The Panda

You're about to trigger Blankments more than Meryl Streep triggers the president of the USA.

This is hardly unprecedented nor is it a failure. Lol.

You realize those are strong profit making grosses right? Hardly screwed.

Not to mention, if your movie has a lower production budget, there isn't as much pressure to bring out all of the advertising guns for it, as the bar to clear is much lower. The LEGO Movie was niche but it worked, however the gimmick of it isn't as clever or eye-catching to audiences now. Add that to the fact this is a spin-off, and that Batman was already a major part and highly advertised part of the main film, there's really nothing LEGO Batman has over the original in appeal. It'd be like saying Minions should have increased from DM2 because Minions are large brand name characters with massive appeal. That's true, but that appeal was there whether they were the star characters of the movie or the side ones. Same for LEGO Batman. He was a popular side-character in the LEGO Movie, but it wasn't like the appeal of Batman being in the movie was missing from the LEGO Movie and suddenly present in LEGO Batman. A 50m/200m run being the floor for LEGO Batman is good, and nothing to be upset about.

Youre talking to the guy who was about as nuts for the LEGO Movie as you were for Zootopia.

Honestly though, just because we had a few smash animated hits last year doesn't mean 100m/300m was going to be the new standard for tentpole animations. Zootopia was a WoM wonder off a large OW, SLOP had a massive marketing campaign, a broadly appealing and original concept and limited competition to follow, and FD was a long-awaited sequel to Pixar's biggest hit. LEGO Batman is a spin-off from a solid animated hit and it's fixed to do solid numbers. Looks like my 60m/200m range predict from the beginning of the year wasn't underestimating it.

I think that was the thought process, but it still doesn't make much sense. It's a LEGO Spin-Off and a spin-off matching/increasing from its hit predecessor alone is a major feat. Even Minions, a huge spin off, didn't really match DM2 (OW was only larger because it actually opened on a Friday). I was personally thinking anything above 50m was solid territory for OW.

For some reason there were 100m OW predicts for this, doesn't make much sense.

LEGO Batman was in the LEGO Movie. I honestly don't see why it's "meh" for a spin-off of a strong hit (but not a runaway smash or anything) to be matching or even exceeding its predecessor. I wasn't even going to be disappointment with a slight decline from LEGO. It's not going to behave like a live action Batman movie, at all.

I'll take this one too.

I'll take it.

I bet 50 points La La Land increases this weekend, 2 people 50 points John Wick 2 OW under LEGO Batman's OD, 2 people 50 points Fifty Shades Darker has a better multiplier than Fifty Shades of Grey, 2 peoples

I was going to put Wilderpeople at number 2 instead of 4 to help it out, but then I forgot. My bad.

Lolol, I really don't understand how La La Land has anything to do with Trump. Like it's completely detached from politics.

HAIL VILLENEUVE!

I was hailing Villeneuve before it was cool.

Thatd be La La Land, it has it's old, out of touch haters who just need to get with the times

I mean I didn't dislike Civil War. It wasn't a waste of my time or money. But that's about as high praise as I can give it.

Two wrongs doesn't make a right. Just because Civil War was better than BvS doesn't make it good

Arrival and La La Land were my personal number 1 and 2. So I wont rage whichever wins because they're both brilliant.

I blame the IMDb brigade that must have came in and voted in our polls on the news their forums are closing down. #BuildTheFirewall

I'm still baffled that Civil War and BvS made it over much better movies.

Yeah outside this forum, nobody really talked about Wilderpeople. It was really overlooked, even amoung the indies. We just had a few people who screamed loud enough at people on these forums to go watch it, which is probably what got it the BOFFY nom. It's a shame because it was the best indie film this year.

DANG IT WILDERPEOPLE MISSED YOU PLEBS WHO HAVE DISDAIN FOR ANYTHING NOT MADE IN AMERICA

I hope Hacksaw is the snub because Wilderpeople is a much better movie. Both are still better than a lot of the films on the list though.