'Avatar'-who?, 'Avengers: Endgame' expected to become highest grossing film EVER in a few days.

[ljtryout]

BREAKING!!! #AVENGERS #ENDGAME crossed $1.2 BILLION OVERSEAS and has now grossed $1.664 BILLION WORLDWIDE!! It’s set to cross $2 BILLION WORLDWIDE this weekend & should pass AVATAR ($2.78 billion) as the highest grossing movie of all time in a couple more weeks! pic.twitter.com/g8hHCd4Xkc
- Scott Mantz (@MovieMantz) May 2, 2019

Comments

[vulcan_rhapsody]

I'm no a fan of the MCU, but I have to hand it to them that they managed to tell a coherent story for a decade, across 20 films. It's an incredible feat that no one else has ever managed before.

[sthlmsyndrom]

i just lol that it took marvel all dat, and a shitty one off movie like avatar has held the record so long

[vulcan_rhapsody]

well...if you look at it that way!

Avatar was a technical novelty tho, it's not like it sold that many tickets only on the power of its story (although the story helped more than it hindered - precisely because it wasn't original).

[sthlmsyndrom]

yeah i do think that was it, i rember how big of a deal it was

im also amused that there is a billion more people on earth now than when avatar came out - i hate that movie, but for this to be fair i feel like avengers should have a handicap or something :D

[mandapandao_o]

"Coherent" until the last film lol a lot of people are confused.

The more I think about End Game, the more I don't understand why they wrote what they did. But you are right. The MCU did something unprecedented.

[vulcan_rhapsody]

the story arc had its weaknesses, but if you compare it to franchises like the DCEU, it looks like the pinnacle of storytelling. I can't think of other franchises that pulled off something similar.

[mandapandao_o]

Very true. End Game had it's major faults, but the majority of the MCU really was a cohesive universe where arcs bled into other films.

[myhipusername]

yup

and who knows when/if we will ever see such a thing again. the flow of the stories across films along with the constant success