Avengers Endgame breaking box office records worldwide

[SomeBlackDude]

saw it. thought it was eh.

not turrible, just ok.

may be the most nonsensical time travel flick i've ever seen doe.

the shit with cap at the end didn't make a lick of sense.

best part was knowing all the incel/racist meltdowns it would produce.

captain obama and bad bitches uniting to fight the patriarchy cut to the soul of the inkkkcel community.

DEEP.

[Meticode]

Through Friday Endgame has amassed $1.9 billion. After Saturday it's expected to be over the $2 billion mark easily. It's only on it's 7th or 8th day since release and it's already made more money than Infinity War did internationally.

[MaxFly]

Through Friday Endgame has amassed $1.9 billion. After Saturday it's expected to be over the $2 billion mark easily. It's only on it's 7th or 8th day since release and it's already made more money than Infinity War did internationally.

Not surprising.

[SpaceJam2]

I wasn't wrong that it wouldn't be as good as Infinity War... I was right about that... but...

This movie has clearly done better than I thought it was going to. I was laughably dead ass wrong about that. Embarrassingly so.

I've never seen a movie do so well that didn't REALLY start promoting itself up everyone's ass until only a month before release. That's what truly threw me off. I guess it should be obvious in hindsight, given how many films over the years have tied in with this, no doubt about it. But still... it just seems to me like the promotional hype train would be in full force for about 6 months to a year out of most other truly huge movies before it... where this movie basically didn't start promoting until right after I made that thread.

Hell, there wasn't even a thread here for that movie until I made one 30 days out... there were far smaller films that made far less money that have had people making threads here many many many many months in advance... and yet somehow Endgame slipped under the radar entirely until it was go time.

That's what threw me off and why my prediction was so wildly inaccurate.

Looks like it might pass Avatar... should have taken me up on the bet if that ends up being the case, RMWG... oh well.

It takes a girthy man of epic proportions to admit he was wrong

Ben MF Thiccoms ladies and gentlemen

[Lakers Legend#32]

Not as good as Infinity Wars.

[TheMan]

It takes a girthy man of epic proportions to admit he was wrong

Ben MF Thiccoms ladies and gentlemen

True dat

Even though I made this thread to troll Ben, gotta give 'em a tip of the hat.

[bladefd]

Saw it.. I enjoyed it!

I didn't have any issues with it.. Just a few minors things like Thor being relegated to comedy (minor writing issue), captain marvel (again, mehhh writing of her) and Thanos writing was bit lacking too compared to Infinity war. None of it is enough to get mad because the focus was not meant to be on them but on Avengers redemption after failing in Infinity war. It's a 9 overall.

[Smook A.]

Fastest movie to ever cross $2 billion, and currently sitting $2.2 billion with the weekend not even being over yet. By next week or two, it'll pass Avatar

[bladefd]

I posted this just now on my fb..

Only issue I had was with the time travel. It is difficult to make time travel work without running into temporal loopholes and paradoxes. We saw those issues in End Game, but I can't blame the writers. They tried hard to make it work as well as they could, but it is very difficult to work out those temporal issues for anyone.

First thing is butterfly effect - one minor alteration would amplify in scale & change the whole timeline across the universe from start to finish.

Second, each time you cause such a change, you would create an infinite number of new universes and so you could have potentially created a new infinite number of events. The universe they returned to in the end would theoretically be a very different universe from the one they left, and we would have no idea what happened to the original timeline - would it continue in parallel trajectory or be destroyed?

If you start thinking about this, the premise begins to unravel and fall apart..

Then again, I keep telling myself it's a comic book movie with superheroes who can fly, call up thunder at will, travel faster than light across the universe (fly in captain marvel's case) with no consideration for time dilation in general relativity, minimize people to the quantum scale down to billions of times smaller than a planck, use shiny little stones to control time/space/etc, have souls & magic, etc. Every basic law of physics is violated in the process. Time travel is the least of our worries!

[Meticode]

Not as good as Infinity Wars.

*Infinity War

The biggest reason why most people tell me they prefer Infinity War is because they didn't expect Thanos to actually win in the movie and accomplish his goal. Most people (including me) going into the movie assumed Thanos would get a few stones, then the movie would end at some cliff hanger and Endgame would pickup about him trying to retrieve the remaining stones.

But no, the Russo's let Thanos kill half of all life and you actually get to see in Endgame what it does to people in some perspective. I thought that was a ballsy move and it worked out obviously.

[Meticode]

I posted this just now on my fb..

Only issue I had was with the time travel. It is difficult to make time travel work without running into temporal loopholes and paradoxes. We saw those issues in End Game, but I can't blame the writers. They tried hard to make it work as well as they could, but it is very difficult to work out those temporal issues for anyone.

First thing is butterfly effect - one minor alteration would amplify in scale & change the whole timeline across the universe from start to finish.

Second, each time you cause such a change, you would create an infinite number of new universes and so you could have potentially created a new infinite number of events. The universe they returned to in the end would theoretically be a very different universe from the one they left, and we would have no idea what happened to the original timeline - would it continue in parallel trajectory or be destroyed?

If you start thinking about this, the premise begins to unravel and fall apart..

Then again, I keep telling myself it's a comic book movie with superheroes who can fly, call up thunder at will, travel faster than light across the universe (fly in captain marvel's case) with no consideration for time dilation in general relativity, minimize people to the quantum scale down to billions of times smaller than a planck, use shiny little stones to control time/space/etc, have souls & magic, etc. Every basic law of physics is violated in the process. Time travel is the least of our worries!

That's called nit picking. Just enjoy the movie at face value. While everything you said is true if you over-analyze it, the one thing that bothered me was Cap showing up on the bench at the end. If the movie stuck to it's own rules he wouldn't been there because he would've been making some alternate timeline with Peggy. Banner even specifically said that anything they do in the past timelines doesn't effect their current one like the traditional way of thinking.

[Kblaze8855]

Fastest movie to ever cross $2 billion, and currently sitting $2.2 billion with the weekend not even being over yet. By next week or two, it'll pass Avatar

This is pretty crazy:

Time it took to reach $2 billion at the box office:

Titanic: 5,233 days
Force Awakens: 54 days
Infinity War: 48 days
Avatar: 47 days
Endgame: 11 days

[TheMan]

This is pretty crazy:

First movie to break the 3 billion mark? AFAIK no movie has reached 3 billion at the box office, correct me if I'm wrong though...

[sammichoffate]

First movie to break the 3 billion mark? AFAIK no movie has reached 3 billion at the box office, correct me if I'm wrong though...

No, only five have passed 2 billion: Avatar, Endgame+IW, Titanic, and Star Wars: TFA.

[red1]

well deserved