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The only thing I can feasibly see surpassing this hype is a Secret Wars movie made by the Russos (who have said they want to do it) that combines both Secret Wars and Secret Wars 2 stories and has multiple realities converge. This is how they bring in the X-Men and Fantastic Four and it features the return of the OG Avengers. That could beat this. Other than that I can't see anything in the MCU that can.

Yeah an MCU and Star Wars crossover seemed forced and tacky. I think we might get some FF/Avengers and X-Men/Avengers crossovers that ultimately builds to an all hands on deck, all-Marvel mega event featuring everyone. Onslaught maybe? Secret Wars? Something of that scope.

People in this thread are getting excited by the millions upon millions of dollars this movie is making while simultaneously getting upset that the movie's star is getting paid a lot of money...

Oh man, I think about Terrance Howard every time there's a big War Machine scene in an MCU movie. I mean, I get that he was a critical darling around the time they were casting the first Iron Man, having starred in two big Oscar movies in 2005. He probably thought (or at least the people advising him thought) he was going to become a massive movie star.

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Damn, I remember back in the BOM forums days when I was a much more active poster it being a big deal when Anger Management became the first $40 million April opener. Infinity War basically did that in 5 hours Thursday night lol.

Disney will announce Avengers movies whenever they damn well please. They know they can do whatever the hell they want.

The Force Awakens' 3 opening weekend days are currently in the top 36 days of all time. Pretty impressive. However, Infinity War's 3 opening weekend days should easily land in the top 20, and could get closer to top 15. Hooo-leeeyy shit

I saw Infinity War for a second time today at 9 am. I can't speak to The Force Awakens, but I did see The Last Jedi at this exact time (9:00 on the first Sunday.) When I saw TLJ most of the seats were empty. This morning I watched Infinity War in a sold out theater.

I had this random memory this weekend. I thought back to the fall of 2005 when I was working in the electronics department of Walmart. One of my co-workers had never seen a superhero movie before and he decided to buy every DVD he could get his hands on in our store. We're talking some true classics; the 2005 Fantastic Four, Ben Affleck's Daredevil, Nicholas Cage's Ghostrider, and Ang Lee's Hulk were four of his purchases. We talked about the superhero movie genre as something of a dying entity. Despite the commercial success of Rami's Spider-Man and the critical success of Batman Begins, it felt like comic book movies as a whole had run their course and fatigue was setting in. This was three full years before Iron Man. Simply astounding to see where we are today.

Maybe it's an inevitability as we get older but I don't think I like this trend of movies based on real events that I clearly remember happening in my adult life. It also doesn't help that there are so many (Sully, Deepwater Horizen, this) coming out in a short period of time. As for this movie, it's going to be tough for me. I was working a half mile from the bombs when they went off. I was ultimately safe, but the terror I felt amid the chaos of that day was real. I remember the surrealness of going back to work two days after the bombings (and two days before they caught the suspect) walking to the office in an area typically occupied by young professionals and coffee shops and seeing heavily armed military personnel patrolling the streets. I remember staying up all night and watching the police shoot it out with the two suspects on the news like it was some action movie. I remember being essentially locked indoors the next day as the manhunt for the remaining living suspect took place. The week was scary and surreal and 3 and a half years later I still remember every detail. Having said that, I remember the heroism and the pride I felt to be born and raised in Massachusetts. I still feel that pride today and I think the movie will do a good job touching that emotion. I'll probably end up seeing it, but I know I don't have to because I'll never forget anything from that week. Fun fact: I'm friends with the daughter of the police officer Mark Whalberg's character is loosely based on.

Funny line on reddit this morning: Batman v Superman has worse legs than Barbara Gordon.

You're still missing the point. It's not about how much money you make - it's about how much money you could have made but didn't. Why do you think athletes and actors making $10+ million are always renegotiating their contracts once they see their peers making more than them? The market has changed and now the money they were happy with a minute ago feels insulting. If you saw Batman v Superman you probably saw the trailer for "War Dogs." The first joke in the trailer addresses this very thing. They're happy that they won the government contract with the price they quoted until they discovered it was $50 million lower than the next lowest bidder. So is $900 million good? Yes it is. Batman v Superman will make money with this take and its merchandise sales. But imagine if the movie made the same in merchandising AND grossed over $1 billion? That would be even better. And it's not like this was a pipe dream. With the concept for this film, the money was there for the taking if Snyder made a good movie. Don't kid yourself into thinking that's not the case.

AMC in Danvers Massachusetts - about a half hour north of Boston.

BTW, I meant to report this yesterday, but I saw BvS for the fourth time yesterday morning and the theater was packed. It was the second busiest showing after that 6pm premiere on that opening Thursday night.