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[G-Fex]

Are you willing to bet your tag on this? I am 5 weeks you say..

I dont have a tag anymore though

 

[JdFoX187]

Agreed. I don't think MIB3 will make that big a splash at the box office ($150-175M total), but its opening weekend will definitely surpass the Avengers' fourth weekend.

I could see Men in Black doing $200 million or more. I think my prediction in the one thread was $250M. That might be pushing it, but if Will Smith's marketing power is still there, it's going to make some good bank over the Memorial Day weekend.

 

[Slayven]

I hate so much about the things you choose to be.

Hate is power.

 

[G-Fex]

Hate is power.

And power is just a game.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Oh, not just any game

 

[Escape Goat]

what is going on


nerds

 

[G-Fex]

Oh, not just any game

Yeah but he's not the King of it

 

[Tobor]

Yeah but he's not the King of it

We all know who the new king is.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

We all know who the new king is.

Come on, son.

 

[ezekial45]

Good lord, can you ease up on the Cameron jocking for awhile?

 

[Escape Goat]

Can we make people who ate crow on this movie wear these?

 

[Tobor]

http://i.imgur.com/yaJhr.jpg[/IMG]
Come on, son.

He used to make great movies. It's a real shame.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

When Joss Whedon can take an original IP to $800 million worldwide, he can talk. Otherwise, he can get behind Nolan.

 

[Good Job Bob]

When Joss Whedon can take an original IP to $800 million worldwide, he can talk. Otherwise, he can get behind Nolan.

Never gonna happen.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

When Joss Whedon can take an original IP to $800 million worldwide, he can talk. Otherwise, he can get behind Nolan.

Is $800m for an original IP a lot?

 

[G-Fex]

Good lord, can you ease up on the Cameron jocking for awhile?

LOL ease up? Sculli will never stop marking out for Cameron

 

[WrikaWrek]

Is $800m for an original IP a lot?

Yes.

 

[Escape Goat]

Is $800m for an original IP a lot?

Was Inception that original?

 

[Good Job Bob]

Is $800m for an original IP a lot?

More than Whedon can ever dream of.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Yes.

Then what happens when an original IP makes 2 billion more than that?

 

[WrikaWrek]

Then what happens when an original IP makes 2 billion more than that?

It sets records and shit. Point?

 

[Ninja Scooter]

All Wheedon did was babysit. He rode the coat tails of a bunch of already successful movies. Most of the people coming out of Avengers probably have no idea who he is and assume Marvel just has a robot pumping out these movies. He's not in the class of Nolan and Cameron.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

No real point. Just Sunday morning and I'm feeling mischievous.

 

[Dead]

Was Inception that original?

I dunno, ask Scrooge McDuck

 

[Kusagari]

Then what happens when an original IP makes 2 billion more than that?

I'd guess that it ripped off Dances with Wolves plot.

 

[Tobor]

No real point. Just Sunday morning and I'm feeling mischievous.

Likewise.

 

[Dead]

I'd guess that it ripped off Dances with Wolves plot.

You say that as if Dances with wolves invented anything

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I'd guess that it ripped off Dances with Wolves plot.

Turns out that if Disney really wanted to get Avatar bank, they just needed to go with the soldier transplanted into a foreign culture storyline. Hang on!

 

[Cubsfan23]

dark knight will make 180-210 million opener.........it won't beat avengers per screen average

 

[Good Job Bob]

All Wheedon did was babysit. He rode the coat tails of a bunch of already successful movies. Most of the people coming out of Avengers probably have no idea who he is and assume Marvel just has a robot pumping out these movies. He's not in the class of Nolan and Cameron.

Silence, these people do not like to hear the truth.

 

[G-Fex]

Batman's a fucking ripoff of Zorro

 

[Escape Goat]

Batman's a fucking ripoff of Zorro

Zorro was a ripoff of The Scarlet Pimpernel

 

[WrikaWrek]

Blue tits sell, can't deny

 

[Diprosalic]

All Wheedon did was babysit. He rode the coat tails of a bunch of already successful movies. Most of the people coming out of Avengers probably have no idea who he is and assume Marvel just has a robot pumping out these movies. He's not in the class of Nolan and Cameron.

so what, nolan was a no one before batman. does whedon get a 160 million budget and can cherry pick the actors for his next movie?

 

[G-Fex]

Zorro was a ripoff of The Scarlet Pimpernel

And Scarlet Pimpernel was a ripoff of The Shadow

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

so what, nolan was a no one before batman. does whedon get a 160 million budget and can cherry pick the actors for his next movie?

Nolan had made Memento before the Batman movies. Memento is leagues better than anything Whedon has ever done.

 

[Lebron]

Ron Howard has more Oscars than Nolan.

 

[Diprosalic]

Nolan had made Memento before the Batman movies. Memento is leagues better than anything Whedon has ever done.

i wasn't talking in terms of quality.

 

[HK-47]

No real point. Just Sunday morning and I'm feeling mischievous.

So you are always feeling mischievous?

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Batman's just a rip-off of the Shadow!

Gun-wielding, scary/mysterious vigilante by night, playboy millionaire by day, flies around on an autogyro and fights Yellow Peril caricatures? C'mon, they weren't even trying!

 

[DrForester]

so what, nolan was a no one before batman. does whedon get a 160 million budget and can cherry pick the actors for his next movie?

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog 2 now has a $200 million budget.

 

[Escape Goat]

And Scarlet Pimpernel was a ripoff of The Shadow

Thats...not possible.

 

[Tobor]

Nolan had made Memento before the Batman movies. Memento is leagues better than anything Whedon has ever done.

Memento was a neat little movie, but come on. It wasn't all that. Batman Begins made Nolan.

 

[Diprosalic]

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog 2 now has a $200 million budget.

day 1

 

[G-Fex]

You know who made the Avengers and TDKR a success?

Stan Lee and Bob Kane, but I don't see none of you nerds giving them the credit.

 

[Tobor]

You know who made the Avengers and TDKR a success?

Stan Lee and Bob Kane, but I don't see none of you nerds giving them the credit.

We have actually, multiple times over the course of this and the Avengers OT.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

All Wheedon did was babysit. He rode the coat tails of a bunch of already successful movies. Most of the people coming out of Avengers probably have no idea who he is and assume Marvel just has a robot pumping out these movies. He's not in the class of Nolan and Cameron.

Didn't you claim Avengers was going to do terrible at the box office? But now that it blew up its "obvious" anyone could have directed it and come up with the same result?

Whedon did more than "babysit," just listen or read any of the production articles or podcasts that have come out in the past two weeks. From the vfx supes to the sound editors, they all talk about how much Whedon was involved on this.

Christ people, ease up on the blind fanboying. You're approaching FMT levels of blind hate. And not nearly as entertaining.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Their names are right there in the credits, along with that Whedon guy, who handled the lighting or something or other, I forget.

 

[HK-47]

You know who made the Avengers and TDKR a success?

Stan Lee and Bob Kane, but I don't see none of you nerds giving them the credit.

Fuck Stan Lee. We all know Jack Kirby was the real master behind Marvel.

 

[G-Fex]

We have actually, multiple times over the course of this and the Avengers OT.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND where was Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby in all this?

What about Joel Shumacher?