First Avenger Captain America: The First Avenger DVD Thread

[R_Hythlodeus]

avatar was a fluke because of the radical 3d. Even i told friends, "it's dumb as dirt but you got to see it in the theatre." it was a spectacle film but a bad movie take away the spectacle. Word of mouth in terms of ownership was quite poor. I know you would have to pay me to own it, not the other way around.

bingo

 

[Jordanstine]

Captain America TFA - Home Video Sales Chart Ties Blu-ray Marketshare Record!

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7666

For the week ending 10/30/2011, Captain America: The First Avenger had a phenomenal bow in the home video market as it placed first in both the Blu-ray and the overall sales charts. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, The First Avenger was well received by comic fans and movie lovers. Cap ended his first week in stores in a virtual tie with TRON: Legacy for the Blu-ray package media marketshare record of 68%.

Good news!

 

[echostation]

for those who have the blu ray and DVD, what are the special features? I'm really interested in those... are they any good or are they typical usual recent Marvel short stuffed sethu ****?

Do they go in depth into alot of the pre-production? I'd LOVE to see a full in depth documentary making of on this film starting all the way back from the David Self script to now...

 

[kedrell]

Now looking at the opening week DVD sales numbers from the other 4 superhero films this year:

Thor -$9,867,282
Green Hornet -$7,184,531
X-Men: First Class -$6,328,615
Green Lantern -$4,782,431

So I'm wondering how Cap's first week will stack up.

Cap's first week on DVD: $12,556,603


http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/weekly/thisweek.php

And Cap takes an early lead.

 

[S.A.A.D.]

So, I watched the movie with my brother since he didn't see it before and he didn't like the following:

1. How Red Skull got beat
2. How the super soldier serum is like steroids
3. How Peggy seemingly liked Steve due to him being bigger and buff

He also though that Hugo Weaving as Red Skull sounded like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

[kedrell]

Peggy clearly liked him before he got all big & buff. That seemed pretty obvious to me. If people take their steriods with a shot of radiation in a capsule then I could see the similarity more. But I don't remember Barry Bonds doing anything like that. Plus there's the whole thing about this needing only to be done one time and one time only whereas steriods need to continually be taken as their effects are only temporary.

How the Skull got beat? I chalk that one up to personal taste. I liked it, myself.

 

[Kryptonian Warrior]

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[kedrell]

I am probably reaching here, but I just thought it was interesting to say the least.

That's what I'm thinking.

 

[Kryptonian Warrior]

That's what I'm thinking.

Thanks for the well thought out input!

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Thanks for the well thought out input!

No need to get snotty about it. The dude told you what he thought, just like you asked. And I agree with him. Were they easter egging Alpha Flight too? It's just a line.

 

[Kryptonian Warrior]

Edit: Not worth my time in replying.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Wow, Cap's blu-ray and DVD sales have been phenominal when compared to Thor which made more money at the BO, surely this will lead to Marvel officially getting started on the sequel soon.

Very surprised by how much it has beat out Thor on home sales though as I thought Thor was the better movie personally.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Avatar was a fluke because of the radical 3D. Even I told friends, "It's dumb as dirt but you got to see it in the theatre." It was a spectacle film but a bad movie take away the spectacle. Word of mouth in terms of ownership was quite poor. I know you would have to pay me to own it, not the other way around.

So how come it broke all records on blu-ray and DVD when non of these are anything to do with 3D, even the special edition re-release sold amazing numbers. Listen, i'm not a huge fan of Avatar myself, but to say the movie was only successful because of the 3D is ridiculous, I know people whose whole families love the movie, it was a phenomenon, not a fluke.

 

[Shadowlord X]

So how come it broke all records on blu-ray and DVD when non of these are anything to do with 3D, even the special edition re-release sold amazing numbers. Listen, i'm not a huge fan of Avatar myself, but to say the movie was only successful because of the 3D is ridiculous, I know people whose whole families love the movie, it was a phenomenon, not a fluke.

I have to say the success of AVATAR baffles me a bit. Now it's a fine movie, but if you have seen lots of movies, the plot is very 'been there / done that', absically Dances with wolves, except the good guys win. I always tell people that BO success is based mainly on awareness, mass market appeal, and hype, and that quality is only a modifier of that. I guess the 'new 3D' plus the 'first James Cameron movie since Titanic' caused the awareness and hype to be phenomenal and the DWW storyline has universal mass market appeal. However I still find it hard to see why this movie is now the #1 grossing movie of all time.

Anyway I'm really glad to see that CA:TFA is doing so well on blu-ray/dvd. I too hope that this means we'll hear a sequel announcement soon. I love the movie and find that it's one of the most rewatchable movies in ages (wearing out my blu-ray). So I'm eager to see more of CAP's adventures after THE AVENGERS.

That said I wonder if THOR is actually underperforming on blu-ray/dvd sales? It may be that a significant contributer to THOR doing so well at the BO was women and maybe they don't buy dvd's as much (although the sales for Twilight would disagree with this).

 

[Liam_H]

The women who love Twilight is because of the books, there's a built in fan base. Even if women were a significant contributor they wouldn't necessarily buy the DVD cause of Hemsworth cause its still mainly a comic book superhero movie.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I have to say the success of AVATAR baffles me a bit. Now it's a fine movie, but if you have seen lots of movies, the plot is very 'been there / done that', absically Dances with wolves, except the good guys win. I always tell people that BO success is based mainly on awareness, mass market appeal, and hype, and that quality is only a modifier of that. I guess the 'new 3D' plus the 'first James Cameron movie since Titanic' caused the awareness and hype to be phenomenal and the DWW storyline has universal mass market appeal. However I still find it hard to see why this movie is now the #1 grossing movie of all time.

Anyway I'm really glad to see that CA:TFA is doing so well on blu-ray/dvd. I too hope that this means we'll hear a sequel announcement soon. I love the movie and find that it's one of the most rewatchable movies in ages (wearing out my blu-ray). So I'm eager to see more of CAP's adventures after THE AVENGERS.

That said I wonder if THOR is actually underperforming on blu-ray/dvd sales? It may be that a significant contributer to THOR doing so well at the BO was women and maybe they don't buy dvd's as much (although the sales for Twilight would disagree with this).

Thats a very good point, this could be a huge factor, primarily its men who collect BD's/DVD's so this could be why. Thor was more female friendly than Cap IMO.

 

[Shadowlord X]

Thats a very good point, this could be a huge factor, primarily its men who collect BD's/DVD's so this could be why. Thor was more female friendly than Cap IMO.

Agreed. From the women I know who saw these movies THOR definitely rsoenated more them than CA:TFA.

I suspect also that from over the years CAP's comcibook fanbase is greater than THOR's and they would have been salivating to own this movie.

 

[TheVileOne]

Paramount didn't really promote the movie very well IMHO.

The trailers IMHO are all really weak, average, run of the mill trailers.

My feeling last summer in one of the bloodiest, most competitive summers ever was that Cap was selling itself short and not really standing out among the pack especially when it coming out right after the big finale for Harry Potter.

 

[kedrell]

Perhaps that's why Disney fired the entire marketing dept. for the marvel films and decided to go with their own from the Avengers onwards?

Not that at this point it's easy to tell any real difference in marketing push that TA has got that any other of the MCU films got.

To me it seems like the same ole' marketing.

 

[Shadowlord X]

Paramount didn't really promote the movie very well IMHO.

The trailers IMHO are all really weak, average, run of the mill trailers.

My feeling last summer in one of the bloodiest, most competitive summers ever was that Cap was selling itself short and not really standing out among the pack especially when it coming out right after the big finale for Harry Potter.

I really liked the first trailer (not the second); I thought is was very well made. However the marketing for CA:TFA seemed to be designed such that it assumes that CAP is an established legendary character that the everyone has been longing for a movie about. This applies to MARVEL fans, but not to the modern general audience (especially tweenies) to whom CAP is a barely recognizable character. Thus I thought the marketing was geared too much to fans/fanboys.

 

[Shadowlord X]

Perhaps that's why Disney fired the entire marketing dept. for the marvel films and decided to go with their own from the Avengers onwards?

Not that at this point it's easy to tell any real difference in marketing push that TA has got that any other of the MCU films got.

To me it seems like the same ole' marketing.

I agree. I thought they would be really pushing a massive innovative marketing campaign by now but I'm still seeing the same 'catering to fanboys' marketing.

 

[04nbod]

Finally today sees the release int he UK. As usual, a look at the HMV exclusive steelbook. Its a thing of beauty

 

[The Morningstar]

That is a very nice steelbook. It's going down on my list to Santa.

 

[TheVileOne]

That is a nice case. Wish we could've gotten it here too.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Finally got this on BD and watched it and I have to say, it is the only CB movie I have watched this year that I have found worse on 2nd viewing. I was really dissapointed with it and dont know why it is liked so much. FC and Thor I have watched about 7/8 times each and enjoyed them more and more each time. I even enjoyed Transformers 3 and Green Lantern (albeit with the advantage of an extended edition) more on 2nd and 3rd viewings.

But Cap I just couldnt get into, i'm not saying its a bad movie BTW, but after the aftermath of the factory/Bucky rescue it really goes downhill until the last 5 mins for me and I just cant get into 90% of the 2nd half of the movie at all. I think, other than IM2, this is the worst Marvel movie for me and even on par with IM2. I will be watching it again so my opinions may change of course. I also thought the BD highlighted a lot of poor SFX in the movie as well which took me out of it.