Madame Web
is a film that is nowhere near being definitively crowned the worst
Marvel
film .
No critic or superhero movie fan had anything good to say about it.
And neither do its protagonists.
Since the film's premiere,
Dakota Johnson
, the protagonist, has been on a press tour.
The awkward moments generated in the interviews are going viral.
There is something that each of them has in common: in all of them, it is clear that this is the last place the actress wants to be.
Not only because of the discomfort, but also because of the lack of enthusiasm with which he answers the questions.
At times, she even included some pretty acidic humor in the answers.
And from the start, the film had the worst box office debut in the history of the franchise.
Dakota's first experience in a superhero movie went pretty badly.
The actress already had suspicions that this was going to happen before the premiere.
At the start of the press tour, she told
Entertainment Weekly
that she was "psychotic" doing action scenes with fake explosions and a green screen.
She further added, “It was like, 'I don't know if this is going to do any good, but I hope at least I did a good job.'”
Dakota Johnson is not in charge of covering up the failure of "Madame Web."
AP Photo
Added to this insinuation was another of the controversial statements from the press tour, in which Dakota suggested that this was not necessarily the film she had agreed to be in, as the Fifty
Shades of Gray
actress commented .
In another appearance in front of the press she even said that she had not yet seen the film.
Although Johnson had initially declared herself a true fan of the Marvel Universe in a promotional video, in an awkward interview with MTV she said she had only seen, perhaps, 15 minutes of one of them.
Then, when she was asked to name Tom Holland's Spiderman
movies,
she went blank and started making up names to get away with humor.
To make herself stand out better, she stated that this film has its own world and it is not necessary to know anything about the spider hero's previous films to watch it.
As usual, the clippings of Dakota's controversial statements went viral, and many TikTok users began to imitate the actress by halfheartedly answering questions, mocking the film that has only 13% score on Rotten Tomatoes, one of the most popular movie review websites.
Dakota Johnson in the movie "Madame Web."
Yes, there is such a thing as bad publicity.
With how viral the protagonist's comments are becoming, it would be logical to think that they would generate some intrigue in viewers, at least to see how bad the movie really is.
But this did not turn out that way,
Madame Web
still has not generated profits.
This is how the press tour that they hoped would save this film ended up sinking it even further.
Many compared this case to what happened with Rachel Zegler and the promotional tour for the
live-action
Snow
White
.
Dakota Johnson at the premiere of "Madame Web."
AP Photo
The repercussions of the actress' statements were so bad on social networks that they had to go back on the project and restructure some aspects so that it would not be so poorly received by critics.
As for
Madame Web
, if its future depends on whether Sony is happy with how the film is doing, as Dakota Johnson said, what can be expected is that it will be a disaster all at once and we will never find out what happens when the protagonists become superheroes .
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