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[Joyous Legion]

29 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

I think the first 2 hours had wonderful character work and interactions and the middle section was probably my favorite in the film.

Yeah, Acts 1 and 2 were my favorite.

[CJohn]

300M OW still not locked, but the record OW is going down. The MCU is the king. No doubt about this. 

[KJsooner]

16 minutes ago, PPZVGOS said:

When I was a teen, I wanted to believe that ROTJ is just a flawed masterpiece, that it was just the Ewoks that spoil an otherwise great Star Wars movie. 

 

But no, ROTJ is bad overall, almost Prequel Trilogy bad. 

 

Reminds me of an Episode from How I Met Your Mother when the main character was dating a woman who didn’t like the Ewoks or ROTJ. 

[Lordmandeep]

using 

IW multiplier : 396 million 🤣

TLJ: 293 million 😎

[NannerManCan]

3 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

AHHHHHHHHHH

[Sue Denim]

31 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

I think the first 2 hours had wonderful character work and interactions and the middle section was probably my favorite in the film.

TRUTH!!  That middle section made me giddy.

[justvision]

18 minutes ago, Ipickthiswhiterose said:

 

I'm gathering that the "Not as good as Infinity War" folks generally prefer narrative and pacing to character work.

 

If you prefer character work to narrative and pacing then Endgame will come off as better for you.

 

These are generalisations of course, but they seem to be the pattern. I suspect you have little to worry about so long as you like getting invested in characters.

Come on. I love both, Endgame probably just a notch below IW (8.9/10 vs 9.0/10). Yes, Endgame has more character development, but IW has lot too: THANOS, Thor, interaction of Avengers with GoTG, Tony vs Strange, Tony with SM.

 

In the heat of praising Endgame, let not forget the many good things people have said about A:IW, e.g Strange and SM in A:IW are even better than their solo (MCU) movies.

 

Spoiler

And I don't think Russo managed to do the same amazing job to Cap Marvel as they did to Strange and SM in A:IW. Not their fault, they have to put so much on O6.

 

And character development is not the all in all of a movie, apart from pacing, cleaner action scenes, one major win of A:IW over Endgame is

Spoiler

A:IW has by far the best villain in MCU. Thanos in Endgame pales so much in comparison that he is like mid-tier villain in MCU

 

Edited April 26, 2019 by justvision

[Deep Wang]

Just now, CJohn said:

300M OW still not locked, but the record OW is going down. The MCU is the king. No doubt about this. 

 

Yeah, for all we know this could do the exact opposite of IW and be super front-loaded.  We just gotta wait and see.

[BoxOfficeZ]

Disney atm:

 

[sfran43]

 

[Sam]

Even with SW-esque bad previews-to-OW internal multiplier of like 5x, it’ll get the job done.

[Lordmandeep]

Just now, Deep Wang said:

 

Yeah, for all we know this could do the exact opposite of IW and be super front-loaded.  We just gotta wait and see.

 

 

but if Presales are ahead of TFA and it just edged out TFA but not a huge margin, means there is a lot of presales for the rest of the weekend? 

 

 

[Eric is Anxious]

Using TFA's Thurs-Fri, and IW's Sat and Sun holds

 

60

125.4 inc. previews

96.8

81.6

303.8M weekend

 

This probably won't hold as strong as IW did, so 300M isn't locked. But it's just on the verge of greatness

[cookie]

IW tbh only feels like half glass full a lot of the time.

 

Endgame feels much more complete in that regard and thus imo superior.

Edited April 26, 2019 by cookie

[MrPink]

1 minute ago, Lordmandeep said:

 

 

but if Presales are ahead of TFA and it just edged out TFA but not a huge margin, means there is a lot of presales for the rest of the weekend? 

 

 

 

Could just speak to how much reserved seating and online ticketing has really changed the landscape in 3.5 years.

[That One Girl]

Following Infinity War would get it close to a 400M OW.  So I'm gonna assume that we can rule out any possibility of it following Infinity War  

[Ipickthiswhiterose]

1 minute ago, justvision said:

Come on. I love both, Endgame probably just a notch below IW (8.9/10 vs 9.0/10). Yes, Endgame has more character development, but IW has lot too: THANOS, Thor, interaction of Avengers with GoTG, Tony vs Strange, Tony with SM.

 

In the heat of praising Endgame, let not forget the many good things people have said about A:IW, e.g Strange and SM in A:IW are even better than their solo (MCU) movies.

 

My apologies if it came across as me criticising IW or implying the character work in it wasn't strong.

 

I enjoy both movies very much and myself wouldn't want to venture after only one viewing of Endgame which was stronger. 

 

It just seems based on my experiences that those who prefer one to the other *by a significant distance* seem to have those tendencies. 

 

[#ED]

60M in previews...

 

Oh my, how the times have changed...

[CoolioD1]

26 minutes ago, FilmBuff said:

ROTJ is nonsense.

 

’A legion of my best troops await them.’

 

Proceeds to get by a bunch of small bears with wood-sticks and rocks. 

 

 

wait, this is a bad thing?

[MagnarTheGreat]

Movie	Thursday Preview (TP)	TP to FW Multiplier	First Weekend (FW)	FW to DT Multiplier	Domestic Total (DT)
Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)	$18.7M	11.09	$207.4M	3.01	$623.4M
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)	$27.6M	6.93	$191.3M	2.40	$459.0M
Batman v Superman (2016)	$27.7M	5.99	$166.0M	1.99	$330.4M
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)	$29.0M	5.35	$155.1M	3.43	$532.2M
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)	$39.0M	6.61	$257.7M	2.63	$678.8M
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)	$45.0M	4.89	$220.0M	2.82	$620.2M
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)	$57.0M	4.35	$248.0M	3.78	$936.7M
Avengers: Endgame (2019)	$60.0M	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

 

$60M * 4.35 = $261.0M

$60M * 4.89 = $293.4M

$60M * 5.35 = $321.0M

$60M * 6.61 = $396.6M