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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
So, predictable Endgame beat A New Hope with the highest Thursday ever. (so much for "A New Hope can't be beaten" or "The runtime will prevent Endgame from having as much screenings as necessary).
Also it has already made $305,000,000 just overseas.
I think it is safe to say that it will jump the billion mark by the end of the weekend at this point.
Disney apparently has ensured that the multiplexes show Captain Marvel on at least one screen. Which naturally is Disney unfairly throwing its weight around to give the movie a push since it underperformed (yes, this is the newest Anti-SJW nonsense story). But frankly, it simply makes a lot of business sense. Captain Marvel has gotten a sudden surge because apparently a lot of people decide to watch it ahead of Endgame after all.
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Jesus, they still are pretending like it underperformed? I swear, you could have God himself arrive from the sky to tell them the movie was a success, and they'd still somehow find a way to say it was a flop.
As for Endgame... yeah, no surprise there that it was a success. When I went to see it, so many people were coming to see it the line was actually three building blocks long.
Yeah, I think the newest BS excuse is that it performed less than projected or something like that. And they are all triumphing about the fact that domestically it made less than The Dark Knight if you adjust for inflation...I guess they mostly do it because it doesn't look like "it didn't beat Wonder Woman domestically" won't be true for much longer.
It's a little bit frustrating, because I am currently actively looking for video essays about Captain Marvel and usually I get only their BS in my search results.
You too? I know the feel. Is always a bizarre """totes-not-sexist"""" diatribe at best. At worst? Open sexism.
Don't get me wrong, I take care to not click their videos. Thankfully you can easily recognize them based on the unflattering pictures of Brie Larson they tend to feature. So they don't get direct attention from me. But their fanbase apparently doesn't get tired of it. So they won't stop, at least not until they focus on Episode 9.
Huh for curiosity's sake I search Captain Marvel on Youtube.
There's one titled "An Unbridled Meh" with as mentioned has an unflattering image of her but also one that titled "Everyone Hates Brie Larson" where apparently the Endgame cast grills her for lying about doing her own stunts or whatever nonsense.
What's problematic is that video has 1.2 million views.
Edited by slimcoder on Apr 26th 2019 at 12:28:17 PM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Nah, that youtuber is seemingly really that popular. He is one of those who sells himself as "reasonable", so it isn't quite as obvious what a huge idiot he is.
The whole "Brie Larson does her own stunt" thing...she was just joking. You know, one of those usual Avengers interviews in which everyone is bragging a little bit. Those idiots made a huge issue out of nothing to a degree that Don Cheadle had to clarify that no, he doesn't hate Brie Larson.
That's their other narrative, btw, other than that the movie underperforms they are convinced that Brie Larson is hated by the other actors. I doubt that they even know each other all that well, since a lot of Endgame was scene shot in little pockets, with people not even being on set at the same time. (Jackson, naturally, is the exception and they seem to get along great considering that he starred in her indie and showed her his lightsaber on the fourth of May (get your mind out of the gutter).

Yeah, this is the (in theory) very spoiler-careful thread. The official rule seems to be a month but given the existence of a spoiler thread, just use that