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I think you meant 41M here There's this club that needs to win, you know

Like I said... Can't compare Friday openers with non-Friday openers. edit: All 3 movies you mentioned opened on a wednesday. edit#2: Replying to @Cochofles Well, the link is simply a list of superhero movies, which you can order by release date, dom total, OW, etc. (it's currently ordered by release date if you follow the link) I based my calculations off that list. As for headlines, they're not quite headlines per se, just posts I've seen with a lot of upvotes on community-based websites, even though they're not exact When your post is being read by thousands of users however, it's not far from being an actual headline that people remember.

BTW, I've been seeing all these "Wonder Woman best drops since Spider-Man in 2002" posts all over the place (mostly reddit), or most notably, "WW might get best multi since Spider-Man in 2002"... I'd just like to point out that Guardians of the Galaxy had a 3.53 multiplier, while Spider-Man had a 3.52 multiplier. So if anything... . . . GOTG is the movie to beat purely in terms of legs Wonder Woman having more than a 3.53 multiplier (GOTG) would make it the leggiest superhero movie since... Batman Returns in 1992 I guess? (Friday and $40M+ openers only) -- Depends on the OW threshold. More than 3.56 would mean best legs since Tim Burton's Batman... and to beat Batman she would need a 6+ modifier, so that's where the fun stops. Guardians of the Galaxy is the leggiest superhero movie since 1992, I don't know why everyone's going with Spider-Man. Of course one of the non-Friday openers could also be the big winner, but we can't compare them with Friday openers, for obvious reasons. So yeah, I can understand why everyone's going for that headline, since, well "Heading for best multi since Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014" sounds much less awesome than 2002. fun stuff: Replace $40M+ openers with only big openers ($70M+) and Wonder Woman would become the leggiest superhero movie of all-time with just a 3.54 multiplier. Superhero movies are so front-loaded source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?view=main&sort=date&order=DESC&pagenum=1&id=superhero.htm I say the leggiest Superhero movie in recent years is The Force Awakens with 3.78

Partly because it was the first movie to do it. The mixed reception to some of the earlier installments was easier to forget because of that. Curiosity factor played into it. Fast-forward to now and franchise characters teaming up for the first time ain't nothing new, and certainly less impressive than it was, especially if their solo movies before that are turds.

7M should be a good target

Everyone's praising Gal Gadot, Patty Jenkins, Chris Pine, and their own moms for Wonder Woman's success, both BO and critically... And there I am, quietly clapping for the screenwriter, Allan Heinberg, who gets so little recognition when we all know that all good movies start with a good script So, I'm taking this short moment to praise the screenwriter. Wonder Woman was his first feature film, and I'm intrigued to see what he does next, because he definitely has talent, as this BO run proves. Of course he didn't write it alone, but as he's the only one with actual screenplay credit on this movie (not just story), technically he did the bulk of the work. edit: He's actually got next to no followers on twitters, and his posts have like 20 likes

Can Wonder Woman have a better multiplier than ... Rogue One? ($354M) . . . TFA? ($390M) edit: They're holiday movies! Jesus christ

I'll take watching Wonder Woman kicking some absolute fucking ass over hearing about some asshats stabbing people in the streets any day of the week.

Well, with all the bleak news about terrorist attacks lately, and ongoing wars, and stupid political decisions being made in pretty much all developed countries... It's no surprise that people flock to movies which make them feel good, forget.

Now that Wonder Woman has proven to the world that you can successfully open a female-led superhero tentpole... ... Where's my Scarlet Witch movie??! (cue terrible script here and this is all for nothing )

Fixed that for you

Edge of Tomorrow failed because of the marketing. It looked bland as fuck. (it wasn't)

Indeed, there are quite a few examples. In recent movies, Emily Blunt in EoT, Rebecca Ferguson in Mission Impossible 5, Felicity Jones in Rogue One, Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde (well, movie isn't out, but I'd be willing to bet she'll be kicking ass just from the trailers alone). Also, Ripley in Aliens is a complete bad-ass after her more "unlikely/reluctant hero" part in Alien. Speaking of unlikely female hero, which is from my post earlier, the category usually reserved for the horror genre these days (unfortunately), Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit makes for a formidable candidate, and a proof that neither age nor sex of a protagonist are limiting factors. So is Ivana Baquero in Pan's Labyrinth. Sadly, there are still so few of them...

I just wanna say, you know what I enjoy about characters like Wonder Woman and Rey, and why audiences are connecting with these characters in unprecedented fashion as well? No spoilers for WW (except if you've been actively avoiding trailers) You see, both of these characters, at first glance, kick a lot more ass than what their appearance leads us to believe, and that's a very important point. There's this apparent vulnerability to both of them, which, when revealed to be wrong (or partly wrong), is part of their character's charm. They look quite ordinary, at least as far as physical capabilities go. I know, I know, Wonder Woman is incredibly pretty, but that doesn't mean she looks threatening. In fact, it's a central component of Wonder Woman's character that she gets dismissed or underestimated for being a woman at every turn, and yet, she can deflect bullets and level buildings. Appearances can be deceptive indeed. As for Rey, she's got the Force, so sort of the same thing here. She's deceptively strong and, post-training, she could probably overpower just about anyone short of other Force users, even though she looks like a normal girl. So in the case of both of these characters, there's something more than what meets the eye at first glance. Naturally, there's more to it than that, but it's part of their appeal. They're special, and in an interesting way -- an unexpected way. Not that it can't happen with men (does Gandalf look threatening...?), but the fact that they're women is actually important to their character, because it serves as a basis of expectations vs reality, and filmmakers can play on those expectations very well. They're simultaneously bad-ass and very much grounded in reality because of gender expectations. Now on the opposite side of the spectrum you have women who look like they could kick your ass, and would most likely kick your ass. Think Charlize Theron in Mad Max, Famke Jansen in Goldeneye, Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow, Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2... Now the key here is that there's nothing deceptive about them (you know, like the fact they don't have superpowers), and that makes them compelling because you don't doubt for one second their capacity, and they've worked hard for it in a male-centric world. The few who don't respect that... let's just say that generally it doesn't end well for them. They're equally as interesting precisely because of what they overcame to get there. For all of those characters above, and those similar to them, the fact that they're women is an integral part of their character, while also not limiting them in any way, and I very much enjoy that. Somewhere right in the middle you would have an ordinary woman which the story would follow. Basically, she's just someone who happens to be a woman. She may or may not perform heroic deeds, may or may not fall in love, as would anyone normal would in their situation. She could mess up. If there's one place to look to find examples here, it's in horror movies. Ripley from the first Alien would probably be the best example of this, as would Rose from Silent Hill, and pretty much every horror movie out there with an ordinary female protagonist. They're interesting characters as well, obviously. They represent us, they represent, well, everyone, and half of the planet are women anyway, so they better damn well be represented not only in normal situations, but in fantasy/sci-fi situations as well, which is why I like Wonder Woman and TFA for what they did, they had a female lead in roles typically reserved for men and made it work spectacularly well. I just hope that studios will draw the right conclusions from the success of Wonder Woman. I guess what I'm trying to say here is that we want to see interesting characters, regardless of their gender... Male-led movies with boring leads are equally uninteresting anyway. ...oh boy that became quite the wall of text

holy crap waking up to this saturday number What a week-end!

reading these last few pages

The one and only

I actually watched BvS ultimate cut after seeing it in theaters, and I have to disagree. It's still a bloated mess to me. I went with it on 2nd viewing with an open mind, and still reached the same conclusions I did back with the theatrical. Plus, Wonder Woman's appearance isn't even a tenth as badass as her scenes in her own movie. The courtroom scene is great, however, and Superman appeared more human and fleshed out in this version. Still doesn't save the movie, though.

Awesome! When I told my mom about the movie she said "oh yeah, that old symbol" I was like wut?