AniNate Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Please stop with the 'half glass empty' attitude. :)With Alvin bombing, Tintin is the only film for kids this Christmas.It's not "bombing" per se, since the budget's only $75 million. But the franchise is obviously on its last legs here.I'll retain hope that Tintin is the reason it dropped so much, but I'm not optimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Alvin only has an 80M budget so with OS grosses it won't be a bomb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 (edited) So, can we officially say family movies are doomed DOM? Every time a family movie does badly I can't help but smile. Edited December 17, 2011 by Magic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druv10 Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 No it isn't. Parents have refused to take their kids to the Chipmunks crap. They will take them to Spielberg-directed and critically acclaimed Tintin instead. We can only hope but I don't see this down turn changing around for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 What is funny is that both these movies are doing worse than their predecessors despite not having to deal with Avatar like those films did! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTF Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Every time a family movie does badly I can't help but smile.How come? There are deserving, quality "family" movies out there (see Hugo and Muppets). I enjoy when crap like Alvin3 does poorly, but there's no joy in seeing quality movies underperform. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 What is funny is that both these movies are doing worse than their predecessors despite not having to deal with Avatar like those films did! That's probably because Avatar sellouts meant people saw other movies instead. It didn't hinder them, it helped them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 How come? There are deserving, quality "family" movies out there (see Hugo and Muppets). I enjoy when crap like Alvin3 does poorly, but there's no joy in seeing quality movies underperform.Hugo and Muppets have no appeal to me so it doesn't worry me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Hopefully this will mean the end of the Chipmunks franchise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Alvin only has an 80M budget so with OS grosses it won't be a bomb.OS, things aren't looking that great either. PIB is the first choice for kids in most places during holidays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTF Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Hugo and Muppets have no appeal to me so it doesn't worry me.That doesn't really answer my question but ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Hopefully this will mean the end of the Chipmunks franchise.We just have a fucking Smurfs sequel to wait for instead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Hugo and Muppets have no appeal to me so it doesn't worry me.Whether they appeal to you or not, they're still good movies and it still sucks when something like Chipmunks, even though by the franchise standards is disappointing, will still make more than either of them. At least there's actual vision and effort behind those other two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 (edited) That doesn't really answer my question but ok.It's because I'm the family movie Grinch. (well mostly) Edited December 17, 2011 by Magic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Whether they appeal to you or not, they're still good movies and it still sucks when something like Chipmunks, even though by the franchise standards is disappointing, will still make more than either of them. At least there's actual vision and effort behind those other two. True. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Man those that had December OW record were wrong. Bad #s overall. Not surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyky Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Obviously i suck at this prediction thing. I expected SH2 to do over 65M, even though i loathed the first one. :DStill hoping TGWTDT manages some respectable numbers. Quality movies seem to do good at this time of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrestomanci Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 (edited) What is funny is that both these movies are doing worse than their predecessors despite not having to deal with Avatar like those films did! That's probably because Avatar sellouts meant people saw other movies instead. It didn't hinder them, it helped them.I think that's at least part of it. Another part of it is that those two movies' OWs included Christmas Day, as opposed to an ordinary working Friday. And then there's the fact that the box office climate was generally better in 2009 overall. Still, it can't be denied that the numbers for both are disappointing. Edited December 17, 2011 by Chrestomanci Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 You raised my hopes MI4, you sure as hell better not dash them next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 We just have a fucking Smurfs sequel to wait for instead...No doubt it will be another crapfest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
