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What happened to The Flash?

FF7 OS performance was insane. I doubt its sequels will match it though.

I may not have liked JW much but I'm not downplaying the brand power of the JP franchise. Everything dinosaur-related in pop culture is directly from the franchise. JW will be remembered as the best sequel to the classic JP (not like that's a huge achievement.) Most fans of JW are the casual audience too, not the sort to spend hours on the internet talking about the movie or writing fanfiction.

I wasn't that impressed with TFA but I agree about TA and TDK.

Great OW for CW. 200M OW is still a difficult milestone which makes it even more impressive. I hope that means people won't continue to act like 200M OW is a guarantee for any major blockbuster. Kind of annoying how JW had worst reviews than CW and passed 200M though.

Like I said before, a movie doesn't have to make 200M OW to be a success. These numbers for CW are great and well-deserved. I expect it'll have some great legs too.

I've seen the movie and I disagree. A cameo doesn't have an impact on the plot. If you remove all the characters that weren't in TWS (minus IM), the plot would be drastically different. They're supporting characters in Avengers 2.5. And you described what an all antagonists in any story are supposed to do. They don't need to have a story arc. Arguably, IM does have a character arc in CW.

20 minutes is beyond extended cameo. And you're excluding the airport scene. And how does the antagonist (one of the most important character in any story), not count?

CW is an Avenger movie in all but name. Not only was it marketed as such, but it features almost all the Avengers with the debuts of Black Panther and Spiderman. If it only featured Iron Man then it would still be a Captain America film. The numbers are great though. Second weekend record?

Oh right. At least CW has a great opening. A movie doesn't have to have a 200m+ OW to be considered a success.

80m Saturday means CW would demolish JW and TFA numbers for highest Saturday. No way in hell that'll happen.

I don't blame TFA for over-expectations since it was always expected to do big numbers. Maybe not as huge as it actually did, but still big. I blame JW. Since that movie over-performed out of nowhere, everyone expects any highly anticipated blockbuster to cruise pass 200m OW. The #s for CW right now are great. Plain and simple.

You seriously think Batfleck getting hate online is equivalent to the universal panning of Batman & Robin?

Batfleck didn't hurt the Batman brand as much (if at all) as Batman vs Robin did. Again, BvS was coming off a critical and financial successful trilogy. It was in a much better position than BB. Even with the divisive MoS. And point out where I talked about Ledger.

BvS is not in the same position as Batman Begins. Batman Begins was the first Batman film 8 years after the bomb that was Batman & Robin. Of course it wouldn't do amazing numbers. But what did was build enough goodwill with the GA so that the TDK and TDKR would be hits.