while i'm sure it will surpass it one day, why was there no word of Ant Man doing GREEN LANTERN #s??

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

and i'm by no means comparing movie quality; because i've not seen ant-man and never will, just saying that everyone talks about how much of a flop GL was but looks the other way when Ant-man puts up papoose numbers out the gates

 

[chico25]

but he isn't.

DC starters are:
Worlds finest; superman, batman, wonderwoman.
Their B squad is:
Justice League next tier: GL, Flash, Aquaman
Their C squad is:
Shazam, Martian Man Hunter, Hawkman / girl

ANT-MAN is definitely marvel b squad...he is a founding member of the avengers, has been in stories for decades upon decades, and has been key man for their biggest stories ever...don't try to sell him like "oh he's some sidekick guy" NAH, nice try.

Green Lantern has been in DC cartoons since the Superfriends and had his own solo cartoon at the time that his movie came out. He has also had tshirts and other merchandise with him front and center since the 70s. Antman hasn't had any of that before like 2009 when he was in A:EMH. So comparing the 2 characters and saying they are at the same level of recognizable fame is false.

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

Green Lantern has been in DC cartoons since the Superfriends and had his own solo cartoon at the time that his movie came out. He has also had tshirts and other merchandise with him front and center since the 70s. Antman hasn't had any of that before like 2009 when he was in A:EMH. So comparing the 2 characters and saying they are at the same level of recognizable fame is false.

fair, but ant man is in the middle of this marvel wave and machine as compared to GL which came out by itself with half a star in its cast

 

[Swiggy]

fair, but ant man is in the middle of this marvel wave and machine as compared to GL which came out by itself with half a star in its cast

And Ant-Man has a larger percentage of folk that know it better than people knew GOTG, so obscurity isn't an issue here.

Going to see this at 1:30. Free popcorn day

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

And Ant-Man has a larger percentage of folk that know it better than people knew GOTG, so obscurity isn't an issue here.

Going to see this at 1:30. Free popcorn day

and yeah, they can shove it talking about noteriety when a movie about a rac00n and a tree had a big week 1 and follow-ups. but antman's opening weekend flizzop is because he isn't known enough? word?

 

[MartyMcFly]

this is real clever turning ant man into a nobody and GL was on billboards or something so ANY level of success is a huge win.

If I say

Kyle Ratner
Henry Pym
Hal Jordon

nobody knows who ANY of them are outside the comic community, so don't act like he is more or less known than GL

What would've maybe worked for them is if it was Jon Stewart because like Neal Adams said, more kids know him (or knew him) than they did the three you mentioned.

 

[Walgreens]

Because it's fukking Ant-Man, the 12th (or whatever) movie in the Marvel live-action universe. GL is a much bigger name with a much bigger budget and was expected to kickoff the DC live-action universe.

I'm surprised Ant-Man did as good as it did considering Paul Rudd is the star. On the other hand, they hyped the fukked out of this movie, so maybe it should've done better.

 

[MartyMcFly]

And Ant-Man has a larger percentage of folk that know it better than people knew GOTG, so obscurity isn't an issue here.

Going to see this at 1:30. Free popcorn day

Does he? I figured they were the same on the real as far as name recognition

 

[Swiggy]

Does he? I figured they were the same on the real as far as name recognition

That Avengers rub... I at least knew enough to be mad we weren't getting Pym

 

[wire28]

compare D list Marvel character movies to A/B tier DC character movies, brehs

edit: and just seen their budgets

Despite that he is a D/C level character, it was still a good ass movie and brings another comedic element to the Avengers, sets up more characters for Civil War/Infinity Guantlet, and also brings in Wasp and room for Marvel to make a sequel

I think the fact that Marvel put this out around a couple other popular movies without a huge character name/actors and wack trailers shows how confident they were in the movie.. And it still was #1

thats the funny thing they made a good movie about antman the movie will have legs its getting good word of mouth and the reviews are good. these nikkas just made 50 mil off a D list character in no world is that a loss

No way in hell a movie called black panther will sell in this climate

yep i thought about it and changed my mind. Marvel's first flop will probably be black panther

 

[hex]

Any-man was great......now if this movie does end up flopping.......what does that mean for, Strange, Captain Marvel, and Black Panther. Maybe Marvel just can't release anything regardless of how good the product is.

It doesn't mean anything. If this kind of stuff was enough to derail Marvel's plans they would've altered them after "The Incredible Hulk" underperformed back in '08.

I'm sure it would be ideal for Marvel if all their movies made a lot of money but the fact of the matter is all these solo movies are building towards the Thanos arc. And you can't have Thanos fighting 5 guys....you can't do Civil War with the same core Avengers....you gotta build towards that. And I don't think anybody in their right mind thinks "Infinity War" is going to flop, so this is just an investment towards that.

Fred.

 

[hex]

but he isn't.

DC starters are:
Worlds finest; superman, batman, wonderwoman.
Their B squad is:
Justice League next tier: GL, Flash, Aquaman
Their C squad is:
Shazam, Martian Man Hunter, Hawkman / girl

ANT-MAN is definitely marvel b squad...he is a founding member of the avengers, has been in stories for decades upon decades, and has been key man for their biggest stories ever...don't try to sell him like "oh he's some sidekick guy" NAH, nice try.

No man.

Justice League is the equivalent of Marvel's X-Men. It's DC's most popular team. Their two most popular characters (Batman and Superman) are original members.

So Green Lantern is a B-C tier hero in an A tier team.

The Avengers as a whole are B tier, at best. Ant-Man is a lesser known character from a lesser known team. There's no reason for Ant-Man to do anywhere near Green Lantern numbers.

Lastly, all the comic shyt you're talking about....he founded The Avengers, he's been in mad stories....the average movie goer doesn't care about any of that shyt. That's like saying "Infinity War" is going to do well based on Thanos fans from 25 years ago.

Fred.

 

[Jazzy B.]

How much was it supposed to open with $95m? Thor and Captain America only opened $7m higher at the time of their release, Captain America and Thor also didn't explode until after The Avengers crossover. It's most likely going to make more than the first Thor film which made $450m when it's all said and done.

 

[wire28]

No man.

Justice League is the equivalent of Marvel's X-Men. It's DC's most popular team. Their two most popular characters (Batman and Superman) are original members.

So Green Lantern is a B-C tier hero in an A tier team.

The Avengers as a whole are B tier, at best. Ant-Man is a lesser known character from a lesser known team. There's no reason for Ant-Man to do anywhere near Green Lantern numbers.

Lastly, all the comic shyt you're talking about....he founded The Avengers, he's been in mad stories....the average movie goer doesn't care about any of that shyt. That's like saying "Infinity War" is going to do well based on Thanos fans from 25 years ago.

Fred.

these DC characters have been rehashed over and over for years, only comic nerds have even heard of antman before.


vs actual television live action and cartoon series dedicated to DCs people. probably the most popular things Marvel has it doesnt even have the movie rights too and its still making bank. 58 million and number one at the box office for antman say that ten years ago and the room would have been


there is no comparison and its actually a slap in the face to Green Latern to compare that character to antman in terms of mainstream popularity. i still see random people walk around with green latern shirts

edit: the origin movies for Cap and Thor also made 65 mil so antman wasnt even far off from those

 

[hex]

probably the most popular things Marvel has it doesnt even have the movie rights too

This is 100% correct. Marvel sold the cinematic rights to X-Men, that's the sole reason we've even discussing an Ant-Man movie right now.

I hope cats aren't dumb enough to think we'd be getting a Guardians Of The Galaxy, Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, etc. movie if Marvel could use X-Men. They gotta use these C-D tier characters because their A tier is gone.

Fred.