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svetlana99

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  1. How people can make a mountain out a molehill from a simple and innocuous tweet is beyond me. There's absolutely nothing wrong with what Olivia said. Why do people take others' words, twist them to suit their own interpretation while applying disingenuous context and then blame the "evil liberals/lefties"? That was rhetorical of course but we see this crap all the time from those who scream at the top of their lungs about the "left". They did it to Brie Larson's calls for more inclusitivity in the press junket/circuit before Captain Marvel premiered and they do it whenever they get even the slightest possible hint of someone possibly referencing the idea of representation and equality brought up in any medium of entertainment. Gets tiring having to explain that what someone has misinterpreted is not what was actually stated.
  2. If only this were opening weekend and we could summon Rth with sexy pics and gifs of hot dudes to get this thread back on track. Alas...
  3. $866 million domestic isn't happening though. $850 million is the ceiling. $835 million isn't out of the question as the floor.
  4. Yeah, it's looking like Endgame is going to finish in the 835-850 million range. Which is still, of course, fantastic. Some on here understandably were excited with the prospect of a billion after the OW and thought TFA was "locked". I was optimistic too but I figured that restraint and caution should have been exercised considering no movie had ever pulled in those types of numbers. Legs were always going to be a question mark considering the uncharted waters.
  5. With the Chinese market continuing to expand and Africa being a market that will boom in the future, not to mention inflation, I don't agree that $2.8 billion is the cap. Not even close.
  6. Considering people thought 300 million domestic was a reach before Black Panther released, does it really matter? It shattered every expectation and then some. Nothing takes away from the incredible box office run of that film. As a standalone original entry nonetheless which makes it even more remarkable. Decent hold for Endgame this weekend. If that Sunday hold for Pikachu transpires, solid outing for it as well.
  7. I'd be positively shocked if Endgame gets even a sniff of a Best Picture nomination. Agree that its late legs have the potential to be pretty solid though.
  8. To me, this franchise is the greatest modern trilogy alongside the Rise/Dawn/War of/for the Planet of the Apes trilogy.
  9. I mean, Black Panther was less than 50k away from $700m. The push is peanuts compared to the fudge and help other films get to hit milestones.
  10. Next year I wouldn't be surprised to see TLK hit $800m Domestic and $2.2b WW. I have a feeling that Avengers part 4 isn't going to hit the heights some seem to think though. A $235m OW, $600m Domestic and $1.7b WW haul seems like a fair bet at this point in time.
  11. You're ignoring the Black Panther hype effect for IW at the same time. In either case, these hypothetical adjustments are just that. Just as it is with BP, even though it did receive a late legs boost from IW, I think the same arbitrary claim for IW could be made and who knows if it makes $50m less domestically if Black Panther's hype didn't drive up interest amongst segments of the population who became fans of the MCU and were intrigued by IW due to Black Panther.
  12. What the hell is happening in this thread. Also, please hurry up and get to $700m BP so the naysayers and doombringers who think it's going to stall out a couple hundred thousand short can be optimistic and cheerful for a handful of seconds.
  13. Thought I'd taken a hard right turn to the cesspools of Reddit for a second and had to double check I was on BOT seeing those terms littering this thread. But yeah, just seeing them written is straight up laughable and I can't imagine keeping a straight face if I heard them uttered in real life. Though, and I think it was this thread, the brief "soyboy" discussion earlier reminded me that the first time I ever heard that I thought it was referring to a new Starbucks craze. Wish I never learned the actual meaning of that one and could've lived in ignorance.
  14. $60 million 3rd weekend is awesome for IW. Would definitely keep $700M well in play.
  15. Some people are determined to feel disappointed just for the sake of being disappointed by having placed these ridiculous expectations in their minds of what IW was going to do. Eternal pessimists looking for something to complain about. Calling a 110+ 2nd weekend "horrible" is so out of touch with reality I don't even know where to begin.
  16. Insane Monday # for IW. I mean, what else can you say at this point. Internationally it is just straight up ridiculous too. Great Monday for Black Panther as well. Chances at $700m are what, 80%?
  17. Interesting post. The fact is, Black Panther doesn't have a comparable in terms of anything else Hollywood has ever put out in terms of faithfully executing a film that could (and did) appeal to not only the still woefully underserved minority audience, but general audiences of every creed from every walk of life. I think you're misunderstanding Black Panther's impact beyond the fact that it was another incredible installment in Marvel's string of Phase 3 runaway successes. Besides being an excellent comic book film, it had an intriguing and multifaceted antagonist, a titular character who audiences were excited to learn more about, a locale steeped in African culture while at the same time celebrating Afrofuturism in a way its never before been depicted on screen and an important sociopolitical message tastefully weaved throughout in a way that perfectly complemented the other aspects of the film. Comparing Black Panther to what has come before it, those films and television shows you mentioned that had minority leads as protagonists, is an insult to what Coogler and company put on the screen. Not because they weren't good or important but because they didn't come close to putting it together in as good a manner or with the quality Black Panther did. To say "nobody" was waiting for Black Panther is insulting to those who have waited their entire lives to see a film like BP. I mean, the box office figures speak for themselves when it comes to Black Panther's place amongst Super Hero films even beyond the MCU but judging by the cultural zeitgeist is created (thanks due in large part to a massive amount of non-traditional movie goers feeling like they needed to see the film), I'm not sure your interpretation of what people were or were not waiting for is entirely grounded in reality.
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