just looks so facially bad. Also weird to me: it doesn't seem like CHUDs have mobilized en masse to talk about woke woke feminazis and what not. Or maybe I have and I have been blissfully ignorant of it. Or maybe I'm becoming a CHUD and taking over complaining about something I don't really have a factual basis to complain about?
CHUDs go after the big targets like MCU and Disney remakes. That they're ignoring it is probably a sign. I just post the news to post the news. And, I hope that at least the Julia Carpenter character is cool. Suicide Squad 1 is farty, but Harley is good in it.
It's looking pretty certain that Vanessa Kirby is Sue Storm. https://comicbookmovie.com/fantasti...rvel-studios-finalizes-cast-a208834#gs.310ilt
2003 is when Tobey Mcguire's Spider-Man would've landed on home video. If they really wanted to get meta....
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/...-psychotic-madame-web-blue-screen-1235889691/ When the star is like, I don't know if this is going to be good at all, it probably isn't going to be good.
It's going to flop, Sony doesn't know how to make Spidey related movies and make them good. Well, except for Venom, but I think that's because of Tom Hardy.
