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Meh, they really should have called it "Now You Don't". I hope they change the name. This reminds me though, NYSM is the one blu-ray I have that I can't find. I've lost it, it's somewhere in my house... (or maybe in Paris)

This is the seventh film in a series that has been pumping out one film every 2 or 3 years. I understood the growth from 5 to 6, but I don't see why that would happen again. FF6 was already a hit in China, so there won't be huge amounts of growth there. Sure, it'll gross more, but that's not going to cover the $150-200m extra it needs to make $1b. Paul Walker's death won't make much of a difference, by the way. He wasn't a well established actor outside of this series, so his fans will show up either way - and although his death did get the film some awareness, that was 1.5 years before the movie comes out.

This is a really strange topic. Posted today, after the release of Interstellar, MJ1 and BH6? We already know that those three can't do $1b. And why not include Furious 7 / Avengers 2? The Hobbit may do it (probably will) but if not, then the next one will be Avengers. Furious 7 will not have that much growth.

The film is probably the best popcorn flick of last year, but it had so many fucking stupid names. Raleigh Becket Stacker Pentecost Newton Geiszler Hermann Gottlieb Hercules Hansen All of whom were from English-speaking countries. I think del Toro may have been high when he came up with the characters. As for actors: as much as the focus is on the Jaegers and kaiju, it is the actors who drive the film, so I would like some better ones for the next movie.

Antarctica?

Am I the only person who found the tagline of "Experience the untold story" ironic?

The first trailer I saw kinda put me off the movie, but I'm back on with this. Looks pretty funny, shame it comes out in February here though.

I agree that the split was justified to an extent, since it was the finale of a decade-long story. They wanted to go out with a bang, so did the audience, and splitting it in two allowed for a more detailed adaptation of the book. I think they executed it well. However, it's nonsense that "the story could not have fitted into one 3 hour film". They managed to adapt Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince into 2-hour films, and those books are both longer than Deathly Hallows. I'm glad they didn't do it, but it was definitely doable.

reminds me of this video I saw earlier.. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=4961054880917&set=vb.1735412067&type=2&theater

Rise was a great film but Dawn did what every good sequel does, expanding and improving what was there. As far as I'm concerned, Dawn was a perfect blockbuster movie, right up there with the very best, like Star Wars and Jaws.

Thanks for the clarification.

I know, I just thought it was an exception... maybe... It physically hurts me to think that someone could believe Transformers is a perfect film.

I'd always assumed his sig was sarcasm, but honestly I don't know any more. Also, "prefect" is a bigger grammatical error than "other wise"

The only people who cared about Paul Walker liked him for Fast and Furious. Those people are the ones watching Furious 7 regardless of how much Walker is in it. Really isn't going to make one bit of difference. Oh yeah, duh. I'm really excited for it, dunno how I forgot it...

+ Furious 7

Never fails to amaze me how fantastic her makeup is.

I don't mean to sound condescending but if you believe what you're saying, I'm not sure why you are on this forum (p.s. no one is talking about "certainties")

GotG has already won. Really unlikely that it gets a higher multiplier than the first two.

Not necessarily. The first two were absolutely massive, two of the biggest films ever. No series has managed to do 3 consecutive films above 400M (well, Star Wars adjusted but that's it afaik). In the bigger picture, you could argue it's unreasonable to have the expectation that this would do the same. 330M (or whatever it ends up with) is still an amazingly good figure. It mostly depends on how you define "wrong", but if the What Went Wrong threads are reserved for actual, genuine flops then it's out of place here.

I was confused too, until I read the full post...

I have no films that alphabetically should be after Twilight, so they are the last films on the end of my individual blu-rays - I then have box sets on the other side. (Of which I have not many)

Red one is the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification), blue one is the Irish Film Censor's Office.

OMG THAT REMINDS ME, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY BLU-RAY ARRIVES TOMORROW

You Twilight haters won't like my blu-ray shelf

Twilight isn't as awful as everyone says ^^