Iron Man 3 The Iron Man 3 Box Office Prediction Thread

[Mr. Dent]

IM3 has set the OD record in China. $21m OD. HO. LY. ****.

The previous record was held by Transformers 3...$17m. It went on to do $145m. This is CRAAAAAZY

 

[kedrell]

What was TA's OD number there?

 

[T"Challa]

What was TA's OD number there?

15 mill i think

 

[The Overlord]

I don't think any Cap movie would ever have pleased everyone. His orgin story is just too difficult to make into a 2 hour movie. It was more important that they spent time developing Steve Rodgers rather than the WWII stuff. The movie needed some form of a montage for that.

What we got was pretty darned good. The second half of the movie was a bit weaker than the first. The ending of the movie, with the assault of Red Skulls base/airplane, was really good though. What more could you ask for in a Captain America movie?

What more could I have asked for? More Nazis, less laser guns, a movie that actually feels like its in WWII and a truly evil Red Skull rather then the bland Sat Morning cartoon villain he was in that movie. There was way too much hand holding and censoring in that movie.

 

[mkilban2]

IM's gunna beat Avengers B.O.

 

[Mr. Dent]

I highly doubt that. It's very unlikely the legs will be as good.

 

[mkilban2]

I highly doubt that. It's very unlikely the legs will be as good.

haha I know, I was just being a bored *****er lol. But hell yeah to these Phase 2 movies making lots o' money.. leads to Marvel taking more risks in the future I'd think.

 

[echostation]

they should take risks, but not take risks with comic book character roots like they did with plot here. The major "twist" everyone talk about, I imagine dispointing most Iron Man's biggest lads and fans and sethus

 

[Hawkingbird]

But they're not making it for them. They're making it for general movie goers. And from what I've heard, general movie goers love the "twist".

 

[Mr. Dent]

Plus the Mandarin has never had a definitive portrayal or storyline (that wouldn't be considered racist) so they had the leeway to reinterpret the character here. He's a symbol.

 

[Xeno]

Plus the Mandarin has never had a definitive portrayal or storyline (that wouldn't be considered racist) so they had the leeway to reinterpret the character here. He's a symbol.

True. I've been dying to ask all the diehard Mandarin fans what their favorite Mandarin storyline was. Since he's allegedly as iconic a villain as the Joker is, they should be able to name at least half a dozen terrific stories from the comic that define the Mandarin's legendary status. To my surprise, no one has pointed to any particular story as something Black & Pearce should have adapted for the movie.

 

[antonydavanzo]

True. I've been dying to ask all the diehard Mandarin fans what their favorite Mandarin storyline was. Since he's allegedly as iconic a villain as the Joker is, they should be able to name at least half a dozen terrific stories from the comic that define the Mandarin's legendary status. To my surprise, no one has pointed to any particular story as something Black & Pearce should have adapted for the movie.

Agreed.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Anything over 500 m WW for Cap 2 is a success but I'm hoping for a 150-200 m increase.

 

[Norek]

True. I've been dying to ask all the diehard Mandarin fans what their favorite Mandarin storyline was. Since he's allegedly as iconic a villain as the Joker is, they should be able to name at least half a dozen terrific stories from the comic that define the Mandarin's legendary status. To my surprise, no one has pointed to any particular story as something Black & Pearce should have adapted for the movie.

See, that's what annoys me very much - when people "adapt" other people's comments about something just to suit their counter-argument. People comparing Mandarin to the Joker mean that he's Iron Man's arch-nemesis, not that he's as iconic as the Joker. Iron Man wasn't as iconic as Batman once, but nowadays people don't give a **** and compare them all the time. People like the hero's arch-nemesis, that's it. They think it brings a good conflict. Seeing that Iron Man so far didn't have (and still doesn't) a villain that stands out more than the rest of them on film, they could've done something to bring that up.

 

[spider-neil]

True. I've been dying to ask all the diehard Mandarin fans what their favorite Mandarin storyline was. Since he's allegedly as iconic a villain as the Joker is, they should be able to name at least half a dozen terrific stories from the comic that define the Mandarin's legendary status. To my surprise, no one has pointed to any particular story as something Black & Pearce should have adapted for the movie.

To be fair I can only think of a couple of iconic storylines for;
Green Goblin
Doc Ock
Lex Luther

Storylines aren't what make villians iconic, it's the percieved threat to the hero. Put it this way, someone where to ask me who is Iron Man's arch nemesis I would definately say Mandarin and that is without having read a single Mandarin centric comic.

 

[Mr.M]

Maybe we will get a real comic book counterpart as Mandarin in the reboot. And yes, I think they reboot it after all the rights revert back. May take a another 20-30 years, but it'll happen eventually. But with IM4 probably off the table and RDJ in the back 9 in terms of playing the character, it is what it is.

 

[Tony Stark]

IM's gunna beat Avengers B.O.

I didn't think that was possible, but I won't rule it out. This thing will do gangbusters either way.

 

[Tony Stark]

True. I've been dying to ask all the diehard Mandarin fans what their favorite Mandarin storyline was. Since he's allegedly as iconic a villain as the Joker is, they should be able to name at least half a dozen terrific stories from the comic that define the Mandarin's legendary status. To my surprise, no one has pointed to any particular story as something Black & Pearce should have adapted for the movie.

Some of what I'm going to say might spoil the movie so...

Spoiler

This is what I don't get about people complaining about the twist, some of the "iconic" story lines of Mandarin, involve him disguising himself as someone else, usually a business interest of Stark, like Heart of Darkness. The fact that Killian as the real Mandarin would setup an elaborate scheme to trick Tony is totally in line with who the Mandarin is. Mandarin is the ultimate puppet master. I think Black's twist is perfectly in line with who the character is, but apparently some just wanted to see he and Tony go at it with one another, with Mandarin shooting his power rings.

 

[Mr. Dent]

Please don't bring the cancer into this thread too.

 

[T"Challa]

yeah please..this is the one readable thread on this board

 

[schiz0id]

Maybe we will get a real comic book counterpart as Mandarin in the reboot. And yes, I think they reboot it after all the rights revert back. May take a another 20-30 years, but it'll happen eventually. But with IM4 probably off the table and RDJ in the back 9 in terms of playing the character, it is what it is.

Funny quote. There may be a possible reboot but not because "all the rights revert back," you must be confusing your studios, IM3 is produced and marketed by Marvel and Disney so there's no expiration to the rights of the film because they already own it (they could make zero Iron Man movies for a long time after IM3 and no "rights" will revert back). On the other hand Sony needs to release a new Spider-Man film every (x) number of years as well as Fox on the Fantastic Four franchise (which they are rebooting), the Daredevil rights reverted back to Marvel from Fox just recently because the rights expired.

 

[thalidomide]

Maybe we will get a real comic book counterpart as Mandarin in the reboot. And yes, I think they reboot it after all the rights revert back. May take a another 20-30 years, but it'll happen eventually. But with IM4 probably off the table and RDJ in the back 9 in terms of playing the character, it is what it is.

 

[Mr.M]

Funny quote. There may be a possible reboot but not because "all the rights revert back," you must be confusing your studios, IM3 is produced and marketed by Marvel and Disney so there's no expiration to the rights of the film because they already own it (they could make zero Iron Man movies for a long time after IM3 and no "rights" will revert back). On the other hand Sony needs to release a new Spider-Man film every (x) number of years as well as Fox on the Fantastic Four franchise (which they are rebooting), the Daredevil rights reverted back to Marvel from Fox just recently because the rights expired.

That's what I meant. Spiderman and FF in particular. I don't think they should reboot until they secure those characters in the next MCU adaptation.

 

[Mr. Dent]

There's no point in rebooting the whole universe just because those come back. Just insert them or make their movies set back in the beginning stages of the MCU and just make it a retcon basically. This is pretty simple stuff that has been done for years in the comics and is very much a template they can use for their movieverse going forward as well.

 

[Iceman]

IM3 has set the OD record in China. $21m OD. HO. LY. ****.

The previous record was held by Transformers 3...$17m. It went on to do $145m. This is CRAAAAAZY

What was TA's OD number there?

15 mill i think

Wow, that's a massive increase on those films! IM3 overseas is crazy. Hope US opening weekend can live up to the overseas pace.