Avengers: Infinity War

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

let's tell these dorks about the era-adjusted GWTW record and they can stay in the theater til they expire

They could've just written Disney a check.

Author kept his shade in check for most of the piece but ...

So Endgame may or may not have actually made more money than Avatar, even if we pretend that the two competed on even footing. Oh, and Avatar stands a good chance of reclaiming the record if, as expected, it’s re-released again in advance of 2021’s Avatar 2. All of that argues against making too much of this, but “it’s an important part of the industry, just from a marketing perspective,” Nash says. “The studios benefit from being able to say that they’re breaking records.”

That doesn’t mean we consumers have to swallow that line, but it’s fun to feel like a winner, if only by being associated with one; Martin mentions that it’s “cool as a fan to be able to be a part of something big, such as helping a movie that is one for the ages.” If Avatar ever reclaims the top spot, he says, he’ll still take consolation in knowing that Endgame “was no. 1 at one point in time.”

so glad these pathetic losers are finding consolation

My reaction is roughly comparable to instances of mid-level employees hip-hip-hooraying about their company achieving some financial goal which will (by design) not affect the hooray-ers in any material way. And that reaction is: sad.

So glad those quadzillionaires can buy another fleet of yachts, you so deserve it guys.

“If you bought a ticket to see Endgame in theaters, congratulations, hero,” Douglass says before signing off. Not all heroes wear capes. Some go see blockbusters 200 times.

LOL, I was reading the whole piece thinking "forget Avatar: Endgame, give Jack Douglass the Oscar."

I saw it a second time and had a blast. I could see probably watching it once more sometime down the road.

"but it’s fun to feel like a winner, if only by being associated with one" is the entire rationale behind following soccer teams (as wells as other sports probably, idk)

So I finally watched this. It's...ok! It was kinda fun having only seen a handful of the movies leading up to it (the Guardians ones, the last Thor, Infinity War, maybe one of the other Avengers movies, an Iron Man or two), in the same way that reading a random comic and having to infer or imagine what all the references mean is fun.

For most of the movie my partner thought that "Bucky" was a weird nickname that Captain America had for the woman he left behind in the past.

For most of the movie my partner thought that "Bucky" was a weird nickname that Captain America had for the woman he left behind in the past.

I mean... given some of the slash fic that exists, this isn't too far off tbh.

fucky morelike amirite 😂😂😂