Madame Web (2024 - SSU)

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Madame Web

In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing's most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who develops the power to see the future... and realizes she can...
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the shadow said:
FLOP
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That's the opposite of the reaction I experienced...

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Madame Web - Review Thread
Reviews:
Variety:
Now, if 10-year-old me could’ve predicted the future (the way Cassie Webb can), he would’ve seen this disappointment as valuable practice for a movie like “Madame Web,” a hollow Sony-made Spider-Man spinoff with none of the charm you expect from even the most basic superhero movie. The title mutant — who’s never actually identified by that name — hails from the margins of the Marvel multiverse, which suggests that, much as Sony did with “Morbius” and “Venom,” the studio is scrounging to find additional fringe characters to exploit.
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Hollywood Reporter:
There’s something so demoralizing about lambasting another underwhelming Marvel offering. What is there left to really say about the disappointments and ocean-floor-level expectations created by the mining of this intellectual property? Every year, studio executives dig up minor characters, dress them in a fog of hype and leave moviegoers to debate, defend or discard the finished product.
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IndieWire (D+):
I can’t say for sure that “Madame Web” has been hacked to pieces and diluted within an inch of its life by a studio machine that has no idea what it’s trying to make or why, but Sony’s latest swing at superhero glory stars an actress whose affect seems to perfectly channel their audience’s expectation for better material. Johnson is one of the most naturally honest and gifted performers to ever play the lead role in one of these things, and while that allows her to elevate certain moments in this movie way beyond where they have any right to be, it also makes it impossible for her to hide in the moments that lay bare their own miserableness.
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Inverse:
Madame Web is Embarrassing For Everyone Involved. With great power, comes another terrible Sony Spider-verse movie.
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Rolling Stone:
“The best thing about the future is — it hasn’t happened yet,” someone intones near the end of Madame Web, and indeed, you look forward to a future in which this film’s end credits (which, spoiler alert, are sans stinger scenes previewing coming-soon plot points; even Sony was like, yeah, enough of this already) are in your rearview mirror and gone from your memory. Or an alternate world years from now in which this unintentional comedy of intellectual-property errors has been ret-conned into a sort of cult camp classic — a Showgirls of comic-book cinema. Until then, you’re left with a present in which you’re compelled to cringe for two hours, pretend none of this ever happened, and ruefully say the words you’d never imagine uttering: “Come back, Morbius, all is forgiven.”
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SlashFilm (6/10):
Lacking superhero grandiosity, however, all but assures we'll never see sequels or follow-ups where these characters grow into the heroines we know they'll be. "Madame Web" does not provide a crowd-pleasing bombast. This is a pity, as this odd duck makes for a fascinating watch. This may be one of the final films of the superhero renaissance. Enjoy it before it topples over entirely.
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Collider (3/10):
Beyond even those staggeringly amateurish filmmaking flourishes, Madame Web has none of the laughs or thrills that general audiences come to superhero movies for. Much like Morbius from two years ago, it’s a pale imitation of comic book motion pictures from the past. In this case, Web cribs pools of magic water, unresolved parental trauma, teenage superhero antics, and other elements from the last two decades of Marvel adaptations. Going that route merely makes Madame Web feel like a half-hearted rerun, though, rather than automatically rendering it as good as The Avengers or Across the Spider-Verse. Not even immediately delivering that sweet “moms researching spiders in the Amazon before they die” action right away can salvage Madame Web.
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IGN (5/10):
Madame Web has the makings of a interesting superhero psychological thriller, but with a script overcrowded with extraneous characters, basic archetypes, and generic dialogue, it fails the talent and the future of its onscreen Spider-Women.
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The Nerdist:
But bad directing, bad plotting, and bad acting aren’t the worst thing about Madame Web. The most grueling aspect is how oddly it exists within the larger Sony Spiderverse. You know immediately who characters like Ben are meant to be, but the film never just comes out and says anything. At one point, Emma Roberts appears as a character who exists just to wink largely in your face without any notable revelations.
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Screenrant:
While Venom still manages to be fun, in large part thanks to Tom Hardy's ability to sell the relationship between Eddie Brock and his alien symbiote, Madame Web is boring, unimaginative and dated, despite being one of very few superhero movies centering on female superheroes. All in all, Madame Web is a superhero movie you can absolutely skip.
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Paste:
At times, the movie’s pleasingly jumpy visual scheme and nostalgic 2003-era cheese threaten to form an alliance and make Madame Web work in spite of itself. After all, the movie, even or especially in its worst moments, never gets dull (or weirdly smug, like its sibling Venom movies). It also never fully sheds a huckster-y addiction to pivoting, until it’s pretty far afield from what works about either a superhero movie or a loopy woo-woo thriller. Unlike Johnson, the movie’s visible calculations never make it look disengaged from the process, or even unconvincing. Just kinda stupid.
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Release Date: February 14
Synopsis
Cassandra "Cassie" Webb is forced to confront her past while trying to survive with three young women with powerful futures who are being hunted by a deadly adversary
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Cast:
  • Dakota Johnson
  • Sydney Sweeney
  • Celeste O'Connor
  • Isabela Merced
  • Tahar Rahim
  • Mike Epps
  • Emma Roberts
  • Adam Scott
 
Just got back from watching this with one of my sons. Absolutely awful. The plot was actually so ridiculous in places we burst out laughing on more than 1 occasion. Truly awful acting from nearly everyone too. How on earth did someone think this was a good film to make, possibly with very young teenage girls in mind? If they make a sequel with the 3 teenagers in I can't begin to imagine how bad it would be.
 
CliffyG said:
Just got back from watching this with one of my sons. Absolutely awful. The plot was actually so ridiculous in places we burst out laughing on more than 1 occasion. Truly awful acting from nearly everyone too. How on earth did someone think this was a good film to make, possibly with very young teenage girls in mind? If they make a sequel with the 3 teenagers in I can't begin to imagine how bad it would be.
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Thats the worst thing the original comic arc is good and is linked to the whole spiderverse saga with the inheritors etc. They dont use any of the material and come up with this garbage.

Shamikebab said:
Blimey just when you think Sony's efforts can't get any worse.
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They keep churning out these really poor movies. Morbius before and now Kraven down the pipeline (hopefully it be good but no expectations). Venom is also back for another bout as well. You would have thought they would make a massive loss.
 
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