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They can't say anything else. I'm friends IRL with a few people who work on these movies - they're no-joke-not-exaggerating terrified of the hardcore Sonic fanbase 🤣

Has it been? Feels like the only real disappointment has been THE FIRST OMEN, and that's a movie based on a dead franchise where the last movie was pretty badly-received (plus Disney waited till very late in the day to start marketing and even later in the day to tell the world 'Surprise, it's actually good!'). But looking at the rest of the calendar, the wide stuff has done about as well as could be expected (NIGHT SWIM and IMAGINARY performed like typical Blumhouse slow season dumps, LISA FRANKENSTEIN played like JENNIFER'S BODY without stars, etc) and IMMACULATE and LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL both over-performed, at least compared to my expectations.

123 mins 118 mins 132 mins 113 mins 115 mins vs. 144 mins 149 mins 154 mins 165 mins 154 mins There's something to be said for pacing and not exhausting the audience.

This is silly. They went in expecting not to be bored when the monsters weren't on-screen, there's a difference.

It's an hour shorter than DUNE 2.

I have trouble rating them against each other because they aim for such different things (G2014 scale, KONG: SKULL ISLAND fun, KOTM awe/wonder with the monsters, etc). I just split the series into two tiers quality-wise: Tier A: GODZILLA 2014 KONG: SKULL ISLAND GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS Tier B: GODZILLA VS. KONG GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE But I still enjoy the movies in Tier B, and obviously plenty of people like GVK more than KOTM so GxK is probably more their speed.

I can't stand that guy or his opinions

Definitely, and I don’t mean that as an insult toward DUNE. The LOTR movies were designed as crowdpleasers in a way DUNE wasn’t.

This is a terminally online way of thinking. Contrary to what angry people ranting at webcams on YouTube say the general public does not hate movie critics.

That doesn't seem fair. DEAD RECKONING opened 11% lower than its predecessor and had the lowest 3-day M:I opening in 17 years. Even if DUNE: PART TWO undershoots all projections here, the worst it could possible do is what, $60M? The odds of that are incredibly low and it would still be a 50% increase.

I don't think streaming day-and-date affected DUNE as much as some believe, at least not in the U.S. - there was still a huge push to see it on the biggest, best screen possible.

Quantumania out here like

They’ve tested this a couple times and I keep hearing positive things, even from people who expected not to like it.

I still don't think it's gonna pull a DARK KNIGHT and make 2.5x its predecessor's gross but a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes with an 8.7/10 average for a big spectacle movie is going to convince a fair few people to give it a chance.

Feeling very wrong now because I hated the first DUNE - I found it so cold that I just couldn't care about anyone or anything that happened in it - and these reactions are great enough that I'm definitely checking out PART TWO. The number of people who were a little more mixed on the first but are over the moon for the sequel makes me very happy.