by blindriver on 6/13/25, 12:30 AM with 5 comments
by ceejayoz on 6/13/25, 1:41 AM
> Still, “Thunderbolts*” needed to make $425 million worldwide to break even, a figure that seems unachievable.
Where does the other $145 million go?
by _wire_ on 6/13/25, 1:09 AM
Let's go through the litany:
- Moneygrab reboot
- Disposes of all the old actors, except the one who always a bas relief and never really had a part of his own
- Skeletal approach to continuing the franchise
- Empty world; First because Endgame reprised The Leftovers and second because the world is literally empty
- Actors bring lazy disinterested schtick instead of charisma to bear for parts written with no character
- Pointless action
- Plot is a drug / alcohol intervention managed by Trump's press secretary
- No reason to care about what happens next in the franchise
- Regards itself as merely a collection of tropes
- Most interesting part doesn't rise even to a Star Wars "can you at least put on towel" moment
But other than this what an incredible installment for a dead franchise!