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This was more of a bad comedy with a gigantic budget than an actual superhero movie; without Bale this would have been absolutely awful. But they didn't take enough time to develop the story - could have turned out as one of the very best villains of the MCU, he still was great but they should have done more, especially with an actor like Bale. Natalie Portman as Mighty Thor was great to watch too, those two were the best parts of the movie. The story idea of the god slyer is good, but it feels underdeveloped in this. The whole omnipotence city part was bad - the whole fight scene and that snap just really weren't necessary - also the Hercules doesn't look promising. Zeus vs. Thor was a complete failure, its bloody Zeus and they do this - the primary part wasn't a fight or anything it was Zeus flicking an Thor being naked - what the hell - also feel like they could have written Zeus arrogance better into all this. A city with such a name just fascinate people but it looked just okay. Valkaryie should have been utilised so much more and Korg should have been used better. Eternity fight lacked a sense of epicness and Eternity felt underused in a sense and also misplaced. Overall it was an enjoyable movie, but it problems couldn't be covered by Bale and Portman performances. C+

Looking through the audience reviews on roten most seem to like / love it. Guess I am the odd one out. Feels like it wants to set up a new Bond / Bourne series, but that would mean it should convince you to watch a second one, this just doesn't do it, because it has no idea what it actually wants to be. No, he isn't, there is nothing good in it, apart from when it was finally over. But glad you enjoyed it. What would you rate it though?

I am sorry, but this was so awful I could only watch half yesterday and then turned it off. Today I watched the second half, didn't get better. Had some hope after the Prague fight scene, but even that was underwhelming - like bad Fast & Furious (and Fast & Furious is bad). Spending 200m and then getting this, I am baffled. The actors got sky high salary but I see nothing of that, the acting is bad. Both Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling were bad and they completely failed to make anything of the supporting cast. The directing seemed so off (probably too busy with all the money they got), the fight scene in that firework thing was atrociously bad, no suspense, nothing. the plane flight was just badly done, looked weird and wrong through out all of it. Prague and the castle fight were a bit better, but they still felt weird, like the editing and camera work was almost annoying to follow in both fights. The story is uninteresting, am I supposed to want to follow it? To root for anything? Who thought, "Yes, this is it, $200m budget!" ? The music did nothing. Proper usage of music is so important, the music fell flat through out the whole movie. Different to @filmlover I found this worse than Red Notice. Honestly? F

New Trend by insidekino.de #1: Minions: 250k (-31%) #2: Thor 4: 150k (-39%) #3: Bibi&Tina: 100k #4: Qu’est-ce qu’on a tous fait au Bon Dieu?: 100k #5: TGM: 75k (-19%) wow #6: JWD: 45k (-37%) #7: Liebesdings: 25k (-35%)

I was talking about the monday (18th) through wednesday (20th) this week.

I think they will come in weaker. maybe not by much for Minions, that franchise seems to be surprisingly heat resistant.

Minions is doing really well - TGM had a 180k 4th weekend and a total of 1911k. Also 120k admissions over the weekdays would be really strong. Thor is doing okay - I guess, but total won't be pretty - it probably should get to 1.5m 3rd Wend: 150k => Total 1170k 3rd Wdays: 50k => 1220k 4th Wend: 80k => 1300k 4th Wdays: 30k => 1330k 5th Wend: 50k => 1380k 5th Wdays: 15k => 1395k 6th Wend: 35k => 1430k 6th Wdays: 10k => 1440k (above Thor 2) 7th Wend: 25k => 1465k 7th Wdays: 5k => 1470k 8th Wend: 15k => 1485k (above Thor 3) 8th Wdays: 2.5k => 1487.5k 9th Wend: 7.5k => 1495k 9th Wdays: 1k => 1496k 10th Wend: 4k => 1500k Done

They weren't called that though - and so many of them did well... Don't be that harsch the top 23 movies last decade are Intouchables, The Force Awakens and Skyfall. We don't look at the next 2 / 3 movies then Spectre, we don't look at #8 (Minions) and then Frozen II and Ice Age 4... The Top 10 in the decade before that were HP1, LOTR 1, Schuh des Manitu, Avatar, LOTR 2, LOTR 3, HP 2, (T)raumschiff Surprise, Ice Age 2 and Ice Age 3 (after that are Finding Nemo, HP 4, Ice Age, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, HP5). Fantasy, Sci-Fi and comedy (and to be honest I kinda like both Schuh des Manitu and (T)raumschriff Surprise).

50 shades was fuelled by BDSM parts etc. (women and couples watching it) - TGM is fuelled my the military of another country - not exactly a great selling point in Germany. Furthermore the pandemic seems to hurt to certain degree even now and on top of that the german market is in a slow decline, that has been going on for pretty much two decades. And Germany always had an interesting choice of movies that do well - should look into the 70s or so - when sex education movies did really well (I don't know what decade exactly) - and calling them sex education movies is also a stretch. Wouldn't have done 5m - Fifty didn't even manage to do that - dropped from 4.5m to 3m - thinking 365 might have had a shot at 3m, but that's it - something doing great on streaming doesn't necessarily mean it will be a blockbuster in cinema. Well - today the cinemas are absolutely and completely dead - at least in northern Germany - not surprising 38-39°C is just way to hot.

what? you all are crazy - never watched a movie in theatre more than twice. Don't think I will - next movie I'll be watching twice is probably going to be Avatar, I'll try seeing that in IMAX but that probably won't be in the opening week, so I watch it regular first (should be HFR, 4k though - at least from a technical perspective the cinema can do that).

3rd one by insidekino.de: Minions: 350k (-39%) (total 1750k) Thor 4: 225k (-50%) TGM: 85k (-31%) (total 2650k) JWD: 65k (-36%) Liebesdings: 35k (-34%) Elvis: 30k (-47% ouch) Good Luck to You, Leo Grande: 25k The Black Phone: 22.5k (-35%) Northern and eastern Germany saving the weekend - but weather has been pretty cold and somewhat rainy until now - not looking forward to Tuesday and Wednesday 35 °C or so, but if predictions turn out true Thursday will be colder again (like 22°C). TGM is around 25k ahead of this forecast, Minions is 125k ahead - lol - that will change next weekend, was definitely too optimistic with Minions. So both should get to 3m. Going into December the top 3 are probably looking like this: (I know that I am more optimistic than insidekino on Minions and a bit more on TGM - they have both around 3m - won't change the order): #1 Minions 2: 3450k #2 TGM: 3150k #3 FB 3: 2940k #4 DSMOM: 2180k #5 JWD: 1900k The other movies starting this month look to be below 1m (Bibi & Tina and DC Super-Pets having the largest chance at 1m). August looks kinda dead - fearing we might end up in a situation were After Forever wins the month. After Passion got 1029k admission, Us only got 479k. September looks just as dead outside of School of the magic animals (Schule der magischen Tiere) - first one got 1720k last year. October has Black Adam and well doesn't look good either. November has Black Panther - doubt it can top the first one. Magic Flute probably won't do well enough and Strange World doesn't exactly look like Frozen. And that leaves December - which looks kinda shit too outside of Avatar and Puss in Boots (the first one got 3194k). Really hoping both are going to be big, the cinemas will need it. Shazam won't matter - it got 390k - thinking Avatar OD will definitely be larger than Shazam OWend with a chance that Avatar OD is as large as Shazam 2 total. In other words TGM will probably end the year in third place - with twice as many admissions as I thought on the Day of previews (around 1600k of a 400k OWend - lol). Minions 2 (numbers below DM2 (barely) & 3 and Minions) will be the first movie to end up #2. DM was #7 in 2010, DM2 was #6 in 2013, Minions #4 in 2015, Dm3 #3 in 2017

Difference in taste and slower going back to cinema in Germany. Even in the past there were some quite big differences - TLK had 840k adm in Aus should mean 7500k in Germany it did just 5650k so Austria is about 50% ahead. Or Mamma Mia doing 480k admissions but just 2200k in Germany, that's over 115% ahead. If looking at total admissions - we are getting the following factors for Ger / Austria: 2021: 7.9x 2020: 8.6x 2019: 8.2x 2018: 7.7x 2017: 8.0x 2016: 7.8x 2015: 8.4x 2014: 8.1x 2013: 8.2x 2012: 8.1x 2011: 7.7x 2010: 7.3x 2009: 7.9x etc. What I want to point out: total admissions in Austria tend to be 15 % ahead of the admissions in Germany.

Minions won clearer than I expected - €/$5.235M Thor 4 - €/$4.849 We are at bloody parity now - 1€=$1. TGM dropped just 6%! really good. Elvis dropped 11%. Everything everywhere all at once will probably end up ahead of Lightyear - which will finish at just 160k admissions below Paw Patrol xD

I had looked up Zootopia too but didn't choose it because of how good its legs were. And that from an opening weekend that was 3.5 times as large.

Yeah, thinking actuals should come in closer to $5.0-5.1m - so right on par with Thor 4. Hoping Minions wins - but it will be very close. Next weekend will probably be pretty bad - but the weekdays will be completely dead after that - predictions sound more like a horror movie than anything else. 40 °C - hopefully that won't turn out true. I am not as confident about Avatar anymore, thinking inflation etc. could hurt movies quite a lot - especially with the income of most people falling behind. Will obviously depend a lot on energy prices

That movie dropped 64.1% 64.5% 52.2% or: 93.9% from weekend 1 to weekend 4: Even Cars 3 dropped slightly less 55.2%, 59.8% and 44.5% which equals 90.0%. (Toy Story 4 dropped 82.6% from OW to 4th weekend). At least Batman v Superman dropped more with 94.6%. Which might seem like a tiny difference means that Lightyears 4th weekend is 42.8% below Cars 3 4th weekend, while its opening weekend was only 5.8% below the one of Cars 3. I am not even certain LY can drop less than 50 % next weekend, because I feel like theaters want to get rid of it.

I guess you'll just have to go to the cinema a little more often.

JWD getting one last six figure weekend, nice - but Minions 4-day over Thor's 5-day - lol. Not as embarrassing as Liebesdings though. I kinda hoped that after the weekend I could say that I am glad over performed compared to what it looked like before the weekend, but it didn't do that - only 22.5k above it, that sucks. Biggest advantage is the absolutely empty August and September and even the rest of July is kinda empty. Which keeps the hope alive that Thor will get to 1.5m.

23 Yeah, first June below 1B since then (outside 2020 and 2021). But April through June were the worst since 2005-2008, January was the worst one since 1990 (outside of 2021). July probably will stay below 1B too - the two blockbusters opened - yes its half way there, but two 100m openers, won't happen again. Last July below 1B was 2014 and before that 2002 and 2001 and then all before 1999. Thinking December could be the first month since December 2019 to be above 1B again and that will be close (needs Avatar to open really big and have great legs and Shazam to perform above the first one - Puss in Boots should help. (With Chadwick Boseman still alive I would have said November, but Black Panther alone won't be enough to bring the month over 1B (Strange World won't perform well enough).)

Same for the Euro - we are at bloody parity - 1€ = 1.018$ (for comps during 2008 and 2009 we were at 1€ being $1.40 (and during 2008 $1.50).

In Germany it will open below the 2nd weekend of Minions 2 with a significant chance of opening below it in not just admissions but also in $. Thinking that could also be the case in some other markets. But Thor already knows that feeling - Thor 3 opened behind the 2nd weekend of a German movie (FJG 3). (Thor 2 opened in first place though and in it second weekend FJG 1 opened). And Thor 1 opened on the same weekend as Fast & Furious 5.

3rd Trend #1 Minions 2 550k (+22%) #2 Thor4 415k (525k 5-day) #3 TG:M 110k (-16%) 2,5M #4 JW3 95k (-30%) 1,645M #5 Elvis 50k (-22%) 285k #6 Liebesdings ??? (Including Previews 70k) #7 Black Phone 32.5k (-25%) nice Ouch - I am starting to think Thor 4 could end below Thor 3. Thor 3 opened with 403k with a Tuesday start. Also: the Thor upward trend is kinda weak: Thor 1: 1119k Thor 2: 1434k Thor 3: 1480k

2nd Trend #1 Minions2 550k (+22%) #2 Thor4 465k (575k 5-day) #3 TG:M 110k (-16%) 2,5M #4 JW3 90k (-34%) 1,645M #5 Elvis 52.5k (-18%) 285k #6 Liebesdings ??? (Including Previews 70k) #7 Black Phone 27.5k (-37%)

Looks good for Minions. Thinking Thor 4 could do around 115-125k today (if the later is the case it might be able to get a bit closer to 500k over the weekend. Liebesdings should do 20k today - if not, the movie is dead.

DS2 Internat multipliziert would mean a 436k weekend (so 546k 5-day opening) - finishing barely above Thor 3 (if at all). And I am staying with it: Minions 2 over Thor 4.