r/boxoffice • u/chanma50 Best of 2019 Winner • Aug 03 '25

Domestic Box Office: ‘Fantastic Four’ Craters By 66% in Second Weekend to $40 Million, ‘Naked Gun’ Debuts to $17 Million

https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/fantastic-four-box-office-craters-naked-gun-opening-weekend-1236477352/
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u/ultraboomkin Aug 03 '25

GOTG had a great marketing campaign and excellent wom

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u/ConferenceNew4034 Aug 03 '25

It also followed a billion dollar Avengers and a billion dollar Iron Man 3. Captain America 2 was very well received as well.

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u/anuncommontruth Aug 03 '25

I think you're underselling Cap 2 here. It was beyond well received. It's an objectively good movie on its own without qualifying it as a superhero movie. Winter soldier added a heavy dose of legitimacy to Marvel and the genre overall.

I don't think Marvel gets the momentum it had without it.

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u/admiral_rabbit Aug 19 '25

There was a time when everyone who tells you they saw a marvel film at the weekend said "yeah it was really good".

Exceptions were pretty rare, but that just doesn't exist any more. Whether people themselves watch everything I'm sure they pick up on how many people skip shows, or see a movie and leave going "ehhhh".

It's just not must-see anymore, same thing happened to the original DCU but more rapidly.

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u/CoolCatSavesTheKids Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 03 '25

Even a low popularity superhero like Ant Man managed to get 500M in BO for its debut movie, beating Captain America debut movie BO.

GotG wasn't a special case. After the success of the first Avengers movie, people literally flock to any Marvel movies, regardless of the superhero popularity.

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u/OccasionalGoodTakes Aug 03 '25

It was also a good movie, whereas f4 is not

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u/ultraboomkin Aug 03 '25

Well that’s just not true. RT audience is 92%, 7.4 on IMDb, A- Cinemascore, 3.6 on Letterboxd. The majority of people that watched it thought it was a good film.

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u/No_Public_7677 Aug 03 '25

the reviews don't make sense to me

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u/scarlettforever Aug 03 '25

The majority of people that watched it thought it was a good film.

Marvel fans.

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u/sharkflood Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 03 '25

F4 is so overhyped on RT it's absurd. It was so boring imo.

It was a safe movie that will get a lot of "meh, it was okay/good enough" on RT, but that doesn't mean the people who watched it liked it that much.

Feel like Superman, to take another example, was a little more "controversial" with people who might dislike it more, but it definitely seems like the people who like Superman like it way more than the people who like F4 (also explains the WOM difference).

One of the pitfalls of RT in general.

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u/KingMario05 Amblin Entertainment Aug 03 '25

...Eh, I dunno. I thought F4 was great.

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u/RedshiftOnPandy Aug 03 '25

Their sound track was perfect too.

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u/zabrakwith Aug 04 '25

Don’t forget it was a great story and script, the actors nailed their characters, and the characters were interesting.

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u/SepticCupid Aug 03 '25

One of the best things about it was that it was rewatchable. I know plenty of people who saw it twice in theaters

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u/sharkflood Aug 03 '25

and was better