I predicted at least $1 Billion on this site - not because I thought it would deserve it, or because I wanted it to succeed, but because I understood the market and the franchise: It was the penultimate episode in a 22-film arc, starring a character who would play a vital role in the culmination.
Certain frequent posters here predicted it would bomb (one particularly aggressive frequent poster asserted categorically it would top out at $300-to-350 Million - losing money); they did so, I opine, because they wanted it to bomb, and were unwilling or unable to separate their egotistical wants from an objective assessment of the industry and culture.
People who call themselves conservatives, and who tout objective reason and market forces, should not succumb to the wishful thinking that characterizes the leftist.
What can I say, most people are sheep. Disney is becoming more and more political, its probably little exaggeration to say that its by far the biggest media influence on children today. And its allin on inculcating SJWism, yet tons of people, even here decry them in one thread and then gush how they’ll spend hundreds on an overpriced vacation or another paint by numbers marvel schlock the next.
Me thinks Disney did that to boost the sales to take it as far as it did, thereby inflating the numbers. If the movie was as bland and terrible as many have said, there's no way it truly would have done that well in the theaters.
Yes, too many on FR act like Pussy-Hat wearing socialists when they talk about Marvel movies.
They are ill-informed on the facts and spout every conspiracy theory imaginable.
It reminds me of the “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going” crowd.
Obsessive opposition is an indication of a closed mind.