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Let’s talk about what happens... *SPOILERS*
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alienzen is right. Just using inflation doesn’t really show you the true box office, because there are other things to consider. Not just how much more the dollar is worth now. Back when Gone With the Wind came out, you could go see a movie for roughly $0.25. If you try to convert that same price to today’s value, you come up with $4.48, according to [url]https://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.htm[/url] Nowadays you’re looking at anywhere from $10-$16 or more for a regular ticket. And then there’s 3D and IMAX, which is even more expensive to see. The math doesn’t add up. The rate of inflation doesn’t apply to current theatre prices. It’s expensive as hell to see a movie nowadays, especially if you buy any food from the concession.
Also, if you live in a smaller town or city, you can likely see a movie far cheaper than someone in a bigger city with a larger population. There’s also discounts to take into consideration, as many places charge less for children and seniors, not to mention early shows before noon or discount days (like Tuesday specials, where I’m from where you get to see a movie for around $7 or $8 on Tuesdays. It used to be around $5 like 10 or less years ago).
The population also grew exponentially over the last several decades. Just imagine, the worldwide population back when Gone with the Wind came out, was roughly 2.3 billion people, give or take. In just 80 years, we more than tripled in population.
Really the best way to see how popular a movie is, is to forget about the dollar value all together, and just look at how many people bought tickets. That tells you how many people put their butts in seats to actually watch the movie, and does away with discount prices or IMAX ticket sales. TV and streaming uses viewer #’s. Interesting that movies don’t.
Here’s an interesting piece I read about how inaccurate it is to use inflation when discussing movies. [url]https://www.usi.edu/media/3655032/How-the-MPA-Miscalculates.pdf[/url]
Yeah, it’s on the Marvel wiki. Not sure if they got that info from the comics, but Thanos is the only living Titan. Or well...was. He didn’t seem all that speedy.
But he is the only one who could wield the gauntlet and stones with not as much damage as anyone else. He got burned a bit after using it once, but didn’t really get badly damaged until he destroyed the stones.
Maybe it wasn’t as noticeable on Thanos, but there was still damage, you can even see the burns on his neck when he turns his head after he does the snap.
Thanos was a Titan, a superior alien race. And we could see how powerful he was when he kicked Hulk’s ass. It says this on the Marvel Wiki:
[quote]Titans are much larger than humans, and their physical constitution is strong enough to wield the Infinity Stones without strain and easily overpower and severely injure beings as strong as Vision, Hulk, and Thor, as displayed by Thanos. Titans, despite their large size, possess incredible superhuman speed and reflexes that allows them to easily outmaneuver and overwhelm not only other beings of similar sizes, such as Hulk but also even smaller and highly agile individuals as well, such as Loki, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, and Iron Man in his Mark L Armor. They are also able to react swiftly to high-speed projectiles.
They are invulnerable to many forms of damage, as even Gamora has stated that killing Thanos may not be possible, and the only known weapon with the power to kill Thanos was Stormbreaker, the most powerful weapon forged from Uru, and only if the axe was powered to the maximum and the attack was lethal.[/quote]
Hulk was affected by gamma rays, and we’ve scene how much damage he can take and survive. So he just got a burned arm but he’s otherwise fine.
But Tony is just a human. He’s a genius, but not superhuman. That’s why he couldn’t take the power from the stones. As we saw in Guardians of the Galaxy, the Power stone nearly killed Peter, until the other Guardians shared the burden of the stone. That one girl who tried to grab the power stone on that one planet got not got killed, but caused a huge explosion. You can’t just hold the stones on their own, which is why the gauntlet is needed. But the power is possesses can harm you. And they’ve shown that in the movies.
Re-watch Thanos’ first snap. You can see that the gauntlet and his arm and part of his neck are burned.
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXavNm6y8OE[/url]
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeuDcriBAZ8[/url]
I don’t know about the comics, as I’ve never read them. But in the movies, they showed that it did harm the user if used. Also, Tony was a mere mortal man, not a superhuman being, which is why he couldn’t take the power like Thanos or Bruce did. Thanos looked even worse because he used it twice.
IMO= in my opinion
CBM= comic book movie
Oh and yes discussing scenarios and things are fine. But sometimes (most times) people just take it way too far and they can’t accept what the studio and the directors and everyone else is saying. They can’t enjoy what they see because they want to put logic into everything. Sometimes you can’t apply real life logic to movies and stuff like that. There has to be some suspension of disbelief. Otherwise, what’s the point in even watching movies like this, or any other movies dealing with weird shit? I mean if you watch a zombie movie, you have to let yourself kind of go with it, because if you put science into everything and apply logic and say that this or that couldn’t happen....well then why even watch a zombie movie? Some logic and science and stuff is okay, but other times it’s just like....just enjoy the movie and believe what the filmmakers are telling you.
I beg to differ. If future Nebula is still alive, then obviously past Nebula didn’t die. She’s said herself before that she’s been ripped apart and put back together multiple times by Thanos. She told Gamora how much she’s been tortured before, She may not be fully a reboot, but probably 95% of her is. And with future Nebula taking her out, she would know better than anyone how to subdue herself, and not kill herself. She just needed old Nebula to stay out of the way, to stop Thanos from getting the stones.
As I said, in order for Steve to stay in his timeline, then yes he would have to let a whole lot of bad shit happen. Knowing that in the end, the universe gets saved because they beat Thanos. If Thanos won, everyone would die. And not just on Earth....everywhere else. The trillions of life beyond Earth would cease.
Have you not heard of the butterfly effect? Change one thing and everything else changes. Maybe when Steve went back to return the stones, he saw another picture on Peggy’s desk showing an older Steve with her, that way knowing he was meant to go back and be with her. Or maybe 1970’s Steve met up with 2019 Steve, knowing where and when he’d be there because he did all that stuff, and told Steve he and Peggy end up together and they kept it a secret. The fact that Steve remained in the same timeline, shows that he didn’t change the past. He couldn’t. Otherwise the future would have changed from his meddling in the past, and it would have created a bunch of different timelines. It didn’t. There were 2 Steve’s all along. The frozen Steve, that would be unfrozen for Avengers, and the one that went back in time to be with Peggy. That was Steve’s fate. So yes, Steve sat back and let bad shit happen, because he had to. He hated it for sure, but he had to let that happen. Otherwise he would change the future and things would be a hell of a lot different.
Do we know for sure that Nebula died though? I mean she’s mostly machine. She’s cut off her own hand and survived falling thousands of feet. She also basically melted off her hand to get the Power stone. She’s literally been torn apart into pieces and tortured by Thanos and survived. After all, future Nebula would know where to shoot herself to make sure she doesn’t die, but is out of commission for the fight. Maybe there’s a deleted scene we’ll see on the Blu Ray.
Also, I don’t think it’s against his character at all. Steve understood needing to make sacrifices, he understood that to save millions that others had to die. He didn’t like it but he understood it.
And Civil War didn’t happen because Steve was unwilling to step back. It happened because Steve knew that this council would be ineffective. Look at Avengers 1 for instance, the council wanted to blow up New York and drop a nuke on it instead of let the Avengers do what they do and save millions. That was a crap decision. As he said in Civil War, this council would tell them where and when they could help people, and when to stand down. Steve didn’t like that scenario, not because he wasn’t a team player but because he knows that humans have fault. He saw how Hydra infiltrated Shield, how they were all manipulated. And he didn’t like some higher up council (who could be manipulated) telling them what they could and couldn’t do. Where they could go, who they can help. Sure they needed accountability, but Tony was wrong and went about it wrong, and even he understood that in the end.
But back to Steve going back to the past. As I said, it was his fate, he was always meant to go back. As they’ve said since the beginning, Steve was a man out of time, he didn’t belong in 2019. He belonged back in 1945, with Peggy. He was always meant to go back and be with her. Maybe Bucky will go back too...in another movie. But Steve seeing his picture on Peggy’s desk, I think that clicked something for him. Maybe then he realized he was always her husband, he just didn’t know it. As I said before, maybe Peggy and that Steve kept it from him...kept it a secret, knowing that he would soon realize what he was meant to do.
As with any movie though, there has to be some suspension of disbelief. If you pick apart and try and disprove what they did, and say how they were wrong and created multiple timelines and this and that....well...I’d rather believe that it was their fate.
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