Black Widow earns $13.2M in Thursday night previews

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‘Black Widow’ Brings The Box Office Back Alive With Record Pandemic $13.2M Thursday Night https://t.co/MiD36QZPqW
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 9, 2021
Black Widow finally arrived in theaters last night, with previews starting at 5PM. It earned $13.2M, a pandemic record, easily beating the previous pandemic record for F9 ($7.1M

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[wiedemauchsei]

It was a decent Marvel movie, very James Bond-ish which I personally liked. But it did feel very much like a filler lol they really should have made a BW movie years ago, it would have worked better imo. Also I feel like this was less of a Nat send-off than an intro for Yelena. Either way, I did enjoy it, some of the plot twists were cool and I can totally see Yelena be the next BW.

[scriptedending]

tl;dr - I liked it a lot! Florence stole the show.

A more spoilery review:[Spoiler (click to open)]

I was initially a little thrown by the title sequence; the slow cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was disconcerting, and I wasn't sure what was going on re: the girls bc I don't read the comics. But by the end of it, I could see why they went that direction - they got to show a quick summary of their lives as young women without an actual montage sequence.

I appreciated that a lot of the film dealt with the physical and emotional pain that women endure - family separation, bruises and broken legs from fighting, loss of agency and reproductive control - while still being a CBM with a lot of good fight sequences and humorous interjections from Yelena and Alexei. The script was a little weak, but that didn't ruin the movie for me - I find that to be the case with most Marvel movies. I don't have any strong feelings about Taskmaster because I didn't read the comics, but I know people are pressed. Considering seeing it again, tbh!

[fromyourashes]

my sons and i hated that cover being used for those scenes. it was jarring tbh. but if you know anything at all abt black widow from the movies, you know they brainwashed all those girls. if you don't, then - they were all brainwashing scenes.

[anolinde]

[Spoiler (click to open)]I really liked the intro song and had no idea it was a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" lol. Although the whole sequence really reinforced for me that they should have come out with this movie YEARS ago, Tumblr would have eaten that shit up.

[lanrek]

went last night and really enjoyed it. I liked that it wasn’t longer than it needed to be.

a lot of people have been upset about how they treated taskmaster but i wasn’t bothered by it at all. it’s not like taskmaster is this hugely popular villain in the comics so i’m ok with the mcu doing their own thing. also the movie needed to focus on nat and her family dynamic. if they would have given taskmaster more, it would have taken away from nat’s story imo

but it does play into what is arguably the MCU’s greatest weakness: the lack of strong villains. so i get the gripe.

[knighthowl82]

i’ll catch it on tv while i’m flipping channels. then flip it.

[fromyourashes]

i wanna discuss how in love i now am with florence pugh
she fucking KILLED IT
ppl crying all over my theatre

as for the movie? i'm. ok. i did love it. but i'm a comics fan and there was no resemblance to canon whatsoever and i'm just. eh.

but it was cute and fun and charming a lot of the time, as long as i didn't think about WHAT THE FUCK THEY DID TO NAT

that end credit scene, though. hmm.

[scriptedending]

she was so good!!

[fromyourashes]

i've only seen her when someone on ontd posts about her and in that weird ass horror movie with the flowers? idek if that was her and i'm too lazy to check. but this made me a huge fan.

[scriptedending]

That's her! She's also great in Lady Macbeth and Little Women.