Posted on 05/05/2019 4:54:35 PM PDT by be-baw
The Marvel title now sits as the second-highest-grossing film of all time, only behind James Cameron's 'Avatar.' Avengers: Endgame is now the second-highest-grossing film of all time with $2.189 billion.
It has surpassed James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which earned $2.187 billion (unadjusted for inflation). Endgame achieved the remarkable feat after collecting another $145.8 million domestically and $282.2 million overseas in its second weekend.
The top-grossing film of all time is Cameron's Avatar (2009), with $2.8 billion at the global box office.
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Kevin Feige et al have made movie history here. Will Endgame surpass Avatar? I think it will.
Loved Titanic...so not into this Avengers franchise though.
Those hollywood socialists make a lot of money and no one objects, yet they idolize Maduro and his bankrupt nation. Sean Penn, care to move to Venezuela with all your money?
That would be amazing. James Cameron has held that record for over 21 years.
movie ping
I know many FReepers (and conservatives) say they don't spend a dime at the movies, but the actors don't care. Box office tallies are globally now. China is a huge driving force behind today's box office smashes. I know it sucks that people like Chris Evans are leftists and push their agenda down your throat, but I figure he's going to get paid no matter, he's making a product I enjoy, and my withdrawing my $15-$20 at the movies isn't going to change his opinion. So like a Sadist, I'll definitely watch these types of films.
I tried to see it today. The theater had it showing on 6 of their 16 screens.
It was sold out until about 11pm, every screen, every showing, and that 11pm probably sold out later.
I thought it may have died down a little but boy was I wrong.
“Those hollywood socialists make a lot of money and no one objects, yet they idolize Maduro and his bankrupt nation. Sean Penn, care to move to Venezuela with all your money?”
Wow. I can’t imagine a post being more out of left field and that doesn’t make sense. You sure you’re posting to the right thread?
All I have to do is give my 18 & 20 yr old sons 60 seconds to bring me up to speed before each movie and then I enjoy them to the fullest.
How many actors had a “percentage” I wonder.
I thought it was slow moving and boring. A lot of focus on personal relationships, but I only half remembered the background from previous episodes. And I could have done without seeing beer belly Thor...
I feel the opposite. Loved Avengers: Endgame. Cameron's fictional love story on the Titanic and rant against the wealthy/privileged class, not so much. I did love Cameron's work Terminator and Aliens though.
“And I could have done without seeing beer belly Thor...”
Well, you ruined it for me. I sure don’t want to see beer belly Thor. I’d rather see Thor, Frog of Thunder.
Great storyline.
written and drawn by Walt Simonson.
Probably only Robert Downey.
The big ones signed multi-film deals. So few of them get much of a back end. But the licensing alone will keep many generations of little commies indiapers.
The BIG winners are Marvel, Friege, and Jon Favreau. Those are the folks in from the start.
I am with you on that. I pretty much boycott movies unless it is a story about a vet or something Clint Eastwood made.
I did make an exception for this movie as my daughter and her friends wanted to watch it and I tagged along.
The story left me nonplused. The first half was a bunch of unending cheap dialogue equivocations, the battles are their usual ridiculous glorified pokymon nonsense with their usual arbitrary meaningless wounds , deaths or unscathed characters for no other reason than some emotional prerogative.
I much prefer the Greek battles of the immortal gods and their meanings with man having his definite role in this.
THe only good take aways I got from the movie is the disappearance of the people which resembled biblical rapture and the idea of the reluctant hero in Iron man who refuses and abandons his team only to make a come back and ending up being killed. Ie his team now feels bad because it was as if he knew it required him to be killed and they were pushing him. There was also the part of Captain America fighting Captain America, and that has also some philosophical significance in how one must beat oneself in life to perform even better.
The rest of the movie is pure space and time filling to make it last with idiotic skits. The amount of awkward filling in the movie ressembles a bad date trying to avoid an awkward long silent moment in between the main developments.
Not sure what is the big deal about Marvel either. I mean, the barbarians are into the spectacular, and while it delivered in this, it was utter nonsensical.
THe whole thing was filling in the plot with different skits. It was pure fill in about 2 hours something between 2 main plot twists and sacrifice scenes. I would say there is 10 maybe 15 min of interesting moments, and the rest is just fill that make for an almost awkard silence.
I’m surprised you allowed your hoity-toity ass to go out and mingle among the hoi poilo to experience such nonsense. Thanks for taking a bullet for the rest of us.
Speaking of Greek battles...this Oscar nominated short film from Canada has more power in its tiny budget and story than all those empty neon messes Marvel flings at the screen. Two young boys horseplaying in an industrial area leads to...
FAUVE
https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2018/10/03/fauve/
End Game kind of wraps the Avengers up. So what exactly did Disney buy? A one off ending?
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