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  1. 4 minutes ago, Barnack said:

    Black director/lead on IMDB....

     

    That 5.5% of 1/10 is a bit suspect, really some real viewer thought that Widows was one of the worst movies ever made ?

    Comments so far are not political at all. Mostly found the movie boring and those who loved the show thought this was not it. They all praise acting but say that's not enough. 

  2. 6 minutes ago, mldardy said:

    WOM is not the most powerful form of advertising.

     

    People have computers, cell phones, TV, radios. Those are more powerful than WOM.

    yes and social media and forums are accessed by computers and cell phones so they get in touch with WOM. On RT, Audience Score is WOM. On IMDB, User Ratings and Reviews are WOM. 

     

    The point that @Jessie is making and I agree with is that WOM >>>> critical acclaim as you can see in cases of TLJ (critical circle jerk but bad legs due to mixed WOM) and Venom/BR (critical trashing/mehness was ignored and the movies are beasts because audience loves them and spreads the word). IMO, it's too early to tell which way Widows will go but just for the record, a friend txt'd me yesterday with "don't see Widows, too LOOOONG and boring, nobody to root for". I didn't bring it up cause I thought he was the only one but now that people point out at least an early discrepancy between critical/festival gushing and social media/IMDB negativity, I'm posting this anecdote. We'll see. Like all movies, it has pros and cons and, IMO, bigger con is too many adult skewing movies surrounding it that already have a built-in audience (BR, FB, Creed 2) or will keep chugging along due to major awards push (ASIB).  

  3. 6 minutes ago, mldardy said:

    Huh? It has a score of 89 on metacritic and 94 on rotten tomatoes and is getting a lot of Oscar buzz. Who gives a shit about social media.

    this is a boxoffice forum so people are trying to predict boxoffice, and WOM is a better indicator than critics. so since critics say it's a crowd pleaser while social media and IMDB so far say it's too long and boring, one has to take both in consideration when making predictions. 

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  4. 3 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

    what the hell.

    It isn't what the hell. it's true. they just won't give it to big movies. they'll rather keep that dumb consolation award that everyone shat on in order to avoid awarding populist movies even if such movies had as great critical reception as small ones. And in BP case even the all important timeliness and political relevance. Still not enough. 

  5. I know it's embarrassing but I wasn't very familiar with Queen music except some classics that I didn't even know were all Queen. so now I'm doing homework and listen to their music. yep, slay. Amazing. Epic. Whatever people think of the movie, it's introducing new generation to their music and that's a great thing. :)

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  6. HP has always been more fan driven dom thna some other big franchises that attracted casuals. For example, even at the height of hype (first movie, last movie), HP couldn't hit 400M which THG achieved twice back to back with relative ease. However, OS is a different story and that's where HP lorded over franchises that were bigger dom. So the real story will be OS as usual, whether due to increase or unexpected decrease.

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  7. 52 minutes ago, PanaMovie said:

    Fantasy The Nutcracker And The Four Realms stands at the cusp of $100m worldwide after a $13.5m international session from 45 material territories elevated the international running total to $61.4m and worldwide to $96.7m. China leads the way at this early stage on $15.8m, followed by Italy on an excellent $8.2m (the film held at number one), Germany on $4.7m, the UK on $4.4m, and Mexico on $4.2m.

     

    Source: Screen Daily 

     

    That's almost 65% drop from last weekend (38M)...ouch

     

    Maybe 125M OS and under 200M WW

    :lol: It's a big bomb so no wonder they have to hype decent run in only 1 market out of 46 (includes dom). Like "#1 Family Movie" ad cause they couldn't say #1 movie. Oh Disney. 

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