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  1. I think people just like to go OT because it is the natural order of things. There's no fun talking in a thread for conversation. Maybe people could tag their posts "boxoffice" and the thread can be viewed with only posts with those tags? I'm not sure that is even applicable to any forum, but since there are thread tags, maybe it's possible.
  2. I normally see one trailer for animated movies since I almost always decide to see them. If I am not convinced, I see a second one, which killed me for Dragon 2. edit: I guess I have to thank Olaf for keeping me completely new to Frozen since after seeing that teaser I didn't care to watch it until reviews/box office came out. Then again, this might just be my memory playing tricks on me. I was disappointed when Up had no teaser and I saw the trailer.
  3. Does the Tuesday bump get bigger every year or can we compare years now? It seems like most comparisons, someone will say "no Tuesday bump last time".
  4. Who else thinks that the only way to market animated movies now is what Disney are doing and what Universal have done? Basically, show extended clips/sequences of a humourous moment and not your typical blockbuster trailer editing a la Dragon 2. To be fair, I wasn't excited about the whole Dragon 2 flying teaser either, since that worked a lot better in the film, but maybe if they used the scene where he encounters the masked figure in the clouds? That would have worked helluva lot better. Or they could go the way of the old Pixar films and make small shorts that do not turn up in the movie? It's not really a short either, more of a 1-2minutes segment. Of course Dragon suffers from being on CN all the time so it may not be as effective.
  5. haha we say this like they are still able to change it but it's already done. You make a good point about Peabody. That should have focused on their relationship than the world, Guardians was great how it was though.
  6. Katzenberg was always delusional then. Dragon 2 1B to Pocahontas Oscar winner...same old, same old. But, yeah, when girls are attracted to your movie, you succeed at a greater level in animation.
  7. I understand this point of view if you haven't read the book, but the movies already leave out a lot, when I re-read some of the books I was surprised at how much they had just not included, so to me, I think that some of them, at least, though I enjoy them all, are great movies and adaptations. I know it's "lazy" but with such a huge fanbase, you don't have to care if people miss points. I still think they are great movies and for this franchise more than most, heck, maybe more than all, I literally don't care if people want to call them bad movies or if people have problems with them because to me, it was my childhood, going through all of them and those amazing experiences means I'm glad they were made the way they did. The one I didn't like the most was Phoenix, at the time, which left out so much and was the shortest movie. DH2 also annoyed me but that's because as a finale, it didn't really do Potter justice and that's down to Yates direction and Kloves writing. Iconic moments should have been worked in much better than they did, but I don't think Yates can really direct action anyway, perhaps why HBP and DH1 are so much better than Phoenix and DH2. I guess it depends on how the movie leaves you, the mood you're in before the cut. If a movie has lost your interest, then you're more likely to use it against it, otherwise, I think you'd be hyped up for the next. I almost expect Hollywood blockbusters to end on a sequel? note anyway. I guess a cliffhanger is in the extreme and not many people may be fond of that as, as you said, it doesn't finish a movie so it's not really complete in that sense. DMC is still one of the most fun experiences I've had in the cinema. AWE was a major, boring, inane disappointment.
  8. If Skyfall really doesn't hold up, then none of the Bond movies do. Casino Royale has disintegrated in front of my eyes and don't even bring up awful films like Dr No.
  9. I don't care if there are critics like you though since the Potter fanbase, as is being discussed in this very thread, turned up all the time and made all that money for WB and the majority of the fans like the majority of the movies. And if millions upon millions of people still think the movies are good despite being fan-adhering, then it's completely fine.
  10. Were people that enraged? I loved that DMC cliffhanger. POTC was just on fire back then. The Catching Fire cliffhanger is in the book. Though I didn't like the Potter split at the time, because of how great part one was, I forgave it. Part two wasn't very good though, but that is no fault of the split and more the direction and script. The rest are jokes. No need to split Breaking Dawn or Mockingjay or Hobbit into three or Allegiant, which I think won't ever be big anyway, so it's a dumb move. And then there's Katzenberg the idiot wanting to split HTTYD3 into part 4 too. I think the disappointment might have tempered him though.
  11. Some would argue that it stifles them. You don't see the differences than say in Hercules, Hunchback, Mulan and Tarzan. Not that I want it too stylized, but it doesn't hurt to expand. I suppose most of the animated houses have their own form of human animation that is more distinctive. However, I felt that the police officer in BH6 was a character out of the Incredibles.
  12. I'm not going to spam the thread quoting those Mal gifs from the last page, but wow, the first two have terrible CGI.
  13. Poor woman. Must be some kind of asshole to solicit a hooker and then not pay her later. Good on you, baumer. Though if it happened to me, I think I'd be too suspicious of her motives despite the freebie. What's free after all?
  14. Watched it. So, the animation doesn't look as beautiful as the concept art, I am hoping we see animation as beautiful as that. Excited for this now! Too bad Dreamworks makes 1 good movie every 2 years or something otherwise we could look forward to 2-3 guaranteed good animated flicks a year.
  15. How spoilerish is the trailer? I know I'm going to see the movie anyway, so any help?
  16. Noah, Jack Ryan and Sabotage.
  17. I would love the summer movie results to have been: 1. Dragon 2 2. Edge of Tomorrow 3. Dawn of the Apes 4. Days of Futures Past 5. Godzilla .... 34. Transformers 4 35. Maleficent but that's not gonna happen. Let's just be happy we get movies we enjoy still. I don't know how long that will last before we start seeing reboots of Snow White set in China...OH WAIT. Disney tried to make that movie with monks standing in for dwarfs. Thank God that didn't happen. edit: Why isn't there a facepalm smiley?
  18. I think they shouldn't be related because we don't know it for a long while right? And it's weird when you make a judgment they are romantic interests because that's what the acting and script lead you to believe, and then they are siblings. Ew.
  19. I don't think Marvel films really count in this argument. Sure they are semi-sequels, but are they really? Most of them are only connected by a post-credits scene and mostly the narrative of "connectedness" takes a backseat to the hero's current problem. It's not really integral to the story. In other words, these films do not depend on the successes or failures of the other films. The only boost we truly had was the fangasm Avengers, but that sold itself more on the fact it was the first time you threw the kitchen sink into a movie, and Iron Man 3's then boost. It didn't extend to Thor: TDW and CA: TWS stronger legs got it to its total. No WTF $174m OW there. Still no idea how that happened. Perhaps that was what a true 3D boost was. Most films that add 3D do not see it in the gross. For example, I'd predict Dawn to make that $70m OW without knowing it had 3D, now that it does, it simply means less admissions and therefore in real terms, it would have disappointed. I think the only other true example of a movie being boosted by 3D is Alice in Wonderland. Yup. The finale in particular is weak sauce but the first time he gets to go to Hogwarts/finds out he's a wizard/Diagon Alley etc all those scenes have that intangible movie magic feeling that only the first two really have. I mean, I like all the other films better I think, but the lighthearted wonder that pervaded the first film and some of the second sustains them.
  20. Eh, no they're not. The one on the left is a cute girl that doesn't know she is, and the one on the right looks like she's 8.
  21. Yeah, lol, get Mockingjay Part 2 outta there! Mmm...on second thought, Kung Fu Panda 3? No, no, Brad Bird's Mission Impossible 5! Personally, I think it's the next iteration of Bond, I mean we've had like over 20 damn movies already. Or the Good Dinosaur. Someone needs to tell Pixar they lost their spark. Yeah, that must be it. The Good Dinosaur doesn't fit in.
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