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Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
He was insanely underused. He was just kind of there.
DriftingSpirit
Member
Embrace the clown!
darkhunger
Member
The shit that the movie got was just the really stupid Forbes article about how it was the worst weekend drop ever or something like that, and then all the anti-Marvel fanboys piling on. I don't think actual informed people ever doubt that this movie would do well.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
DM! We did it!
serenewarfare
Banned
So how did It become such a big hit? Like it would of happened anyways considering it's actually good, but what drove all this OW traffic? Do that many people have reverence for the Tim Curry version?
DriftingSpirit
Member
China.
broncobuster
Banned
People get hysterical about superhero movies. It's not an anti-Marvel, or anti-DC, or whatever thing. You learn to ignore how it's said everything under $1.5B is a total flop. You'll see it again with Thor Ragnarok and Justice League later this year.
What is interesting about Homecoming compared with ASM2 is how much of its WW ground is made up domestic, which is ultimately matters more in this instance.
If I had to guess, that's part of it, and it's generally one of King's famous stories, and things like Stranger Things prepped for it to break out.
But judging from the predictions, it opened considerably higher than anyone assumed.
I'd like to point out my joke prediction of $107M (or $17M) somehow ended up the closest the actual OW. I disqualified myself by having two predictions and I didn't want the prizes, but this is becoming a habit of joke predictions somehow turning out true.
You like the Joker, but not as cool as Jared Leto
Aaron Strife
Banned
I'm only going to speak for myself here, but every other film in the DCEU sucked and was widely panned. I had zero expectations for Wonder Woman, which I ended up liking a great deal.
Can't say about It because I paid less attention to it leading up to its release, but I do remember a general sense of "but why?" when it was first announced/teased.
Gentleman Jack
Member
You could just paypal me $10 a month and never watch any movies at the cinema.
There's no way the WB would sign away that much of the gross.
Mortimer Brewster
Member
I'm sure part of it was nostalgia towards the 1990 version or the original book in general. There is always a thirst for good adaptations of King's work. There is also a thirst for unapologetically hard r horror films. The studios shied away from R rated films in general and especially with horror despite many of the genres biggest success of the last 40 years have been ultra violent horror films. There is an audience for that and whenever a movie taps that base it's usually box office gold. Add in a good marketing campaign and a very weak summer and a good movie had all the opportunity to seize box office momemtum. It did that.
Insane Metal
Member
Yes!! Happy for It.
it also got sandwiched between spiderman and dunkirk. didn't stand a chance.
probably would have kicked ass with an august release date.
I don't believe that. It had its own weekend. When people are interested in seeing a movie, they will see a movie.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
Went to the movies tonight.
Bill Sarsgaard is good, even if he isn't in the movie much.
Bill Sarsgaard is good, even if he isn't in the movie much.
Second time seeing Atomic Blonde.
My man.
More_Badass
Member
Not sure how accurate, but saw a few articles saying a $179 million worldwide ($117 million NA) for this weekend
Here was one
http://www.todayonline.com/entertai...es-monster-us179-million-worldwide-box-office
Here was one
http://www.todayonline.com/entertai...es-monster-us179-million-worldwide-box-office
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
Liked it even better the second time.
I think it's underrated, but as I told my wife, when they make a movie for me personally, I tend to overlook any shortcomings.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
That was me with Baby Driver.
It's probably the weakest of Wright's films but I was having too much fun with how the movie essentially started remixing itself halfway through to care all that much.
Jason Frost
Member
Woah.
It also followed, roughly, the Romero follower. Surprisingly good first, much better and more commercial follow up, even better third film which wasn't quite as commercially viable.
Just be glad we got three for three great films.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I still haven't seen the third Apes, but comparing it to Day of the Dead has gotten me more interested in checking it out than any of the trailers did.
Hurry up and correct this.
It has a few issues.
1. The name and advertising are pretty misleading. War for the Planet of the Apes. I remember the big cardboard cut out with Ceaser leading the Apes towards the humans. It's not in there. There is nothing really war like outside the first sequence.
Rather, you're given a heavy movie more akin to a biblical, specifically Moses' Journey. It is a long ass movie too. So while good, many people felt cheated.
2. It's not a crowd pleaser. While something like Get Out was misleading, it was still a very fun film to watch. The ending had the entire theater flipping their shit.
Apes really just leaves you with the bittersweet ending. The future of humanity is bleak as fuck, while any sort of hope resides in the Apes. While half the film was basically spend in a
concentration camp for apes
3. It's just a long ass movie. It's longer than the other two and it has no right to be longer than the 2nd. About 20 minutes too long.
4. All of this plays into a film that is a bit like Logan to me. I loved it, but I have no desire rewatch it.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
I need to see that all the way through sometime when I am not sick.
It wasn't doing a lot for me, but I was distracted.
Discotheque
Banned
Baby Driver's still the most entertained I've been by any new film or tv this year not named Twin Peaks.
also Apes deserved better than it got but I understand why it wasn't a huge hit at the box office. the pacing and tone of the whole thing owes more to a blockbuster epic from the 60s/70s. and it was stuffed in between Spiderman and CHRIS NOLAN
also Apes deserved better than it got but I understand why it wasn't a huge hit at the box office. the pacing and tone of the whole thing owes more to a blockbuster epic from the 60s/70s. and it was stuffed in between Spiderman and CHRIS NOLAN
Seeing 123 million pop up as It's actual weekend take
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottm...-than-jesus-with-a-123m-weekend/#78af78905c85
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottm...-than-jesus-with-a-123m-weekend/#78af78905c85
Sounds reasonable - that 55% Sat-Sun drop they projected was way too steep.
I honestly thought that Apes would cut HC legs moving forward.
I guess I was wrong.
Lights and Waves
Member
How come y'all are acting so speechless when it comes to the fact that Apes flopped?
Is it that hard to understand that few people want to go see a movie about talking monkeys overthrowing humanity that takes place in the snow - that you have to have seen two others to understand, during the winter?
I don't understand why they didn't save this for fall. They should have done that and put the two previous films up on Netflix or something.
Is it that hard to understand that few people want to go see a movie about talking monkeys overthrowing humanity that takes place in the snow - that you have to have seen two others to understand, during the winter?
I don't understand why they didn't save this for fall. They should have done that and put the two previous films up on Netflix or something.
Jawmuncher
Member
That actually would've been a good idea
Congratulations and kudos to Biggest-Geek-Ever and AdventureRacing on winning.
I feel that finishing third, combined with my Wonder Woman prediction, fully justifies me walking around box office GAF wearing a cape and an insufferably smug grin for the next week.
Fixed.
I'm going to say this is going to do better than a 50% drop next weekend. $70m might be a little too ambitious but $65m+ is possible.
Horror films are sold on iconography and it doesn't get better then the whole 'killer clown' angle. Couple that with the whole Stephen KIng brand and then awareness that the audience has with IT and you've got a home run.
I knew it would hit but $123m is waaaay above what even I, predicting success, would ever have thought.
GEOSTORM UPDATE...,
I went to see Logan Lucky during the weekend (which I enjoyed immensely) and the trailer for Geostorm played before the film.
However, curiously, the film's trailer didn't have idents for either Warners or Skydance during the trailer. Almost as if the studio and everyone involved, where possible, want to distance themselves from this film.
Hmmmm.
I went to see Logan Lucky during the weekend (which I enjoyed immensely) and the trailer for Geostorm played before the film.
However, curiously, the film's trailer didn't have idents for either Warners or Skydance during the trailer. Almost as if the studio and everyone involved, where possible, want to distance themselves from this film.
Hmmmm.
Mister Wilhelm
Member
I don't know man, I thought it was terrible and the second was one of my favorite movies the year it came out. I heard the same from my friends.
It's just so incredibly slow and there's zero reason to see it twice. I think bad WOM killed it.
The trailers also didn't look that great. It looked like the same movie all over again.
Yeah, I was hoping it would have done better!
The Stand done properly as a series could get two to three seasons for HBO and be huge.
RuinerPrime
Member
Started listening on spotify. its really good.
Texas gulf region is probably not watching a lot of movies in theaters this week, either.
OrangeAtlas
Member
While I'm sure the movie is going to do amazingly either way, is it possible Geostorm's gross takes a hit because because natural disasters is hitting just way too close to home this year?
Or maybe people will want to see Gerard Butler literally fight hurricanes. It's cathartic.
Or maybe people will want to see Gerard Butler literally fight hurricanes. It's cathartic.
Apparently Warners recently had theatres take down posters for Geostorm fearing they would be insensitive at this particular moment in time.
I wouldn't be surprised if WB kicked this all the way into the long, long grass of January as a result so they can bury it and be done with it once and for all.