andrewgr
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There is a potential scenario that I don't see anyone mentioning that could get A:EG past Avatar.
Avatar and Titanic both remained in theaters for 40+ weeks, and I don't see people talking about the same possibility for A:EG. I can imagine it coming up short by 150-250 million by the time we expect it to close, and then multiplexes seeing enough demand to just leave a theater or two playing it through Christmas, with it bringing in a consistent 5-10 million a week. For that matter, I can envision a scenario where theaters offer a double feature of A:IW and A:EG twice every Saturday and Sunday for the next 6 months.
I don't think this is likely to happen, but I also don't think it's impossible. I'm seeing a fair number of people talking about having seen it 5, 6, 7 times already. If it has that sort of Titanic/Avatar repeat viewing appeal, that ridiculously long tail doesn't seem out of the question.
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11 hours ago, Porthos said:
T-7 days:
JW2 122 tickets sold [0 sellouts/111 showings | 9272/11263 seats left | 17.68% sold]
Pika (JW) 66 tickets sold [0 sellouts/66 showings | 5701/6526 seats left | 12.64% sold]
FB2 123 tickets sold [0 sellouts/94 showings | 11165/13377 seats left | 16.54% sold]
Pika (FBj) 66 tickets sold [0 sellouts/66 showings | 6181/7039 seats left | 12.19% sold]
Pika (JW) is the number of tickets sold at the same theaters I had tracking info for Fallen Kingdom
Pika (FB) is the number of tickets sold at the same theaters I had tracking info for Crimes of Grindelwald
For clarification, the number of tickets sold is just for that one day, correct? Whereas the number of seats left and percentage sold is cumulative?
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3 minutes ago, Chewy said:
Worst movie to ever make 357M in 3 days
And also the best!
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34 minutes ago, sahmeelg said:
It might make $1B from China alone. The rest depends on other territories. 3D isn't a fad anymore in many places. It's up to that movie if* it causes another 3D resurgence. Though it's funny how many people on Twitter (under those news tweets about Endgame's OW) want Endgame to get to $3B. They really don't like Avatar having that crown 😂
I think the overwhelming majority of people who are rooting for EG to make $3B have nothing against Avatar whatsoever. They just like the MCU and like being part of big events and milestones. You could probably collect all the people in the entire world who actively dislike the fact that Avatar is the current all time Boxoffice champ inside a large High School football stadium.
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1 hour ago, tawasal said:
I'm 52. I've been consuming computer porn since I was like 15 or 16, back on the Commodore 64, when it literally took multiple hours to download a single picture or two of a naked lady.
And with God as my witness, this is the first moment that I learned that porn scenes with people cosplaying superheroes was a thing.
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I think there's a scenario where the underwater filming technology that Cameron has been working on for 2 decades delivers such an amazing experience that it recreates the original Avatar's success, which was driven by his use of cutting edge 3D technology.
I don't think this is likely. I think it's a long shot. But the possibility is there, it's not like it's just another movie with no unique visual/technological hook to possibly cash in on.
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These quotes look quite promising: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/avengers-endgame-first-reactions-epic-emotional-endgame-exceeds-expectations/
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10 hours ago, terrestrial said:
She has way more:
1. She 'knows' per Kree the person she sees during the Intelligence communication is the person she trusted most. For 6 years that gets hammered into her.
2. She knows Skrulls can only skim recent memories, so there is no way they influenced that.
3. She also dreams about the person she trusts mosts in those 6 years, what she knows per see point 1
4. The evidence discrepancy between what she got told (noble,...) and how e.g. the accusers work she sees then too
5. She knows per Krees and found evidence, that she has a reason fo losing her memory. Evidence points strongly to her being lied to by the Krees, starting with how she got her powers, the Krees knowing more than they said to her, seeing Yon-Rogg there as she remembers more and more beside him implying to her earlier on he doesn't know about her living on earth, also about who / what Mar-Vell was in his POV in one of those long-distance calls.
That Mar-Vell is Kree she knows also per the papers the find in the archive
6. How to interpret whichs POV she knows in the case of Mar-Vell also per having worked with her for some time, having gained a lot of respect for her.
As she remembers more and more, as her friend confirms more and more about the character/intentions of Mar-Vell, e.g. per said statements, in the sum its builds up.
Means to me Talos telling her things is not the reason to change as in main reason, but 'he' is the reason to change as the final point, the last drop that is flooding the water-barrel (you say seemingly in this case: It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back)
(pretty sure I forgot something)
Okay, I don't want to derail the thread for this relatively minor disagreement. The change was too sudden and too complete for me. I still loved the movie, as I said previously it's in my top one-third of MCU movies. All I was trying to do by mentioning this part that didn't work for me was to acknowledge that I don't think it's a flawless movie, or that there aren't legitimate things to complain about in it.
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16 minutes ago, LouisianaArkansasGeorgia said:
Plus, have Evans or Ruffalo ever said anything that could be easily twisted into "I hate such or such members of the film's potential audience"??
No. But then again, neither did Brie Larson.
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7 hours ago, ChipMunky said:
I mean, she gave them a chance to prove it. They played the recording, she got her memory back. That pretty much confirmed it.
I don't think so, at all. She has some cryptic comment from Mar-vel that she wants to end a war; that in no way implies or confirms that the Skrull are innocent, downtrodden refugees that the Kree are mercilessly persecuting. And she's got the fact that her Kree mentor lied to her about her origin, and had shot down Mar-vel. Both of these memories could easily have multiple plausible explanations-- for example, that Mar-vel had been the victim of Skrull mind-tampering, and was about to deliver the light drive to the Skrull in the mind-washed belief that they would use it to flee the galaxy, when in reality they were going to use it to accelerate ball bearings to the speed of light and turn the Kree homeworld into a fine mist, while the Collective AI had simply sealed off her memories so she could concentrate on her training, and she would have gotten them back after she completed her first mission. For that matter, Vers shouldn't even be trusting her own memories, given that the first time she recalled them was when she was in Skrull captivity and hooked up to some sort of mind link device.
I didn't find her switch from being a proud, dedicated "noble warrior hero" to joining the other side and killing unknown numbers of her former comrades to be any more compelling than, say, Annakin killing an entire school of 10 year olds because he was afraid of his wife dying. In both cases, I'm not saying that I can't see the logic of getting from point A to point B; I'm saying that the transition happens way too fast and with way too little justifcation to work for me.
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My wife and I saw it last night. It's one of my wife's favorite MCU movies, and I put it in the top one-third. Neither of us thought her performance was in any way stiff or wooden; my wife jumped to the conclusion that people who say that are expecting more overt emotional displays from a woman than from a man, but I'm willing to believe it's just a genuine, non gender based assessment of her performance.
There were certainly some gaping plot holes that didn't need to be there--
Spoilereveryone just believing the Skrulls' version of events with no real proof and only spotty circumstantial evidence felt really contrived and lazy
-- and the action slowed for too long in the 3rd act. But it delivered more or less exactly what I want and expect out of an MCU movie. I thought it was better than Black Panther, where the notion that the most technologically advanced society on the planet determines its leader by primitive combat and then obeys that leader with no checks and balances to be so blatantly racist and unbelievable that I was distracted for most of the rest of the movie just wrestling with it. But I rooted hard for BP and was really happy at its success and at the obvious joy that it brought to so many people, particularly African Americans. In the same vein, I would like to think that people who don't enjoy CM as much as they might have hoped would still appreciate the value of having a strong female hero for girls to idolize, and hope that she is handled more to their liking in future movies.
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Weekend Thread: Endgame 40.6M Friday, 61-62.5m Sat (per Asgard p.49)
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Shazam seems like a very enjoyable movie for kids, or families that include kids. My wife and I saw it alone (we don't have children), and could see where the appeal would be, but would rather have used our time some other way, even just at home catching up on a show or two we have recorded.