Captain Marvel - Literally, from "her" to "hero"

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Are you actually going to watch this flick?

  • No

    Votes: 74 17.0%

  • Fuck, no

    Votes: 177 40.7%

  • Not in cinemas

    Votes: 81 18.6%

  • Yes

    Votes: 40 9.2%

  • (((Yes)))

    Votes: 20 4.6%

  • Twitter told me I must, I can't say no, you white-cis-sexist-oppresive scum!

    Votes: 43 9.9%
  • Total voters
    435
Also I just checked the domestic numbers for Avengers Infinity War and Black Panther.

Rounding them up: Infinity War is $678mil. Black Panther is $700mil

$22million more. Which in a way doesn't mean much. Most of the BP people saw the other MCU movies and the few that only saw it for the fact it was full of black people were probably 10% or so of the audience. Maybe less.

If it was $100million more then maybe we are onto something.

Note: I get it's irrelevant to Captain Marvel, but it's just something I checked out after hearing the whole "It beat Infinity War Domestically!" stuff. Basically it barely beat Infinity War.
 
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friedshrimp said:
So what other supehero can the mouse do the woke marketing crap? The only one that comes to mind is Miss Marvel (the muslim girl), really, since they don't have any prominent asian or hispanic superheroes that I can think of. Unless they racebend some and that's a whole new can of worms.
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Every female versions of heroes in the last few years, America Chavez, that one female character retconned from being raped in a instance of time travel (It's marvel and they have a history of doing fucked up shit Carol Dancers was raped and gave birth to the same rapist, I shit you not), a whole bunch of characters that are not really smart that were made to steal the spots of Marvel top 10 smartest (including Moon Girl taking Reed Richard Spot because that little psycho solved a puzzle or Hank Pym comic book daughter and her group of minorities friends) , female characters written out of character (Slott's Black Cat)
 
Elwood P. Dowd said:
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The comments for this trailer special look that just dropped, wow. Shill central.
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I just watched it and I am honestly surprised that this actually looks like a decent flick. One thing I have to give props to is the fact they show her struggle so at least they won’t make her a glorified Mary Sue unlike Rey, but trailers can be deceitful still.
 
I just saw Black Panther for the first time a few days ago and I was kind of surprised at how pandering and race-baity it was. I just figured that was a marketing tactic that worked on the usual suspects, not an actual part of the plot. Guessing this may be the same so definitely giving it a miss.
 
Jetpack Himmler said:
Brie Larson is easily the least interesting part about the trailer. She has the emotional range of a toaster.
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I disagree. This toaster has waaaay more range.
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The Nothingness said:
The movie is not even out yet and we already have hysterics.
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Probably never read a book in her life lmao (and no that's not a typo, SJWs are proven not to read books (Harry Potter isn't a book it's glorified readable dogshit)).
A Random said:
I just hate her helmet.

What is she, Captain Rooster?
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Now THAT would get me in a seat.

"I say, you're a sexist, I say you're a sexist if you don't I say if you don't watch this pictchah."
 
Sinners Sandwich said:
That's why I can't watch stuff like this. I need characters with a relatable personality. Skin Color comes last.
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I certainly hope you've seen the Spider-Verse movie, then. Miles Morales is a wonderful, relatable, and delightful character who just happens to be biracial. For me, he's one of the BEST superheroes to grace the big screen in a really long time.

Black Panther, for me, is definitely on the bottom tier of the MCU movies in terms of quality. I've yet to flat-out dislike an MCU movie, don't get me wrong, but Black Panther is the most overrated thing to come out ever. The screenplay was pretty bad (there's a lot about the plot that just doesn't make any fucking sense), the CGI was overall pretty terrible, the fight scenes were lackluster, and the characters weren't that interesting except for Killmonger (who was a great villain in an "ok" movie). T'Challa was really boring in his own movie, if you ask me ... Which is a disappointment because I found him to be really interesting in Civil War.

That said, I just don't see Captain Marvel coming anywhere close to making "Black Panther" numbers at the box office. The only hype for this movie that I'm hearing is all of the shilling from "Blue Checkmark" asshats on Twitter. Before Black Panther came out, everybody was talking about it.
 
Looks like it is going to have a huge opening weekend, if nothing else.

Captain Marvel’ Day 1 Ticket Pre-Sales Rank Among Fandango’s Top Three Ever For A Marvel Movie

‘Captain Marvel’ Day 1 Ticket Pre-Sales Rank Among Fandango’s Top Three Ever For A Marvel Movie
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by Anthony D'Alessandro

January 9, 2019 12:17pm


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Disney

In its first day of advance ticket sales on Fandango, Disney/Marvel’s Captain Marvel is ranking third in the online seller’s record books for top Marvel Cinematic Universe movies after Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther, which quite frankly is fantastic.



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While distributors don’t exactly trumpet advance ticket sales as an exact bellwether for opening weekend B.O. prospects, Infinity War went on to become the biggest opening in U.S./Canada of all-time at $257.7M while Black Panther is 6th on the 3-day openers list with $202M. Last year at this time when Black Panther was pacing ahead of Captain America: Civil War‘s first day sales, many box office sources said the same thing: Don’t assume that great pre-sales will translate into a record weekend. However, it’s pretty safe to say that Captain Marvel is bound for a $100M-plus opening glory. We haven’t seen a Marvel movie since last July’s Ant-Man and the Wasp. Captain Marvel opens on March 8.





Tickets for Captain Marvel went on sale on Monday at 6PM EST. The movie directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck and starring Oscar winner Brie Larson in the title role is also besting the first 24-hour sales of such Marvel Cinematic Universe movies like Civil War, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Thor: Ragnarok and Doctor Strange on Fandango.

“We’re seeing fantastic advance ticket sales for ‘Captain Marvel’ because it’s a historic film for Marvel Studios, one that fans have been waiting to see for a decade,” said Fandango’s Erik Davis. “As the studio’s first female-driven superhero film, ‘Captain Marvel’ is a benchmark moment for the genre, for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and for star Brie Larson, who will play the most powerful Marvel superhero to date
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It also has essentially zero competition for both its opening, second and I'd argue third weekends, with Dumbo opening March 29. And nothing of note opens the weekend before it does. (Chaos Walking had that slot, but they pulled it for reshoots.) Looks like it basically has March 2019 to itself.

MARCH 2019

March 1 (Friday)
A Madea Family Funeral
Climax (Limited)
Greta (Limited)
Transit (Limited)
The Wedding Guest (Limited)

March 8 (Friday)
Captain Marvel
Gloria Bell (Limited)

March 15 (Friday)
Wonder Park
The Aftermath (Limited)
Ash is Purest White (Limited)
The Hummingbird Project (Limited)
The Mustang (Limited)

March 22 (Friday)
Five Feet Apart
Greyhound
The Informer
Us
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The Beach Bum (Limited)
Ramen Shop (Limited)

March 29 (Friday)
Captive State
Dumbo
Diane (Limited)
Hotel Mumbai (Limited)
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If you're going to the movies in March 2019, you're basically going to be going to see Captain Marvel. I guess that's one way to guarantee this isn't the next A Wrinkle in Time or Ghostbusters 2016. For the sake of theater owners, it better do well, I guess. What else is there?

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Hatoful Dandy said:
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WONDER WOMAN CAME OUT LITERALLY TWO YEARS AGO!

Real good use of this platform too...
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TBF they are careful to say "blah, wamen, blah, blah wamen MARVEL wamen."
 
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The funny thing here with their virtue signaling is that DC beat them to it with Wonder Woman and that movie was greeted with critical acclaim, fan praise, box office success and yeah, it was actually good.

Its the only time since the start of the MCU where DC really got one over on Marvel. It makes Marvel's virtue signaling and any kind of shaming into compliance that might happen seem silly when DC already did it with no issues.
 
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I'll say maybe this'll make Ant-Man or Doctor Strange numbers, a bit, but not much. The character is still a nobody for mainstream audiences, and the fact that she hasn't appeared previously in the MCU will make people disconnect.
 
Jordan Peele's new movie, Us, could dethrone CM when it comes out two weeks later. I want to see if there will be division from the virtual signalers over both movies.
 
RumblyTumbly said:
The funny thing here with their virtue signaling is that DC beat them to it with Wonder Woman and that movie was greeted with critical acclaim, fan praise, box office success and yeah, it was actually good.

Its the only time since the start of the MCU where DC really got one over on Marvel. It makes Marvel's virtue signaling and any kind of shaming into compliance that might happen seen silly when DC already did it with no issues.
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And now Aquaman is close to Black Panther numbers without the virtue signalling campaign.
 
The record breaking pre opening ticket sales could just be propaganda. And no, this is not me being in denial.

They said Solo broke records and made more than Black Panther before it came out...and we all know what the truth was in the end.

That being said even if the film does do well it's first weekend, it may not have as many rewatches which will decide how much it makes in the long run.
 
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