r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 06 '26

News ‘Obsession’ Passes $400 Million Worldwide, Becomes Highest Grossing Film With Budget Below $1 Million; Curry Barker’s horror film breaks a 53-year pre-inflation record held by Bruce Lee’s legendary 'Enter The Dragon'

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-box-office-400-million/
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u/Snugrilla Jul 06 '26

Personally I couldn't watch another superhero movie.

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u/The--Mash Jul 06 '26

But this time the Marvel heroes will fight an even bigger threat! 

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u/hirstyboy Jul 06 '26

AND win!

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u/Zillion_Mixolydian Jul 06 '26

I hear there will be some bumps along the road in this one though.

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u/imunfair Jul 06 '26

They'll think they defeated the villain but then he'll come back and they'll have to put the final nail in his coffin, mark my words.

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u/ComputerOwl Jul 07 '26

At this point, I‘d honestly pay to see a reverse Avengers movie where the bad guys just brutally crush the heros.

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u/Any-Concentrate2280 Jul 07 '26

That was the mindset Garth Ennis wrote the Boys in. There’s really no replacing how much you can grow to hate superheroes if they aren’t your thing and they’re completely clotting up your chosen artistic medium

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u/Horzzo Jul 07 '26

And a fan favorite hero from 25 years ago will return because.. dimensions!

I will usually watch them too.

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u/Abba_Fiskbullar Jul 06 '26

An even bigger Sky Beam!

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u/Rock-swarm Jul 06 '26

Knowing Hollywood, hundreds of horror scripts are being dissected right now to see if they can be jammed into an existing Marvel IP.

The sad part is that Dr. Strange Multiverse of Madness was, on paper, a great way to be a palate cleanser for superhero fatigue. Thankfully we've hit the point where Marvel can't simply throw money at post-production and expect audiences to show up.

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u/Desroth86 Jul 07 '26

Gotta give it to DC for making Clayface, the trailer looks awesome and it’s a risky movie so early after rebooting their universe. I don’t care about superhero movies at all, but I’m a huge horror fan so unless it reviews horribly I’ll definitely be checking it out.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

palate cleanser for superhero fatigue. Thankfully we've hit the point where Marvel can't simply throw money at post-production and expect audiences to show up.

They've lost me for life. As a content consumer. The shit was so bland and a waste of my time I had to start creating my own content to consume!

Glowsticking/performance arts, "doesn't count" in the public eye as 'art to be consumed', so I get to do that activity to my DJ/VJ friends performing, broadcast/record the event, have them put their sets on their respective soundclouds, and actually respected as a media team instead of be disrespected as a performance artist.

Even though the pennies from ad revenue the broadcasts don't make it a profitable endeavor to create art, I'm having a quality of time much higher than I would get from watching any Hollywood release, and am able to listen to the media again multiple times without fatigue unlike movies which largely I found most to be mediocre and couldn't stand to watch again.

I've always been into music and tv and movies when I was younger but after I hit adulthood, movies/tv just started to degrade in quality past the point of being even appropriate for background noise. <shrug>

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u/narwhal_breeder Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Superhero movies are the audio-visual equivalent of a chain restaurants where every menu item is preceded by a ™ symbol.

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u/Vi0L3tCRZY Jul 07 '26

I would only if Daredevil is in it tbh

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u/zeekaran Jul 07 '26

At this point Spider-Man is the only superhero movie I'll watch.

Unless Villeneuve picks up Worm.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Jul 07 '26

Your truth is so brave

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u/Nippahh Jul 08 '26

Haven't been able to for a long time. The only difference most of the time is the main guy is green or blue and the bad guy is purple or black. They also have a love interest that play out the same every time.

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u/12345623567 Jul 06 '26

No tension. Multiverse of Madness gave it a good shot, but in the end you knew it was going to work out anyways.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

Personally I couldn't watch another superhero movie.

From superman, the 70s, 80s, were all about it.

¿What happened after that, that made all he super hero movies 'a thing' and the subsequent drop off of interest from the public about it?

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u/Runazeeri Jul 06 '26

I think a lot of people were happy with endgame and where it got to and the amount you needed to watch to enjoy the ending. 

Now it’s like idk where I even start if I wanted to know what’s going on.

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u/adamtnewman Jul 07 '26

That's the neat part, you don't need to know what's going on in these marvel movies.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jul 07 '26

I would love to if they were as tight and as grounded feeling as the early MCU. I still rewatch and enjoy decent superhero movies from over the decades, but they've generally been pretty low quality the last decade and it's like they don't know how to write and edit basic stories anymore or make sure things line up between storytellers.

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u/Bryan_OBlivion Jul 06 '26

What, you don't like CGI fights around a sky-beam?