It's such a played concept, been done by so many TV shows and movies. Add that the jokes sound flat, IMO it looks terrible and the fact that they aren't giving it to critics ahead of time is major red flag.
GOT isn't screening for critics either .
(side note: The House looks like one of the worst comedies I've ever seen from a big studio. Bland and uninteresting.
DM3 will easily be top ten all time theater count, of all the movies in that club only one missed $300m and that was Shrek 4 which adjusts to $265m. I just don't see it happening.
Agreed, I'm not a huge fan myself but the numbers have been strong in the previous two and the spin off. Maybe a small decline but the schedule is clear for them with Cars and Transformers doing so crappy. Spidey will have some impact but the former doing so poorly will probably balance that out.
I think there is sometimes this misconception that people will just decide to go the movies anyways and shift their business to stronger performers because a specific tentpole sucks (in this case TF5). It doesn't always work like that, this weekend could be pretty ugly as far as holds go especially given the tough comps from last weekend.
I think the issue with RT is the same thing that makes it great to me personally. I personally am OK with a ranking system that's basically a compilation of "hot or not." If you want to check out the level of quality it's not a great choice and Metacritic is much better.
How lazy are we getting where it's difficult to find your favorite critics opinion? I get the point behind aggregating your own RT score but it's not going to change the issues people have with the "good or not" choice.
Agreed, it's holding well but let's not kid ourselves it's in the $20m range now (and that's not even for next weekend which will obviously be lower). It's a bit too late to be putting in back in IMAX.