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[Dalek]

Hello, thank you for joining me. About 11 months ago, I created this thread:

Time to eat crow regarding "Guardians of the Galaxy"

In that thread, we had some good, old-fashioned fun bringing up old posts and generally celebrating the defeat of cynicism. And now here we are again. So grab a plate, prepare your hot sauce and here's a fork. Let's dig in.

‘Ant-Man’ Tops With $58 Million

Marvel’s “Ant-Man” landed with a solid $58 million at the weekend box office, while “Trainwreck’s” Amy Schumer put her own raunchy spin on romantic comedies to the tune of a $30.2 million debut.

It marks Marvel’s 12th consecutive first place opening, although “Ant-Man” isn’t at the level of other, bigger-name costumed heroes like Captain America, Thor and Iron Man, all of whom performed better out of the gate with their solo adventures. Going into the weekend, analysts expected “Ant-Man” to top $60 million, but its opening is similar to “The Incredible Hulk,” which earned an initial $55 million on its way to a $134 million U.S. haul.

“They are a victim of their own success,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Rentrak. “Any time you have a brand like Marvel, the expectations get blown out of proportion.”

That may be, but the studio sounds disappointed it couldn’t elevate “Ant-Man” to “Guardians of the Galaxy”-like numbers. Disney distribution chief Dave Hollis admitted that he wished the movie had done better, but still praised Marvel as a model of consistency.

“No one else could take what is really an obscure character and launch it in such a big way,” said Hollis. “It’s a sign that they’re doing so much right and that it’s a brand that has overwhelming momentum.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-ant-man-no-809752

Ant-Man, starring Paul Rudd as the world's tiniest superhero, easily claimed the top spot in North America ahead of holdover Minions, which took in $50.2 million in its second weekend for a domestic total of $216.7 million. Ant-Man, earning a promising A CinemaScore, is by the far the most comedic and family-friendly superhero film to to hit the big screen, vying with Illumination Entertainment and Universal's Minions for family love (indeed, Minions fell a hefty 57 percent).

RottenTomatoes Score: Guaranteed Fresh 79%

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And now some pulled quotes/predictions from GAF's box office analysts:

Edgar Wright's ANT-MAN -- November 15, 2015

Ant Man? Oh man, I don't feel good about this at all.

Ding!
Agree.

So Marvel finally hired a good director to make one of their movies and that movie is going to be about fucking ANT-MAN?! Fuck off Marvel.

Ant-Man? Sounds like a bomb in the making...

ant man sounds like the most rediculous name/superhero ever.

I cant believe Ant Man is being made. This is ridiculous.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=673729&highlight=ant+man"]Ant Man moved up to Summer 2015

I can't believe this is actually being turned into a movie.

This movie is going to be a box office disaster.

I don't think having the powers of an ant and controlling ants is really gonna appeal to people. I mean come on now!

Ant-Man's front-runners are Joseph Gordon Levitt & Paul Rudd

Who the fuck is Ant Man?

I can't believe anyone even wants to see a movie about Ant Man

I predict this goes down as a box office disaster.

exactly what I am thinking will happen.

"Antman".

I've honestly never heard of him. Ever.

They're scraping the bottom of the barrel aint they?

Ant ... Man?

Wtf?



Yeah bomba in coming.

'Ant-Man' to be a heist movie and Doctor Strange confirmed (again)

Even more evidence that this will be a box office bomba.

This movie will be amazing but it's going to bomb so hard.

Marvel's ANT-MAN Lack-of-Hype Thread. Fuckin' Ant-Man.

This movie's gonna bomb ... hope it doesn't take Marvel down a peg when it does, they don't deserve to take a step back because of 1 horrible idea. :/

Kevin Feige finally addresses Ant-Man situation - Starts shooting in August(!)

I still can't even begin to drudge up the slightest clue as to why anyone wants an Antman film to start with ... even less so now.

Marvel unveils first concept art poster for ANT-MAN

I am not familiar with the property... I am kind of surprised that this isn't some sort of self parody.

Sounds awful.

first marvel flop

I don't really see this doing well without the comedic stylings of the previous director.

Love to be proven wrong though.

So I have never heard of Ant-Man. Souls like a shitty superhero. Is this dude recent character or is he as old as say Spider-Man? First thing I thought when the 1st thread about it was "who?". Sorry comic book fans.

No Wright..not a good movie.

They're really making him ride ants? Good lord, people are gonna think he can control ants or some dumb sh- oh my god, they aren't actually putting that stupid power in the movie are there? I want this to fail for my boy Wright...

that's just completely awful on so many levels

Marvel's ANT-MAN Trailer #1

Disappointing. Tone is too serious.

If only Edgar Wright was here...

Looks incredibly generic and soulless.

Man, that looked wack as fuck

I wonder if this will end the Marvel winning streak.

My wife's actual reaction: "That looked retarded."

Agree. Looks pretty weak.

Eh. My expectatioms really can't get any lower.

Hoping they'd cancel Ant-Man because he's really not a compelling character.

I know literally nothing about Ant-Man and this trailer didn't really sell me on the concept.

Didn't really demonstrate why it's cool / useful for someone to shrink down to ant size and fly on a bug, just looked kinda stupid to be honest.

Will be interesting to see if it survives at the Box Office.

You've done it now bla, prepare to be quoted in the OH SO MENACING CROW EATING THREAD :O

I hope this is the first huge Marvel bomb. First for wasting dear Edgars time. And second, because I am sick of their bland movies, and I am disturbed by how they are harming cinema.

Stories are good because you have endings. You need a good ending to have satisfaction. But Marvel movies never end, they are just a never ending stream of fighting against glowing rocks.

I like resolution and Marvel cannot ever give this.

First marvel flop

It really does feel like it could be Marvel's Green Lantern.

Fucking terrible

Why is Marvel making a movie out of Ant-Man?

Fucking terrible.

Looks like shit.

I think this will ne the start of Marvell's fall. Ant-man is stupid. The name is stupid and his gimmick is stupid. Can anyone hete describe his significance toward the avengets?

Marvel's Ant-Man - Trailer 1

Didn't do much for me. Felt as if I've seen this trailer many times before. Middle aged white protagonist with witty one liners is given a shot to save every one he cares about. Villain is reminiscent of Obadiah Stane. Love interest reminds me of Peggy Carter.

Nothing too interesting for me. This trailer alone shows me they're even out of ideas.

If you told me this was a parody film, I'd believe you

The train thing is the only interesting and fun looking part of this trailer. Everything outside of the suit looks and sounds horrible.

Nope. Looks bad. Not as bad a the new Terminator, of course, but bad.

That train bit at the end was funny though.

This looks tragic. I just can't take it seriously.

Ant-Man extended TV spot

I see bomba.

How is this funny? Has the standards for humor gone down to such low levels.

I have seriously never even heard of a character called ant man. And this dont look great

Wow, that looks really bad.

I think it's because his performance is super stiff and unnatural. His delivery in these trailers are awful.

I will absolutely eat a giant dick flavored crow if this movie rocks, but right now I cringe at the potential for this movie to be garbage.

This looks bad. Really bad.

What's the apposite of a crow thread? A seagal thread? Well whatever it is I'm making it if it underperforms big time.

RottenWatch - Ant-Man: Oh we can handle it. We're professionals | RT 80%

I hope Trainwreck(94% RT) steps all over Ant-Man this weekend.

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I should point out that I didn't even pull nearly ANY of the quotes regarding Edgar Wright about this that were incessant. i.e. "Anything good about this movie will be because of Edgard Wright and any bad parts will be Peyton Reed"-that's a whole other bitchfest.

If you'd like to see Gaffer's almost universal love and praise of the movie, check out my friend Quick's awesome OT thread here, which has one of the best first OP's ever.



and now, a sneak preview of this thread:

 

[robotrock]

Oh wow, those people that thought this movie was going to do poorly actually thought wrong. Hah! Those idiots!

 

[xxracerxx]

Eh...people were wrong, but the goalposts will just shift to overall box-office now.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

"Marvel's Green Lantern" ha, that one is great.

I'm surprised and glad it did well. I enjoyed the movie a lot yesterday and am one of the people that never heard of Ant-Man really. No crow here, just happy it was decent.

 

[RBH]

 

[Spider from Mars]

Lot of time on your hands.

 

[Dr. Malik]

movie is still mediocre and forgettable, but slay I guess

 

[cyberheater]

LOL.

 

[zeshakag]

I can understand calling out quantitative claims such as "this is gonna bomb so hard". But whether or not someone should eat crow on a subjective prediction about the quality of the movie should be based on the claimer's opinion of the movie after seeing it.

 

[Lucky Seven]

Its a Marvel movie what did they expect?

 

[Dalek]

Lot of time on your hands.

textedit open for 11 months. Cut and paste, save anything worthwhile. Nice try at deflection though!

Spoiler

this is a joke

LOL

 

[Thorakai]

why do you marvel folk care so much about tomatoes and crows

 

[strafer]

I never said that.

 

[Quick]

Let's not do this.

 

[Arnie7]

Meh, apart from one or two scenes I thought it was another run of the mill clichéd film. One friend fell asleep during that boring first act.

 

[Surface of Me]

Gotta defend dat Marvel

 

[Dalek]

I never said that.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146332124&postcount=718

 

[a916]

Let's not do this.

Saw the avatar and was going to say, we have another Quick... then I realized it was you and Kessel got traded... bravo on the avatar.

 

[Daft_Cat]

textedit open for 11 months. Cut and paste, save anything worthwhile. Nice try at deflection though!

Still pretty weird.

Movie was decent. Glad it's performing well.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

textedit open for 11 months. Cut and paste, save anything worthwhile. Nice try at deflection though!

That's actually way way worse than just going back through old threads right now for a half hour.

 

[McDougles]

"I care immensely about what others think about the thing I like: - the thread."

Don't care one way or another about Ant-Man (haven't seen it yet, nor made a prediction), but this is getting sad.

 

[Afrodium]

GotG defied everyone's expectations and was one of, if not the, best MCU movies yet. Ant-Man has a 79% RT score and is generally a pretty good film. I think it looks way less silly to laugh at the detractors of one of these films than the other.

 

[Ragus]

People are going to eat whatever Marvel shits out of their ass.

 

[strafer]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146332124&postcount=718

I feel ashamed.

 

[DarkFlow]

You win.

 

[robotrock]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=146332124&postcount=718

That's for the trailer, not for the movie. I don't see how crow is eaten now that the movie is out in theaters.

 

[Scientist Supreme!]

I loved the movie but let not do this. Who cares what these people said, their not worth the time.

 

[Kathian]

Its not quite a success yet so this thread seems unjustified.

 

[Real Hero]

some of these are a real stretch, the people who say it looks bad might still think its bad?

 

[Quick]

Saw the avatar and was going to say, we have another Quick... then I realized it was you and Kessel got traded... bravo on the avatar.

It's like losing my other donut-eating half.

 

[Dalek]

I feel ashamed.

 

[Discotheque]

Lol that thread backfire, crow threads are so corny

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Seriously though guys, he was saving posts for a year

 

[N7Commander95]

Pulling out Crow posts from a the trailer threads considering the vast majority of the trailers were shit makes you seem a bit petty

 

[TheSpoiler]

Yeah I spent time giving a shit about what people think on a forum but heh, nice deflection though

 

[robotrock]

some of these are a real stretch, the people who say it looks bad might still think its bad?

b-b-b-but they're eating crow though!

 

[brandonh83]

Congrats OP for taking the time to find people talking shit about a movie on GAF, must have been quite the journey.

Spoiler

 

[Peanut Butter]

What is this from?

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

dat backfire.

Yeah, these thread are weird.

 

[zeshakag]

Seriously though guys, he was saving posts for a year

For a summer popcorn cookie-cutter Marvel movie. Like, seriously, you have the entire medium of film and this is where you stick your flag.

 

[Smellycat]

WTF why am I in the OP? I didn't even follow this movie! I merely just thought the concept was bizarre, I never said it was going to flop and I didn't really care.

I wanted to watch it this weekend but no one wanted to go with me cause they thought it looked dumb.

 

[El Topo]

Do we really need (more) threads to mock or shame people that thought a trailer, commercial or other promo material made a movie look bad and/or that doubted the commercial success of a movie?

What is this from?

Ant-Man.

 

[ghst]

gregg, nobody likes a big mouth, those VHSs are gone and ourcinema will never take off. getting a bit part in the japanese release of that crappy film doesn't mean shit.

 

[Veelk]

Whats ironic about these kinds of threads is that it just makes people more inclined to dislike the movie. Even if the movie is widely praised by the general public, there's no reason any individual has to admit to any 'crow' eating and it's easy to find flaws in any movie if that's what your looking for. Eating crow is a mark of self admittance, not something you can compel any person to do. Literally every person the OP quoted could come in here and say "I was right" however much the general public disagrees. A very pointless thread.

And for the record, I don't believe I wrote anything in any Ant-man thread, but if I had, I'd have said it looks like a marvel movie, a formula I am sick of at this point. It's impossible for the movie to be bad in the sense that it won't have good action, witty comedy, and somber moments scattered throughout, because that's what marvel does as a routine at this point. However, it's a dish that's been fed to me so many times that it's go down bland from sheer over exposure of other marvel movies.

 

[Sapiens]

I'm really glad that you're happy people on the internet were wrong and a corporation made money.

I'm glad you have the time in your life to keep track of these things.

Good for you, little guy.

 

[Miker]

What is this from?

Ant-Man.

 

[Lebron]

But Gonzalez said it would

 

[guek]

I think maybe if the film had opened to GotG like numbers, crow would be more justified.

 

[Bloodrage]

It still looks dumb.

 

[Oersted]

Lets come and celebrate together because... reasons.