johnboy3434

From a thematic point of view, it makes sense. From a more baseline storytelling perspective, I have no idea what he was thinking.

I would put the gross cutoff for "major" blockbuster films at $100M domestic, personally.

I dispute the accuracy of your first sentence. The Green Ranger's introduction is one of the plot points that everybody who ever watched the show at its height, whether they're currently fans or (mostly) not, remembers fondly. That's a lot of people that will be at least tempted to go see it. It's the "Optimus Prime dying" moment of the franchise.

They've done it four times in a row for Transformers, though.

Are the movie's toy sales not good? PR has a long history of toy sales keeping the brand alive when the show itself couldn't.

PR has about three more weeks for its wide release, four tops. After that it'll take in peanuts.

Jack the Giant Slayer and Allegiant both had drops in the 30's for their third weekends. Adjust for the fact that PR's second weekend drop wasn't quite as bad as theirs, and I think my projection is fair. I'm predicting a final DOM around $90.4M.

My current projection for PR's next weekend is $8.46M, or a 41.7% drop.

So, a $14.5M weekend for PR means about a 60.5% real drop from last weekend. The two films PR is most readily comparable to in box office terms, Jack the Giant Slayer and The Divergent Series: Allegiant, had real drops of 63.8% and 64.6% respectively. So in that sense at least, it's doing a little better than one might expect.

Dude, a real person died. It's sick to turn that into an anti-fandom argument, even if it's just an April Fool's joke.

I'm writing a fanfic where Harry Potter and his friends are Power Rangers. So the last couple posts are kinda funny to me.

One out of three isn't exactly a winning record.

And you have yet to explain what that gif actually means.

*sigh* Okay, I'll bite. How will this movie being an even bigger success than it already is "force" Universal to hire more minorities? Furthermore, as long as the profits are going to the WHITE executives, why would they care about the color of the actors who made it for them? That's the thing about dollars: no one's prejudiced against the color green.

Ouch at that PR number. My estimate is being revised down... Saturday: $5.59M (+39.0%) [-61.7%] Sunday: $3.38M (-39.5%] [-68.7%] SECOND WEEKEND TOTAL: $13.0M (-64.6% real) DOMESTIC GROSS AFTER SECOND WEEKEND: $63.6M

...How the fuck did I miss that parenthetical?

...Confusion as to why they're cosplaying characters from a shitty movie? Seriously, the massive sexism controversy managed to drown out the fact that it just wasn't a very good movie. The same lines coming from a man would have been bad, too. Granted, I haven't seen the director's cut that was released on home video, so for all I know that undid a lot of the damage.

That feel when professional critics like a Power Rangers movie more than a Ghost in the Shell movie. I'm not sure what that feel exactly is, but it's weird.

My final PR forecast for the weekend... Friday: $4.22M (+129%) [-62.7% real] Saturday: $5.61M (+33.0%) [-61.6%] Sunday: $3.39M (-39.5%) [-68.5%] SECOND WEEKEND TOTAL: $13.2M (-64.0% real) DOMESTIC GROSS AFTER SECOND WEEKEND: $63.8M

I'm not comparing two films, I'm comparing the film to itself. Including Thursday previews when showing the second weekend drop is an inaccurate comparison, because the second weekend figures don't include the last few hours of Thursday. The true drop is seen by comparing the money made on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, exclusively.

Whatever the convention may be, the comparisons don't show an accurate gauge of the audience drop unless they cover the same amount of time.

Updated PR forecast. If I was playing the Derby, this would be my number. Thursday: $2.20M (+5.24%) REAL FIRST WEEK TOTAL: $47.3M DOMESTIC TOTAL AFTER FIRST WEEK: $50.9M Friday: $4.26M (+93.6%) Saturday: $5.64M (+32.4%) Sunday: $3.41M (-39.5%) SECOND WEEKEND TOTAL: $13.3M (-63.7% real) DOMESTIC TOTAL AFTER SECOND WEEKEND: $64.2M

Well, that's disappointing. New PR forecast... Thursday: $2.20M (+5.24%) REAL FIRST WEEK TOTAL: $47.3M DOMESTIC TOTAL AFTER FIRST WEEK: $50.9M Friday: $4.26M (+93.6%) Saturday: $5.64M (+32.4%) Sunday: $3.41M (-39.5%) SECOND WEEKEND TOTAL: $13.3M (-63.7% real) DOMESTIC TOTAL AFTER SECOND WEEKEND: $64.2M

From the website's opening in mid-1998 to about mid-2001, the threshold for a film to be considered "wide release" was 800 theater locations. Then, for whatever reason, it was reduced to 600. Personally, I think that's a tad low, as a lot of limited-engagement features can scrape up 600 theaters.

The problem with it is that, while it makes sense in the context of the themes King was trying to portray, that merit fails to escape the gravity of the scene's more concrete aspects. What is happening completely overshadows what it means because the latter is unable to wash away the innate discomfort that the former inspires. Quite frankly, I think King briefly overestimated his considerable writing prowess. He thought he could turn that scenario into one of purely emotional resonance in spite of the subject matter, and he fell short of that goal.