Jessie

exactly this. it's looking at a 20% drop on OW compare that to Hobbit 2 which saw a 14% OW drop despite an improvement in quality and it doesn't seem out of the ordinary. Both were spin offs from an older beloved franchise and both lack the curiosity factor of this first movie

I'm not a Depp fan but I'll defend him. I'm a fan of justice. I don't believe he's box office Poisen but I believe he makes poisonous box office decisions. He's a bit like Ryan Reynolds and I always disagreed that he was box office Poisen. Just like any actor, if you put them in a film people want to see and it's actually good, it will do well

you're assuming a few online posters disagreeing with his casting is partly a reason, you are wrong. I'd say less than 1% of general public avoided this film because of Johnny Depp. most people don't even know about his controversial relationship with Heard and those that do tend to agree he's most likely innocent. this movie was destined to drop, the poor reviews and lack of hype just made it a given. replace Johnny Depp with anyone else and you still get the same result it's seeing a similar drop to hobbit 2 and Hobbit 2 was actually well received. it was always going to drop

exactly. take Depp out and the numbers wouldn't change

the CGI in Alita looked like an animation. I'd hope it was another level

honestly the GA really couldn't care about Depp. blaming him for a drop after poor reviews and far less hype is just counter productive.

Maybe. as I said I just stumbled across them comments and was surprised so relayed it. every other comment from now on may infact be positive but it all seem to come from people who were fans of the original version of it. I guess the British can be stubborn when it comes to America remaking their shows, look at the office

why are you disregarding it? is it because you don't want to believe that people who have actually seen it wasn't so fond of it? I'm sure people liked it too, I was just relaying the info I saw, I didn't expect all this denial. I tend to look on Facebook comments for all movies and they tend to fall in line with the performance of the movie, for example Infinity War had nothing but positive reaction, Venom was mostly filled with people saying it was fun and now this. the fact they all complained about the same thing made it seem more valid to me but if you guys want to ignore it then go for it

why isn't there? I was reading through about 100 comments and I'd say 90% were negative. these are from your average day to day posters and not people involved in the movie industry. that's a pretty big sample, I don't think I'd have it in me to read more opinions

So UK WOM isn't as important? despite both countries having very similar taste (UK obviously having slightly better taste 😜)

no film can be overrated critically and commercially. You're just out of touch with everyone else thats all

I have this in 3d and watched it a few months back. even to this day no movie has matched the visuals of this film, nor the use of 3d. it's still entertaining as hell and actually feels like an event when watching it, it deserves to be crowned the highest grossing movie of all time

WOM is the most powerful form of advertising, it turns movies like Avatar into giants, or lower budget drama into leggy hits. Its literally one of the first things you learn in film/media studies. Not that it's not glaringly obvious anyway.

Well WOM is the most powerful form of advertising so I'd say quite a few would care

I just saw an add on Facebook and looked at the comments. Was a lot of negativity

this is getting terrible WOM on social media, apparently it's too slow and doesn't compare to the original TV series. I didn't realise it had been release nor based on existing material

that's going straight in my basket

this doesn't look like it will do well

Infinity War is the only 1 out of the 3 people still talk about. Black Panther was really good, but the more I see it and worse it gets and I find most people now just view it as a pretty good CBM which in hindsight was pretty overrated. Incredibles 2 I hear no-one talk about, then again I don't hang around with 10 year olds much

but it already had good WOM so there's not much more they could have done.

your family members are smart people

spiderverse is definitely doing poorly. There's not many out there that care about an old fashioned cartoon of Spider-Man

yet King Kong was a much better movie than Skull Island. matter of fact King Kong was head and shoulders above every other blockbuster in 2005

Adam Devine is hilarious. needs to be in more comedies

lol why do people think Avatar is forgotten? is it because it doesn't have sequel and spinoffs being released every year to keep it relevant? without doubt Avatar is the most beloved blockbuster of the last 10 years, how people refuse to believe this is ridiculous.