I saw the headline and was momentarily confused “Marvel’s Ant-Man tracking $55-$60 million domestic opening weekend”. “Hold on,” I thought, “The movie hasn’t been released yet.” Then I realised it referred to its predicted, rather than actual opening box office. As Flickering Myth reported, that would make it one of Marvel’s lowest grossing films, down at the bottom of the list with The Incredible Hulk from 2008 and some way behind the next lowest grossing films from the Marvel stable, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, who both had a $65 million dollar opening weekend in 2011.
I hate to break it to you, folks, but the movie rating system is pretty arbitrary. Although we find comfort in PG, PG-13, and R ratings when it comes time to pick movies for ourselves and our little ones, the standards for each are unclear at best and harmful at worst. In fact, they're so hard Read more...
