Captain America: Civil War – BIG RANT and many plot spoilers inside (you should save your time and money and not see it now)

[Runa216]

d21lewis said:

Runa216 said:

yes, it made a lot of money, but for what it is it should have made double that.  Batman and Superman are not just comic book icons but also pop culture icons.  Based on the opening day and worldwide opening, it should have been on par with The Avengers, at least. 

Instead, once word got out, its dailies dropped like a rock, giving it one of the biggest friday to sunday drops of all time, with one of the worst first to second weekend drops of the superhero genre.  People hated it, and the box office patterns prove it.  The 870 million it made was really the floor for this movie, once it was all said and done.  

Yeah. They hated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part 2, too. That movie had the bigger drop off, right? In fact:http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/drops.htm

Batman and Superman are iconic. They've both been in great movies in the past. How do their great movies compare to the total gross of the horrible BvS? I mean box office is the metric, right? BvS was just a front loaded movie. Nothing wrong with that, is it? I'd say they did okay considering, by comparison, Civil War had almost every MCU hero in it besides Hulk, Thor, and Nick Fury. More characters automatically means more money?

Many fanbase driven films tend to have HUGE openings and drop afterward.  The difference is that all the harry potter movies ended up doing outstanding numbers (in a time when anything over 600 million was outstanding, these movies regularly hit 900 million and in the case of Deathly Hallows 2, 1.3 billion.)  

That still doesn't change the fact that we live in an era where ANYONE can watch a comic book movie, because they're everywhere.  a comic book movie featuring the two of the largest icons in pop culture history and the two biggest in comic book history should have made avengers movie money. Easily.  

No, box office is NOT an indefinite gauge of how good a movie is, but it does indicate how much the general public likes a film.  Sometimes a film will make a tonne despite how much people hate it (read: Twilight and 50 Shades franchises) because they are based on popular subjects or source material.  Batman v Superman is one of those. 

As for direct comparisons, box office wise, it's VERY hard to directly compare films that came out in different eras.  Lord of the Rings, Return of the King making 1.119 billion dollars in 2003 is a much, much more impressive feat than Minions making 1.159 billion in 2015.  Why?  Inflation, ticket prices, 3D screens, and the exploding international market.  They came out 12 years apart.  

If a movie like the first HArry Potter came out today, I wouldn't be surprised to see it make closer to 1.5 billion.  If The Dark Knight came out this year, I'd expect the same, yet those are both just below and just above the 1 billion mark when Iron Man 3 is at 1.2 billion and Furious 7 is at 1.5 billion.  

Yet, despite the massively expanding worldwide market, 3D tickets, and all the other things that are helping movies make a billion dollars at the box office, Batman v Superman couldn't muster 900 million in an era where, just that same month, a furry movie about a cute bunny made nearly a billion dollars.  It couldn't muster enough to beat a movie that had similar hatred that came out nearly a decade prior.  it got royally beaten by its only direct competition.  That is a disappointment.  It made a profit, but it was a success when it should have been another mega-blockbuster.  

And as for quality, remember, "SAVE MARTHA!"