The AVCLUB has ignored Madame Web for too many days now.

I’m sure that audience is there, it’s just a niche audience and will most likely stay that way outside of some completely unforeseeable (and unrepeatable) cross over successes. You want a “Big Fat Greek” you need to finance double digit low budget rom coms a year and hope you luck out occasionally.

Well, the title IS French.

I don’t like smug comments casually dismissing people, especially when those comments don’t make any substantive argument of their own. If you call someone an “idiot,” first of all, maybe don’t do that. Second of all, make an argument of why people are wrong, so we can actually evaluate if you’re correct.

Plus, how Hollywood studios have been taken over by IP and superhero IP. If audiences were smart, there would be a greater demand for original, and mid-budget adult-oriented movies.

To be fair, the people who voted for Trump also claim to hate Hollywood and also want different movies. It’s just that they movies they want to see are either about Jesus, or about a muscular white guy who beats up foreigners.

Sure, just like there were people drooling over those stupid NFT cartoons a couple of years ago. Doesn’t mean they’ll ever appeal to normal people.

You can bet your ass there are people drooling over the prospect of AI movies.

“My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not. Audiences will always be able to sniff out bullshit.”

Could be worse.

Eh. I’ve seen earlier interviews where she was singing its praises and getting annoyed at interviewers’ incredulous responses to said praises. If *that* was her *acting* like she really believed in the film, then it was arguably her greatest performance yet.

Quite a few movies are like this where it’s an origin story that doesn’t do too much and hints at things people want to see in a sequel. Just give us what we want to see in the first place! 

The best review I saw said:

“Madame Web is a two hour trailer for the movie you actually wanted to see.”

Pretty much nailed it.

Counterpoint: This is exactly what she signed up for.

Man, dudes in the comment talking about hypothetical other cuts/versions of the movie are really missing the point entirely. She’s right about everything other than maybe that there’s a shocking number of idiots with no sense of visual/film/narrative literacy who will gobble up broken AI content and see no difference.

It is my assumption that she initially signed up for a large cash sum, and then later, a further percentage of the profits what are sometimes referred to as royalties, old chap.

I have a super good cut of Madame Web, but unfortunately, it’s with my girlfriend who lives in Canada.

Wait, so you’re telling me that the actor who was in a bad movie actually wanted to make a good movie?

So I presume all this money he earned that he owed the tax on was shared among slave descendants?

Ooh, how about it’s immoral to charge taxes to the descendants of slaves OR descendants of people whose ancestors fought to free slaves?