John Harris

I really wanted to see TA again last night (couldn't fit it in, though ) since it was the last opportunity for TA: IMAX for the foreseeable future. I wonder if many movie-goers felt the same way, attributing to the nice bump? Will be interesting to see if the loss of IMAX hurts it much. I doubt it. I see it just creeping over $50-mil for the 4-day.

I called the $200-mil opening on the IMDB boards. I had forgotten HP1 had broken TLW's record by the time Spidey hit theaters, though - otherwise my post was pretty Nostradamus-like!

I respectfully disagree. While most reasonable posters were predicting a regular post-Victoria-Day drop, some on here were predicting a massive week-long slide, starting Tuesday, leading to a 4-day Memorial Day Weekend barely at somewhere in the mid-30s.

I used to love Venom also, but the concept is terribly flawed. I get why the symbiote hates Peter Parker, after he rejects it, but Eddie Brock blaming Spider-Man for identifying the real murderer, after Brock had exposed a phony, is about as flimsy a motivation as I've ever read in comics. It would be like holding a lifelong grudge against your doctor for an unwelcome but CORRECT diagnosis. And that's why he hates Spidey more than anyone on the planet??? Shouldn't that anger have been targeted toward the lying fake Sin-Eater who "confessed" to Brock?Also, if rth's 5 mil Tues TA estimate is anywhere near correct (and he's been pretty dead-on so far), many of y'all's doom-and-gloom predictions for TA this week are looking pretty laughable.

OK. Among the top ten opening weekends of all time, TA had the lowest 2nd-weekend drop, percentage wise. Not until you get down to Alice In Wonderland, with the 12th-best opening ever, do you find a smaller drop.

Are you being sarcastic? Or are you just really hard to please? :)That $100-million second weekend, and $55-million third weekend, weren't indicative of pretty good legs? Stacy Kiebler's got nuthin' on The Avengers, my friend!

Spidey rules, Avatar drools! Spider-Man is the only movie I've seen at the theater more times (7) than Avengers (5, tied with Die Hard on my personal list), so I'm fine with that adjusted ranking!

TA second-biggest 3rd weekend ever, by a wide margin: 1. Avatar:$68,490,688 2. The Avengers: $55,644,102 3. Spider-Man: $45,036,912 I guess Avatar's 4th weekend record ($50.3 mil) is safe, unless Avengers has an unprecedented boost on Memorial Day weekend.

So I'd say $100 mil is still a lock, even at $43 mil Saturday...?

I had major problems with the final 5 minutes of TDK. A) Batman isn't supposed to kill, especially an essentially good man like Harvey Dent, who had only fallen to the Dark Side in the last week (?) or so of his life. In doing so, the Joker basically won - Batman broke his "one rule." I think Bats should've figured out another solution. I was much more interested in Joker than Two-Face, so the showdown with Harvey seemed anticlimactic to me. C) It was just too "clean" that Batman was going to be blamed for what Dent did. Again, Joker's prophecy comes to pass: The public turns on Batman. Brilliant in some eyes; convenient and contrived in mine. D) Gordon's son: If Batman saved my life at that age, it would take a lot more than Dad's frilly speech at the end to prevent me from blabbing nonstop to every friend/teacher/acquaintance about what really happened that night. I'd call the papers if I saw everyone calling Batman a killer, knowing what had actually happened. Despite the ending, I do love the movie, mostly cuz of Joker/Ledger.

Along those lines, TA is really the first Marvel movie whose 3rd act is stronger than its first two. And after seeing it a few times, I really appreciate the ending, (SPOILERS if you haven't seen TA!)....with Nick Fury saying "Now the whole world knows... EVERY world knows!" and the "A" on Stark Tower as the final shot. I rank that ahead of TDK's ending, which is a bit too depressing. Love Oldman/Bale's BB ending, though! And of course the "I am Iron Man!" ending was great, even if IM's final battle was lackluster. I'm not sure anything has topped Spidey's Final Swing in SM1, though, at least not in my eyes. "Who am I? I'm SPIDER-MAN!"

Was bojomojojohn involved back then? Is he still on this board under a different name? I remember he was THE big Star Wars defender back in 2002, and he was beside himself when SM1 beat ROTS that summer. He predicted a $100 mil boost when ROTS hit IMAX - now THAT was a prediction! Don't mean to hijack the thread - I recently found this board after years on the BOM boards. Good to see some old "faces" still around, like baumer and BKB.

I agree. I'm a big-time Marvel Zombie since the mid-1970s, but I loved Batman Begins and TDK. I loved Avengers more, but I look forward to TDKR, also. It really is a golden age for us comic geeks! I'm so jealous of my 12-year-old son, who didn't have to suffer through that awful Spidey TV series in the late 70s, or the laughable "Thor" in that Hulk TV-movie.

TDK currently has the "2nd Friday" record, doesn't it? $23,232,292, slightly higher than Avatar. Joking or not, I don't think Nikki is going to be able to crow "NO RECORD!" for any of the Avengers' 2nd weekend numbers!