Posted on 03/11/2019 11:46:52 AM PDT by Simon Green
At this point, the notion of a new Marvel Cinematic Universe movie opening with a boffo Friday-Sunday debut is barely news anymore; it's now akin to a new Tyler Perry-as-Madea movie opening with $25 million. Still, even by Marvel's standards, Captain Marvel flew higher, further and faster than its relative competition.
The Brie Larson/Samuel L. Jackson/Reggie the Cat sci-fi adventure opened with $153m in North America this weekend, which is the second-biggest solo superhero non-sequel launch behind Black Panther ($202m in 2018). It's the third-biggest March opening of all time, sans inflation, behind Batman v Superman ($166m in 2016) and Beauty and the Beast ($174m in 2017).
It's the fourth-biggest non-sequel launch behind Beauty and the Beast, Black Panther and (if it counts as a non-sequel) The Avengers ($207 million in 2012). The Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck-directed sci-fi adventure just scored the MCU’s seventh-biggest opening behind Iron Man 3 ($174m in 2013), Captain America: Civil War ($179m in 2016), Avengers: Age of Ultron ($191m in 2015), Black Panther ($202m in 2018), The Avengers ($207m in 2012) and Avengers: Infinity War ($258m in 2018). It earned a solid 2.55x weekend multiplier (it earned $53m in Saturday and around $42.6m on Sunday) and an A from Cinemascore.
So, no, the opening night bombardment of aggressively negative user reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and IMDB were not indicative of the general moviegoing populace. I know, I'm just as shocked—shocked—as you are. For what it's worth, this is the fifth-biggest female-led debut weekend of all time, behind only (again, sans inflation and 3-D bumps) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($158 million in 2013 sans 3-D), Beauty and the Beast ($174m in 2017), Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($220m in 2017) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($248m in 2015).
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Yes, it is like a bunch of crabby old people who hate anything after 1959.
There are fewer and fewer open minds on FR today.
Says the guy attacking people who’ve seen the movie when he hasn’t seen it himself.
Very closed minded.
Well, 1989.
Careful - your troll mask is slipping.
Frankly, I do not trust your opinion, nor that of most others posting here.
You have not earned my respect like other FReepers.
I hold my own opinion on movies. I am not sure when I will see Capt Marvel, but I am not going to worry about it.
Marvel is unstoppable.
I don’t care - you’re attacking commenters and making false accusations that the movie isn’t SJW and you haven’t seen it.
Never mind the fact that you slipped in your trolling conflating Trump’s actions with Brie’s actions as media hyperbole - which, they’re not, but which a purebred leftist would say.
Lastly you claim that I need to earn your respect as if that’s some sort of defense?
Nah bro - you’re just a Russian NPC
Came across this which may be of interest in the discussion of the movie:
YouTube Changes Search Algorithm to Suppress Criticism Of Brie Larson And Captain Marvel
Link: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=59905
Indeed. I read that a large part of the opening box office was pre-sales (i.e. before word of mouth).
They’re free to do that - but it makes you wonder that if they’ll change search algorithms on the fly like this for a MOVIE - what will they do for something they really believe in? Like political power?
Rotten tomatoes has completely destroyed their value (can you ever take a tomato score at face value again?) for social justice. YouTube and google skew their search algorithms and I’m supposed to take these box office values at face value?
This mostly came across when she kept saying "I'm not saying I hate white dudes".
For some reason, I laughed a lot at that.
“You have not earned my respect like other FReepers.”
You don’t see a little irony here?
Eric given this exchange between you and several freepers I went researched exactly what she said
Eric you admit you haven’t seen the film yet you defend it against those who have
Have you seen tapes of this ladies comments
If not you should
She’s a die hard virtue signaling identity politics sort who claims 3 times she doesn’t hate white men
Not very encouraging
I don’t watch comic book movies and never have understood grown man fascination with it all. Comic books for me were Classics Illustrated in the 60s
Anyhow
Another chick superhero
And to supporting a criminal enterprise that aims to take down the current administration and engages in pedophalia on a regular basis.
Give them 50 bucks for a movie for 2 and some candy and soda to fill these animals’ pockets? No thanks.
No thanks.
lol. I just realized i’ve turned into the older FReeper that now knows better because when I first joined i would have given the answer about giving the movies a chance, blah blah :)
I stopped going to see superhero movies after I became an adult. They’re for adolescents and perpetual adolescents.
It made over 450 Million opening weekend. Made back its cost and more... anyone telling you this thing was going to flat out bomb doesn’t have a bloody clue.
$150 million was just in US.
Sorry but if you were rooting for this thing to bomb you truly know nothing.
This was always going to make money, the question was always how much.
I saw it, thought it was MEH.. 3 out or 5 starts. Not marvels worst movie, not its best, but there was never any doubt it would make money.
Haters?
You’re hip on the lingo, huh?
I thought you had to be under 25 to use that make believe PC word :)
I don’t condemn you for going to the movie. You wouldn’t care anyway if I did. I’m nobody special.
But I won’t give them a dime even for a “Good” movie because the money fuels pedophilia, destroying our president, and warping our young.
I live my own hypocrisy with amazon prime so I don’t point fingers.
But i was finding myself walking out of too many movies after paying 12 bucks so I just wait for them to be free and then i can just shut it if the politics sickens me.
I think encouraging the portrayal of women as "warriors" is destructive to the nation.
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