Canadian Politics Today

It's pretty weird c'mon Kimmy.  Not sure how this movie did so well at the box office. 

It's a Marvel movie, and it's the lead-in to the conclusion of "Infinity War". They could hardly have missed.

Wonder Woman had 103 mil opening, and that looked way better, wtf?

From what I'm reading from non-troll sources, I get the impression that WW is a much better movie. But the DC movies don't have nearly the following that the Marvel movies do, and most of the DC movies have been pretty bad. Wonder Woman was the first genuine hit for the DC movies.

One thing that set WW apart from most movies is that it just kept going and going at the box office ("Wonder Woman has amazing legs", I think somebody phrased it...)  For most movies they usually expect the final box office to be somewhere around 2.5 to 3 times the opening weekend (us Hollywood types call that the "multiplier".)  For Black Panther it was more like 3.5, which is really good.  For Wonder Woman, it was 4, which is great. (Crazy Rich Asians: about 6, which is huge.)  Despite a great start, it's not a given that Captain Marvel finishes ahead of Wonder Woman in the long run.   DC movies like Batman vs Superman and Suicide Squad had much better starts than Wonderwoman, but business died off quickly (multipliers about 2.0) because the movies were crappy and word-of-mouth was bad ...if Captain Marvel has a typical multiplier of 2.5ish, it could finish with domestic gross somewhere around $375 million, which would fall short of WW.

Consider that most comic fans don't give much of a rip about this character, and the vast majority of the public have never heard of this character,

Same could be said of Guardians of the Galaxy or Black Panther.  The thing is, if comic book fans were the only ones who went to these movies, these movies would have gone extinct years ago because the studios wouldn't make any money on them.

If it was fame with the general public that set the benchmark for which comic book movies were most successful, the runaway leaders would probably be Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and the Incredible Hulk.  The first three of those characters had successful movies in previous incarnations, but their recent movies have had middling success at best-- the Spiderman "Homecoming" movie did pretty good, but not near the top of the Marvel brand. The Incredible Hulk is well known, but none of the Hulk movies were successful.

and the trailers didn't look that hot, the reviews were good but not great, and Brie Larson isn't exactly Jennifer Lawrence at the box office.

Neither is Chadwick Boseman...

Maybe lots of gals wanted to see this, given the controversy, and bf was happy enough gf wanted to see a superhero flick?

I think people are going to see this because it's the lead-in to the conclusion of the "Infinity War" story.

 -k