Cooper Legion

In fact, decided to do a little digging with numbers. When JW1 came out, this is how many films had reached those numbers: 145+ OW: 10 375+ DOM: 24 1B+ WW: 22 And now: 145+ OW: 21 (+110%) 375+ DOM: 37 (+54%) 1B+ WW: 35 (+59%) It’s not that these are small numbers, or something idiotic like that. It’s still approximately the 20th biggest unadjusted opening in history. But they aren’t big boy numbers either, not anymore. In 2015 JW played like a top dog, and now it isn’t. Many people have been expecting that for a while, and it fell less than it could have, but it’s still not an unreasonable thing to point out.

There are many films for which 145/375/1B would be incredibly dissapointing. Welcome to 2018, where numbers that used to be BIG aren’t necessarily anymore.

I hope you realize that there is nothing inconsistent about those two things. If a movie needed a 50M OW to be not dissapointing, and someone predicted 20M, and it came in at 35 M, they’d be perfectly fine saying “this did 75% better than I thought it would, but looked at in a broader context the numbers aren’t that great.”

Well, I mean, 145 isn’t great exactly for a sequel to a 208 opener, but it could have been a lot worse. This is one of those middle results that isn’t really going to do too much in terms of sparking crazy reactions.

Top Movies this year: 1) Infinity War Gap 2) Black Panther 3) Incredibles 2 Gap 4) Deadpool 2 I guess technically some other movies came out this year but I made like the GA and didn’t watch them in theaters

I don’t see anyone in my theater’s parking lot.

I believe we learned quite recently that surprise cliffhanger endings lead to good multis if done well

It's ranked above #1, only those who are truly worthy can see it.

Incredibles 2 might not even be able to pass TLJ, totally C R U M B L I N G

Damn, you had me thinking that there was a single movie titled “Lobster Cop and The Way of the Bug” there. China, please deliver on this massive crossover potential.

I have my differences with @That One Guy sometimes, but his recent post is a high-effort masterpiece and I will not stand for anyone trying to tell him otherwise.

Speaking of queerbaiting

Oh deadline, off by 25% So the kingdom isn’t falling after all, good for it. Still probably won’t be a top 20 OW, which is an unprecedented drop from #1, but at least it has a good chance to make the yearly top 5 now.

Crazy to think that just one year ago, nobody liked Thor, 400 was seen as the max a solo MCU could do DOM, Thanos was a purple thumb joke — and JL, TLJ, Solo, and FK all hadn’t happened yet. Who knows what what the next year will bring.

Also worth noting that it seems no sequel to a OW record breaker has managed to also place at #1 in the modern era — if A4 can get there it will be the first since JP:LW.

TA and TFA both “dropped” to #2 OWs with their direct sequels. (248+ for A4 is confirmed. ) TDK->TDKR falls to #3, DMC->AWE fell to #4, Sorcerer’s Stone ->Chamber of Secrets fell to #3, Spider-Man->Spider-Man 2 seems to have fallen to #7. So indeed, looks like a historic performance from a sequel to a #1 opener.

After the direct predecessor’s #1 OW, look like this OW will rank 50th-30th or so. Another new record?

If 12 is real, AM&tW could make a run at the OW too

1) JP LW, JP3, JW, FK: haven’t seen

Optimistically: 13.5*9=122 Pessimistically: 12*8.5=102 Very optimistically: 16*10=160 Very pessimistically 11*8=88

Oh geeze. I’ve only seen the updated title so far, Time to find out just how much of a dumpster fire this thread has become.

Just one $10 ticket away from perfect million magnitude niceness.

Need another 30 hours for this to be locked up.

If a certain movie releasing soon can get to 338+ it will be the 4th