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Sin City 2's opening is so pathetic. Even laughing at it feels mean.

I feel like Nia Vardalos and co. should really consider this a warning sign and scrap that planned My Big Fat Greek Wedding sequel.

I think the barren schedule bodes extremely well for movies like The Equalizer and Gone Girl.

Definitely. Should've opened no later than 2009.

Robert Rodriguez, it's time to start rethinking your career.

I'm a big Josh Brolin fan but man does he have some bad luck picking projects. Oh well, at least Inherent Vice is around the corner.

Why did a star-driven romcom (2010's How Do You Know) cost $120M?

I can't imagine the cast of this new Sin City cost a whole lot considering most of them are irrelevant these days.

He messed up and didn't realize how much time has really passed between the two movies.

Too soon? This should've been made no later than 2009.

I prefer it when they cranked out completely random movies like Fear Dot Com.

Yeah, this. 2009 was probably the only time late August wasn't a complete and total dead zone. Otherwise, this is nothing out of the ordinary.

Sin City 2 is barely gonna make more than The Spirit. The Spirit! Embarrassing.

So Sin City 2 is looking at an opening of around $8M for the whole weekend? That, my friends, is the definition of an epic fail.

Georgia Rule (the godawful Gary Marshall-directed film starring Lindsay Lohan right before both her career and life officially imploded, Felicity Huffman when it seemed like she was gonna start appearing in movies after her Oscar nomination, and Jane Fonda in her second questionable role after an over decade long hiatus from the screen) was sold as a comedy/drama about three generations of women understanding each other when in reality it was a drama about incest. Granted, it was still somewhat of a comedy (and fails miserably in trying to find humor in stuff that is never funny- this is a movie that thinks "funny" is Huffman trying to decide which weapon to kill sexually abusive husband Cary Elwes with and thinks that "touching" is Lohan trying to seduce Dermot Mulroney by wearing his dead wife's perfume), but...

Everyone should go take a look at the covers for Vanity Fair's yearly Hollywood Issue since the beginning 20 years ago, especially the "ingenue" covers. It's pretty interesting looking back at the people who went on to big things and those who have pretty much faded into obscurity.

The rivalry between these two projects is hilarious.

I remember reading reviews for The Nut Job saying that the end credits feature all of the characters from the movie dancing to Gangnam Style with an animated version of Psy. Life is way too fucking short, sorry.

But who's gonna watch Avengers: Age of Ultron or Mockingjay Part 1 online two weeks before they comes out even if it's DVD quality when you lose out on the theatrical experience (besides those who do nothing all day but sit in front of a computer, a small demographic). If people want to see a movie really badly, they'll fork over the $12 to see it on the big screen, come on now. I bet most of the people who pirated The Expendables 3 were either on the fence about it or weren't planning on seeing it in theaters in the first place.

LOL the effects of piracy are being overstated. If people really want to see a movie they will wait to see it in theaters (which is the case for both of those movies). I'd be surprised if The Expendables 3 lost more 10% of its opening gross because of the leak.

LOL oh come on now.

I think the leak/pirated copy making a huge impact is up for debate since we have seen time and time again that piracy doesn't really hurt movies (I imagine 99% of people who pirate movies in general are those who either were on the fence about or weren't really planning on seeing the movie in theaters in the first place). The second Expendables saw a drop-off from the first when everyone was expecting it to at least stay flat with the first, and the marketing for this one did little to differentiate itself.

The LEGO Movie was still playing at many theaters because it was on all of the summer kids movies schedules, so movie theaters probably felt good about holding onto it.