I can't keep my expectation low for this, everything I have heard leads me to believe it's going to be my favourite movie of the year. I need to bring my expectation down a notch so it might help if some of you start mentioning what NOT to like about it. Lol
It's based on a true event so I really don't get how can people get depressed over the obvious outcome. People should have got depressed over some dumb or stupid ending like the ending of Signs for example...
^^ So it seems like Ant Man is going to do a typical SH film number (~$10mil)... Are there any up coming Hollywood films with a chance of breaking out?
I get what you're saying but to me the a movie's payoff is far more important than the set up. I won't give a perfect score to a movie with bad first or second act but a great ending or climatic act probably adds an extra point or two.
When movies in a certain genre need to be great critically with great WOM to break out I consider that genre 'not easy' to sell. I'd day the same for spy movies. That and the fact that I personally don't like this kind of movies so they're a hard sell from my perspective. I thought the town was good only for a single watch and couldn't even finish The Departed for example...
But it's hard for the studio to foresee the negative feedback since the depressing ending didn't hurt AS. I didn't think the WOM wasn't gonna be good when I saw it since people who went with me all loved it. But hey I thought San Andreas was gonna have bad WOM because it's shit but I was wrong then too.
With the budget less than 60mil it's hardly a bomb, it deserves to make way more though. The limited release last week certainly didn't help but jokes on people who decided not to see it than the studio if you ask me.
lol... I've enjoyed tons of movies that made way more money than Gravity so $$$ got nothing to do with it, I enjoyed it on the big screen because it looked quite great visually but watching it once is enough for me.
Well, let's just say Jake is known but not a draw.
Doesn't change the fact that Everest is a great movie and people who decide to skip it because there's no A-list star are the ones who're missing out.
Crimson Peak doesn't look boring to me. Besides, at least most period movies even the boring ones are beautiful to look at, boring contemporary movies don't have that to soften their shortcomings.
It's all about finding the target audience, typical movie fans aren't that interested in the bleakly gloomy realistic outcome in a movie. I thought The Perfect Guy trailer looked no better than b grade straight to DVD thriller and yet it managed to break out just fine.
They can't see both? It's always baffled me when people using that excuse to skip a movie. I'm seeing the Martian on the opening day but that doesn't stop me from seeing any other movies.
Dah... I have no expectation for Everest but I'm as disappointed as CJohn because I think the movie deserves better. So people would only watch a disaster movie that make them 'feel good' with Hollywood ending hah? Those people deserve San Andreas, and they can kiss my lovely arse.