Purple Minion Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 I think it suffered because lack of originality. Basically a re-hash of The Land Before Time. The original idea (runaway dinosaur meets feral boy) could have been developed much better, but the total re-write couldn't undo the damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 56 minutes ago, Tower said: Yes, this weekend is its 4th in Japanese release. Thank you. Do we have current numbers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tower Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 1 minute ago, kayumanggi said: Thank you. Do we have current numbers? It finished last weekend with 8.8M total after a 1.2M weekend. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 3 minutes ago, Tower said: It finished last weekend with 8.8M total after a 1.2M weekend. Is that a new low for Pixar there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tower Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 5 minutes ago, kayumanggi said: Is that a new low for Pixar there? Close, but no. It already passed Brave in Yen and A Bugs Life in Dollars, and will eventually pass Brave in dollars as well, but it loses to everything else. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 Just now, Tower said: Close, but no. It already passed Brave in Yen and A Bugs Life in Dollars, and will eventually pass Brave in dollars as well, but it loses to everything else. I see. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quigley Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 I doubt its failure has anything to do with the release date. The counter-examples are numerous and I won't proceed to list them here (I'll mention one: Frozen). I really do think it's something intrinsic to the film itself. First of all, although the animation is beauitful regarding all the nature scenes, all the living creatures are generally unappealing. All the dinosaurs' design is very simplistic, so are the other animals and the humans. There is also little talking going, which is not enough to make it unappealing (after all Wall-E had very little talking for at least an hour), but when you add that to the fact that nothing interesting or unique really happens in the film, it just adds up to very little. The poor marketing is a reflection of the poor stroytelling, since the film was quite uneventful throughout (and full of cliche "dangers" and moments of "surprise"). I wish I had something better to say but there really is nothing that makes this film stand out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinaTakla Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Surprised it got that much fresh ratings from critics To me it was a critics oversight and a bit of PIXAR bias in them This film did not desere a 70+ RT score Can't believe that it will end up making less OS than what ZOO just made in China! But ZOO is 100 x better so it's fair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 You're right, it deserves at least an 80+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolK Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 8 hours ago, Quigley said: I doubt its failure has anything to do with the release date. The counter-examples are numerous and I won't proceed to list them here (I'll mention one: Frozen). I really do think it's something intrinsic to the film itself. First of all, although the animation is beauitful regarding all the nature scenes, all the living creatures are generally unappealing. All the dinosaurs' design is very simplistic, so are the other animals and the humans. There is also little talking going, which is not enough to make it unappealing (after all Wall-E had very little talking for at least an hour), but when you add that to the fact that nothing interesting or unique really happens in the film, it just adds up to very little. The poor marketing is a reflection of the poor stroytelling, since the film was quite uneventful throughout (and full of cliche "dangers" and moments of "surprise"). I wish I had something better to say but there really is nothing that makes this film stand out. This. Can't believe this shit costed more than Inside Out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quigley Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 7 hours ago, CoolK said: This. Can't believe this shit costed more than Inside Out. To some extent that has to do with the troubled production, since the film was essentially designed from scratch a second time. But yeah, it's a total waste of money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 It wasn't a waste to me [emoji17] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 208.6 M overseas | 331.6 M worldwide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted June 14, 2016 Author Share Posted June 14, 2016 208.8 M overseas | 331.9 M worldwide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastclock Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 If it had not had a troubled production and total rebuilt - and had the budget stayed at $175M, I wonder whether this film would not have broken even at $350M WW. The physical video sales according to the-numbers is now at ~$48M - so that is about $32M net. That is a solid #2 in the chart, right underneath the might SW7. Plus additional digital income that is not tracked. So, the ancillaries are not bad. As it is, budget+marketing is probably at $350M, making it unlikely to break even even after the last dollar is counted. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted August 27, 2016 Author Share Posted August 27, 2016 209.1 M overseas | 332.2 M worldwide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quigley Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 What a flop... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omni Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 ...and totally deserved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttr Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Do we know how how much this has made in home-video? For example compared to IO? I'm interested if there is significant correlation between BO and HV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 7 minutes ago, ttr said: Do we know how how much this has made in home-video? For example compared to IO? I'm interested if there is significant correlation between BO and HV. This site has some guesses: http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Good-Dinosaur-The#tab=video-sales No, the video sales aren't exactly great for this movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...