‘Thor: Ragnarok’ To Hulk Smash Its Way

Cripes, I liked to think that Ragnarok might be able to compete with the Justice League's first film...but now it looks like it's going to happen.

We live in an age where characters DC and X-Fans derided as a B or C Lister (Thor and Hulk) are able to compete with the Justice League. Truly, a bizarre time.

Wondrously bizarre.

I'm not sure it'll get the same reception Ragnarok has, though.

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It it too surprising then that a film misleadingly called Ragnarok, but really about Fraggle Rock, may beat a DC JL financially?

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You keep saying this like Ragnarok is supposed to be the absolute ending to the Norse gods...even in the original myths it never was. Ragnarok has always been about just the ending to one cycle with the survivors moving on to rebuild elsewhere.[/quote]

Nope, nobody talks about any "absolute endings" straw men but you (not even the Apocalypse is); Ragnorök is about the grim brutal death of most of the gods (including Thor, Loki, Odin etc) and the world subsequently getting drowned in floods, ice or in fire (Norse or Germanic mythology, R. Wagner's Götterdämmerung). 

The point: Because of the grim content and deaths, mythological Ragnarök naturally isn't a silly comedy and joke clobber fest, thus Thor: FraggleRock. Only Marvel could be so low to infuse a heavy dosage of lowbrow comedy and random 80s pop elements (including synth!) into a stale franchise to beef it up commercially. But it worked, the MCU sheeple will like it bleating Meeeeh, moooar Maaaaarvel...

Well that's happened all around.

Deadpool who really is a C lister and which didn't open in China made more money than Spider-man Homecoming when you remove it's Chinese gross.

Suicide Squad out grossed Captain America Winter Soldier.

Guardians of the Galaxy outgrossed Man of Steel.

Wonder Woman domestically outgrossed Captain America Civil War which was essentially an Avengers movie.

Deadpool was released in the dump months when it had little to no competition, whereas Spidey had to compete with WW and other Summer flicks.

SS used big names like Joker and Harley Quinn and a cameo from Batman to get audiences.

WW had the artificial boosters, but I've been over that.

That it was actually released in the dump months makes it even more impressive, it was also a R rated movie which limits audiences and the character is largely unknown. 

Spider-man released after Wonder Woman and it continued to do well itself because the competition severely underperformed. It also an appearance from Iron Man as well.

Wonder Woman's success had nothing to do with "artificial boosters" whatever that is. Civil War had reviews that were just as good.

That movie had Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-man, Black Panther, Ant-man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Falcon, War Machine, and Winter Solider and it still made less than Wonder Woman on her own domestically.

formersamhmd

1. February is the worst month of the year for movies, no movie has it good there which is why it's a dump month.

It being more profitable is another thing entirely. Deadpool, who is an obscure character, whose previous movie appearance was panned, who had a low budget, R rated movie made more money than Spider-man Homecoming.

And that involved an A list superhero everyone knows, a vastly bigger budget, is part of the MCU and had another A list Superhero in it with Iron Man.

Deadpool did better than it.

2. Wonder Woman wasn't considered a good movie because the other ones weren't, it was just a plain good movie. People didn't rush out to see it just because it was some exception because the others already made a ton of no way of themselves.

That movie didn't get good reviews just because it was a female superhero movie. There are other Fe ale superhero movies, Wonder Woman wasn't anything new.

formersamhmd

1. Hail Caesar bombed...

2. Who were these people? Spider-man is a kid, I never saw anyone complain about that or especially that Iron Man was in it. Iron Man's inclusion certainly didn't negatively affect its box office.

3. Man of Steel was already decent and was generally liked by audiences so Wonder Woman wasn't the first at all.