Could you even fucking imagine if this happened? All that build up and, "welp it's canceled, so fuck you." I couldn't handle the meltdowns.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron Scores 2nd Highest-Opening - The Age of Marvel is Done
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Could you even fucking imagine if this happened? All that build up and, "welp it's canceled, so fuck you." I couldn't handle the meltdowns.
I am one of those people.
clay_ghost
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Hi!
After retroactively deciding it was bad?
a secret-boss
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I actually like more characterization of this movie than 1
ryutaro's mama
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Yep and I detailed exactly why in this very thread.
Most here expected Dark Knight Rises to beat Avengers. Nerds get this stuff wrong all the time.
ryutaro's mama
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See: Snakes On A Plane aND Scott Pilgrim
Zeyphersan
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The MCU is a franchise that consists of other franchises. There's the Iron Man franchise, the Captain America franchise, the Thor franchise, all within the Marvel franchise
It's a megacorporation's wet dream
Officerrob
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Those people are called the majority
Of course, yes.
It was fun seeing established characters come together to form a united team in Avengers 1. The Battle of New York was a great, memorable set piece.T he original film had the massive advantage of having all its characters and villains already established.
In Age of Ultron, the film's attention is so divided between returning characters and launching 4 new characters that I think a lot of fun got lost. The Battle of Some Craphole Town In Russia was mostly forgettable and full of cornball "Save the civillians" shenanigans.
Christopher
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Fan boys arguing over numbers on the Internet while Disney collects millions and millions
...and millions.
...and millions.
PhoncipleBone
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Because it was a better movie. Avengers 2 is middle of the pack for MCU.
BattleMonkey
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Funny was at comic stores all weekend doing events for the 501st legion, and all weekend I hear negative or meh comments about AoU. There really seems to be a bit of negative word of mouth on this one. The party we went with for work to see it also had a lot of Luke warm reactions to it.
Avengers 1 was a better put together film. 2 was all kinds of sloppy, felt disjointed and all over the place.
And no one really expects a Marvel bomb, but a decline in their performance? Of course it can happen.
Avengers 1 was a better put together film. 2 was all kinds of sloppy, felt disjointed and all over the place.
And no one really expects a Marvel bomb, but a decline in their performance? Of course it can happen.
Byakuya769
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Avengers 1 had Loki as the most non-threatening villain ever (he had just returned fresh off getting his ass whipped by one Avenger), pretty poor camera work and lame fights.
Ultron and Wanda felt dangerous, the camera work was far better, the fights were much better and all the characters got a chance to shine.
Oh, and the VISION.
Only thing Avengers was better at was feeling like a culmination of events instead of merely setting the stage for Civil War.
Ultron and Wanda felt dangerous, the camera work was far better, the fights were much better and all the characters got a chance to shine.
Oh, and the VISION.
Only thing Avengers was better at was feeling like a culmination of events instead of merely setting the stage for Civil War.
Mr. Pointy
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AoU will pass the first movie's gross on the strength of its international totals. $1.6 billion is likely. $1.7 billion will be a stretch. I don't think it'll make Titanic's first run of $1.8b any more.
Yeah our walk-ins collapsed I tell ya.
immortal-joe
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Some threads just become too confusing to read through due to the high rate of sarcastic posts. Anyway, it will be very interesting to see the second weekend's numbers.
Source tells me SUN traffic stronger than projected for #AvengersAgeOfUltron. Picking up lost SAT biz. $190M+ wknd.
https://twitter.com/giteshpandya/status/595078622794383360
Charles Foster Kane
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I dislike Avengers 1 and think it's a mediocre movie. I also think it's better than 2 (even if slightly).
I sure enjoyed the first more than the second.
Age of Ultron making less than Avengers 1 doesn't really surprise me. Even though I liked it more than the first (mainly due to Ultron being a far more interesting villian than Loki), I think people are getting tired of Marvel at this point. The novelty has kinda worn off.
I actually didn't really like Wanda or The Vision. Wanda is basically crazy OP since she can apparently do anything she wants to with her powers (seriously, she uses Jedi Mind Tricks, makes energy shields, has some form of superspeed/teleportation, shoots energy blasts, can levitate stuff, etc) and The Vision was underused.
Seriously, where the hell did he go after he wiped Ultron from 'the internet'?
in threads like this the sarcasm comments get mixed up and replied to with serious posts easily.
The fight surely had an influence and the numbers are still huge and a big win for marvel. Speaking of a superhero decline is really laughable. A few million $$$ less than the first one and people already speak of "everybody getting tired of these superhero movies"? (based on some of the serious comments here)
I won't get enough of superhero movies if they are made well. Not looking forward to another Thor but anything else? Feed me!
The fight surely had an influence and the numbers are still huge and a big win for marvel. Speaking of a superhero decline is really laughable. A few million $$$ less than the first one and people already speak of "everybody getting tired of these superhero movies"? (based on some of the serious comments here)
I won't get enough of superhero movies if they are made well. Not looking forward to another Thor but anything else? Feed me!
Princess Carl
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I don't think Disney or Marvel is going to be ecstatic that this film made less opening weekend than the first one did. It's a business, they want to be seen as moving forward constantly artistically and commercially. It's terrific box office, until they have to explain to stockholders and investors how they spent more and made less.
I think the shareholders would be wise to not expect Avengers-levels of revenue every single incarnation. If you do, you're insane.
I think they expected more to be honest.
Why would they? Out of the post avengers movies, only cap 2 and GotG outperformed expectations, iirc.
Plus, Avengers released stateside first, age of Ultron released internationally first before releasing in the US. By then any negative views on the movie put down anyone on the fence for this movie.
CadetMahoney
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I've yet to see 2, so that's not good news to me.
I thought first one was average and meh/
Boxing more popular then superheroes...huh.
Considering those two are some of the most popular fictional characters that have ever existed, I wouldn't be surprised.
Well, it's Infinity Gauntlet so I'd imagine "The End Is Nigh" would be screamed over and over.
Is there any reason these flicks not be 3 hours long considering these flicks are going to have constant action scenes to not bore the audience? Because I can't see each Infinity War flick not be 3 hours with all the characters that are going to be jammed in.
Empire Strikes Back?
Welcome to Big Business.
Nightengale
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Beyond the fact that Avengers 1 was a better 'event' moment, there's also a stronger sense of tightness, in the sense that every single pre-Avengers movie was a slow, simmering build-up to Avengers.
I never got that sense with the Phase 2 movies, tbh. All of them were building up to different things, but it wasn't as cohesive as Phase 1 movies building up to the Avengers.
I never got that sense with the Phase 2 movies, tbh. All of them were building up to different things, but it wasn't as cohesive as Phase 1 movies building up to the Avengers.
Majima Everywhere System
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From everything I saw leading up to the release without doing any research other than the marketing that reached me, it looked boring and like they desaturated everything so it would look gray.
It was a really nice weekend in the northeast.
It was a really nice weekend in the northeast.
BodiesWithoutOrgans
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Most people will say Avengers 1 is better because seeing the hole cast together for the first time is clouding there judgement
Entryhazard
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RDJ has a big fanbase because of Iron Man
Was Chris Pratt really that famous before Guardians of the Galaxy?
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I don't know if free comic book day hurt them but in NYC there were lines around the block at comic shops but the theater was barely half full when I went at 3pm.
ArchedThunder
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All joking aside I am actually surprised it was under 200 million.
No. He had his part in Parks and Rec, but other than that his biggest movie roles was the lead voice in the Lego Movie, and some bit parts in Her, Moneyball, Wanted, and Zero Dark 30.
Free comic book day always happens on the first Saturday of the biggest comic film of the year.
Mass Appeal
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I liked AoU as much as the first avengers. I think both movies are up there with me in the MCU along with winter soldier and GOTG.
What am I reading?
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Did it happen for the first avengers though? I honestly can't remember. I know they coincide it, that's most of the point.
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