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It's definitely sold me a ticket as someone who wanted to know how Prometheus continues. What I get from all of this is Also, never go to sleep in space.

What's the last thing that Fassbender says? I only get the word "despair."

I think lots of revivals and adaptations have taught us that good marketing and a good product can influx new life to a diminished brand (Planet of the Apes) or propel certain properties to new heights (lots of obscure Marvel heroes or the Transformers series). It's not like this film got things very wrong, but it obviously didn't get them right enough.

NOW this looks different to 'Dawn.' Great trailer.

Sailor Moon?

$175M is pretty insane considering the expectations even during the weekend.

Highest grossing film in the series WW! $306.9M

I think it's the first time that I've seen Christ Stuckmann have an opinion so different to other critics.

This is at $293,954,695 WW...$7 million more and it will take the crown from Afterlife.

Yeah, it's just the theme of the film: degeneration and death. Xavier's old age caused him to kill the X-Men, and with them it also ended an era. Logan himself is not just going through a depression that can be cured with an influx of hope, but his body will physically not last for much longer. It might be because I had read comments about the third act not being as strong as the rest of the film, but I just loved the whole thing. Jackman's performance is legendary, and the script really does things when they need to happen and has just the perfect amount of characters. A+ for me.

I think this film massively benefits from being the one sequel with the task to develop an actual plot. If it wasn't for that and ended up being just the first 1/3 of the film extended into 90 minutes it would have been among the worst entries with Extiction and Retribution. But, after a really, really bad presentation with no plot, constant jumpscares and horrible editing, the film actually gets interesting and it does have some nice set pieces, like the idea of the trucks carrying the zombie army or the sequence when they have to defend the skyscraper. Then the movie moves onto the Hive and it keeps improving, making me think that Paul WS Anderson is just much more comfortable directing in small scenarios. The plot surprises are nice, it finally gives Umbrella an actual reason for unleashing the apocalypse, I was terribly wrong about the identity of the traitor, and Wesker's death didn't bother me as much as to other people. I liked the fight in the corridor from the first film, but it seems pointless when we know Isaacs just has to use the net-like ray to kill Alice. It wasn't the best way to end the series mainly due to the absolute lack of returning characters and the ugly production design, specially after Retribution had some really cool costumes, but it was also not the worst. C+

Fox is in a very unique position in which they are getting excellent at the more unconventional productions like Deadpool, Logan and Legion. It's actually the more vanilla and mainstream stuff that it's harder for them to get right. It's just a matter of time, I guess.

This is pretty crazy considering tracking pointed to a $65M debut. I'm so happy for Hugh Jackman. He really deserves to go out with a bang. And even the great reviews will hopefully help him to transition into more dramatic roles.

So after a $94M OW in China, the worldwide cume is at $238M...if (when?) it passes $300M it will become the highest grossing film in the series!

Can somebody tell me what "FSS" means, please? EDIT: Friday Saturday Sunday. I'm so stupid

I was just checking the DOM and WW numbers for this yesterday and thinking it was doing pretty badly compared with the previous entries...and now we have this China surprise. However, I still think the future of the series goes through a reboot closer to the videogames (outside of 4-5-6). Keep the power of the brand, but gain back the public.

Yeah, Afterlife and the first one are my favourites too. Afterlife is actually a good popcorn entertainment and it retconned the right things from Extinction. And the first one is just a nice horror film.

Chris Stuckmann played some clips during his review to showcase how bad was the editing and I couldn't believe it. The cut ratio is really under 1 second. It's very difficult to understand what is going on.

It probably just fits better with the plans of the studio. All those women have very busy schedules, so I can see them planning the production whenever they could, even if it was "too early".

Could he get more profit from this than he did with some of his bigger hits?

It's still a troubling situation (well, it would be if they wanted to make another sequel). Resident Evil is a big brand and it should be enough to draw more interest than the fifth Underworld entry. They even aligned the OW with the release of the new main entry of the videogames. But as I said, it's not that big deal considering that the next step is most definitely a reboot closer to the current tone of the games.

Wasn't Resident Evil tracking higher? I remember BOT Long Range prediction had it mid 20s while Underworld was in the teens.

Split was predicted to do $25M, so this result is insanely good.

Split is going to be insanely profitable. THR says Shyamalan self-financed it with less than $10M.