Drew Linky wrote:

To clarify, the films I'm talking about include Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Thor. All of those being the most recent installments in the character's cinematic history, in case anyone wanted to nit-pick. But yes, The Avengers beat out all four of those combined by 150%.

jprime wrote:

What about The Incredible Hulk?

Drew Linky wrote:

I'm guessing no one gives a shit about the Hulk before the Avengers movie, because I've seen close to nothing. Besides, it came out a relatively long while ago as compared to the other Marvel Cinematic Universe movies (with the exception of Iron Man uno).

Why would you include Iron Man in that arbitrary group of movies, but not The Incredible Hulk? Iron Man came out before The Incredible Hulk. The facts are all kinds of fucked up in this conversation.

Drew Linky wrote:

Ross Rifle wrote: Its opening weekend revenue beat every other Marvel movie's total box office revenue. In fact, it beat them combined by about 150%. It's crazy.

Avengers did NOT beat all of the other Marvel films combined in its opening weekend. The first Iron Man made $582 million worldwide, and Iron Man 2 made $623 million worldwide. That's $1.2 billion total between those two movies alone. The Avengers made $850 million in 10 days.

Ross said that The Avengers opening weekend beat every other Marvel movie's total box office when placed head to head, not combined.

jprime wrote:

Not really, considering some of them were shitty and therefore didn't do well at all.

jprime wrote:

Ang Lee's Hulk, Daredevil and Elektra. I thought that was obvious, unless I didn't realize you were only talking about the five leading up to this one.

Let's see...Ang Lee's Hulk made $245 million worldwide...did well.

Daredevil made $182 million worldwide...did well.

Those don't count DVD and TV rights, which adds tens of millions to the profit of both movies.

The last page of this thread has been hilariously awful. Enough, both of you. Maybe we should go back to the original topic--The Avengers.

Drew Linky wrote:

That's my fault, I should have been more clear; the opening box office for the Avengers hasn't beaten out the other's total box office revenues, it beat their opening weekend box offices combined.

Go do some research.

http://www.the-numbers.com/

Look, I loved Avengers. It was a lot of fun. It has minor flaws, but none big enough to take away from the immense amount of entertainment. It's a perfect summer movie and it's one of the few movies that's a blast to see with an audience. I'm a Marvel fanboy and I'm thrilled they've been able to put out all of these quality comic book movies. I was skeptical they'd be able to pull it off when all of this was announced years ago.

The Avengers broke records. It's the highest-grossing film in nearly any category you could measure right now, and it will likely wind up the highest-grossing film in history. Those are impressive enough numbers without having to come up with other convoluted stats to show that. You know, like arbitrarily picking and choosing which films to compare it to.

"Guys! Avengers has made more money than the other five highest-grossing films that start with A!!!!!11111!! COMBINED111"

Cattivo wrote:

Klimbatize wrote: It's the highest-grossing film in nearly any category you could measure right now, and it will likely wind up the highest-grossing film in history. Until the Dark Knight Rises is released in July.

Ha, I hope so. I should have added "up to this point". Nolan's by far my favorite filmmaker and I love me some Nolan Batman. Will be extremely tough to top Avengers though, money-wise.

In fact, it's beaten the following movies combined by about 150%. It's crazy.

Adaptation - $22.5 million
V For Vendetta - $129 million
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - $47 million
Nancy Drew - $30 million
Gandhi - $52 million
Eragon - $250 million
Revenge of the Nerds - $40 million
Secondhand Lions - $48 million

Combined: $721 million
Avengers: $1.2 billion