Thrylos 7

So now I see ROTK being brought up. Funny when I mentioned ROTK almost a year ago in the first few pages of the international thread of EG nobody seemed to agree with me, instead EG would drop because....reasons. As to what went right, IW is a beloved film, a classic blockbuster that created good faith. Endgame is good too so it didn’t destroy the momentum it had. IW was so strong that disney didn’t even need to put one money shot in the trailers of endgame.

Agreed about Titanic, many thought that it would flop and ruin Cameron. Avatar is another story entirely though.

So when Avatar 2 breaks records will people be whining about sequels too ?

Wow that is some revisionist history. An “out of nowhere film” ? The next Cameron film 12 years after the phenomenon that was titanic, that boasted “impressive” new technology, had an insane (by 2009 standards, hell even by today’s standards it is big) 240 million production budget and was hyped beyond belief everywhere in the world was an “out of nowhere” film ? What’s next, Avatar was similar to something like “my big fat Greek wedding” ? Oh and it is nice to see that something that was considered a HUGE disadvantage in this forum before IW opened , the fact that it was to be the culmination of a gazillion films so it couldn’t break a certain box office ceiling because you must have watched all these films and so on and so on (the posts are still here), suddenly became a big .....advantage, again revisionist history. Cameron’s films were phenomenons, the whole MCU is a phenomenon , the end.

Wanna do a count about how many posts in this thread are from Cameron fans and how many are actually attacking the movies you mention ?

There is no “biggest film in America” in the concept of my post, it failed to pass titanic with 35 years of nostalgia, the end. Some people are acting like passing titanic WW is no big deal because this and that and in the next 100 years blah blah blah. Also all these “biggest overseas”, “biggest in the U.S”, “biggest in Luxembourg” e.t.c rankings are meaningless, biggest in the WORLD is where it is at.

I was actually talking about worldwide which would be evident if you had quoted my entire post instead of cutting it.

So why wasn’t titanic surpassed in the last, i don’t know, 22 years ? People are acting as if this is something almost normal yet no Star Wars, LOTR, Harry Potter or any other franchise film managed to do it nevermind having 2 FILMS OVER 2 billion $$ worldwide in the span of 12 months. 2 films with a total worldwide box office gross of around 5 billion $$ in 12 months. Get some perspective....

Well it is not everyday or every year or every five years that a film beats titanic and is poised to beat Avatar. TFA fell on its face for example.

Inflation is not the only factor when comparing two movies over two decades apart.

I thought that we were discussing box office. What do random directors from completely different eras have to do with anything ?

Well the Star Wars film started in 1977 while the MCU films started in 2008.

But at least it led to the creation of the best thread ever in this forum. Such a fascinating read that alita thread was, thanks to the people that kept it on the front page long enough so I could see it and read it. Picture-perfect representation of the forum.

Easily.

The guy literally wrote 7 words. It’s, people who always whine about “meltdowns” that are writing bs post after bs post as if they are forum police or something. Last year’s IW’s 2nd U.S weekend prevented it from passing BP domestically and TFA (worldwide), 2 substantial achievements.

Nope, Quigley knows this stuff.

His comps indicate an opening weekend between 220-520 million

I replied with the same style he replied to me, don’t care about his comps which are wrong anyway.

Here’s a tip, if you have such a “busy” schedule don’t try to make “scientific” estimates made out of thin air. Your method is as wrong as it could be.

Everywhere sold out in Thursday too, people eager to watch it before Easter. Cinemas are closed on Friday.

What is this ? You are taking the pre-sales of the last few days and making comparisons based on them ? Endgame has already sold hundreds of thousands of tickets more than the rest of the movies in your comparisons BEFORE the last 4 days.

The MCU brought the comic books to the big screen without being ashamed of their source material. These were pure comic book movies from the beginning, no gothic visions of a director (the Burton batman films), not based to reality comic book films (the Nolan batman films), not hindered by budget watered down versions (the fox X-Men and FF4 films). What the MCU achieved changed the landscape of the industry and made comic book movies worldwide box office juggernauts even non-MCU films. They raised the bar, before the MCU we had the occasional batman film, spider man, Warner was struggling to reboot Superman for about a million years, and some smaller caliber and sporadic films (one semi successful X-men film here one so so FF4 film there, failed attempts at daredevil and women leading comic book films, Electra, catwoman). The MCU brought us galaxies, northern Gods, wizards controlling alternate dimensions ...every crazy thing that was available in comics and studios had never dared to touch. The MCU legacy will live on and it is far more important than a movie introducing a fad that died a few years later (3d).

and gone with the wind adjusts to a trillion dollars in the U.S. There is a reason we generally don’t use adjusted numbers but whatever makes you happy, I don’t want to be threabanned because my last thread ban was way too easy compared what is allowed for other people.

Why are people talking about Star Wars trailer views in a thread about the upcoming weekend ?

Thanks for the list, some really surprising entries in there .