Avengers: Infinity War

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

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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 😂😂😂

i loved this movie but it really was Left Behind for superheroes, eh?

Never read the books, but based on the plot description, doesn't "Left Behind for superheroes" apply better to Endgame? Since that one deals with the actual repercussions of Thanos's fingersnap?

this thread covers both halves of this two-part movie

Ah.

My daughter watched "Endgame" again last night. Still think it's super weird that the kid from "Iron Man 3" gets a cameo appearance at the funeral. I had totally forgotten who that was all over again and had to look it up. Doesn't help, of course, that he is no longer a little kid, but even having seen "Iron Man 3" again more recently than "Endgame," I didn't even know the character's name

i think it's "Pepper Potts"

Salt Shaka.

Idk, that's the kind of narrative continuity that I appreciate and makes it feel a little more like the comics. I mean, even by IM3 Tony was still mostly a stand-offish asshole, but that kid broke through to him and it just showed that he stuck with the kid as a mentor after gifting him that whole new lab.

No prob with the kid being there, but he's only in the one movie, has never been mentioned or referenced since, and is one of the only people in that pile of funeral guests who is not a superhero or movie star. Plus there is absolutely no one that saw this and recognized him as that kid at that time, anyway, because he is five years older and literally looks totally different. I guess that makes him a really conspicuous human easter egg?

i do find it amusing that any lessons Tony learns about not being a jackass pretty much fade by the next movie's start.

well...not anymore i guess

xpost - I mean, it's the MCU, so I wouldn't write him out just yet. According to wikipedia, the actor has a three film deal for the MCU and has appeared in two so far... so, who knows. Now maybe that's just the standard contract they sign with minor characters to leave their options open, but who knows.

Be funny if that contract was iron clad, and the MCU is struggling to justify another two second cameo in one of the upcoming movies.

There were some rumors swirling that he'd put on the armor as Iron Lad in a Young Avengers spin-off.

Avenger: "If only we knew where Tony hid that last transponder tech doodad."
Random young guy at funeral: "I think I know a garage in Tennessee where we can find one ... "

Oof, insult to injury, I think the entire 6 paragraph wiki description of the Iron Man 3 plot doesn't even mention the kid once!