Thor 3 passed Wonder Woman with 822m (part deux)

Indeed it did however those expectations were less than what Suicide Squad grossed.

Instead of grossing the $305-315 million that was expected it's going to up doing more like $240 million.

Yeah, they can do that here in the US also.  It's been that way for a long time.

It was expected to do much better than it has actually done, that is the surprise but it was not expected to do better than it was estimated to do.

Whether you think it should have made as much as the Avengers movie or not is one thing but it was never expected to do so or to gross as much as Batman vs Superman.

It's tiresome, isn't it?  I don't understand the fan war, I never have.  I'm partial to Marvel stuff, but I don't hate DC.  I would say the MCU is superior to what we've seen from WB/DC or Fox, but there have been a few decent movies from both of those studios.  

The anti-Marvel faction on this site are kind of sad, raging against a successful product that does well financially as well as critically.  But those Marvel zealots (and again, there are only a few of either and we all know who they are, there's just no avoiding them on this board) also do a fine job of embarrassing themselves on a regular basis.  They pretend everything Marvel does is a 10/10 and all other CBMs are terrible, which is total nonsense.  

There's just so much angst and denial in these posts over something so trivial.  We all have different tastes, I just don't understand why anyone would want to expend so much mental energy arguing each other's subjective opinion-- day after day, month after month.  It's crazy.     

I know, I know, "I don't have to read it."  But I'd rather not put half the board on ignore just to have a conversation about superhero movies.  

No because estimates are made based upon expectations in the first place. Box office.com expected it to make less than Suicide Squad which is why it was estimated to perform worse.



I don't think it would have done Avengers money regardless.

The Avengers was something of a movie first. The idea and approach had already been done. Then done again with Avengers Age of Ultron which grossed less. Then it was done again with Civil War which also grossed less.

Even on the DC side of things Batman vs Superman had already brought the main one together. So Justice League would be the fifth movie to have this idea, the novelty has faded.

And even if all these movies had been as good as Wonder Woman you would still not have had a movie for half the cast, The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg.

Would The Avengers have done as well as it did if they hadn't made Thor or Captain America prior? No.