Sho_Nuff82
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Batman V Superman Ticket Sales Are Trending close to SW Ep7. Uh, your fish are dead.
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But two of those are both critically and commercially successful and one is commercially successful.
I mean if you had used like Green Lantern and Jonah Hex
……forgetit
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Fanboyisms are really strange to me, do you guys think the collective of Disney execs actually care how a movie two months removed from their next project does? If this is good and does well then it's a win for comic movies and the film industry in general. No one at marvel is losing any sleep over this.
Wow wow wow, watch out dude, you might hurt somebody's feelings.
ReplacementPelican
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It's a discussion board. Speculation will go either way and the negativity is largely DC's own fault for Man of Steel. I hope that this movie absolves the franchise but I feel the apocalyptic horsemen of DCGaf have a strong enough argument.
The 'too smart' thing was good damage control though. People love movies that make them feel smart, look at Inception.
I really don't see how this isn't fair. There'll be a lot of crow to eat when this movie releases as I see 0% chance it's Man of Steel bad but I just don't like this air of people being excited for this movie whining about people being soothsayers, it happens to every film here regardless of Marvel, DC, etc... lots of people hate both franchises or only one. It's hard to tell.
The "hate" for Man of Steel is largely fabricated though. Yes it was divisive but only amongst professional critics. The general public liked it. Not as much as Avengers but it wasn't hated. That's not to say it was perfect or that everybody loved it but the evidence that Man of Steel "sucked" and the DCEU is "doomed" simply isn't there. It's like a story passed along where the original telling is warped so much it's no longer the same story.
Poodlestrike
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How was the too smart thing damage control?
BossDarkseid
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Is it weird that I feel like Man of Steel is 7/10 and quite enjoy it...yet at the same time love All Star Superman and feel something like the Reagan scene epitomizes why I love Superman?
Anyhoo I'll be interested to see how this tracks, just out of curiosity, hope no WB suits do something silly and knock down parts of the rest of the universe...although I'm not sure you can tell an interesting solo Cyborg story but o well. If it's good I'll definetley see it again at the BFI IMAX.
Anyhoo I'll be interested to see how this tracks, just out of curiosity, hope no WB suits do something silly and knock down parts of the rest of the universe...although I'm not sure you can tell an interesting solo Cyborg story but o well. If it's good I'll definetley see it again at the BFI IMAX.
Colonel Nasty
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You think BvS is gonna make 2 billion?!?!
Scorpion Soldier
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I doubt it'll come close. Maybe in the $500-$600 million range it if does really well. Globally is simply ridiculous.
I could see it outgrossing Star Wars in foreign markets but no way will the total hit $2B.
Colonel Nasty
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Even that is triple MoS. and that movie isn't even 3 years old.
Future Foundation
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Damage control from who? Batman-on-Film?
ReplacementPelican
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Okay, this is a bit odd. I never said it was doomed but a movie being bad and then s sequel by the same people isn't going to gain lots of random support. Also, I only know of about one friend who likes that movie, everyone else who I know disliked it. I also stated that I think this will be leagues better.
What do you mean 'who'? Reports said it was an executive. It was a way to sate DC fans by saying 'it's fine, they just don't get it'.
lol I'm sold. Movie must be disliked by the general audience if you only have one friend who likes it. Pack it up guys. MoS was trash.
If my prediction of this movie being garbage comes true, I can see the ticket sales tanking after OW.
If it defies my prediction and is a pretty decent movie(70% or higher on RT) I can see it pushing(but probably not breaking) some records.
If it defies my prediction and is a pretty decent movie(70% or higher on RT) I can see it pushing(but probably not breaking) some records.
There's a game children like to play called Telephone... this is the internet version of that.
Since it's a report from a website reporting on a report from a website which is reporting on what they heard.
The final source added the "Too smart" business.
not the original source nor the Warner executive
Yeah The Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises were huge critical and commercial failures.
As a fan of superhero movies in general and DC characters I would love it if this were to happen, but it seems very optimistic. If it reaches 1.4 billion that would be a major success and still well behind SW worldwide. Even Jurrasic World at 1.67 billion seems like it would be difficult to reach.
Superman and Batman movies have skewed fairly heavily to the US in the past as well, so for it to reach say 1.5 billion it would likely need to earn at least 700 million in the US.
I can't. The Force Awakens made $1.12B overseas. The best all time showing for a comic flick is around $940M by Age of Ultron. DC's best was $640M by TDKR.
MDSLKTR
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There's no need to even do that much work, just open any bvs related thread on this forum in the past 3 years and choke on the astonishing idiocy on display on every single page.
bigboss370
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not surprised at all.
this movie was always going to be huge. its Batman and Superman for the first time ever in the same movie. that concept alone is gonna sell tickets.
oh, and it also happens to look freakin awesome.
this movie was always going to be huge. its Batman and Superman for the first time ever in the same movie. that concept alone is gonna sell tickets.
oh, and it also happens to look freakin awesome.
Poodlestrike
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Like Penguin said, that's not what happened. There was a report, as in, singular, that Warner execs were worried about BvS's reception (and some saying the opposite, but that's neither here nor there). From there, some speculated that it was because BvS was somehow unusual wrt people's expectations for superhero movies as established by Marvel's work since IM1. And finally, only after that did somebody add on the "too smart for audiences" thing.
Which people immediately took as an insult from WB.
elrechazado
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Well you sure went out on a limb there.
Major Gripex
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Personally, I predict if it's good it will do good. And if it's bad it will do bad.
MisterHero
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Superman 1 and Batman 89 were both WB's most successful movies ever for their time.
It makes sense they'd make money together
It makes sense they'd make money together
generic_username
I switched to an alt account to ditch my embarrassing tag so I could be an embarrassing Naughty Dog fanboy in peace. Ask me anything!
Were you not the one that made the time to eat crow Ant man thread that got closed?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1081729&page=10
You dont get to Avatar quote man come on
lmao Called the hell out
This is a film I'm definitely waiting on reviews and word of mouth before I'd see it at the cinema.
Based on the trailers, Man of Steel and Zack Snyder's output in general, I'm expecting a stinker. It might surprise and be turn out to be a decent film. If not, I can wait until it's on TV.
Based on the trailers, Man of Steel and Zack Snyder's output in general, I'm expecting a stinker. It might surprise and be turn out to be a decent film. If not, I can wait until it's on TV.
When you make predictions, ya gotta go all out
Were you not the one that made the time to eat crow Ant man thread that got closed?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1081729&page=10
You dont get to Avatar quote man come on
And I was right!!
Who are you?
brickarts295
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I live in SoCal too, just to make sure which is the 70mm real Imax location? Irvine right?
Even Man of Steel has to be considered a moderate BO success with lukewarm critical reception.
It was neither a bomb, nor was it panned.
Records are made to be broken!
I'm me. Who are you?
Actually you know what-I just looked at your post history. Yikes. Are you an alt account?
Wot
An alt account? Lol based on what?
LiveFromKyoto
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I think the type of person who becomes a Disney exec is a hyper-competitive quasi-sociopathic cyborg. Like, these are the guys the dicks who run ESPN aspire to being to promoted to. I bet that shit burns their soul.
Future Foundation
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Reports didn't say that. No executive from WB said that. Someone on a Batman fansite suggested that as a possible reason for the reception it got.
Rice-Eater
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About quitters, are you guys getting people who quit before they're about to lose? Yesterday I had 2 guys quit during odd times. One guy quit right after I won the 2nd round. The other guy quit as he was getting pounded in the 1st round. And just a moment ago I had a guy quit during the start up screen. Honestly though I'd rather he bail before the match starts then waste my time with a match that he was going to quit anyways. Going on with the match and seeing that you're out matched and then bailing is a different story though.
I assume this is about Street Fighter V. Came close with that "V" in the thread title. =P
Rice-Eater
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Oh shit, i haven't looked at Neogaf in a while and thought I was still in the SFV thread. Oops, my bad guys lol.
FunkyPajamas
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I'm just reading this thread trying to understand the fish reference in the title and this post has me wtf.
fake edit: ah, SFV.
kylecoley182
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i work at a movie theater and we have two sold out shows already
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