The Meg | Aug 10 2018 | WB-China co-production | IMAX 3D | Jon Turteltaub directing. Jason Statham fights a shark. Li Bingbing replaces Fan Bingbing.

[TombRaider]

dwayne had a couple flops (and their box office gross never went as low as 90% of jason's career)

 

The meg would have done better with him or vin diesel

Edited August 19, 2018 by TombRaider

[JB33]

Who cares?

 

Jesus.....

[Joel M]

Just let @TombRaider argue with himself for 3 more pages.

[TombRaider]

13 minutes ago, Joel M said:

Just let @TombRaider argue with himself for 3 more pages.

i dont give a fuck about this movie or jason statshatsm, just pointing out he has no box office pull, bye.

[Barnack]

That a bit of 2 conversation, does Wonder Woman open at 100m and do so well with anyone cast as the lead, safe to say that it is not the case, nailing it was a big part of the movie success, saying that is not saying that Gadot had a box office pull (she was mostly not even known at all).

 

Has for the movie doing better with Johnson or Diesel 2 of the biggest world stars is not a stretch:

 

Sure the movie could have made more with someone else in some market, that was not that, the starting point was someone saying the movie do almost exactly the same or more regardless of who play the lead (I will imagine among the usual suspect a la Butler).

[TombRaider]

wonderwoman was centered on her, the meg is centered on a big shark tbh.

 

 

the fact that they put all those names as equal shows he's not a movie star, lol.

 

 

[DMan7]

NOW this is a shark movie I can totally get behind!

 

 

[holcs]

Wow.  That was a shitload better than I thought it would be.  I thought it'd just be a fun/cheezeball throwaway shark movie, but it was so much better.  It's a legit good movie Imo.   Had some great sequences, good buildup, straight forward story but the stakes were always there and was always interested in what was going on.  CGI and underwater stuff was pretty dope. Statham does statham well, cast overall did good enough.   Overall, just really pleased this was on another level than what I expected. Wondering what @baumer thought of this? 

Edited August 20, 2018 by holcs

[baumer]

@holcs I enjoyed it the same way that you did. So you review is pretty much bang on with how I felt.

[shayhiri]

Worst movie ever and a terrible disappointment!

 

Even worse than Skyscraper, by far. Chinese-Hollywood movies are off to a terrible start. Makes the Shay regret he ever wanted more Chinese movies...

(If it's not period/kung-fu - burn it!!)

Edited August 24, 2018 by shayhiri

[shayhiri]

Also: 130m budget?? Fucking LOL - I thought the whole point of Chinese is that they are cheap??

 

It honestly looks like 30mil TOPS!! Even 20m! Ugly, stupid, boring mess...

 

PS: But of course stupid people are always there, lining up to see such dregs...

[AndyK]

Have to agree, saw it tonight and it was full of really really bad acting.

 

I mean the action was OK, but it so funny bad in bad bad bad sort of bad way.

 

Why did people just keep falling in the water in every scene ?

 

Just all round bad.

 

The only positive I took away is that Bingbing Li is a babe.

 

Edited August 23, 2018 by AndyK

[KeepItU25071906]

7 minutes ago, AndyK said:

 it was full of really really bad acting.

 

 

mmmm, nope. And the little British (or Australian, or New Zeland I can't catch the difference between accents, sorry)-Asian girl was amazing. 

Edited August 23, 2018 by KeepItU25071906

[AndyK]

2 minutes ago, KeepItU25071906 said:

mmmm, nope. And the little British-Asian girl was amazing. 

Yeah, she was adorable.

[KeepItU25071906]

11 minutes ago, AndyK said:

Why did people just keep falling in the water in every scene ?

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Cliche. This movie is full of primitive cliche.

 

But. It was the honest film: fun, dumb (but in a good way) and Statham is more fitting for this big giant monster flick than, for example, Chris Pratt.

 

p.s. This needs R and lesser budget.

 

Edited August 23, 2018 by KeepItU25071906

[shayhiri]

2 hours ago, KeepItU25071906 said:

p.s. This needs R and lesser budget.

 

Nope, it needs Spielberg. Only he can make this type of movies worth making.

[dxmatrixdt]

doubt this will get a sequel though just like W.B.'s The Legend of Tarzan

Edited August 24, 2018 by dX airdry zid

[The Futurist]

Beware of Spoilers.

VFX breakdown courtesy of Intel AI ( ???) and Scanline VFX :

 

 

 

[Viktor Vilotijevic]

It will be interesting to see how far will this one go. I suppose around 350 million overseas and around 130 million $ in the States is guaranteed.

[AndyK]

You know, it was so cliched, in every scene I was expecting them to break the 4th wall, it would have been so much better if they had.