X-Men: Days of Future Past - Discussion Thread - SPOILERS
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No, that was David Michelinie and Jim Shooter.
An astoundingly bad story. Man, Superman's sex tape, some slightly uncomfortable age differences between kissing partners, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's incest? All.... "fine." Ms Marvel's rape baby and The Avengers being total cool with it and her going off to live with her "son"/rapist reincarnate? Yeeeesssssshhhhhhh.
Lee and Kirby established the age difference between Reed and Sue, but I believe the specific detail that Reed had known her since she was 12 came from Byrne.
At least Claremont had Carol point out to her fellow Avengers that they were thick leaving a rape victim with her oppressor when she turned her back on them. It was probably the fact that her restored memories lacked emotional attachment so she thought, hang on a minute, you did WHAT?
At least Claremont had Carol point out to her fellow Avengers that they were thick leaving a rape victim with her oppressor when she turned her back on them. It was probably the fact that her restored memories lacked emotional attachment so she thought, hang on a minute, you did WHAT?
Claremont wasn't operating in a vacuum, many of the leading fans of the time has written in the comics fanzines about how disgusting that story was - for example:
http://carolastrickland.com/comics/msmarvel/
At least Claremont had Carol point out to her fellow Avengers that they were thick leaving a rape victim with her oppressor when she turned her back on them. It was probably the fact that her restored memories lacked emotional attachment so she thought, hang on a minute, you did WHAT?
Claremont wasn't operating in a vacuum, many of the leading fans of the time has written in the comics fanzines about how disgusting that story was - for example:
http://carolastrickland.com/comics/msmarvel/
Here the point of view of Jim Shooter
http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/12/avengers-200.html
At least Claremont had Carol point out to her fellow Avengers that they were thick leaving a rape victim with her oppressor when she turned her back on them. It was probably the fact that her restored memories lacked emotional attachment so she thought, hang on a minute, you did WHAT?
That was Marvel trying to stop the bleeding from everyone they had pissed off, and trying to do it in a way without having to do a retcon or something.
X-Men DOFP is doing crazy good at the box office!
X-Men DOFP: 662 mil and rising!
The Wolverine: 415m
X-Men First Class: 354m
Wolverine: 373m
X-Men 3: 459m
X-Men 2: 408m
X-Men: 296m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_(film_series)
X-Men DOFP: 662 mil and rising!
The Wolverine: 415m
X-Men First Class: 354m
Wolverine: 373m
X-Men 3: 459m
X-Men 2: 408m
X-Men: 296m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_(film_series)
Yep doing well might break the US$700m mark or almost double First Class. Which bodes well for perhaps a 4th film featurng the FC cast.
But what is also interesting is the breakdown of takings in tersm of where the money was taken
US vs Rest of the World
X-men: 53.1% vs 46.9%
X2: 52.7% vs 47.3%
The Last Stand: 51% vs 49%
Origins Wolverine: 48.2% 51.8%
First Class: 41.4% vs 58.6%
The Wolverine: 32% vs 68%
DOFP (at the momet): 31.1% vs 68.9%
So each film in the order it came out has taken a greater percentage of it's takings at the International Box Office.
Yeah, pretty much.
Apocalypse will save us all! 
Not to be Debbie Downer but those numbers kind of scare me. Yeah I know we're getting another movie immediately but the decay of American viewers (where the money matters most to the industry) is worrisome for the future. If Age of Apocalypse's total take goes into the twenty percentile range of American money made we're probably going to start seeing some budget cuts in future X-Men movies.
^ Well, counting ticket inflation and 3D surcharges, that does indicate some domestic decay as well as international growth, but as the overall market is flooded with more and more Marvel product (four major movies plus a TV show and mini-show this year alone), some divvying up of casual moviegoing audiences is inevitable. We'll see if audiences will sustain a steady stream of DC movies in addition to the regular Marvel+Marvel Studios output , but at the moment, things are going quite well.
But as has already been stated, isn't it a case that the International box office has been growing in recent years and do a certain extent the studios have focused on that as they might see that market as the one with greatest potential for growth.
In the case of DOFP China alone accounts for US$114.4m (around 25%)of the Internatioanl take, the next biggest is the UK at US$38.8m
In the case of DOFP China alone accounts for US$114.4m (around 25%)of the Internatioanl take, the next biggest is the UK at US$38.8m
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