I like how they specifically mentioned in the movie why they did not have feathers. They anticipated it!
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Jurassic World: Biggest Worldwide Opening Weekend Ever - $511 Million
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I like how they specifically mentioned in the movie why they did not have feathers. They anticipated it!
Well look at fast and.furious people like awful movies
about 10 years I suppose that's adequate.
AoU was pretty good. Reviewed a little better than JW to boot. Phantom Menace conversely reviewed far worse.
Being salty isn't something voluntarily done so that something works out in my favor. Its simply being a sore "loser".
I'm just expressing my disappointment. That's all. I'll get over it, but talking through it helps me.
I don't know why people are questioning the sequel.
The Rock finds Vin Diesel to hunt down the most badass opponents they've faced yet. As Dom pulls his team together, Kurt Russell introduces them to a former government employee with some intel that could help: Chris Pratt.
In May 2018, the only thing rolling more than custom wheels will be heads, as Universal Pictures, in association with Amblin, presents: Jurassic and Furious.
The Rock finds Vin Diesel to hunt down the most badass opponents they've faced yet. As Dom pulls his team together, Kurt Russell introduces them to a former government employee with some intel that could help: Chris Pratt.
In May 2018, the only thing rolling more than custom wheels will be heads, as Universal Pictures, in association with Amblin, presents: Jurassic and Furious.
bananafactory
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PetriP-TNT
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I am all in for that
Jack Scofield
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Feels like I see these record-breaking threads every weekend now. This movie isn't deserving of such an opening. It's a cookie-cookie film that relentlessly panders to your nostalgia of the original Jurassic Park film. I wonder which elements of the first movie Jurassic World 2 will copy and/or reference. My money's on heavy footsteps causing tremors in cups of water.
TheKaeptain
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Except people actually like Episode 3 and it made a lot of money when it was released.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Insanity.
Didn't work for Dredd (assuming the shitty Stallone movie had a part in Dredd 3D flopping).
Even so, denying that the prequels as a whole tend to be lumped together and shoved under the rug is foolhardy. I say this as someone who genuinely enjoys both ep I and III. They've all got a negative stigma attached to them.
Insane Metal
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Holy shit. I did not see that coming. 
I'll see it on Monday.
I'll see it on Monday.
They're not really comparable. Judge Dredd was never a record breaking franchise with massive pop cultural impact, and the studio had no faith in Dredd to begin with. That movie was sent to die.
Bobby Roberts
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Dredd is a special case - a lot of people didn't really have a conception of what a Judge Dredd was before Stallone's film, and that film was such a goddamn tire-fire of ineptitude and hubris that "Dredd" ended up becoming known to the larger public as nothing BUT a punchline at the expense of Stallone's career.
Jurassic Park III and Revenge of the Sith might be looked at as disappointments (and personally, I don't think either movie is bad at all, but that's me) but they never became shorthand for total, irrevocable failure like Dredd did.
Essentially, Dredd could have called itself Ishtar 2 and probably gotten more of a break from the general audience.
bananafactory
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There were girls throwing kisses at the screen beacuse of Pratt's handsomeness, lol.
Two girls in my audience had homemade Pratt-head cardboard signs
The thirst is real
Bobby Roberts
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Basically, the marketing has to
a) make it look like it'll be fun for newcomers
b) make it feel like the OT made old-timers feel.
If it's going to approach the numbers people are expecting it to hit in this thread, it needs sell itself as a hop-on point for people who are bored/tired/uninterested in old Star Wars, while simultaneously reassuring people who are hopped on that it'll capture the feel of Star Wars/Empire/Jedi.
Jurassic World apparently managed that equivalent feat without any of us who've been paying attention to the marketing really catching on that the hooks were sunk in deeply. Star Wars seems to be plucking the same strings a lot more deftly than Jurassic World did at a similar point in its marketing. Will that translate in the Winter? Who knows.
Episode III. not Jurassic Park III
(which, by the way, should be due for a rewatch, as it's not all that different from Jurassic World)
The problem in this instance is that everyone expects Star Wars to be massive. I've mentioned it before, but this really reminds me of 1999 when Episode 1 was releasing about a year after Titanic took the domestic crown from Star Wars. A lot of people expect Star Wars to automatically top whatever records had previously been broken on the principle that it is Star Wars, even if that hasn't really been the case since E.T.
Star Wars is going to be massive. I still think that it will take the domestic crown the year, and potentially end up in the same range as Titanic ($630-670M domestic). However, I disagree with the sentiment that, since Furious 7 made $1.15B overseas, Star Wars HAS to make more than that (ignoring the fact that Star Wars has never held the overseas crown, not even in 1977 as best as I can tell). I also disagree with a winter release the week before x-mas taking the opening record despite the fact that it would have to break the December record by more (percentage wise) than any film has ever broken any monthly record.
We are getting to the point of overhyping where Star Wars could open to $150M, gross $600M domestic and $1.5B worldwide, and we would still have people asking what went wrong.
Continuing the trend of an unexpected film topping the list. Sure you have expected ones like the final Harry Potter film, but many of the biggest ever are like Titantic, Avatar, hell the original Jurassic Park (based on a bestseller and hyped up, sure, but not a franchise player in 1993) or the first Star Wars.
Everyone was sleeping on JW, that's for sure.
Everyone was sleeping on JW, that's for sure.
Dude, just cause you keep saying this doesn't make it true.
Bobby Roberts
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No doubt. I can see where what happened with Jurassic World can happen with Star Wars - but lots of things *can* happen that don't, too.
There's something to be said for leaving the possibility of surprise on the table, but nothing wrong with looking at how things normally go and keeping that in mind. And looking at how things normally go - even if you wanna be optimistic for Star Wars, I don't know that it's smart to just straight up map 1:1 what happened to Jurassic World to Force Awakens.
I keep saying it because it's true. People disagreeing with me doesn't automatically make me wrong, either.
He became a cult name thanks to his role in Parks & Recreation, so he had a small fanbase, but he's now a big time star thanks to Guardians of the Galaxy, his breakout.
He now has two huge blockbusters in less than a year.
Bobby Roberts
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Parks & Rec -> Guardians of the Galaxy -> Jurassic World
people keep calling him the second coming of Harrison Ford, but to me, it looks way more like Will Smith's trajectory:
Fresh Prince of Bel Air -> Bad Boys -> Independence Day.
This is what I think it is.
Guardians of the Galaxy + Chris Pratts performance in that + jurassic Park nostalgia = huge.
I think that Jurassic Park 3 is throwing things off in this case. If Universal quit after the Lost World, and we had a slightly longer wait between that and Jurassic World, would these results be as surprising? I'm sure they would be somewhat surprising, but I think that they would be looked at more in the vein of what happened with Indiana Jones. Huge franchise comes back and continues to make huge money.
Star Wars is another huge franchise that will come back and continue to make huge money. Take Episode 1 and adjust it to a more modern equivalent, and there you go. It's not going to triple its predecessor's opening and total gross like Jurassic World because its predecessor actually made a ton of money. Jurassic Park 3 was barely a top 10 film in 2001.
<=== they've ALWAYS been cool!
ViewtifulJC
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I just got an ulcer. You're completely right. If it doesn't beat Avengers or Ultron or even JW, people are still going to call it a bomb.
Ughhhhhh
And_Gignac
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That language lol. $511m is "only" $16m over the HP record. That's not "eclipsing".
Anyway those taking these numbers as a foresight of Star Wars should know that Star Wars is not that big outside the U.S.
Anyway those taking these numbers as a foresight of Star Wars should know that Star Wars is not that big outside the U.S.
Should just be an avatar of a disembodied arm IMO
Would be funny if dinosaurs are more "Universal" than Star Wars
damn! my pun works 2 ways!
Dredd films have always flopped/disappointed commercially. I think he meant Star Wars was massive, then released disappointing iterations (like Jurassic Park) and now it's full circle back to what it was before, a box office juggernaut.
Agent_Carnage
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After seeing Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World,I think Chris Pratt would do well as the next Indiana Jones.
I think this is officially the biggest comeback in history.
love your avatar
Can't wait for the numerous "hold on to your butts" jokes whenever GAF goes on maintenance.
tiggerkiddo
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Guess we shouldn't be too shocked because most of the JP films have made crazy amounts of money.
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