MovieMan89

Best character in the franchise after Goldblum as far as I'm concerned. Would've probably liked the movie a lot less w/o her. I'm also thrilled she finally landed herself in a blockbuster role that paid off. I've liked her since The Village, but minus The Help she's pretty much been in films that got toxic reception and have hurt her chances of becoming a star.

He's the marketing star of it undoubtedly. Yet BDH gets more of a focus in many ways in the film and is the character with the actual arc in the film. I also think she has more screen time than Pratt.

She's arguably more of the lead than Pratt. He just has the draw power, hence got all the marketing attention.

If it does that it could challenge Frozen for the WW animated record.

DM2 wasn't such a juggernaut that it has no room to grow. It wasn't like Shrek 2 for example. There's definitely room for the franchise to keep going and hit the 400 threshold this time. And the Minions have fueled those movie's success. The other characters were just along for the ride while the Minions put actual butts in the seats. Btw, have you even been in a theater full of kids when one of the Minions trailers plays? The reactions are MASSIVE every time I have.

So...DM2 would have either broken or come close to breaking the animated record had it opened on a Friday. If this is already outperforming DM2 in OS markets, it's a good indicator of what might happen DOM. This franchise is massive. People doubted DM2 too and ate a lot of crow there. I wouldn't make that mistake again if I was you. Especially since this is the third movie, and the third movie is when OWs tend to peak for big animated franchises (TS, Shrek, Madagascar).

Don't worry bud, all of us pretty much tanked AoU and JW, and the majority messed up MM, PP2, and now IO as well. Even Spy, Tomorrowland, and SA will be point losers for a big chunk of us. We've basically yet to have a movie that the majority has really nailed this year.

Oh it's breaking the animated OW record. By how much is the question, and just how frontloaded will it be?

Seriously tempted to say this has a shot at finally taking down Shrek 2 DOM. I think the opening is going to be massive.

Toy Story 3 is God WALL-E is the Holy Spirit Cars is Judas Cars 2 is Lucifer

Technically nothing is "locked" for 650m+, but SW is about the biggest, most storied, and culturally permeating movie franchise ever. It would be shocking to me if TFA is well received that it can't beat JW. People are saying nostalgia drove JW, and if that's true then it really makes no sense why TFA wouldn't be a box office record smasher.

Disney doesn't "need" anything this year once TFA hits. They can shut down their theme parks and all other facets of the company and be more than fine.

Look at SA's drop today. I'd be very surprised if JW isn't more in that range with actuals. I think the record is still happening.

I don't really consider TLK as a summer popcorn flick, but one of my all time favs? Definitely.

Me! Always thought it's one of the most overrated blockbusters ever, and I'm eager to see if tomorrow can change my mind at all. It has been at least a decade since I last saw it. Maybe I'll appreciate it more now that I'm older?

Raiders. Star Wars/ESB. That's about it, imo.

I pretty much prefer JP3 to TLW as well, in spite of TLW probably being the better made film. I feel like JP3 is easier to watch though because as you said it just says "to hell with it" and goes way over the top stupid/silly. And it doesn't have a coma inducing first 45 minutes like TLW either. JP is in a league nearly all its own though. Top 3 best popcorn flicks ever for sure. I do have to vehemently disagree with anyone saying JW is anywhere near that level.

TFA pulling an AoU would elicit MAJOR meltdowns though, myself included.

Out of morbid curiosity did you really prefer TLW and/or JP3?

The worst will be Ep 8. After TFA completes its historic every record breaking run (just accept it as your lord and savior now people), people will be very upset when Ep8 inevitably has a big dropoff just like ESB and AotC before it.

Really? I don't think anything about it was "terrible." There were definitely some aspects I felt were very mediocre and average, but never veering near bad status. It's leaps and bounds ahead of the other sequels, if nothing else.

My final OW predict was 147m, and I don't consider myself a JP loonie or anything. Tracking was indicating 140's last I know of. Most people around here just chose to ignore it and say it was way off. Which shocks me, because there had been big neon signs pointing to an OW on F7's level for months. Now obviously I had no idea it could break the record, but predictions should have been in the 140-160 range for it if people were paying attention. For some reason people here just got it stuck in their head that 100-ish was as high as it could go.

Very true, although TA's OW is still more impressive to me. I mean besides it obviously selling more tickets than JW's OW, I had no idea it was at all possible for a movie to hit 200 on OW at the time. It utterly floored everything I had come to expect about BO. It just shattered the OW by such a big amount. And there really was no indicator for it either given the history of MCU OWs prior. Even the JP franchise had a precedent for historic OWs before JW. MCU had impressive starts for IM and IM2, but nothing record breaking or close to it.

Could hit 500 in 18 at this rate, which is the time it took TDK to 400. And we were all blown away by that at the time.

All estimates had no freakin clue what to do with Avatar. Predictions were literally all over the damn place leading up to release, both by experts and box office fans like us. It would have broken the December OW though if not for that massive blizzard on the east coast that weekend.