The best part about Battleship being released is then I wont have to see the freakin' trailer at every movie I go to anymore.

The only interesting thing in the Ed Norton Hulk is actually in the deleted scenes—-the "suicide attempt" that Ruffalo mentions is in those (as well as a glimpse of Captain America's shield frozen in the ice).

Did you notice the "Quinjet" that Tony had a diagram of while pulling up the new Avengers tower designs?  I geeked out pretty hard at that.

Yes, but it plays like a Whedon joke.  It's funny, but totally inconsequential.

Yeah, Whedon is pretty okay around these parts.

DC definitely has the better "one-offs" but I've always thought their "core" characters were not very interesting (with the exception of Batman, of course, who subsequently has far and away the best DC movies).  It's hard to worry much about a guy that can't be hurt.  Or a guy that is a space cop with a magic ring…

It's pretty hard to believe they were being conservative with the numbers.

Perhaps they were distracted by THE FUCKING FLYING ALIENS AND GIGANTIC SPACE WORMS FLOWING IN FROM A GIANT HOLE IN THE SKY AND BLOWING EVERYTHING TO SHIT…or maybe they just didn't care.

Well, we aren't working so we have to do something.

The "Tim Burton Batman" period?

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Much Ado About Nothing will not make as much as the Avengers.

I believe the studio take is somewhere around 95% of the box office the first weekend, then dwindling each successive week.  Which is why popcorn costs $9.00.

See: Transformers 2 for a great example of what they are talking about.  I mean, don't SEE it as it's a horrid piece of shit.

I would go with Dark Knight and maybe Watchmen (and Darkman!) as being darker.  I think X-2 compares a little more to the Avengers as it's a good "team" movie that gives everyone thier moments, such as they are.

Whoa whoa whoa….not hate!  Never hate!  I seriously love the movie, I'm just able to recognize that it has flaws.

The biggest issue with it is that it's half a book.  Dividing it into two books the way he did was just a horrible decision all the way around. 

If the new trailer is any indication they've fixed the incoherent mumble thing.

I agree with that assesment of Two-Face completely.  Particularly the unnecessary "blaming it on Batman" when the two people who put that scheme together were the only witnesses.  They could have blamed it on anything and no one would have been the wiser.

The box-office was driven by the brand, but shitty movies are shitty movies and that would take away some of the legs of this—the evidence of Transformers 2 not withstanding.  It was going to be successful sure, but this amount of success (Cinemascore A+) has a bit more to do with Whedon.

Aw that would have been the lone funny part of that godawful sketch.  Too bad I was so busy fast-forwarding through it to just make it stop.