Avengers: Infinity War

wasn't expecting that Funky Flashman cameo

Can't believe Captain Thor was defeated by Thanus

wasn't expecting that Funky Flashman cameo

And you call yourself a fan.

Good lord.

https://deadline.com/2019/04/avengers-endgame-opening-weekend-box-office-record-1202602445/

One exhibition source says that the amount of business that Avengers: Endgame is doing “is ridiculous”. Off of 9AM shows alone today, big venues like the AMC 25 Empire in NYC is making $175K, NYC Lincoln Square counts $161K, Regal E-Walk has $78K while the Edwards Irvine is seeing $145K. Industry estimates are seeing $130M-$140M for today including $60M. “I don’t see how the pic doesn’t get to $300M-plus,” said one rival distribution exec.

Looks like it may well hit that billion dollar opening.

just got back from seeing…I very much liked that they took their time in the first hour, whereas I.W. hurtles from one plot point to the next…

Yeah would definitely agree -- I don't mind IW's nonstop pace but having this one start in a quiet aftermath and continue from there was sharp.

look i can’t hold it in any longer so prepare to be spoiled if you haven’t seen it already

the end of cap’s arc was perfect and i loved every beat of it but jesus fuck couldn’t they have found a way to age up chris evans so he didn’t look like joe biden

B+ series finale, A+ fan service. I liked it!

Still don't know what Scar Witch does. Where was William Hurt in this?

apparently Jim starlin was in it? didn't see him. I had to chuckle during battle royale when Iron Gwynnie appears…

I suppose, given that this puts a temporary cap on the MCU decade, that I don't dig that they would use a character for their own, unsuitable purposes…Mantis was not conceived as a space naif, she was conceived as a (now NAGL) deadly Vietnamese sex worker. Drax was used inappropriately as well. They could have made up new characters for such purposes…

Starlin's in the group therapy scene Cap's in shortly after the 'five years later' jump. (One of the Russos is the guy doing most of the talking.)

Can I also add how satisfying it was to go into an event movie of this scale still somehow totally in the dark? I did a good job avoiding everything, including this thread, and it definitely helped and played well from that vantage.

Obv. plenty of Hawkeye in this, and didn't really want more, but for the sake of the story I still thought his character kinda got short shrift.

speaking of short shrift, it was kinda weird that captain marvel’s role was basically superfluous after the buildup of infinity war and her own movie

was there a post-credits scene? i left

@FilmBart 3m
Wait, so the movie with a distribution strategy of "carpet bomb every multiplex in the nation" is doing well? Oh, do tell.….…...

just a bit of clanging sound which i think was tony hammering together the iron man suit in the cave from the first movie xp

I feel such weariness at the knowledge that I have no interest in seeing this, yet will someday inevitably spend three hours of my life doing just that.

xpost Larson filmed this one first, right? I think they had to be careful with all these heroes billed as the most powerful beings in the universe or whatever. Maybe not a coincidence that much of this focused on the more traditionally human members of the team?

Stories from my pretty packed screening: there was some asshole who three times throughout the movie opened the emergency exit door to smoke, letting in cold air and all the cigarette smoke he thought he was blowing out. Dickhead. More amusingly, I literally realized I had to pee 10 minutes in. It must have been psychological. I don't know what I missed an hour or so in, but it couldn't have been much, because I don't think I really missed anything.

No credits sequence. I waited. People groaned.

Would I like this? Loved Spider-Man Homecoming, Antman and the Wasp and Thor:Ragnarok, lukewarm on Black Panther, Iron Man 3 and Doctor Strange and I found Infinity War a total drag.

Probably not. Well, maybe, this one is often pretty goofy, but the jokes don't really, er, snap, imo. It is full of satisfying emotional beats for fans of the entire series.

Will likely sit it out and wait for the bluray. I value my comfort stops too much to sit for three hours plus in a ciny.

No credits sequence. I waited. People groaned.
haha same here

Would I like this? Loved Spider-Man Homecoming, Antman and the Wasp and Thor:Ragnarok, lukewarm on Black Panther, Iron Man 3 and Doctor Strange and I found Infinity War a total drag.
I'd say yes. This is a very diff movie to IW and has lots of comedic moments.

Do we see Gamora at all after she throws shade at Star Lord after meeting him for the first time, so to speak? Assume she disappears along with all of Thanos's army, but don't remember a shot that settles that. And of course she already died in another timeline in IW, so not really a loose end I guess. Small point but it is bothering me for some reason.

I thought they did a surprisingly good job both lamp-shading and hand-waiving the time travel stuff.

Wait, so the movie with a distribution strategy of "carpet bomb every multiplex in the nation" is doing well? Oh, do tell.….…...

― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, April 26, 2019

this is a dumb take and you know it. if it was as simple as carpet-bombing bc ha ha multiplex audiences will buy tickets to anything then Alita: Battle Angel would be a smash.

Endgame is on every available screen because the demand is there. theaters are sold out through Monday and adding more showings any chance they get.

and the demand is there because Marvel's earned it.

back when Iron Man was shooting, conventional wisdom was that the capes and tights were toast. and rightly so: from 2003 to 2008, movies based on Marvel properties were nearly 100% utter garbage. (hi here Daredevil, Elektra, X-Men: Last Stand, Hulk, Ghost Rider, two different crap FF flicks, etc).

Fortunately for Marvel, RDJ's stock at the time was low enough that he was willing to sign on for one more popcorner in a tapped-out genre. That's the only real stroke of luck in the entire run. Everything else is down to hard work, smart bets on talent, and telling stories even non-nerds enjoy.

fair enough if you don't like superhero movies but it's not as though erasing them at a stroke would fill the multiplexes with things you want to see. you'd just get different "blockbuster" crap delivered at a generally lower level of care and quality.

*hi dere* -- damn u autocorrect

Do we see Gamora at all after she throws shade at Star Lord after meeting him for the first time, so to speak? Assume she disappears along with all of Thanos's army, but don't remember a shot that settles that.

There's a quick shot with the GOTG crew before Quill and Thor start their map bickering where Quill's doing some sort of scan for Gamora and the display says she's not able to be found or something like that. My guess is that this could be the setup for where Gunn wants to go with the 3rd GOTG -- have the emotional throughline be can Quill do things over with Gamora but different or the like. We'll see!

As for said cash crush:

It’s even bigger than originally seen this morning. Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame is tearing up all the record books with a $140M-$150M opening day, blasting away Star Wars: Force Awakens‘ record first day and single day records of $119.1M. Industry estimates have Endgame‘s weekend between $315M-$330M. Don’t be stunned if it goes higher.

we should actually have a separate thread for deleterious effects of the Disney-Fox merger on film preservation and exhibition so we can leave the funnybook fans their space xps

rogermexico otm

great thread idea simon

here u go

the Disney-Fox merger and film/TV production/exhibition hegemony in general

Would I like this? Loved Spider-Man Homecoming, Antman and the Wasp and Thor:Ragnarok, lukewarm on Black Panther, Iron Man 3 and Doctor Strange and I found Infinity War a total drag.

I'd also say yes. There's lots of fun/funny moments with a Spider-Man/Ragnorak vibe

I wonder if the Loki show will be him traveling through time and causing trouble, like in Quantum Leap or whatever. Or solving problems, like Highway to Heaven!

I feel such weariness at the knowledge that I have no interest in seeing this, yet will someday inevitably spend three hours of my life doing just that.

― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 26 April 2019 19:41 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the best and only good review of this movie

a student of mine once said civil war was the best movie because numerically it had the most superheroes in it. this was before infinity war. anyway, i suppose by that metric this is the best marvel movie

No credits sequence. I waited. People groaned.

Would've paid to see just that.

I was just posting a tweet fwiw, but since I'm here...

fair enough if you don't like superhero movies but it's not as though erasing them at a stroke would fill the multiplexes with things you want to see. you'd just get different "blockbuster" crap delivered at a generally lower level of care and quality.

No, I would absolutely enjoy having different flavors of action blockbuster crap available at the same time because variety is better.

Alien vs John Wick

Thanos dropping a bunch of alien xenomorph eggs would have been a twist

Disney/Fox merger makes it possible! Hawkeye being chased by aliens reminded me of Aliens.

Anyone else think they should have maybe waited to introduce Captain Marvel in the next round of movies? She's cool, but doesn't add much but a couple of deus ex moments, and even that doesn't honestly add much that they couldn't have done some other way. Did like her flinch-free fight with bad, though.

other than the wakanda backdrop, they did the same thing to black panther with the timing of the last round of movies

I like Hawkeye constantly feeling in the redheads when his wife isn’t around

Feeling up that is

i wonder how much natalie portmangot paid for this without having to do a single second of shooting any new footage

Probably more than 95% of ilxors make in a year

"Still don't know what Scar Witch does." she does goth dance moves and shoots flames from her hands

why did none of peter parkers friends age 5 years? why is marissa tomei still completely hot? these are questions I want answered in Spiderman: The Homecomening

sorry I guess it's Far From the Homecomening.

if all Parker’s friends got snapped out of existence too they wouldn’t have aged

good thread

Sometimes it's fun to remember that 101 Dalmatians probably sold more tickets than every blockbuster of the past decade

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 27, 2019

Enjoyed this, though the Joe Biden campaign ad ending was pretty annoying. Might've been saved if Agent Carter had grabbed America's ass just before the credits.