MovieMan89

Yeah Lawless should be on the radar as a potential sleeper hit. Great cast that should be appealing also.

Paranorman deserves a little credit. It might post the 2nd best OW for a stop motion movie. That's not exactly a hard record to claim, but it still means it sold and appealed about as good as could be asked for with its sub genre.

If TE2 is still sequel frontloaded like it very well could be (especially since the first was OD frontloaded), it will likely see a good drop today. With that it could be looking at as low as $26-27m for the weekend. :(I think this is a likely scenario, but hopefully I'm wrong:Fri: 10.5mSat: 9m (-14%)Sun: 7.2m: (-20%)$26.7m

TR underperformed as a film that needs to make a profit, but anyone who really thinks it underperformed based on what everyone expected it to do all along is into some serious revisionist history. It was never gonna do much better no matter what. JackO was trying to use it as an example to help support some ill conceived idea that the tragedy was still greatly affecting the box office.

Tarantino has done a lot more than just cameos for acting. I wouldn't call him really successful as an actor though.

Definitely impressive, however online retail has been far more prominent since THG came out compared to when Sorcerer's Stone came out. Most people probably bought Potters 1-4 at an actual book store.

Sorry. Guess I need to learn how to ignore it when people ignore the evidence just to constantly try to fuel your flames. But hey nearly 5000 posts to my first true meltdown isn't too bad!

Except it cost $125m and NO ONE expected it to make its budget back in the first place. So no, TR was not an underperformer because it did exactly what most people thought it would.

I said it should open to around $30m. The fact that it came a mere $4m short of that is hardly massively underperfoming expectations.

And I love it when you make silly unrelated comments that only further show your inability to argue coherently. Transcendent.

My low end of the range BEFORE the shooting was $450m. That was my low end. I always had it around the $470m mark total. Go check my summer game prediction. I have it at $458m by Labor Day, meaning I obviously was expecting a finish in the 470m range. So yes, I would've only cut my prediction by about $25-30m if I had known the tragedy would happen. And that lines up perfectly with what it's gonna do. Again, I'm not nor have ever been the one defending a wrong prediction here. Yet you seem to think I make no sense or am not being honest? Sounds to me like you're the one irked about it not doing what you expected and of course you're looking for something to justify that. Enter the overplaying of and hiding behind the tragedy.

Then tell me why Step Up 4, Total Recall, Wimpy Kid 3, Bourne, The Campaign, Hope Springs, Sparkle, Timothy Green, and Paranorman all opened to just what they were expected and projected to?

I would've cut my prediction from about 475m to around 440m if you had told me what was gonna happen would happen. And guess what? 440-450M is exactly where it's headed.

My opinion of TDKR's box office was never low, it was perfectly reasonable. The fact that you think my $450-470m TDKR predictions were low clearly show that you're the one with the unreasonable opinion of its box office run.

I will. I need him around to help me battle the TDKR loonies!

Of course 9/11 affected the box office! My point was some people here are hiding behind the shooting to justify a movie not meeting their expectations when the effect is clearly over. So are they gonna hide behind another tragedy thats effect is over too like 9/11? That's all that was, let's not get into a 9/11 discussion here.

Wow, you really don't get it do you? Everyone knows it had an affect on it at first! But some of you guys are just hiding behind it now that it's clearly long over. And I think that's disgusting. There are several posters on here who agree with me, them and myself have gotten into this with you guys many other times before. So don't act like this is some idea or theory I just came up with myself. I just happen to have a group of you TDKR loonies in full force tonight.

And for the record FTF I've responded to practically every post you loonies have thrown at me. Just because you apparently can't read and come back with an intelligent rebuttal doesn't change that fact.

Well then step the fuck off. Obviously you have nothing intelligent to add here, so goodnight to you sir.

Why? Some of you are using a tragedy that just happened to justify your means. Why not use another too? Obviously there's no limits with some of you when it comes to being wrong.

I see you're still using name calling to hide the fact that you have no leg to stand on in your argument. Nice.

Yep, I'm using rational and logical arguments. Clearly I'm in non-stop meltdown mode over here.

CAN.YOU.READ?! I said I wouldn't be surprised to see some of you start using that tragedy too in some entirely fact less and stupid manner like you're using this one.

How about instead of just insulting me you actually give me some intelligent argument and evidence for why you really think there's still a huge impact on the BO from the tragedy? I'm giving plenty of evidence for why there's not and all you're doing is name calling. Real intelligent.

Except providing FACTS that back me up while you post useless and older than you are internet memes.