Madame Web Pitch Meeting
Summary Madame Web is the latest failure in Sony’s lackluster Spider-Man universe, failing to impress critics or the box office. The film falls victim to forced nods to Spider-Man’s history, with convoluted plots and superficial character development. Sony’s superhero franchise is struggling due to obscure characters and the lack of Spider-Man’s presence, setting up the […]
Summary
- Madame Web is the latest failure in Sony’s lackluster Spider-Man universe, failing to impress critics or the box office.
- The film falls victim to forced nods to Spider-Man’s history, with convoluted plots and superficial character development.
- Sony’s superhero franchise is struggling due to obscure characters and the lack of Spider-Man’s presence, setting up the SSU for failure.
As the film continues to wreak havoc at the box office, Rant screenit is his Pitch meeting the series takes a look at Madame Web. The latest installment in Sony’s Spider-Man universe marks the first action film for Cassandra Webb, a woman who develops clairvoyant abilities and attempts to save three young women from a maniacal ancient explorer with similar abilities who wants kill them to stop them from doing so. become Spider-Women in the future and kill him. Directed by Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor and Isabela Merced, the film received widespread critical interest.
A little over a week after its theatrical debut, the final episode of Rant screenIt is Pitch meeting the series has set its sights on Madame Web. The video, as seen at the top of this article, provides an overview of the various issues that are wrong with the SSU film, including its plot-riddled story, clunky writing, and lack of overall character development. The main point of criticism in the episode concerns the forced nods to the film‘s Spider-Man universe, namely the inclusions of Ben Parker and his pregnant sister Mary, Peter Parker’s mother, and the ending pushing to a bigger role for Cassandra in the future.
Madame Web has it all wrong with the SSU
Despite only having four films under its belt so far, the SSU remains one of the worst-performing superhero franchises currently on screen, with Madame Web marking an all-time low for this. Starting with Venomwhich proved to be a surprise box office success, its subsequent sequel and the Jared Leto-led film Morbius garnered mixed to largely negative reviews, with the Johnson-directed film continuing this unfortunate trend. Check out the box office and Rotten Tomatoes numbers for SSU below:
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Title |
RT Review Score |
Worldwide ticketing |
|---|---|---|
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Venom |
30% |
$856 million |
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Venom: Let there be carnage |
57% |
$506.9 million |
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Morbius |
15% |
$167.5 million |
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Madame Web |
13% |
$56.8 million (as of 02/24/2024) |
While the first two Venom the films were generally considered successes at the box office and with audiences for Tom Hardy’s committed and zany performance as Eddie Brock, Morbius And Madame Web collapsed. Critics have largely pointed to their scattered plots and lackluster scripts as the films’ biggest problems, and audiences’ general superhero weariness hasn’t helped their box offices at all. The franchise’s ultimate problem, as the new one highlights Pitch meeting episode, it is his desire to set up a superhero universe with very vague links with Spider-Man.
The main reason behind the existence of the SSU is that Sony still owns the rights to the webslinger and all adjacent characters, thus allowing films like Madame Web be separated from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The problem, however, is that many of these characters aren’t household names and barely register with hardcore comic book fans, making it difficult for Sony to generate interest in the franchise without having Spider-Man really present. If the studio continues to move forward with these projects without ultimately introducing a new or previously seen version of the Marvel hero into the universe, the SSU is ultimately doomed to failure.
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