Everyone on this board was saying that this movie is guaranteed to outgorss Suicide Squad but judging by the numbers it definitely won't, even with China. It's kind of weird because substance wise it's the best MCU movie so far, maybe second to Civil War.
shareEveryone on this board was saying that this movie is guaranteed to outgorss Suicide Squad
Everyone on this board was saying that this movie is guaranteed to outgorss Suicide Squad
Yeah right. Proof?
And please, don't come to me with one or two nuts
It did pass Suicide Squad internationally. Haven't checked your links, but that one at least is true.
If your theater is a space safe from ideas and opinions, you're doing theater wrong.
We are still waiting for that proof.
shareNobody is going to re-read the entire board for you. Just look at any of the pre-release threads about box office predictions. Most people expected DS to do better than Ant-Man, but not as well as it has done. Cherry-picking from a few troll-baiting threads does not change the majority opinion.
Arthur, put the kettle on and dig out those lemon hand wipes.
Its still funny those trolls were completely wrong and now they have vanished. poof!
shareJust looked at your first thread. It's from the BvS board and sounds mostly like people trolling the DCEU fans there.
The OP specifically said "everybody on this board."
The second thread is from the DS board and the most damning quotation is the one that indicates that DS can get over $700M if BvS and SS can. It doesn't predict DS beating either film, just states the belief that the film can surpass $700M.
The third link, also from this board, is someone asking if it will pass SS and a bunch of responses saying no it won't. Even the OP only concludes, "We shall see."
If your theater is a space safe from ideas and opinions, you're doing theater wrong.
The OP specifically said "everybody on this board."
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And please, don't come to me with one or two nuts. You said everyone, and while you might not really mean "everyone", I take it to mean a vast majority, or at least a majority.
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Nope. No one here said that. We were delighted enough to find it exceeded expectations on opening weekend and then when it became the highest earning Marvel Solo film.
Suicide Squad had a lot of Hype and was a team up movie. Infinity Wars would have been a better comparison.
Well I already had exhaustive arguments on here about why Doctor Strange wouldn't make more than Suicide Squad nor make more than Fantastic Beasts. And it didn't.
shareI wasn't here before the movie's release, but I can't remember seeing too many people anywhere who had Strange higher than Suicide Squad in their BO predictions, at least not often and if so not by much.
Most predictions were between Ant-Man and the $650 million it will soon surpass.
Lol. "Everybody" was saying that a relatively-unknown Marvel character was going to out-gross a movie that had Harley Quinn; the Joker; Batman; Will Smith and the first on-screen appearance of the Flash??
Haha. Sure.
Lol. "Everybody" was saying that a relatively-unknown Marvel character was going to out-gross a movie that had Harley Quinn; the Joker; Batman; Will Smith and the first on-screen appearance of the Flash??
I'm just talking about general film-goers. I don't think that Doctor Strange was anywhere on the radars of those who weren't avid comic book fans.
shareEven with my less than stellar expectations for SS and my higher than most's expectations for DS, even I was never expecting Strange to out-perform SS. I figured it might be close, but I always expected SS to come out on top.
Now after having seen them both, I'm a bit surprised it wasn't even closer. SS still managed to come out ahead by ~$92 million. But that's after it was discoverd how awful the film was and how much better Strange was compared to expectations.
When Doctor Strange was first announced I never expected it to make anywhere near what it already has. I was hoping for at least Wolverine numbers, and maybe Ant-Man movies at Best. To me it simply doesn't matter. It's already a bona-fide hit. Pretty surprised they haven't announced a sequel yet.
shareIt's not the most reliable site, but here are some comments from the director about DS2:
http://www.gamenguide.com/articles/81184/20161204/doctor-strange-2-release-date-spoilers-news-update-benedict-cumberbatch-confirms-another-solo-film-director-scott-derrickson-reveals-sequel-plans-spoilers.htm
Arthur, put the kettle on and dig out those lemon hand wipes.
When Doctor Strange was first announced I never expected it to make anywhere near what it already has. I was hoping for at least Wolverine numbers, and maybe Ant-Man movies at Best. To me it simply doesn't matter. It's already a bona-fide hit. Pretty surprised they haven't announced a sequel yet.
It was supposed to but I suppose it wasn't a very good movie.
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