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Avengers: Infinity War - SDCC Footage (Potato Quality)

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Speely

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Not gonna lie... I would let bearded Evans do weird things to me. Like, really weird.

Edit: And of course I am at the top of the page (for some.)
 
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Farsi

Member
GravityInsanity said:
You guys think there's a chance this movie will do 2 billion worldwide?
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It'll come close to it, I'm thinking 1.7-1.8ish

This isn't just another Marvel film, it's an event film just like the first Avengers was. Thanos has been hyped up for I think 5 years now. All the big names are here, not just the Avengers. This movie is going to be massive, alot of people might think of this as a grand finale and show up.
 
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bananafactory

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Farsi said:
It'll come close to it, I'm thinking 1.7-1.8ish

This isn't just another Marvel film, it's an event film just like the first Avengers was. Thanos has been hyped up for I think 5 years now. All the big names are here, not just the Avengers. This movie is going to be massive, alot of people might think of this as a grand finale and show up.
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Yall are crazy man. This movie will be big but its not 200-300m shy of The Force Awakens big.

I see 1.5 at the high end, honestly.
 
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Earthanoid

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That looks pretty good, although I'm wondering how they're going to handle having so many characters in it. Even with that trailer where they are just giving you glimpses of most characters it is pretty much packed with character shots.

What did he mean by this? said:
Will the massive narrative barriers of entry at this point be more impactful to box office than the 'event film' quality of the MCU's culmination and the Avengers and Guardians teaming up?

Yes
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I think the MCU barriers of entry are exaggerated, you don't need to understand every joke or know every character to follow along with the movie. The trailer is pretty simple: evil blue dude comes to earth and is going to kill everyone, and it takes a lot of people to team up and fight him. I think at this point people accept some of the weird stuff (talking raccoon, Thor surviving floating around in space and colliding with a space ship) without needing to know their backgrounds.

I watched Civil War with someone who never saw Ant-man or the last 2 Iron Man movies, saw Avengers 2 but completely blocked it from memory, but was able to follow along fine. She had questions for sure (why are there two Iron Men?) but she still enjoyed the movie.
 
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Pachimari

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I'm thinking Avengers: Infinity War can do $1.6b ww (as the absolute max, 1.5 is more realistic in my little bubble lol), and that Avengers 4 will do less, because as previously mentioned it won't have the whole Guardians/Avengers teamup going for it, or the years between Avengers 2 and 3.
 
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bananafactory

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Speely said:
I agree with 1.5 as a ceiling.
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Yeah I mean it SHOULD do a good amount more than Civil War, but that failed to match Avengers 1 even with all of the extra movies and characters that built upon it since. I don't think the 'compound' factor leading up to IW is gonna result in a huge increase in BO. I think the Marvel ceiling for OW is around that 200m range, plus or minus a bit.

Avengers was the FIRST event film. This is bigger but it's been done before now.
 
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More_Badass

Member
Earthanoid said:
That looks pretty good, although I'm wondering how they're going to handle having so many characters in it. Even with that trailer where they are just giving you glimpses of most characters it is pretty much packed with character shots.



I think the MCU barriers of entry are exaggerated, you don't need to understand every joke or know every character to follow along with the movie. The trailer is pretty simple: evil blue dude comes to earth and is going to kill everyone, and it takes a lot of people to team up and fight him. I think at this point people accept some of the weird stuff (talking raccoon, Thor surviving floating around in space and colliding with a space ship) without needing to know their backgrounds.

I watched Civil War with someone who never saw Ant-man or the last 2 Iron Man movies, saw Avengers 2 but completely blocked it from memory, but was able to follow along fine. She had questions for sure (why are there two Iron Men?) but she still enjoyed the movie.
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Same. My mom saw Civil War a few days ago. She had seen Homecoming a few weeks ago, and hated it, and hadn't seen a Marvel movie besides that since Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron

She really enjoyed Civil War and only had a few questions like who Bucky was, why he was locked away in the beginning, etc
 
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Cuburt

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What did he mean by this? said:
Will the massive narrative barriers of entry at this point be more impactful to box office than the 'event film' quality of the MCU's culmination and the Avengers and Guardians teaming up?

Yes
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Exactly, just like how the Deathly Hallows films were the worst performing of the Harry Potter franchise.....

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Speely

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josecitoxnyo said:
I know this is the obvious twist, it's so lame tho, hopefully they don't go this path.
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I never want anyone to go down this path, but as a narrative device it's an easy go-to that can justify almost anything. Unfortunately, I can see it happening.

At least here there is a precedent set by the abilities of a specific superhero, I suppose.
 
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josecitoxnyo

Member
bananafactory said:
But if Thanos has the gem how is he gonna do that?
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This. Exactly what i was thinking.

Speely said:
I never want anyone to go down this path, but as a narrative device it's an easy go-to that can justify almost anything. Unfortunately, I can see it happening.

At least here there is a precedent set by the abilities of a specific superhero, I suppose.
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I know, hopefull if they go that path at least they work towards a brillant execution.
 
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Escape Goat

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Toa TAK said:
Me.

I'd just ask him how long that shit takes to grow.

I can't grow a beard. :'(
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No doubt he's had time to grow one. But if he can't they have makeup artists and hair stylists that get paid big bucks for movie fakery.

Except if 20th Century Fox is producing your movie

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More_Badass

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bananafactory said:
Yup. And the same way Star Wars IX won't come close to VII. Sometimes you get lightning in a bottle and you can't recapture that perfect recipe for feverish demand
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I think this is a different lighting in a bottle though

In Age of Ultron and Civil War, we had seen those characters together before. It was nothing new compared to the first Avengers

This is, though. Not only are we getting the comforting appeal of the Avengers together again, they're somehow going to team up with some crazy sci-fi team and an interdimensional sorcerer. We haven't seen that before; that has the kind of cross-genre intrigue of the first Avengers where a space alien god, a WW2 serial hero, the Hulk, a high tech billionaire, and spec ops assassins/agents teamed up
 
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bananafactory

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More_Badass said:
I think this is a different lighting in a bottle though

In Age of Ultron and Civil War, we had seen those characters together before. It was nothing new compared to the first Avengers

This is, though. Not only are we getting the comforting appeal of the Avengers together again, they're somehow going to team up with some crazy sci-fi team and an interdimensional sorcerer. We haven't seen that before; that has the kind of cross-genre intrigue of the first Avengers where a space alien god, a WW2 serial hero, the Hulk, a high tech billionaire, and spec ops assassins/agents teamed up
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I agree this is different from AoU/CW, in many ways. And you're right. But the first Avengers was THE teamup everyone had been waiting for. I just don't think additional, bigger teamups, with more people, drum up as much hype as the very first time it happens on a screen.

We'll have to wait and see.
 
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Neoxon

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James Gunn did a pretty lengthy explanation on Groot's growth in the MCU & why he's Adolescent Groot in Infinity War.
James Gunn said:
On Groot and His Growth:

Potential SPOILER for those of you who haven't watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 all the way to the end, and for those of you who don't want to know anything about the Infinity War trailer that played at San Diego Comic Con and at D23.

People are asking me a lot about how fast Groot grows, because in his appearance in the Infinity War trailer he was an ADOLESCENT (not a "teen" as has been reported in many places). This is exactly the same state of growth you see in the post credits scene of Vol. 2: Adolescent Groot.

In terms of how fast Groot grows overall, I can tell you this: Baby Groot appears two months after the Infant Groot we see at the end of Vol. 1. The post-credits scene with Adolescent Groot and Peter Quill is YEARS after the ending of Vol. 2. I won't say exactly how many years at this time, but be clear that it took him a fair amount of time just to go from Baby Groot to Adolescent Groot. (As a side note, I'll point out that Peter Quill can obviously understand what "I am Groot" means in the post-credits scene, so somehow he's learned to understand him in the same way Rocket has).

Like dogs, who grow at a different rate than humans, and spend a different percentage of their lives in adolescence than humans do, Groot and Humans do not grow at some exact exchange rate. So, although two months seems to be about two years (as Baby Groot seems to behave roughly like a two year old), it is not fair to assume that every month is a year to Groot. He has an alien biology and ages in a completely different way than a human being. Different aspects of his growth may take longer or shorter than a human's.

And, other than that, I'm going to leave you in suspense - frankly, for quite a while, as it will take years to show you how Groot goes from infancy to adulthood.
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AndersK

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Toa TAK said:
I DO NOT LIKE THOR: THE DARK WORLD

I don't even DISlike it.

I'm wholly indifferent to its existence. I didn't even pay to see the damn movie.
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I got hold of a limitied edition steelbook of it for 7 bucks. I own every MCU-flick except Iron Man 2 and Hulk. 2Thor2Dark is the only one i have a steelbook of.

This realisation has made me nausious.
 
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Ithil

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What did he mean by this? said:
No exactly just like how Avengers Civil War and Avengers 2 undergrossed the original lol
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Captain America Civil War, not Avengers.
Don't try to come up with some "but Avengers were in it?" nonsense either if you're going to try to claim that Civil War "undergrossed the original", which would be...First Avenger.
 
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Primethius

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More_Badass said:
Same. My mom saw Civil War a few days ago. She had seen Homecoming a few weeks ago, and hated it, and hadn't seen a Marvel movie besides that since Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron

She really enjoyed Civil War and only had a few questions like who Bucky was, why he was locked away in the beginning, etc
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Agreed. I find most of the Marvel stuff fairly accessible. My wife's only watched a few Marvel flicks all over the time line and doesn't really have any trouble following them.

So many connecting tissues are often minute points that she just glosses over without a worry.
 
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