Weekend Estimates: TLR - 13.5M; Furious 7 - 60.5M; Home - 19M [F7 - 63M OD in China!]

[Empire]

People never listen when mods tell them to knock it off. It's ridiculous.

[grim22]

[Hatebox]

eh. it doesn't even look like a contender for top 50 worst weekend threads to me. pretty standard franchise wars and "aint what they used to be" stuff.

 

I do sincerely wonder whether I'm just getting older when I go on those rants.

 

I'm 30 - am I still meant to be excited by all these kind of films? Perhaps not.

Edited April 12, 2015 by Hatebox

[Dementeleus]

Not really the point. Just because people are butthurt it doesn't mean his opinions are wrong. For example, I have one of the most distinct and unpopular tastes in movies around. So what? I should shut up just because people don't agree with me?

 

No one's opinions are "wrong", practically by definition. We all have our own opinions about things. However, it's quite possible to express those opinions without going after someone else.

 

Moderation directed towards everyone:

 

In terms of thread disruption, you guys have all been here awhile. You know we allow a little leeway initially... but you can't just come into a derailed discussion later and pile on top of things. Please, take a moment just to use common sense, and take another moment before posting to consider whether you're posting angrily or not.

[theultimatebiu]

Hot mess you guys created here. Fucking congrats. 

[K1stpierre]

All comments about this recent argument of opinion ps is being moved into the CC Thread. Any more talk of it, please go there. I really don't want to keep having to move comments around since it's a pain. Thank you.

Let's get back on track please.

[PDC1987]

[Chewy]

My franchise is better than your franchise, okay

[theultimatebiu]

FAST AND FURIOUS 7 MAKES $800M WW. DISCUSS!

[Chaz]

So anyway does cindylou have what it takes to cross $200? I'm betting it peters out at 195.

Edited April 12, 2015 by Chaz

[Avatree]

You said "I despise the current trends of blockbusters." How is that not talking about tentpoles?

Blockbusters as in films that become blockbusters. That can be a 300M budget film or a 30M.

[Cmasterclay]

So does Fast Seven look likely to beat Potter worldwide and become the number four film ever? I'm not great with international numbers. Seems like an additional 541 million wouldn't be TOO hard if it does 100 more domestic (at least). 

Edited April 12, 2015 by cmasterclay

[theultimatebiu]

So does Fast Seven look likely to beat Potter worldwide and become the number four film ever? I'm not great with international numbers. Seems like an additional 541 million wouldn't be TOO hard if it does 100 more domestic (at least). 

 

I doubt it. I think it will cross $1.1bn just. But I am terrible at reading OS numbers.

[Neo]

So does Fast Seven look likely to beat Potter worldwide and become the number four film ever? I'm not great with international numbers. Seems like an additional 541 million wouldn't be TOO hard if it does 100 more domestic (at least). 

150M more from China+100M DOM means around 300M.

[Dementeleus]

Moderation:

 

Guys, I've asked you to move on. Kelli has asked you to move on. If you have any comments you wish to make to the admins, PM me and/or Water Bottle. We're going to remove any post that continues the general argument. 

[Impact]

Now everyone-play nice.

[Cmasterclay]

150M more from China+100M DOM means around 300M.

What about other territories? I just think the idea of a Fast and Furious movie being top five all-time is amazingly awesome.

[Chewy]

So does Fast Seven look likely to beat Potter worldwide and become the number four film ever? I'm not great with international numbers. Seems like an additional 541 million wouldn't be TOO hard if it does 100 more domestic (at least). 

 

I think 1.2B-ish is where it's headed, but who knows at this point. Competition is non-existent so it might hold much better than that

[Dementeleus]

It's pretty ridiculous no matter how you look at it. Admittedly I tend to be conservative with my predictions, but it's gonna blow past my domestic guess in the next few days, and by next week it'll eclipse what I thought it would do WW.

[Blankments]

Want to apologize for bringing up what I said about Futurist earlier which seems to have been deleted. Those who didn't see it I won't repeat it, but I brought up something he apologized for two years ago and it was poor form of me to bring it up when he's shown remorse for it since then. It won't happen again, but again, I'm sorry.