Avengers: Infinity War

(A Jaunty Gentleman Polishing his Spyglass was a contender until the nitrate print ignited and burned down 2/3 of the eastern seaboard in 1885.)

I'm gonna be that guy today, I guess

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

― Simon H., Thursday, May 9, 2019

hmm if only Endgame can get a third weekend it might catch Black Panther

Still can't believe they're planning on destroying all of the prints tomorrow. It seemed poised for wild success! Alas.

hmm if only Endgame can get a third weekend it might catch Black Panther

Looks like it's the original and much better 1959 version of Endgame on that list too and not the 2019 reboot

OTM re: the 'Avengers...assemble!' moment with scores of super-dupers rushing to the rescue. No lie, that was the closest this world-weary geezer has come to a feeling of child-like abandon and awe in quite some time. And for the reasons you describe. To have the crazy adventures and melodrama that enthralled me as a kid, sitting alone on my bedroom floor, suddenly recast on a giant screen amidst a crowd of people...it was something else.

they did a good job making this moment thrilling (it reminded me of the moment in Matewan when the armed hillbillies come out of the trees to save the striking miners)

but call me a killjoy virtue-signalling old man if you must but i'm REALLY not down with getting every kid on the planet to feel that lustily charging into a giant-set piece slaughter-battle is something to aspire to in any way. i mean i know that our entertainment has valorized mechanized killing for decades, and, you know, i love Hard Boiled, but somehow the sight of these tens of thousands of massed troops felt different

me and my son had the incredibly predictable conversation afterwards: "what did you think of it dad?" "it was alright. there were some good jokes. what was your favourite part?" "when they said avengers assemble" "yeah that was pretty good but i'm not a fan of them making it seem like war is some great thing" "DAD IT'S JUST A MOVIE" "i'm aware that it's a movie" etc

well my daughters were extremely reluctant to pay to see it because it glorifies war and US military might. But they still wanted to see it.

i only read half of war and peace

I mean, I can see your point, Tracer, but this is the film formerly known as Infinity War Part II..

I'm not saying I was deceived!

i liked the stuff with the two Nebulas and Gamora, feel like that could have been its own little movie almost

it was kinda weird that the big battle seemingly takes place on a perma-night hellscape when it is actually a sunny day? i mean, i know he blew up the base but.. particles subside, don't they? (i probably missed something)

tracer 'mise-en-scène' hand

you know, *pauses philosophically* they really could have asked my opinion on some basic filmmaking principles before making this all-time box office smash

for instance, i could have told them, "make sure Hulk's mouth DOESN'T look weird"

"make sure Hulk's mouth looks weird, mister Tracer??"

"DOESN'T"

I dunno, it was only upon reflection and realizing that they didn't stand out as weird-looking or out of place that I truly appreciated the mocap work on Hulk and Thanos in this movie. It's a little sad how infrequently filmmakers have been able to make this innovation really work for them in the decade since Gollum happened.

Oh shit, Two Towers was almost two decades ago, fuck I'm old.

Ruffalo's mouth looks weird.

Yeah, I think Ruffalo's mouth is just crooked and I never noticed until it was blown up to the size of a summer squash.

The weird thing with the main battle is that you have this huge all-in battle over a fairly small ground and still they had enough time and space to have little one on one talks and duels whereas it should be just a huge melee/mess.

two Nebulas

jesus this is killing me

'Nebulases'

The weird thing with the main battle is that you have this huge all-in battle over a fairly small ground and still they had enough time and space to have little one on one talks and duels whereas it should be just a huge melee/mess.

― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, May 13, 2019 8:34 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have u read a superhero comic book ever

I mean yes it's weird but the question pertains.

Ruffalo's mouth looks weird.

the guy had brain cancer irl, cut him some slack

only on the battlefield can you have a true superhero meet cute

ok, I didn't know about the (benign, not cancerous) tumor. His mouth looks somewhat weird even if he has a medical reason for it.

eheh, yes, of course I know that like many other things, you just have to accept this is how it goes in this universe...
and I think I haven't read a comic book since... the 80s !

I think at the beginning of the main battle, there's a moment with Star-Lord (?) when they just talk for a little while and there's NOBODY around them...

Comic superheroes frequently engage in a sprightly half hour monologue while engaging in a bout of fisticuffs that couldn't possibly last more than a few minutes. It's like a secondary superpower.

i really enjoyed Paul Rudd's bewildered take on everything. refreshingly human in the midst of all this steely confidence.

can't agree that the CGI faces looked good. they looked bad.

It looked tight, shame about the CGI kids

https://cdn3.movieweb.com/i/article/JUUQa4WjfKMZ7RD9sobATvTZRR22z3/738:50/Avengers-Endgame-Professor-Hulk-Out-Clip.jpg

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Finally got around to seeing this last night. This was pretty good, about as good as an ensemble superhero movie could probably get.

It held up on a rewatch pretty well too. Still think going quiet for the first hour was the key move.

yeah, I think having the avengers immediately going out and easily killing Thanos and then not knowing what to do next was pretty effective for setting the right mood

Getting very close to Avatar now in All Time Worldwide.

Is there a reason for the discrepancy between this and Force Awakens in terms of the split between US/Overseas takings?

xp oh shit thanos was bin laden

the snap was an inside job

blues did 1/2

Is there a reason for the discrepancy between this and Force Awakens in terms of the split between US/Overseas takings?

Endgame seems to be doing much better in China: almost 1/3 of its non-US profits are from there, whereas with Force Awakens the same number was 1/10... And for Last Jedi the ratio is even less than one tenth. Apparently Star Wars just isn't that big in China, mostly because the original trilogy never made it to the cinemas there, so SW never became a big cultural phenomenon.

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-movies-chinese-box-office-bomb-explained

https://media.knzk.me/media_attachments/files/005/372/335/original/06650af9b74dbe9e.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EylDlSz.jpg

When does this open?

so many people who need lives

Wrote @ringer about the Marvel fans who were so invested in Avengers: Endgame breaking the all-time box office record that they saw it 20 or more times, and why they wanted to #BeatAvatar.https://t.co/BWwxEqhmm6

— Ben Lindbergh (@BenLindbergh) July 26, 2019

They could have been seeing Ready Player One instead!

Florida man Agustin Alanis saw Endgame 200 times—more than 25 days’ worth of watching—in its first 89 days in theaters.

I am fairly certain there is no film I've ever seen more than, let's say, 15 times in my entire life

Even RDJ's embedded tweet in that article seems to be rolling its eyes ...

Get a new re-release on life and make #ENDGAME #1....
c’mon, there’s “new stuff” and everything... pic.twitter.com/92Vx74OnVh

— Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) June 26, 2019

Also, calculating average ticket prices in 2019, that incel who saw it 200 times spent $1,802 of his parents' dinero to achieve this epic, historic goal.

Look I'm as big a Marvel Zombie as you'll find around these parts but these folks is sick