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Darkness tends to do the opposite. I'm not seeing the trend your'e seeing. Sure, Deadpool and Logan have done very well as rated-R super-heroes, but the brighter and less violent heroes have had the most success of late. The widest mass appeal horror movies might best be represented by the Conjuring series, and much more violent and darker films make a small fraction compared to that series. The vast majority of the major hits are wholehearted dramas,comedies, and family films. Disney has been breaking records with that. Deadpool did worse than Captain America: Civil War. Due to their content, Deadpool and Suicide Squad lost China, and those both made less money than BvS. Horror has almost always been rated R and violent, overt-nudity, and displaying the vices of the world. Modern horrors like the Conjuring and PG-13 Lights Out which were both huge successes last year made sure to emphasize family and heart. Sausage Party didn't make 100m; Trolls and Kung Fu Panda 3 and Boss Baby this year will. In the 80s, most comedies were filled with R-rated material. Try watching Tom Hanks in Bachelor Party. Trainwreck and Sausage Party are lame in comparison. I don't know how old you are, but having grown up in the 80s, I have no idea what you're talking about. For me, Hollywood lost its edge 30 years ago and just a select few films come even close to the shadow of what some movies have done in the past. It 2017 or Mummy 2017? There's nothing in these films that come close to the horrors of narcotics addiction of 1990s drama Trainspotting, lol... The popularity of Pixar and Marvel will assure bright and colorful fun. Fox might be targeting rated R because many of their properties fits that better (Aliens/Predators born that way in the 70s/80s) and they can't match the Disney's family-fun material. Disney's BatB after its 3rd weekend has already made more than Deadpool's full run...

The best part of the movie industry is its ability to appeal to different tastes. While IT might be too dark for you, though I'm not seeing that from the trailers, you've got popular PG-13 horror movies like last year's Lights Out. Also, there are a ton of other genres that have lighter fair. Heck, the number one studio last year, Disney, caters to family-fun, bright colors, and jokes/happiness/heart! The top two movies this week features a war between babies and puppies and a musical featuring a talking teacup...I'd say the movie industry is too bright and gay! A decade ago, we had such films like Saw IV and Hostel...

This movie was just beautiful to watch. Scarjo's performance felt rather bleh, though. This movie and Kong has given us so much eye-candy on the big-screen. Too bad this movie is tanking. I agree that GitS isn't too far off from Kong, for better or worse.

Taking a look at the top-5 for trailer views, they all made above 100m. Fifty-Shades Darker is also a rated R film that's front-loaded and it broke 100m. I believe this movie will either open a lot higher than 50m or have much better legs. Either way, I can't see how this has such overwhelming trailer views and NOT break 100m.

Even just going by the YouTube trailer, It is keeping pace with Justice League and Spider-Man: Homecoming...in other words, on the same week as the trailers for the most popular characters of the most popular theme/genre in movies today, a horror movie is grabbing as much attention or more. Seeing this is New Line/Warner, do you think they're trying to get Goonies and a Teen Titans featuring Trigon going ASAP? This studio should know a little something about movies featuring kid actors...

All of the internet isn't in love with this trailer. Look at the Variety article and its comment section. My favorite: I would like to believe this is from kid born after 2000. It copying Stranger Things? One would think Stephen King's It would be considered the inspiration of Netflix's Stranger Things and not the other way around...

I thought it was pretty damn good. Strong acting talent, well directed, great cgi, and very streamlined. As for the ending, it was far too predictable.

You need to understand different films draw different audiences, and as such, each audience has a different criteria for what makes a good movie. That said, movies are not objectively good or bad. This all depends on your own background and perspective. People aren't stupid; they're just different.

So, all the fanboy warring between PR and Kong, and they both might make 60m OW? Lesson to be learned: nerds do not need to rely on base niche survival instincts...you can and will coexist with other nerds.

The character's name is Kimberly Hart, so I believe the fictional character was meant to be Caucasian. Considering the actress has an Indian background, showing her parentage in the movie would've helped their diversity goals, imo. Looking at the original cast, these were the changes for the movie Jason Scott white male -> white male Kimberly Hart white female -> white/indian female Billy Cranston white male -> black male Zack Taylor black male -> chinese male Trini Kwan vietnamese female -> latino female

My wife said the same thing.

Oh okay. That makes a lot more sense, then. Sorry, I'm not very familiar with the show. Seemed like I was the only one scratching my head in my audience. Everybody else seemed to love every aspect of the movie, including my wife.

Well, it was all there, but yeah, I guess different people can come away with it with a different outlook. I was thinking, for the diverse/world-wide appeal they'd at least mix things up a bit... I was just looking for something refreshing like...

Saw this in a sold-out 7PM showing. The audience loved it. Lots of cheering. As for me...was this movie supposed to show off diversity? I felt like its the most racist movie I've seen, but that's just my perspective...

Anyway...naked suit will dominate the box office!

Going up against Wonder Woman and Cars is rough. It probably would've had a much better chance against either Lego movies.

This looks beautiful. ScarJo in naked suit = 100m assured...

Somewhere in the world, people with jobs are going to work and sleeping instead of watching Youtube. Then, in May, they'll spend their hard earned money on the movie based on Pamela Anderson's assets back in the 90s. I'm not sure they'll be doing the same for CU...Again, this is my old-man bias. People think this will make more than Kong? This is culture shock for me...

Do you have to be born after 1995 to understand what this is? Just as this forum fails to understand the influence of the many generations that exist prior to AOL, and thus under predicts for old-men movies, I think there's quite a bit of overestimation for this. However, I must admit my bias because I have never ever heard of Captain Underpants! I'm willing to buy a ticket and give this as much chance as Power Rangers.

I'm still waiting for tickets to go on sale for the better theaters around me.

The TV spots look pretty cool imo. I absolutely do not understand why people cheer for a movie to do poorly. If you don't like it, I don't see how it hurts you if it exists for the people that do like it. I do understand why people cheer for movies to do well, so that they can have sequels etc.

Saw BatB in a 1/3 filled Imax, but it was the 10PM showing. I thought it was great. Gaston, imo, is the greatest Disney villain of all time. The weakest part of the film was Watson and the Beast CGI, but that's easily ignored. I enjoyed it much more than last year's Jungle Book.

Rurouni Kenshin Trilogy was pretty damn good:

Understandable. Unfortunately, I feel like a society that runs in sync with RT is basically one that has become too lazy to think for themselves. You might not be that case, but I have run into too many who simply echo the internet echo-chamber fueled by the Critics Consensus of RT. RT and franchises, imo, are leading to a trend of bandwagon movie-viewing mentality. I'm glad it is useful to many, but I just hope people do not just look at RT numbers when the internet is filled with much better information about movies that could really fill them with interest and joy. For example, I hope people who love chess or paranoid personality disorders read the synopsis of Pawn Sacrifice and read the history of Bobby Fischer to decide whether they want to watch the movie rather than simply the 72% it received on RT.