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Box Office: Marvel's 'Avengers: Infinity War' Tops $1.8 Billion Worldwide
Forbes ^ | 05/20/18 | Scott Mendelson

Posted on 05/20/2018 6:25:54 PM PDT by Simon Green

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Just watched it this morning...what a ride! Highly recommended, with two caveats:

1) If you're not at least moderately familiar with the Marvel Cinematic Universe you will be hopelessly lost.

2) This film does not stand on its own. We'll all need to see Avengers 4 next year to find out how it ends.

1 posted on 05/20/2018 6:25:54 PM PDT by Simon Green
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Enjoyed it, except for the unnecessary quip about Jesus. Totally unnecessary.


2 posted on 05/20/2018 6:29:31 PM PDT by freepertoo
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Where was that? I’ve seen it twice, with plans to see it at least once more. Never saw or heard anything about Jesus in this one. I’m the original Avenger, Cap told Loki there’s only one God, and he doesn’t dress like that.


3 posted on 05/20/2018 6:40:46 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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Where was that? I’ve seen it twice, with plans to see it at least once more. Never saw or heard anything about Jesus in this one.

I suppose it's not much of a spoiler. Dr. Strange shouts at the Guardians of the Galaxy, “What master do you serve?” and Star Lord rolls his eyes and asks, “Am I supposed to say Jesus?”.

4 posted on 05/20/2018 6:53:30 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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Well if the answer to who was your master would not be “Thanos”, what would it be?
Chris Pratt has stated he is a Christian.


5 posted on 05/20/2018 7:01:51 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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Saw “Deadpool 2” today. Ugh. Nowhere close to as good as #1. Every other joke is a penis joke.

It’s like Michael Bay made “Suicide Squad” with the writers of “Ishtar.”

And, of course, the reference to the lesbo lovers.


6 posted on 05/20/2018 7:15:29 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendix))
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Interesting that in “Deadpool 2” Josh Brolin begins the movie as the villain in that as well (Cable, who eventually comes around).

When was the last time the same guy was a different villain in two SIMULTANEOUS superhero movies?


7 posted on 05/20/2018 7:16:54 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendix))
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Saw it today - nodded off a couple times. Yes it sucked that bad. It has nothing to do with the original Infinity War as published back in the day.


8 posted on 05/20/2018 7:17:35 PM PDT by atc23
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As much as I have liked the various Avenger-based movies, this “franchise” needs to come to an abrupt and permanent end.

the Marvel Universe has reached a point of complete foolishness.

What I would give for old-style drama movie these days.


9 posted on 05/20/2018 7:37:59 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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As much as I have liked the various Avenger-based movies, this “franchise” needs to come to an abrupt and permanent end.

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/full-list-of-all-upcoming-marvel-movies/

Ant-Man and the Wasp July 6, 2018
Captain Marvel March 6, 2019
The (Still) Untitled Fourth Avengers Film May 3, 2019
Spider-Man: Homecoming Sequel July 5, 2019
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 May 1, 2020
Black Panther 2 July 31, 2020
Eternals November 6, 2020
Captain Marvel 2 May 7, 2021
Black Widow July 31, 2021
Ms. Marvel February 18, 2022

10 posted on 05/20/2018 7:52:50 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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Remember whenthe pundits and Disney cheerleaders were telling us how big the Black Panther box-office was?

3 months later it is already on home video.


11 posted on 05/20/2018 8:32:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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Wasn’t Star Lord’s father a god?


12 posted on 05/20/2018 8:33:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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What?!! No Forbush Man???


13 posted on 05/20/2018 8:34:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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Remember whenthe pundits and Disney cheerleaders were telling us how big the Black Panther box-office was?

It made $697 million at the domestic box office, and $1.3 billion worldwide. That's not big?

3 months later it is already on home video.

Everything comes out on home video quickly these days.

14 posted on 05/20/2018 8:43:53 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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Wasn’t Star Lord’s father a god?

Kind of...he was Ego, the Living Planet. As Bill Murray put it in "Groundhog Day":

" I'm a god — I'm not the God".

15 posted on 05/20/2018 8:48:31 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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What?!! No Forbush Man???

Coming in Spring 2047!

16 posted on 05/20/2018 8:51:07 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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I suppose that they could have been planning movies for the next ten years instead of the next four.

It’s going to be a long four years.

:(


17 posted on 05/20/2018 9:33:28 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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The absolute core films that provide fast backstory and characters, prior to A:IW, are Cpt America Civil War, Thor Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy 1.


18 posted on 05/20/2018 10:12:54 PM PDT by catbertz
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Not in the comics.and in the film Ego was a Celestial.


19 posted on 05/21/2018 12:27:22 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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Ah, yes. Why do you perceive that as a slight? With the firm-and-brimstone corner preachers, the height of the TV pastors, was when Peter was planet-napped away from Earth, so, sure, it makes sense to me. And it was funny.

Plus - who knows, it might make get someone to go and investigate Jesus.


20 posted on 05/21/2018 5:27:08 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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