The Stingray Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Maybe the fight had a bigger impact than we thought? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I've been confident about Star Wars winning the year for a long time. Even if AoU had done 550 (it won't) I still would've been confident about Star Wars winning the year It's the first movie in a new Star Wars trilogy! (Always the biggest ones.) It's been a decade! Return of Han and Luke! Cute rolling droid! Practical effects, which for some reason are a big selling point! Feels like a perfect storm coming on Oh same here. Always thought it would easily win. But now there is no doubt in my mind. It should be able to stomp 450-475m (AoU's likely range). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cochofles Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 So...the Avengers effect/bump worked for every film except for the actual Avengers sequel... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Oh same here. Always thought it would easily win. But now there is no doubt in my mind. It should be able to stomp 450-475m (AoU's likely range). And then, like clockwork, people will overpredict Episode 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lab276 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Practical effects, which for some reason are a big selling point! Why shouldn't they be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Sorry but having a lower Saturday than Im3 is disappointing plain and simple 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 (edited) This opening is only disappointing to those who took it way too far and never remotely considered the most logical argument. That the $200M opening was an anomaly and that the first Avengers had a novelty to it that Age of Ultron never had. Some of us were throwing around Empire Strikes Back and Spider-Man 2 as examples (a la sequel doesn't touch predecessor by sheer virtue of how huge it was) a few months back, to deaf ears. This conclusion was staring you all straight in the face. Some of you just refused to consider it was even remotely possible. And for that, you deserve ridicule. This opening is absolutely fine. Just for the record, disappointing and bad are not synonyms. The OW can be absolutely fine (which it is) and still be disappointing (which it is). Edited May 3, 2015 by MovieMan89 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Why shouldn't they be? Cuz all of the Star Wars movies have used practical effects, and these new ones will use just as much CGI as the prequels The difference is that JJ seems to understand, on some level, restraint. And how to stage a set - that will end up enhanced with CGI - in such a way that actors will be engaged, and not standing there looking at each other Not the tools, but how they're used 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I don't think it's illogical to had expected an opening of 200 M from this before it opened considering the fact that IM III opened to 174 M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmnerdjamie Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Just for the record, disappointing and bad are not synonyms. The OW can be absolutely fine (which it is) and still be disappointing (which it is). I refuse to call an opening looking to be in the $185-$190M range to be disappointing. Sorry, again... unrealistic expectations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 And then, like clockwork, people will overpredict Episode 8 Id like to hope people wouldn't do that given the SW pattern of the first in the trilogy always being the biggest by far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 This opening is only disappointing to those who took it way too far and never remotely considered the most logical argument. That the $200M opening was an anomaly and that the first Avengers had a novelty to it that Age of Ultron never had. Some of us were throwing around Empire Strikes Back and Spider-Man 2 as examples (a la sequel doesn't touch predecessor by sheer virtue of how huge it was) a few months back, to deaf ears. This conclusion was staring you all straight in the face. Some of you just refused to consider it was even remotely possible. And for that, you deserve ridicule. This opening is absolutely fine. SM2 opened bigger than SM1. It came out on a Wednesday, which is the only reason it didn't set a weekend record. It was still ahead of SM1 after 10 days. I don't think very many here expected TA2 to beat TA1's $623m, but it should have been able to beat the weekend total. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 The sat number means it may not open very much higher than IM3. Sorry, that's disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lab276 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I refuse to call an opening looking to be in the $185-$190M range to be disappointing. Sorry, again... unrealistic expectations. Even TDKR increased in dollars. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Stingray Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I don't think SW will win the year easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Sorry but people saying that opening over 200 m is "unrealistic expectations" is ridiculous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lab276 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I don't think SW will win the year easily. Yeah, how's it gonna make 450m+ in two weeks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmnerdjamie Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 SM2 opened bigger than SM1. It came out on a Wednesday, which is the only reason it didn't set a weekend record. It was still ahead of SM1 after 10 days. I don't think very many here expected TA2 to beat TA1's $623m, but it should have been able to beat the weekend total. No, it didn't. Spider-Man had a 3 day opening. Spider-Man 2 had a 5 day. You can say all you want about how it would have topped it had it been a 3 day, but you'll never truly know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 That also means we're looking at an outside chance of 400 not happening given IM3 didn't go much over that and this OW is in that ballpark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmnerdjamie Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 (edited) Sorry but people saying that opening over 200 m is "unrealistic expectations" is ridiculous Like you saying under $500M total was laughable? How is that working out? Edited May 3, 2015 by filmnerdjamie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
