Aplandg
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Oh wow, I thought he was a bit older. I was 7 for JP1 and that's a really good age for this kind of thing.
I was 5 when I first saw JP and I loved it! Drug my parents to the theaters to see LW when I was 7. I was so excited for LW. I loved movies from a really young age, even ones not meant for kids so young. I was kinda strange like that. My favorite movie when I was 8 was Titanic and I saw that movie in theaters 5 times.
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Jurassic Park is a mostly boring film with a few moments of “ Spielberg flourish"
I don't find it boring at all. And I think you are undervaluing the "Spielberg Flourish". I mean...
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Verbinski made, Rango and Dead Man's Chest. Both far more intelligent films than any of the Jurassic Park films which have gotten by on being “dumb fun" (dumb fun is not necessarily a bad thing though)
DMC is not very intelligent. Black Pearl is far more intelligent. And the first Jurassic Park is better made than any Verbinski film IMO. I do LOVE The Ring though.
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I am loving to see this crushing all records owned by CB movies, even if that CB movie happens to be the best ever.
You're talking about the weekday records of TDK, right? And not the Avengers records its beating as well, right?
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Cool poster! I have a feeling Fox will be on their game with the marketing. Wondering if this will beat Insurgent OW. Currently I predict it will open a little lower but have better legs and finish with about the same dom. Obviously it will kill it OS.
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I remain in awe of Titanic's $600 million gross as it completely obliterated anything that had come before it.
Even using the word obliterate to describe the box-office records Titanic smashed seems like an understatement.
For the movie to not only gross over $400, $450, $500, $525, $550, $575, $600 million during an initial run when the nearest total gross for a movie during an initial run was about $250 million less is mind-blowing.
There was a time I questioned whether it would ever be beaten. Granted I was young then and didn't fully understand inflation, nor could have predicted 3D.
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And I have to say, I'm getting the feeling JW will cross the $600m mark by the time it's done. It's a fun crowd pleaser that is enjoyable to re watch and it still has two more weekends before direct competition from Terminator (which I can't see making much more than $50m max OW). Also, the "biggest opening" buzz will surely up the curiosity factor for those who were more hesitant to go see the movie.
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For whatever reason, I never felt that The Avengers should be comparable to Titanic or Avatar. I prefered TDK being third place.
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Godzilla was the Prometheus of last year. I was slightly panicked that Mad Max would be the Godzilla/Prometheus of this year. Thankfully that didn't happen.
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Godzilla to date is the biggest turnaround I've had one a movie. Saw it twice in one week--the first time I was totally apathetic, the second time I saw what it was trying to do and had a completely different read on the film. No idea how it happened but I really like that movie.
I wonder if that could happen for me. I was SO excited for the movie but ended up only seeing it once. I tried to convince myself after the experience that it was at least pretty good but the more time that passed the more I seemed to dislike the movie and be annoyed by a lot of it.
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Not if WB does with it what Universal did with The Purge: Anarchy. Give the GA what they want, and show the change in the marketing.
And if they give us any characters we can remember or care about. And maybe if they have those involved in the making of the trailer more involved in the story and tone of the film.
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Official title, already?
Sounds cool.
But can't see bigger for part3.
Haha, sorry not the official title. I was attempting to be funny, but I suppose I could see them using something like that.
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Love the "all time record" TV spot.
Love that spot! Jurassic Universe will be huge in 2017!
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Watched a haunted house movie called We Are Still Here, starring horror icon Barbara Crampton. Decent stuff. Old school slow burn, but not particularly scary or original. I'd recommend The House of the Devil instead.
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I like the poster
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The infamous 50 Shades weekend, with it beating Star Wars's OW (thanks CJohn for ramping up expectations to an unrealistic degree)
I will admit, my expectations (especially after the fandango stats came out) became unrealistic as well. But $100 3-day was still doable. It made it to $87m, just needed a little push. Maybe more peen shots could have got the wom to increase just enough to get it there.
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Hahahahaha!!!! how did I never see/remember this poster?! Was it the main one?Thank god the Spy posters weren't weirdly photoshopped like the last Feig/McCarthy movie...
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I really needed Fifty Shades to cross $100m for the 3-day and AS was huge and although the money goes towards 2015's cumulative it is still a 2014 movie.
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Yeah, there has been the lack of a true breakout barring American Sniper so far. Pretty much been the preordained movies doing more or less wage was expected domestically. Need some movies to be huge unexpectedly.
I would say Furious 7 exceeded most expectations as well. I was predicting $115-120m.
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Oh yeah, I also want over $100m for Spectre as well and over $300m dom total.
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Just watch next week when it actually opens to 180M, only Nova will be laughing at that time.
I'd love for that to happen. 2015 was supposed to be major! And so far it's been pretty good, but it could use some more surprise hits to give it that little push that it needs. Then we just need MJ2 to make over $165m and Star Wars to make over $180m which for a late December release would be ridonkulous and would guarantee it the top spot for the year by a healthy margin!
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If Edge of Tomorrow (an action film with a tough sell) can make it to that mark, it's impossible for Spy to not pass it. It doesn't have any other film targeting women until Magic Mike 2 comes out. $100M+ total is locked for now.
Yeah, I think $100m is locked as well. But I want it to go a decent amount past that. Somewhere in the $120 range.
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Jurassic World I think will surprise and make over $150m OW.
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I think Spy will cross $30m for the weekend. Disappointing still as I predicted at least $40m'ish. Insidious 3 should have made at least $30m'ish since I2 crossed $40m. And Entourage honestly made about what I was expecting. So overall, sad weekend. I plan on seeing Spy tonight. Everything I've heard has me excited for it. Hopefully it has good legs and can leg it's way a decent amount past $100m.
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The 7 million estimates would have been much preferable
What boxoffice runs are unbelievable in retrospect?
in Classic Box Office Runs
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I was totally in that what went wrong mode when I saw Shrek 2 on Wednesday and there was only like 15 other people in my theater other then my group. I was so shocked to see the weekend numbers.