8 Things Avengers: Infinity War Did Better Than Captain America: Civil War
2. It Works Better As An 'Event' Film
Marvel Studios
Civil War might've been the Marvel event movie up until this year (Avengers Assemble aside), but Infinity War steals that vibe and runs with it relentlessly - as has been illustrated by the eye-watering box-office haul it managed to take in on its opening weekend.
At this rate, it's not even all that unreasonable to call it the biggest event movie of all time. It just beat The Force Awakens' opening weekend gross, and when you consider the kind of pull Star Wars has, the majesty of the Marvel Universe is only made more apparent.
Civil War was 2016's highest grossing film, meaning its status as an 'event' film is without question. Infinity War was just always going to be bigger though, and with its status as the most impactful MCU film yet now enshrined, Infinity War is the event to end all other events.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
