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Jurassic World: Biggest Worldwide Opening Weekend Ever - $511 Million
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GasProblem
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I have no idea how they are going to do a sequel on this. They can't do another park.
Agreed. It's a very unpopular opinion on GAF though so get your flame shield ready.
cartoon_soldier
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Boom Shaka laka hell yea
They need to go Planet of the Dinosaurs with that shit.
alfredofroylan
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I agree with this.
Jurassic World is as much a generic corporate product as Marvel movies are, by all accounts he should be seeing Mad Max instead.
Mad Max is awesome; it's still in the theaters too.
BruceLeeRoy
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Movie was great. Well deserved, so much better than AOU.
Doesn't help homey. I mean, I agree with it and have no problems being a snob in this particular case, but all that simply plays into the disbelief that Jurassic fucking world is breaking records.
I've never felt so out of touch with the mass public on anything before.
I was pointing out the hypocrisy in his post.
Razgriz-Specter
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But with Marvel we see multiple of them every single year.
With Jurassic World you are getting something you haven't been beaten over the head with in 14 years.
Charles Foster Kane
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If Fury Road is boring, I don't know what entertaining is.
Mediocrity?
I will admit it was better than Ultron, so I guess if we go by that measurement, it should be breaking records.
Although, Ultron was coming off a better prequel than JW was. I'm guessing nostalgia and summertime helped huge here because those trailers were laughably bad.
Just get over it, dude. Like, seriously. Being salty over mainstream blockbusters achieving massive success will never be something that works out in your favor. Films with a wide target audience will always make more money than more niche, cerebral projects, not as a product of their relative quality but rather due to their marketability and mass appeal.
Besides, Mad Max did respectable numbers given what it was - a niche passion project destined for cult classic status.
Lighten up, chap.
Fury Road was rated R and afaik not released in Asian territories; I think they skipped China entirely.
Quality and sales don't always go hand in hand; this is the world we live in.
#ThankYouMasterMiller
Not in my closest one sadly.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
It wasn't a comment on box office performance.
MHWilliams
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AoU probably would've matched it, but for some reason Marvel did that staggered release. US got it two weeks after a number of regions.
Star Wars is going to kill it.
Bobby Roberts
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The Box Office game is a strange and confusing game. It's like Jenga and Backgammon combined. So you think you know how it should go, but you never QUITE get the hang of it.
Mister Wilhelm
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I'm at the same theater I saw Avengers 2 at on the same day (opening Sunday).
A2 was about half full. For JW the first set of tickets we bought 30 mins before the movie had to be returned due to no seats being left.
We're waiting for the next show in the theater 45 mins early now and there are only about 10 seats left.
Jesus.
A2 was about half full. For JW the first set of tickets we bought 30 mins before the movie had to be returned due to no seats being left.
We're waiting for the next show in the theater 45 mins early now and there are only about 10 seats left.
Jesus.
The staggered release is supposed to help it open bigger in overseas markets and build momentum for the U.S. release iirc. But I wonder if they'll be looking at changing that up going forward.
Easily Universals best year ever, bar none.
No it won't. China will get Star Wars in 2016. It's also December. People have to buy gifts, write exams, and travel. They will still go see Star Wars, but it will be at their own leisure during the holidays.
Wow, just saw this thread title, am shocked. As a JP fan I'm delighted, although I live in a country with no cinemas so I'm going to have to wait to see it myself.
There must be a ton of people out there like me hungry for any decent blockbuster that isn't capeshit, which I 100% refuse to see anymore.
There must be a ton of people out there like me hungry for any decent blockbuster that isn't capeshit, which I 100% refuse to see anymore.
Best year of sequels too ! Furious 7, Mad Max, Jurassic World and the upcoming Star Wars in December!
b&jy77VjiKn$#F
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That's it. This thread convinced me to see Fury Road again. For the 8th time.
Yeah I'm salty as fuck. Not because JW is making money, but because people calling Fury Road boring.
Sounds like my sex life. HEY-O
people hating on Doom in the gaming side, and now calling mad max of all movies boring.
This sure is NeoGaf.
Bobby Roberts
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On the one hand, I want to say that it's pretty probable that Star Wars won't do what people are starting to think it might do because December isn't June, and attendance just does not work the same way in that season as it does in the Summer, and never has.
But then again, nobody has ever called any of the Box Office monsters BEING those monsters before they started stomping on everything. Titanic, Avatar, Avengers, Furious 7, Jurassic World... there was no reason to think conventional wisdom wasn't going to hold firm. And then hindsight made everything look sooooo obvious.
So who knows. Maybe Star Wars' marketing will touch enough nerves that domestic opening weekend is an Alderaan-esque blowup. I don't think that's going to be the case, I don't think we're going to get Summer numbers in December. But if we could call that kind of stuff accurately all the time, we wouldn't have the surprises we're currently being fascinated by.
But then again, nobody has ever called any of the Box Office monsters BEING those monsters before they started stomping on everything. Titanic, Avatar, Avengers, Furious 7, Jurassic World... there was no reason to think conventional wisdom wasn't going to hold firm. And then hindsight made everything look sooooo obvious.
So who knows. Maybe Star Wars' marketing will touch enough nerves that domestic opening weekend is an Alderaan-esque blowup. I don't think that's going to be the case, I don't think we're going to get Summer numbers in December. But if we could call that kind of stuff accurately all the time, we wouldn't have the surprises we're currently being fascinated by.
Nemesis121
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It's going to break the 3 day domestic opening weekend in the heart of winter...
bananafactory
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I dunno, people are welcome to their opinions. If someone doesn't like Doom or Mad Max that's cool, it's just annoying when people try to tell you that you're wrong for liking/disliking something that goes against what they think of it
BruceLeeRoy
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Nobody with any taste could say Mad Max is boring. That's a broken compass bro just move on
Nemesis121
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AoU sucks and it still made money..
WAR recon zero
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Chris Pratt is a no one here in latam. He's nowhere to be seen.
Gaf stop. This is based on brand name alone and summer time . Pratt is not one of the goats yet.
Jackman, RDR and The Rock are the most important actors of this gen
Gaf stop. This is based on brand name alone and summer time . Pratt is not one of the goats yet.
Jackman, RDR and The Rock are the most important actors of this gen
Much like Jurassic World, there's been enough of a break that I don't think it'll matter. Just like with JP3, people actively want to forget the Star Wars prequels.
Bobby Roberts
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I think Jurassic World provides an argument that so long as there's enough distance, and you minimize/avoid mention of that disappointment, people will basically forget that you had a disappointing sequel preceding the new film.
edit: Guek beat me!
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