ryutaro's mama
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If the thread title says, "New pic of WW costume" at least I know what will happen if I enter that thread. I was warned.
Coming into a box office results thread will spoiler gifs is bs.
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If the thread title says, "New pic of WW costume" at least I know what will happen if I enter that thread. I was warned.
Coming into a box office results thread will spoiler gifs is bs.
ryutaro's mama
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Whatever you say, Joe Internet.
Gordon Shumway
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You're a big meanie!!!
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Totally. And Titanic made less than a third of that on a similar budget. What a fucking bomb.
Pai Pai Master
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Again, it's not a spoiler so it doesn't matter.
But let's not get into this here. Already had a crazy long thread about it.
Glad to see the numbers for this one, fantastic movie. Seeing again tonight.
Posting this again since it got lost in the spoiler talk.
Phoenician_Viking
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GOTG
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $94,000,000 58.6%
+ Foreign: $66,400,000 41.4%
= Worldwide: $160,400,000
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $94,000,000 58.6%
+ Foreign: $66,400,000 41.4%
= Worldwide: $160,400,000
Iron Man 3 - $174M
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - $95M
Guardians of the Galaxy - $94M
Thor: The Dark World - $86M
Marvel made a hulk movie in 2008 along with Iron Man. It's their only falter in the 10 movies they have produced to date.
Its weekend estimate wasn't posted, but Godzilla was $78k short of $200M as of Thursday. It made close to $390k last weekend, so even with a big drop we can finally say that it passed the $200M barrier this weekend.
With Godzilla hitting that mark, no movie that debuted over $90M has failed to hit $200M domestic. Guardians should easily clear that mark, and with weaker August competition, has a good shot at being this summer's highest grosser.
Ninja Scooter
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I think a Hulk movie could do better than Thor, especially as they take the universe in a more cosmic direction. Maybe Marvel feels he's had his chance or isn't interesting enough.
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Well despite the hate, thanks for posting that so I could show my kids. We've seen it twice and are going back today. They constantly want to see that part and we keep telling them there's no way to see it until the movie isn't as new.
Planet Hulk or something of that nature would be fantastic.
Comic book films are just beginning to blend into that fantastical world for the first time. Took them long enough.
They've discussed it several times, once very recently. I think they understand that it's very difficult to make the character the center stage as he's always doing one of two things: a) trying not to transform, or b) transforming and freaking out.
He doesn't make plans, get beaten, or really get involved in drama other than the above (to date in the MCU). With the Cosmic push something like Planet Hulk could be possible in the future, but it's better to keep him as the "Trump Card" in an Avengers movie than the central character.
ryutaro's mama
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Hulk works really well as a support character as he is just a wrecking ball. Having to carry an entire movie as Hulk? Problem is you would have to write really well for Banner, otherwise the audience will just be bored to tears waiting for him to become Hulk.
Steve Rogers is interesting even if he isn't Captain Murica'ing it.
So is Thor (and by exension, Loki) and Stark.
Banner is Boringville and was for 2 films, including the intended MCU entry. I just don't think they have figured out how to write for him.
He can work as a primary character without issue. The problem is nobody can create anything interesting for him to do in his environment.
Ninja Scooter
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I think people would be tired of a Hulk movie where he is wrecking shit in modern cities and fighting the military. But a loose adaptation of Planet Hulk could be awesome. You could even tie it in some with Guardians, maybe had Yondu and his crew abduct Bruce Banner or something. Potenial is there now that Guardians has blown the doors open on the cosmic stuff.
That is impressive there for Guardians, being that close to Winter Soldier. Word of mouth seems to be good for Guardians so I can see it holding pretty well although there is the fact that TMNT has a chance of slowing it down.
ryutaro's mama
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I agree with Ninja. Move him off world somewhere where he can just fuck shit up for 90 minutes.
Spaceships, cruisers, alien shit...whatever. Let him just own.
I mean, the Hulk's primary theatrical plot so far has been his troubles trying to bang some broad.
You can still have him fighting the military and such, but there just needs to be a better story revolving around the plot. The fact the Marvel Universe (or whatever) has been expanding with a liberal amount of creative freedom gives me hope they can do something proper.
Although, to be fair I DID enjoy Ang Lee's Hulk to a degree, or at least by into the notion that it wasn't complete trash like the Edward Norton variant.
Yeah, that's what Planet Hulk basically is. The Hulk comic series had been pretty fucking stale until that arc came around. World War Hulk proceeded it and wasn't completely terrible either.
illmatic22
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That GOTG number, I'm on high on believing. Ain't no mountain high enough for Marvel, they rollin in that dough. I hope it's not too late for me to take a second look.
ryutaro's mama
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I could recommend random non-comic book people to see Guardians.
I could not consciously do the same for Captain America.
Messypandas
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hope y'all true fans
Absolutely. The film itself is still a bit of a mess.
I did appreciate what Ang Lee did with the comic book style direction style. I thought that was rather great.
ryutaro's mama
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hope y'all true fans
Marvel has trained us.
Like 2 people in my theater left. It's like that now for every MCU movie.
Man Of Steel, people dipped out immediately.
Stats for GotG
- 3D was 45% of weekend take
- 55% of the audience was 26 years or older
male/female split was 56/44, so those who think this doesn't appeal to women are clearly mistaken.
- Cinemascore was an A, not that it matters much
TMNT isn't tracking very high. Boxoffice.com is predicting a $39M opening.
- 3D was 45% of weekend take
- 55% of the audience was 26 years or older
male/female split was 56/44, so those who think this doesn't appeal to women are clearly mistaken.
- Cinemascore was an A, not that it matters much
TMNT isn't tracking very high. Boxoffice.com is predicting a $39M opening.
ryutaro's mama
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55% was 26 or older is a wow stat.
Messypandas
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Good thing it didn't have one then.
AHA-Lambda
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Great movie, success is deserved.
Surprised to see this when it seems there has been no real bombs this summer =/
Surprised to see this when it seems there has been no real bombs this summer =/
Pop-O-Matic
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Your crowd was apparently better than mine. Like 90% of the theater cleared out as soon as the credits started.
ryutaro's mama
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I stayed but I just don't think people know with DC.
With the MCU, shit is tradition now.
Two weeks prior to Guardians release, wasn't the film tracked at $70M or in that ballpark?
This is the first year since 2007 with not $400M+ summer film, and the first year since 2001 with no $300M summer film. Nothing bombed, but nothing was huge either.
HalfBakedProphet
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I HAVE TO PEE DAMNIT
hope y'all true fans
ryutaro's mama
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Well I saw it Thursday night so, the crowd would be more hardcore I guess?
Ya, things could change obviously, but not every film goes up in tracking. Most open in the same ballpark they are expected to open in. Godzilla and Guardians are the two major breakouts as far as expectations are concerned. Tracking a week ahead of release was short $20-25M. Tracking has been pretty close for most other films. X-Men and Transformers came in a little lower than expected. Maleficent and Apes a little higher.
AHA-Lambda
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Wow, had no idea, why is that the case?
Ninja Scooter
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Nothing's got legs.
Pop-O-Matic
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A true Marvel fan buys two drinks at concessions so, when they finish the first one, they can use it as an emergency pee can.
Domestic interest in Transformers is down. No other mega-franchise sequels were released. Original films (or reboots) rarely hit that mark.
AHA-Lambda
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Lol good.
If reboots don't seem to hit the mark then why do we get so many?
Domestic interest in films are down. Transformers isn't exclusive to this.
The international boom has only been relevant for a few years now as well.
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