Avengers is THE best super hero movie thus far.

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rocketpig said:

WiiBox3 said:

I would agree, that leading up to release, it was not the most hyped movie in history. I would say Star Wars Episode 1 would be the most hyped movie in my lifetime, but I can't talk for movies before I was born. Gone With the Wind or The Wizard of Oz (the first two movies in color) could easily have been much more hyped, at least in the US.

Agreed. Mordred just doesn't realize how insane Episode I was before its release. It made the cover of Newsweek and the front page of the LA Times (I lived in LA at that point, can't speak for other cities), for crying out loud. You couldn't walk anywhere without being assaulted by the hype surrounding that movie. Over half the theatre screens in my area were dedicated to that one film. Every showing was sold out a week before it released. It was ridiculous and honestly, set the movie up for failure because nothing would have lived up to the media blitz.

It also didn't help that the movie wasn't very good.

Avengers didn't get this kind of hype:

 

 

It didnt, mainly because print media is almost dead my friend The internet is the new thing and believe me, the commercials for TA got to far more poeple then the one of SW one, even if it was made on a lower ad budget.

You can actually have a pretty clear picture of how hyped a movie was pre-2000 by reading old articles and data. You only have to put together the pieces of the puzzle. SWE1 was hyped because it was the movie that had to dethrone itanic, yet it failed :)) Lets be honest on TV and on the Internet for the last 6 months all you could see where articles and commercials for The Avangers, hell even here in Romania you could see plenty, and I have no doubt that advertisement budget wise its probably in the top 5 of all times. We could probably never judge exactly wich movie takes the crown, but to be that high, you can throw around statments like "most hyped ever" and you wouldent be far from fact