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Color me surprised! Good for Cap! I love HP also, but I was really hoping Cap would have a great opening. Just REALLY surprised that HP didn't keep the #1 spot for at least two weeks. Can't wait to see it.
| Rank | Movie | Weekend | Theaters | Average | Total | Budget |
| 1 | Captain America | $65.8 mil | 3,715 | $17,719 | $65.8 mil | $140 |
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 | $48.0 mil | 4,375 | $10,986 | $274.1 mil | $200 |
| 3 | Friends with Benefits | $18.5 mil | 2,926 | $6,323 | $18.5 mil | $35 |
| 4 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | $12.0 mil | 3,375 | $3,556 | $325.7 mil | $195 |
| 5 | Horrible Bosses | $11.7 mil | 3,104 | $3,776 | $82.4 mil | $35 |
| 6 | Zookeeper | $8.7 mil | 3,215 | $2,706 | $59.2 mil | $80 |
| 7 | Cars 2 | $5.7 mil | 2,668 | $2,146 | $176.4 mil | $200 |
| 8 | Winnie the Pooh | $5.1 mil | 2,405 | $2,138 | $17.5 mil | $30 |
| 9 | Bad Teacher | $2.6 mil | 2,034 | $1,278 | $94.3 mil | $20 |
| 10 | Midnight in Paris | $1.8 mil | 621 | $3,058 | $44.8 mil | $30 |
Color me surprised! Good for Cap! I love HP also, but I was really hoping Cap would have a great opening. Just REALLY surprised that HP didn't keep the #1 spot for at least two weeks. Can't wait to see it.
Looks like Capt A is a very good movie ... will be interesting to see the overseas numbers next week ... these are glory days for Marvel and comic fans ...
Cap was great! As good as Iron Man in my humble opinion!! The Avengers trailer at the end....well lets just say i had to change my pants once i got home! I want to go see it again. I just thought the movie had such great heart, action and you just cared about Steve Rogers and why he wanted to fight!
Cap was a good movie but it wasn't great. They wasted the Red Skull in making him your typical bad guy anyone could have played. They didn't utilize him in the manner he deserved and thus missed an opportunity to take the movie to the Iron Man level.
Overall I'm pleased but it could have been so much better, like most Johnston movies.
Captain America was a great movie. It deserved far better than the B- it received on this site. Personally I would give it an A-. I thought Thor was a pretty good movie, but this one was better. To be honest I don't even pay attention to the critic reviews on this site anymore, I pay attention to what the normal people say down below in the comments section.
I loved Cap and rank it amongst my all time superhero films. I also like that they focused on him and not his enemy as so many films tend to do, we know the bad guy when played well usually gets the juiciest scenes and lines. Well this was Captain America and not the Red Skull. This was Cap's moment, even though the film was an abridged version of his WW2 heroics we know that there's plenty of material in between for future sequels should they decide to do another period piece of flashbacks. I'm sure this won't be the last we hear from the Red Skull, nevermind Bucky.
HP is the first film to fall more than 100mil from weekend to weekend, still "the boy that couldn't keep first place" has nothing to be ashame of he's still racking it up.
My 1st choice next weekend is Capt America again, if I have time or I'm in the mood I may check out C&A. I think next week should be a tight race. I won't call it but if I had to bet I'd give the edge to C&A, fuck it it ain't like I have anything to loose I'm calling CAP for a repeat at the top. I can stand to be wrong once a year :)
My next must see is Rise of the Apes, I love everything I see about that movie
Last week wiseguy and I were the only ones certain Cap would knock Harry off the top of the mountain. I was hoping for $70 million, but $65 is a great opening for the film. I think the good reviews and good word of mouth the film's getting will bolster the films in the coming weeks.
The movie was fantastic on all levels...script, acting, effects, overall look...everything. After seeing it four times this weekend and letting the movie simmer in my thoughts a little, I have to put it just behind Superman as my favorite comic-based super hero movie. Evans really delivered a Steve Rogers we cared about and understood. Evans put away his normally cocky kind of persona. He became Steve Rogers. Really, the whole cast we just fantastic and the writers really gave the characters some depth. I have to disagree with Hobbs on his Red Skull comments. I thought there was just enough Schmidt storyline that we understood his motivations. Weaving was excellent as Skull. And Haley Atwell. Wow! Her in the red dress was breathtaking, but her character was so much more than eye candy. She mattered in the story.
The movie was well worth the 34 year wait, and it was great to be able to share the movie with my girl's kids. That's one of the best thing about these movies for me. The kids love reading my old issues of these characters (from the late 70s through the early 2000s) and then we talk about them and go to see the movies. It's an exciting time for those of us who grew up reading these stories long before there was anything other than some stiff animation or bad series/TV movies.
Yes!
Now bring on The Avengers...!