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Wkd Box Office - 5•17-19•19 - Wick burns bright, The Sun flames out as Avatar passes torch to Endgame
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She actually doesn't have any vulnerability related to her power.
Her weakness? Being as strong/stronger than her isn't enough?
Like Superman's one weakness isn't only Kryptonite. He's vulnerable to magic, his powers can fade under different suns, and other aliens like Brainiac, Mongul, Darkseid, New God's etc can harm him. I imagine Carol will be the same, they'll have her fight alien races who are naturally as strong as her. Like I strongly doubt she'd be one shot in Gladiator from the Shi'iar.
It's the same way they got around Thor being an absurdly powered God. In the first two Avengers films nothing is a challenge for him, in the third one he gets the crap beat out of him by Thanos.
And re the above, she is pretty much Marvel's Superman. Not a one for one power wise, but come on... her introductory shot in Endgame is the most Superman thing ever. She's a visual representation of hope.
There are plenty of ways to take CM's story and "weakness". If they want to humble her, they can similar to Thor. They can introduce some one who she can't toe to toe with. Personally, for CM2 I'd play up on what was mentioned in Endgame as her reasoning for not being there. The universe is a big place, she can't be everywhere at once.
Carol's human weaknesses are many. She's impatient, over-confident, prone to addiction (yes, drinking too much), she's too aggressive, she believes she can punch her way to success regardless of the complicated political issues at the core of something, and so on.
Domestic playing out like expected by being like IW from here on out. International numbers will give a better picture.
Hellboy so far. But I feel like I am forgetting something bigger.
I take negative pleasure in this:
The Kid who Would Be King
Missing Link
Shit. Knew I was forgetting stuff.
Honestly it would be more of a shocker if a Laika film were a commercial hit.
Just looked, Missing Link broke a record for lowest opening for a film opening in more than 3150 theaters. That's actually impressively bad. It didn't even make a quarter of it's budget back.
Fuck at Missing Link. Laika's biggest bomb by far yet. Basically has no chance of ever recouping its investment, no matter what. Too bad because apparently it was decent. I don't understand what possessed Laika to almost double their usual budget for this one.
Whoever was in charge of distribution on that one really cut its legs out from under it by also making it a Netflix Canada release the same day as its opening. There's been a 1080p torrent floating around since Thursday night.
Shame too, because the movie was really great. I was honestly not expecting a chase sequence similar to the hallway fight from Inception in the film.
Don't blame us, some other backwater country leaked that. We have to go and pay for it at the theater like anyone else.
Unless you're talking about the new McG movie, in which case then yeah that's up.
After the latest batch of number, the dream of Endgame beating Avatar is deader than dead. It dieded.
I know some think this makes Avatar safe with the highest grossing film of all time record. I think the exact opposite. This makes me confident that Endgame is indeed topping Avatar. Infinity War made $143m after the Memorial Weekend, Endgame would need roughly 71% of that to top Avatar. Yes, Infinity War still had China, but that's $22m out of that total. It will be mighty close, but it's happening.
Closing this one and moving the discussion to the new thread
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