Good point. I wasn't at all familiar with the American Sniper story previous to the movie, but I do remember that being a big factor in hindsight.

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Word-for-word conversation with my dad in Texas, over the phone, opening day...

DAD: "That was one of the best movies I've ever seen. The whole audience was SILENT when it was over. And you couldn't even get out of the theater, there were so many people. Every showing is sold out!"

ME: "I just bought tickets online and ours wasn't even halfway sold out yet."

DAD: "That's California. This is AMERICA. People here are gonna riot if it doesn't win Best Picture."

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And that's probably the flipside of the discussion about how well you think Hacksaw Ridge will do this weekend. There's buzz in film circles but I don't think nearly as much for your average filmgoer.

I'm being a little facetious, but I think there's a difference with the average Midwest movie goer between a war movie about one of the greatest snipers the military has ever had and a war movie about a conscientious objector.

True. Didn't know if the religious aspect would make up for it though.

Funny story about your dad's comments, but I have to ask...is there some tie in with Hacksaw Ridge and the MCU that I don't know about?

Didn't mean to get off topic. With Strange tracking toward the lower end of the MCU opening weekend box office spectrum, I was just curious. Can't wait to see it either way.

It's no problem...I couldn't figure out how that got brought up here. Ha

64/67 positive on the reviews so far.

Doctor Strange already doing big business with $86 million overseas.

Better than Ant-Man, Guardians and CA: Winter Soldier. I guess the Cumberb*tches are lining up worldwide for this one...

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Doctor Strange already doing big business with $86 million overseas.

Better than Ant-Man, Guardians and CA: Winter Soldier. I guess the Cumberb*tches are lining up worldwide for this one...

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This Cumberbiatch has tickets.

RT is down to 92%. 79/86 positive with a rating of 7.3/10.

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Doctor Strange already doing big business with $86 million overseas.

Better than Ant-Man, Guardians and CA: Winter Soldier. I guess the Cumberb*tches are lining up worldwide for this one...

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From your article. I'm so confused, "In his review for Variety, Peter Debruge wrote that the film admirably ducked superhero conventions and praised it as "Marvel's most satisfying entry since 'Spider-Man 2.'""

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No chance.

American Sniper was a known story regarding a Red State icon/hero about the current Middle East conflict. This is a WW2 story about a pacifist that no one's ever heard of.

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I am a WWII nut and I must admit I was not familiar with the character featured in Hacksaw Ridge. But I will likely see both movies this weekend, the war movie on Friday afternoon and Dr Strange on Sunday.

There were a lot of non-combatants in WW2 as well as most other wars.

Bump since I'm walking in to see Dr. Strange in IMAX right now.

Can't say I saw this coming..

Interesting. Feige was quoted recently as saying something about the movie...he said they still plan for it and that "I think they are doing something on TV". It was very throw away and taken to be a brush off of the AoS stuff. Now we know he knew exactly what he was saying. I think this means no movie, though, for sure.

Based on nothing other than hope, I think this might mean they are closer to rights for either F4 or X-men and now don't think they have room in Phase 4 for Inhumans. I am assuming F4 is more likely, and would align nicely. Get some big villains back through that, and you have your whole storyline.

Inhumans are so lame

It seems like a premise better suited for TV than trying to work it into the universe.

What is inhumans? Marvels version of suicide squad?

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What is inhumans? Marvels version of suicide squad?

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Like a way dumber, lamer version of X-Men. Their leader's (shown in that picture) power is that his voice blows up planets or something. So he never talks... Ooooookkk

I remember when the movie was in play, there was all this talk of Vin Diesel playing whoever that guy is. And everyone thought it'd be so awesome that he'd be voicing a character in the MCU, but not be seen (Groot), and then be seen in an MCU movie, but not be heard (Inhumans). I have absolutely no interest either way. If it's on network TV, I'm out.

That said, I do love that someone is finally utilizing the debut-in-theaters / rest-of-the-series-on-TV model. I really do think that's the future for a lot of event TV, while simultaneously helping to get butts back in theaters as well.

Yeah I was sad Limitless didn't have more success with this.

But that was years after the movie. I'm talking movie/pilot in theaters one weekend, followed by the very next episode on TV a week or so / month or so later.

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Short version: when exposed to Terrigen mist around the age of 18 their ability/mutation manifests, some useful and some not so much.

So yeah, basically what SP said. There are some good comic storylines though.

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But that was years after the movie. I'm talking movie/pilot in theaters one weekend, followed by the very next episode on TV a week or so / month or so later.

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Ah that is an interesting concept. I guess the biggest hurdle is getting big name actors to do tv right? Or is that not a really stigma?

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Like a way dumber, lamer version of X-Men. Their leader's (shown in that picture) power is that his voice blows up planets or something. So he never talks... Ooooookkk

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Saying they are like X-Men is inaccurate in my mind. For 99% of the history of Marvel, the Inhumans were a snobby royal family of powered individuals, who had to be coerced by other heroes into doing anything remotely good for humanity. Then the MCU started up though and Marvel wanted a replacement for the X-Men and so they pigeon holed the Inhumans into that role. The only thing the MCU version of the Inhumans got right is that they are alter experiments, and have to go into their cocoons after being exposed to chemical mists. I guess this new show is going to try to initiate the MCU viewer into that "royal family" side of things.

I think it's definitely easier if it's cable. No big name actor is going to commit to a network show. Like a two-hour, in-theater pilot, followed by a 10-episode run on HBO, FX, etc. is how you do it. And then just rinse and repeat every year, or even every other year.

There may be some good comic storylines. I'll admit I don't know anything about them in that regard.

I'm a huge Marvel fan though so when it was announced I just read up on them on Wikipedia etc... and thought they sounded stupid. They're all over Agents of Shield and I've thought they've been really, really cheesy on there personally.

I doubt they get any big name actors. It's gonna be just like AoS. Not going to be on MCU movie quality level.

I think this gets us closer to a Ms. Marvel movie. She is an Inhuman, but that's not a big part of her story. Probably 5 years out which would be Phase 4.

And I'll disagree about the Inhumans on AoS. I love what they've done with the Watchdogs and registry of Inhumans. Ghost Rider is obviously the big standout this season (much deserved!).

I wonder who will be the show runner and creative team. I'm hoping for a Buffy/Angel show relationship.

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There have been some decent storylines with them in the comics.

• Paul Jenkins did a series just called "Inhumans" that was fantastic.
• They played a role in "Annhiliation" which is one of Marvel's best ever works.
• "War of Kings" was really good.
• Black Bolt is in the Illuminati, so that's pretty important.
• And we shouldn't forget that the Inhumans gave us Lockjaw, the most adorable sentient teleporting bulldog ever: