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[MisterAnderson]

Am I the only one who thought it was odd that Spider-Man wasn't in the mix? Marvel really fucked up selling the Spider-Man rights to Sony. I mean the climax of the movie took place in New York City for fucks sake. I guess we can just pretend that the movie takes place before Peter Parker got bit by the spider or something.

Spoiler

Movie of the forever.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

WAT

Bob bet with me (one month avatar) that Avengers wont cross 890M WW. Dude is in for some abuse.

I doubt it will do this much. Dark Shadow is coming out this week starring Johnny fucking Depp, and MIB3 comes 2 weeks later starring Will Fucking Smith. Both are huge internationally and could take a chunk out of the Avengers WW BO.

 

[Funky Papa]

Spoiler

The entire finale, Hulk was like a demented, indestructible five year old throwing a tantrum. Just as it should be.

SPOILERZ

http://www.bildites.lv/images/hku8mkc3sm1dri0oqmv.gif

The "banned" gifs are going to be glorious once the Blu-ray comes out.

 

[WJD]

Just watched Captain America for the first time (post-Avengers). Jesus christ it sucks.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Am I the only one who thought it was odd that Spider-Man wasn't in the mix? Marvel really fucked up selling the Spider-Man rights to Sony. I mean the climax of the movie took place in New York City for fucks sake. I guess we can just pretend that the movie takes place before Peter Parker got bit by the spider or something.

Spoiler

Movie of the forever.

I think it would have been nice to have Tobey Maguire (for the burn) or Andrew Garfield (to hype new movie) be in one shot real quick snapping photos. Just imply that it is Peter Parker, but not say it was him. They just happen to get an actor that played Spider Man to play a photographer. Kind of a workaround and tease at the same time.

 

[artist]

I doubt it will do this much. Dark Shadow is coming out this week starring Johnny fucking Depp, and MIB3 comes 2 weeks later starring Will Fucking Smith. Both are huge internationally and could take a chunk out of the Avengers WW BO.

For what it's worth, people who track movies for a living are saying that 1B is in the bag now.

 

[Bauer Action Hour]

I know! And then we get to see more Ruffalo and RDJ stuff together. Those two worked so well together in the movie.

Loved how no one was responding to Stark's talking until Banner chimed in and then Stark was happy to find another brain in the group.

This! Their chemistry and banter was great. I could easily watch a movie that had just the two of them.

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

Welcome to what the rest of the world normally experiences ;-).

Breaking such time honored tradition only reinforces how unvaluable we are to them.

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

175 seems a pipe dream if the midnight take is any indication. 155 is what I say.

What? No. If anything, these midnight numbers indicate we're looking at a weekend above $175m. Midnights for Marvel films have routinely accounted for less than 10% of the total opening weekend, and while I don't know if that'll be entirely the case here, I'd bet on it being close.

 

[BannedEpisode]

Disney is slowly reclaiming all of the Marvel intellectual properties.

It will take some time, especially for X-Men because fox has a death grip on it.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

Disney is slowly reclaiming all of the Marvel intellectual properties.

It will take some time, especially for X-Men because fox has a death grip on it.

What are the terms of the deal?

 

[Mrcapcom]

I thought it was a nice touch that they had Hulk walk on his knuckles a few times like a gorilla moves.

Yea i noticed that it bothered me a lil but it was still cool

 

[BannedEpisode]

What are the terms of the deal?

Dont hold me to this but I think Fox will retain rights as long as they are working on a film. It essentially means that as long as they are churning out an X-Men flick they hold it.

First class was good but I'm in the camp that feels like Disney is one of the best things that has ever happened to Marvel. As such I would like to see them having full control.

 

[artist]

So we're not using spoiler tags anymore?

 

[RiderKairuu]

I heard theres another additional scene when the credits are completely finished? I left after the first scene. Is this true?

 

[The Broken Ska Record]

Am I the only one who thought it was odd that Spider-Man wasn't in the mix? Marvel really fucked up selling the Spider-Man rights to Sony. I mean the climax of the movie took place in New York City for fucks sake. I guess we can just pretend that the movie takes place before Peter Parker got bit by the spider or something.

Spoiler

Movie of the forever.

It actually helped Marvel get out of bankruptcy by selling the Spider-Man movie rights to Sony and the X-Men/FF rights to Fox. Although, I wonder how a Marvel-helmed Spider-Man movie would come out.

 

[The Librarian]

Does the movie have a Prometheus trailer attached to it? US.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I heard theres another additional scene when the credits are completely finished? I left after the first scene. Is this true?

Yup.

And for a write up about how that final credits scene came to be, read this link from EW about it.

 

[soundscream]

Just watched Captain America for the first time (post-Avengers). Jesus christ it sucks.

That's like eating ice cream and following it up with broccoli.

 

[hamchan]

Other than the fact we'll never get a team-up movie with them, I'm not too sad about where the Spider-man and X-Men movie rights ended up because I actually like most of those movies. Fantastic Four on the other hand :-(

 

[The Elite]

Saw the midnight showing and, as expected, I absolutely loved it.

A friend of mine put it best, this isn't a comic book adaptation, it's basically the comic book on screen. There are no compromises made with Avengers that you see with most other Super Hero films. Nothing was done to make it "non-comic book fan" friendly. Whedon never pulled back and let comic book story telling and action rule. The great part is, it's working with audiences. Comic book fans and non-comic book fans alike. It's good to see someone not hold back on a comic book flick.

Not sure why people are disappointed by Cap. I thought he was great in this. Played his role in the team perfectly.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Saw it last night. I really enjoyed it, especially Hulk. Easily the best Hulk ever on the big screen.

The theater erupted when

Spoiler

Loki went on about being a god, and then Hulk just destroyed him

.

That said, rocky fucking start. I was not feeling this movie at all until

Spoiler

Thor showed up and the Avengers actually got together

.

 

[Pezking]

Just watched Captain America for the first time (post-Avengers). Jesus christ it sucks.

My wife and I watched it the day before seeing The Avengers, and we both liked it quite a bit. I'd rank it before Thor and Hulk.

 

[The Elite]

I doubt it will do this much. Dark Shadow is coming out this week starring Johnny fucking Depp, and MIB3 comes 2 weeks later starring Will Fucking Smith. Both are huge internationally and could take a chunk out of the Avengers WW BO.

What was the last big Will Smith movie? Is that guy still a star?

I think Dark Shadows will do well but I don't see it making a huge dent in The Avengers.

 

[WJD]

My wife and I watched it the day before seeing The Avengers, and we both liked it quite a bit. I'd rank it before Thor and Hulk.

I'd put it on the same level as Hulk and only slightly worse than Thor.

IM1>Avengers>>>IM2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Thor>CA=Hulk

 

[BruceLeeRoy]

Saw it last night. I really enjoyed it, especially Hulk. Easily the best Hulk ever on the big screen.

The theater erupted when

Spoiler

Loki went on about being a god, and then Hulk just destroyed him

.

That said, rocky fucking start. I was not feeling this movie at all until

Spoiler

Thor showed up and the Avengers actually got together

.

The beginning is really slow. All the potential in the world for the next movie to be balls to the wall from beginning to end.

 

[vareon]

Loved it. The movie does everything it wants to be, perfectly. I'm going for a second watch next week.

 

[3N16MA]

I doubt it will do this much. Dark Shadow is coming out this week starring Johnny fucking Depp, and MIB3 comes 2 weeks later starring Will Fucking Smith. Both are huge internationally and could take a chunk out of the Avengers WW BO.

It's going to easily surpass $500 million this weekend and have a real shot at $600 million. It's going to hit $890 million unless it does one of the worst tank jobs in recent times.

 

[Hot Coldman]

The beginning is really slow. All the potential in the world for the next movie to be balls to the wall from beginning to end.

Chances are it won't be, as there's probably going to be some new members of the team, but I doubt it'll have the slow start this sorta does.

 

[Joel Was Right]

The alien army was really pointless. Absolutely no resistance on their part, they didn't even put up a fight. I wish we had the characters combining their abilities more as we saw

Spoiler

Cap and Iron Man do with the repulsors and shield deflecting them

. That scene, although a few seconds long, was the best fight scene in the entire film

 

[SephCast]

I'd put it on the same level as Hulk and only slightly worse than Thor.

IM1>Avengers>>>IM2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Thor>CA=Hulk

IM2 was horrible. It was basically like Transformers 3, no hint of any emotion.

 

[jett]

Next year will be Iron Man 3 followed by Thor 2, and then Captain America 2 in 2014. Those are the confirmed ones. They will be confirming the second 2014 film in the coming months I believe.

Huh, they haven't even started filming IM3 or T2, they better hurry it up.

 

[The Elite]

IM2 was horrible. It was basically like Transformers 3, no hint of any emotion.

What?

I guess you just completely didn't buy into Stark dealing with his own mortality and coming to terms with issues he had with his father. The alienation of all his friends?

The problem with IM2 is that the villain was a throwaway.

The alien army was really pointless. Absolutely no resistance on their part, they didn't even put up a fight. I wish we had the characters combining their abilities more as we saw

Spoiler

Cap and Iron Man do with the repulsors and shield deflecting them

. That scene, although a few seconds long, was the best fight scene in the entire film

The point of the army was to give The Avengers something to wreck and show off how awesome they are as a team. Beyond that, they were pretty weak ass. The real villain was Loki.

 

[RiderKairuu]

Yup.

And for a write up about how that final credits scene came to be, read this link from EW about it.

Thanks!

 

[WJD]

IM2 was horrible. It was basically like Transformers 3, no hint of any emotion.

It was indeed but that doesn't stop it being better than the other 3 which were vomit inducing at times.

 

[duckroll]

The point of the army was to give The Avengers something to wreck and show off how awesome they are as a team. Beyond that, they were pretty weak ass. The real villain was Loki.

Yeah it was literally just a "let's see how many toys we can sell" action set piece. Could have been more, but I'm not complaining.

 

[The Elite]

It was indeed but that doesn't stop it being better than the other 3 which were vomit inducing at times.

Did you actually throw up?

That's bad.

I liked them.

 

[Expendable.]

Huh, they haven't even started filming IM3 or T2, they better hurry it up.

IM3 begins this month and Thor 2 doesn't hit theaters until November 2013 so they have a bit of time.

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

The beginning is really slow. All the potential in the world for the next movie to be balls to the wall from beginning to end.

It'll be interesting to see if

Spoiler

they have Thanos just completely wreck them in the early going. I hope so, he's pretty much the baddest of the bad in the Marvel Universe.

 

[WJD]

Did you actually throw up?

That's bad.

I liked them.

I did in my head.

 

[Hot Coldman]

It'll be interesting to see if

Spoiler

they have Thanos just completely wreck them in the early going. I hope so, he's pretty much the baddest of the bad in the Marvel Universe.

And then

Spoiler

the film ends 20 minutes in, then another film begins which is a reboot of the Avengers universe, starring Shia as Cap and Tyler Perry as Nick Fury

 

[Pezking]

I'd put it on the same level as Hulk and only slightly worse than Thor.

IM1>Avengers>>>IM2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Thor>CA=Hulk

I'd say:

The Avengers
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Captain America
Thor
Incredible Hulk

With Hulk being the only one I didn't really enjoy that much.

 

[Raxus]

Does the movie have a Prometheus trailer attached to it? US.

Yes.

I am surprised people don't love Thor as much as I did. my top 3 would probably be Iron Man 1, Avengers, and Thor.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

Yeah it was literally just a "let's see how many toys we can sell" action set piece. Could have been more, but I'm not complaining.

"Where the real money from the movie is made!"

 

[The Librarian]

Yes.

Much appreciated!

 

[BruceLeeRoy]

Damn phone

 

[3N16MA]

DH2 OW record is toast. TA will hold it until TDKR.

 

[Fixed2BeBroken]

My theatre did the same. One IMAX 3D screening at midnight. Completely sold out. They even had to bring in a couple chairs from the dining area because they oversold the tickets. I don't know if they would have sold out two midnight showings, but surely their was more demand than what they were supplying.

What a dumb theatre.....

My theatre had 4 - 12:01 showings with one in digital 3d and one in imax 3d and then 3 12:15 showings and 3 12:30 showings. Yea...my theatre was packed

 

[BruceLeeRoy]

It'll be interesting to see if

Spoiler

they have Thanos just completely wreck them in the early going. I hope so, he's pretty much the baddest of the bad in the Marvel Universe.

Spoiler

I am thinking the same thing. Big T is such a remorseless bad ass it could be on a whole other level.

 

[Hawkian]

Come on man. Spoilers. Plenty of people can guess from that.