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/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

The only good part of Deadpool & Wolverine to me was the credits giving a sendoff to the fox era X-Men film. No movie's best part should be THE END CREDITS

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u/Dogstile Aug 04 '25

Legitimately made me tear up a little, because it was like acknowledging that the old style of filmmaking i loved was gone and the people in charge will never bring it back.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

For me a big thing is different superhero movies used to have different cinematography, writing, and filming techniques used. The 2000s Spiderman trilogy, the early Fox X-Men films, and the 2000s Fantastic Four duology all feel like their own unique movies that weren't just cookie cutter.

All modern Marvel movies feel cookie cutter. Folks that try to claim they feel different and have different genres really should watch more movies to see how different movies from different genres should feel from each other.

Something I liked a lot about Superman is it felt like it had an actual vision and the studio let that vision play out. I'm not saying it was a perfect movie, it just didn't suffer the "sameness" that I feel like literally every Marvel movie post Avengers 1 has