Frankie

Blasphemy!!!!!!

According to this article it only cost about $3 million to converthttp://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-box-office-monsters-inc-3d-guilt-trip-20121218,0,3936984.story

It's very cheap to convert computer animated films to 3D. Supposedly It only cost them about $3 million to convert Monsters Inc to 3D so I imagine we will continue to see these conversions. They'll just be more selective about which properties to convert. They'll just do the ones that they believe they can get a reasonable audience to show up with little marketing so that the price doesn't become exorbitant.

I watched all three LOTR movies again this weekend after seeing Hobbit and anyone who says the FX in LOTR are better than what's on display in Hobbit seriously need to get their eyes checked.

LOL, awesome image. My brother and I just watched Lebowski again last night. I can never get enough of that flick.

Thanks Baumer, even though this is a first post I've lurked on these boards and the olds ones at BOM for about 10 years now. I just rarely contribute anything because most of you pros at prediction already do a much better job than I ever could. I probably only posted 3 or 4 times in the whole time I followed along at BOM. I just wanted to lend some perspective in this case from my own personal experience because it seemed to be a viewpoint not expressed in all of the discussion going on so far.

I do think there is a bit of deflation for the film due to the shooting, but I also know that in at least some cases there just wasn't as much demand to see TDKR during opening weekend. As an example, my close group of friends(six people including myself) have never planned to see this film on opening weekend and we're all comic geeks, most of us for over 30 years, that usually see the major Marvel and DC heroes on opening day. The trailers for the film just never showed us anything that gave us that urge to go out and contend with the crowds. We're not all a bunch of Nolan/DC haters either. Four of us, myself included, thought TDK was the best superhero movie ever made when we saw it. The other two thought it was the second best. We all loved BB and TDK, but the selection of Bane as a villain, the really lackluster trailers, the early reports from months ago about problems with the sound mix and other contributing factors convinced us to just wait a bit to see TDKR. I know that we can't be the only 6 people in the country that felt this way so I do believe that this film wasn't anticipated quite as much as some people seem to believe and the midnights do lend credit to that. We'll never know exactly what the movie could have made, but I never thought that records were on the table with this film just from the evidence I've seen from my friends.