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I don't think anyone realises just how big this movie will be


This movie will be huge .. The reason being todays generation of kids/teens and comic book film fans REALLY love SS, Deadpool, and Guardians (who were also a big part of the Infinity saga) the quirky wild R rated humour and violence (even though SS2016/GOTGs were all PG13), fcuked up characters, wisecracking animal characters, the cool retro songs, all that stuff ..and this is SS2016 meets Deadpool meets Guardians from the director of Guardians

this movie will be the first post covid billion dollar breaker

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No it won't.

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I'll watch and buy the dvd.

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DVD? What century are you from? Even the airwave TV now has better quality.

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NO

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Yes. the DVD has lower resolution and a worse encoding (mostly owing to a very old standard its using) than airwave TV.

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IF YOU HAVE YOUR SYSTEM JACKED SO YOU CAN WATCH BOB'S BURGERS ALL CRYSTAL CLEAR...WELL...THAT'S YOUR DISEASE...IN NORMAL HOMES...DVD RESOLUTION IS HIGHER QUALITY THAN GILLIGANS ISLAND RERUNS.

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Enjoying HD cable is a disease? Seems like a rather harsh indictment.

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I STAND BEHIND IT...ENJOY YOUR BRAIN CANCER.

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Yikes…😕

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Dont even need cable for it, the digital airwave TV stations are HD sometimes too.

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As much as excited I am for this film, it is far from exceeding a billion this August. The box office will probably not be back to full swing until mid 2022 the earliest. No film coming out this year will crack a billion. The only film I think has a chance is Spiderman.

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GvK is doing well. on course for about 400-500m

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Yes that film is actually doing much than anticipated. I think 500m is quite a stretch but I could see it being on track for 400m. However under normal circumstances, that movie wouldve probably made 750m so about 300 million less than anticipated is a pretty big difference due to the pandemic.

In regards to Suicide Squad, I didn't even see it cracking a billion either under normal circumstances due to the fact that its R-rated and yes I know Joker made over a billion but the Joker is an insanely popular character unlike most the characters in this film besides Harley Quinn. I think it wouldve cracked 800m under normal circumstances. Due to the pandemic, I definitely see it making less than 800 million. My prediction is between 450-500 mil.

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Everything will be open in 4 months, unless you don't get vaccinated!

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It's not necessarily a matter of everything being open or not in the coming months. Even when every theater is open chances are that there will still be limited audience capacity because COVID is not going to be completely gone by August. The vaccines aren't 100% effective and not everyone in the country will be vaccinated by then but a majority definitely will be that's for sure.

I'm sure it'll be handled much better than before but the limited capacity will still have an effect on box office numbers. Even if theaters are opened at full capacity, audience's presence will be gradual especially from general casual audiences for this film who are not really familiar with these characters but have an interest from the trailers. Not all the general audience members will be fully aware of their local theaters reopening and the general audience makes up a significant portion of the box office. It will be more of the typical fan base who will follow up with the release of the film and the reopening of their local theaters to contribute to the theatrical release.

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Nonsense!

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How is that nonsense? Pretty much everything I said provides a logical reasoning on why this film would not do as good as it would do under normal circumstances.

In all reality, COVID will not be completely contained this coming August by the time of release. I'm very certain that we will have much fewer cases since probably the beginning of March of last year before it predominantly hit the US but definitely not completely gone. Not every US citizen will be fully vaccinated by then. Same goes for other countries but in regards to the US, we're not looking until the end of this year or early 2022 for every US citizen to be fully vaccinated. The United States has a population of over 320 million people and so far only about 50 million have been vaccinated so far. I know it's looking pretty optimistic that a hefty 200 million will be vaccinated by June I believe from what I've seen from the news so that's a great sign but vaccines started rolling out in late December and it took a hefty 6-7 months for 200 million vaccinated hopefully. The vaccine rate will for sure be much higher and faster than first rolled out in December since a wider variety of age groups are now eligible compared to earlier this year but it will still be a huge stretch to assume we will all be vaccinated by the films release. So by August, it's very unrealistic that all Americans will be vaccinated by then and that COVID will still have a light presence by August with still limited theater capacity.

Therefore it will be quite difficult for this film to do as good as it wouldve under normal circumstances. I'm sure it will do pretty decent and accept better than Godzilla vs Kong in my opinion but definitely knowhere a billion.

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Resident WB shill right here , watch him guys

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Quite accurate!

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Damn hope no one bumps this thread damn

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name checks out.

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Well...this is a whole new world we live in now and so is the way we view movies. The fact of the matter is that TSS has helped bring a boatload of new subscribers to HBO Max and the actual viewership/ratings have been smashingly great.

We have to see things through the new lens of the pandemic and altered viewing habits of the general audience.

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Yeah I know its like the old timers who obsess over box office mojo (like me) can't let it go . Its too early. That being said had TSS had mass crossover appeal like the 1st one (due to Will Smith, a new joker, 1st HQ appearence, batman cameo) the box office numbers would've been alot bigger. and I still expect Spiderman will be the 1st post pandemic film to break 1b later this year

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Well I was right about spiderman anyway.

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Bump

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