Ready Player One | March 29, 2018 | Spielberg directing | No untagged spoilers allowed

[MrGamer]

The Berg's on the hunt.

 

 

[marveldcfox]

It doesn't matter how positively it is received, it's destined to bomb just like BFG.

[KeepItU25071906]

4 minutes ago, marveldcfox said:

It doesn't matter how positively it is received, it's destined to bomb just like BFG.

even 38 mln it's already much better than BFG. You're wrong.

[CoolioD1]

ready failure one? is that something? ready player bomb maybe? idk i need to decide before i spam it in the weekend thread.

[Lucas]

The Spielburgers thing is the most bizarre thing, fucking look at all the Carl's Jr tweets, they tried to feed the man a burger on camera.

[Jonwo]

It’s now at 85%, should be certified fresh shortly.

 

I think it’s probably going to do over $45m for the four days. 

[CoolioD1]

1 minute ago, Lucas said:

The Spielburgers thing is the most bizarre thing, fucking look at all the Carl's Jr tweets, they tried to feed the man a burger on camera.

trying to decide if this is a more or less pathetic marketing campaign than wendy's mixtape. fast food social media marketing is such a hellscape.

[YLF]

19 minutes ago, MrGamer said:

The Berg's on the hunt.

 

 

LMAO his hallway is bigger than my apartment

[Curtis1986]

 I am so happy this is getting really good reviews. Steven Spielberg can do no wrong.

[YLF]

This movie was never going to break out...though. It had a chance to have decent legs when rampage was opening three weeks after its opening and Avengers was in May, but now that it doesn't have that much wiggle room... will word of mouth help that much? it has some steep competition. I think it has a decent shot at being popular in China and Asia in general though, so maybe that will save it?

[Porthos]

Hmmm...

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It's good to see Spielberg, at 71, still finding new forms of cinematic language with which to express his humanism.

March 27, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 |

Mick LaSalle, SF Chronicle.

 

Rogue One aside, LaSalle's tastes usually align with my own when it comes to SF/F.  For him to give his stamp of approval is... interesting.

 

(Still only one rotten on Top Critics, BTW)

Edited March 27, 2018 by Porthos

[Lucas]

It didn't impress Alonso Duralde so there's another negative, it might push the MetaScore down too.

[marveldcfox]

21 minutes ago, KeepItU25071906 said:

even 38 mln it's already much better than BFG. You're wrong.

It has a bigger budget than bfg so it's opening will be relatively same compared to budget. Bomba.

[Porthos]

3 minutes ago, Lucas said:

It didn't impress Alonso Duralde so there's another negative, it might push the MetaScore down too.

So I see.  Must not have fully propagated into the ecosystem yet.

 

Still, I think mid to high 70s sounds about right.  Though starting to think it might pip over the 80 marker.  

 

Say 81/7.2 out of 10?  Not sure many folks here would have predicted that a couple of months ago.

[grim22]

1 minute ago, Porthos said:

So I see.  Must not have fully propagated into the ecosystem yet.

 

Still, I think mid to high 70s sounds about right.  Though starting to think it might pip over the 80 marker.  

 

Say 81/7.2 out of 10?  Not sure many folks here would have predicted that a couple of months ago.

This Spielberg kid is probably going places. 

[a2k]

Is this having previews on Wed? How reasonable does this look % wise?

 

2.5 previews

8.5 true Thursday // 11 OD

10 (+18%)

13 (+30%)

9 (-31%)

= 43 4-DAY / 32 OW

[Curtis1986]

I remember when a lot of people thought this would turn out to be awful. I mean come on is Spielberg paying homage to a bunch of movies that he either directed, produced, or influenced. It was no way he was going to mess this up. Plus the guy only directed what 4 critically-panned films in his whole film career. This movie was either going to turn out good or great or maybe somewhere in between

[Barnack]

6 minutes ago, marveldcfox said:

It has a bigger budget than bfg so it's opening will be relatively same compared to budget. Bomba.

Not similar to BFG level.

 

BFG did 18.77 3 days, 22.7 4 days on a rumored 140m budget, RPO budget of 180m is just 28.5% higher, a comparable opening would be around a 24.1m 3 days / 29.18m 4 days for RPO (note that those gross estimate can be dangerous because some releasing and other cost do not raise 1:1 with a production budget, a movie with twice the production budget is not necessarily and not usually twice as expensive).

 

The BFG 30/70 dbo/intl will hard to beat too, no gain will be made in that sense I suspect (except for who know's China phenomenom, but it would be surprising, lot of old school american's pop culture here), same for the 3.0x legs, RPO need that much better than BFG domestic opening.

 

[WittyUsername]

6 minutes ago, a2knet said:

Is this having previews on Wed? How reasonable does this look % wise?

 

2.5 previews

8.5 true Thursday // 11 OD

10 (+18%)

13 (+30%)

9 (-31%)

= 43 4-DAY / 32 OW

Making less on OW than AWiT would be terrible. 

[HockeyPads]

1 hour ago, tonytr87 said:

 

War of the Worlds is so underrated.

Agreed. I feel kind of vindicated in the fact that War of the Worlds has a higher metacritic score than Jurassic Park.