Captain Marvel (2019)
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Angerz
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I can add my local anecdotall information from my AMC app for you. My local only has 2 reserved seat theaters, 1 dolby and 1 fake Imax. the last show tonight and the first 3 shows (out of 4) tomorrow are all 50%+ full already, with the last show tonight and first tomorrow about 75% or more. The Imax which holds about 2 or 3 times as many people as it doesnt have the big recliner chairs, is between 25% and 50% full for times through 7pm tomorrow. Last weekend every dolby was fully sold out (and the one I was in had 0 empty seats) and I didnt look at the imax.
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Deadline magazine had an article the other day that Captain Marvel needs to gross at least 750 million just to break even. i dont know how it came by that number. but nerds are working the numbers and one said that for a film to be considered a "hit" it should gross 2x its break even point. Iron man was able to double it, which is why its considered a hit. its also a critically acclaimed film and audiences loved it. so it was a no brainer that he became the leader of The Avengers. so nerds are hoping now that since nobody really loved CM, its either just an "OK" movie or they hated it. if it doesnt double its break even at 1.5 billion then there is a chance CM will not be the new face of the MCU. nerds are praying this has a bad second weekend. me personally, i think DIsney is too inundated with SJW faggots looking to push whatever they want down our throats to care anymore if its any good or makes a profit.
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Gavinmad
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Disney put a huge marketing blitz behind CM, that doesn't come cheap.
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Yeah the "Double the budget" figure tends to come from studios traditionally spend on marketing roughly what they spent on making the movie. It goes even higher for blockbusters, but 750mil seems really high. The budget was somewhere in the 150 to 175 million range that I see, so 750 million break even point would mean they spent 4x the budget in marketing. I've seen a lot of captain Marvel commercials, but I don't know that I've seen 600 million worth.
750 million sounds more like a bonafide success numbers, 150ish on the movie, 225ish on marketing, double it up, studio has a hit.
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this is the article in question.
‘Captain Marvel’ Rises To $154M U.S. Opening; Experts Say Female Superhero Pic Will Pass Breakeven In Week’s Time
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Raes
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What's hilarious is the ones who like to bring up when Jude Law tells her to control her emotions in the beginning of the movie. They were SPARRING, he meant IN COMBAT. Losing your shit will get you and your teammates killed. Duh. But, no, blame it on white men telling women they're too emotional.
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Lanx
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actually, he probably wanted her to keep her emotions in check b/c after 6 years she still acts like a petulant child and after being "1-up'd" in sparring, which is basically teaching combat, she gets emo and photon blasts him across the room.
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Harshaw
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Yeah pretty sure they were trying to make her as emotionless as possible to keep her under control.
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This. The only reason he wanted her to keep her emotions in check was because he didn't want her limiter device to overload and to ruin the lie that the device is what gave her powers. During the fight scene, the limiting device started to glow.
Once that thing came off, she went god mode.
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Chris
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I enjoyed the movie, but then again I enjoyed Thor 2 which it's on par with. It's also about as good as Wonder Woman, less likeable lead but a better ending.
The "stand up in every timeline" flashback and the emotional validation from her woc friend nearly made me vomit but the rest was fine.
The "stand up in every timeline" flashback and the emotional validation from her woc friend nearly made me vomit but the rest was fine.
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Btw, since someone was bitching about how they liked these threads better when nerds were debating power levels--here is a great video on how powerful Captain Marvel SHOULD be. Its no where close to the "strongest" avenger, Hulk, Scarlet Witch and Thor should wipe the floor with her. She's about as powerful as Iron Man with his "bleeding edge armor" (The nano-tech armor in the movies).
Hopefully Fiege was just talking shit, but from what you guys said she took out a whole Kree Fleet when she went binary? =-/ No idea why they'd scale her up like that, it makes her a worse character. She should be filled the gap, power wise, Iron Man leaves behind.
Hopefully Fiege was just talking shit, but from what you guys said she took out a whole Kree Fleet when she went binary? =-/ No idea why they'd scale her up like that, it makes her a worse character. She should be filled the gap, power wise, Iron Man leaves behind.
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She did.
And if you read between the lines...
- 1990s : Captain Marvel - The Kree Empire is directed by the Supreme Intelligence and making war left and right and hunting the last of the Skrull empire
- 2010s : Guardian of the Galaxy - The Kree Empire is directed by some kind of Supreme Council, a bunch of peaceniks who are unwilling to wage war against Xandar (says Ronan)
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I loved that part. The setup was having seen her fail at multiple points in her life, and the payoff was learning she got up each time. Plus they had the restraint not to follow it up with getting back into the go-kart and coming in first place, hitting a home run, leaping from rope to rope, etc, implying a long-term benefit of bouncing back after defeat instead of the instant gratification of overcoming one's obstacles immediately. That montage was one of the scenes that actually added a bit of character, IMO.
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Left the movie not caring about her at all.
They should have further into her memory control, and shown they purposely left every "submissive" memory. Then when she "unlocked" everything, she remembers every moment after, her standing up. That being in the trailer severely weakened her "heroes journey", if you could even call it that.
A space jet engine being a source of get power is kinna lame. But I guess not that far out compared to radiation or cave_made power sources.
They should have further into her memory control, and shown they purposely left every "submissive" memory. Then when she "unlocked" everything, she remembers every moment after, her standing up. That being in the trailer severely weakened her "heroes journey", if you could even call it that.
A space jet engine being a source of get power is kinna lame. But I guess not that far out compared to radiation or cave_made power sources.
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Another thing I enjoyed:
And something I didn't like:
When the Skrulls were introduced at the beginning, I figured this was yet another movie to indulge in the lazy "bad guys are hideous and evil-looking while the good guys are conventionally attractive" trope, so I was pleasantly surprised when they pull the ol' switcheroo and it turns out the uggos were actually the good guys all along.
And something I didn't like:
How does a 12 year-old child know how to operate the palette selector on CM's suit? At first you think she's doing whatever and colors are coming up randomly, then CM suggests the colors on her T-shirt and the kid just rubs those colors into being like she was raised on that tech. It's a minor thing, but it bugged.
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Female Identifying Children of Color are nautrally gifted at tech, they are just held back by society's social constructs.
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Jive Turkey
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I'm writing up the Cock Gobbler Initiative inspired by this post. You're first on the list. So you're officially a Cock Gobbler even though this is the first you've heard of it and even though I haven't even asked you to be a part of it yet. First on the list though
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