Jurassic World Weekend Thread | Official Est. 204.6M | 208.8M - Actuals

[keysersoze123]

JW is so stupid like AoU.

End of the discussion. Terminator is from 80's.

ps: Can you tell me the lottery numbers?

 

Yes. Still TG will bomb huge. Arnold is a dinosaur and that is not in a good way.

[FTF]

$35m Mon...we're getting crazy now. $25m should be the goal.

[LexJoker]

I cannot process this shit.... This is all too overwhelming.

TA I thought would open to 150-160M. JW I thought max 120M.

[cory]

This might have a 400M 10-day

 

[Dementeleus]

Lol they need some D to then.

Oy.

[keysersoze123]

$35m Mon...we're getting crazy now. $25m should be the goal.

 

TDK dropped 43% because of spillovers. I think JW can manage something close.

[Kalel009Shel]

No sarcasm, can't stress enough the importance of surprise in movies

amen

[seduh]

WOW, I will wait for actuals, if this happens it will have great chances of beating the OW record, something i never thought before, I love JW numbers!

[picores]

I knew Jurassic Park brand was big, after all it set OW record twice. But this opening is just...crazy. 500m+ DOM for Jurassic World. Damn. First Furious 7 and now this.

[The Futurist]

I still adore every minute of the first AVENGERS.

[Noctis]

Lordmandeep's annoying.

[Fancyarcher]

But no other country is so dominated by the superhero genre, that you can agree, can you not?

 

Their success, like most overseas successes, started here. OS caught on because they catch on to anything with a brand.

 

Look at Furious 7. It made bank in America but nowhere to the level Avengers, Iron Man, Batman, Spiderman etc. make.

 

 

Not American. Good to see you bash both SW and Marvel because I am in the same boat. Marvel is more miss than hit and SW had one fantastic movie and steadily dropped and dropped and jumped off a cliff with the prequels, and contrary to revisionist opinion of having to like ROTS (to me it is blasphemous to the original), that was the worst of them all.

 

I bring up China because literally all they see is VFX blockbuster. There's a reason why the quota does not have Oscar films or rom-coms or etc trying to sneak in as often as the VFX blockbuster.

 

Where I stay, it's the same. We are a developing nation mired in corruption and remain stuck in third gear with regards to culture and progressiveness, therefore we embrace the movies that are the most escapist. It's logical and it happens. 

 

I'm not being an elitist, mind you. I like my fair share of blockbusters. What I'd like more is certain types of blockbusters: sci-fi, fantasy etc. and less of franchises that have already peaked like the ever burgeoning SpiderMan, Marvel etc. Even Fast & Furious. I don't particularly like the franchise except Fast Five. That was the highlight and both 6 and 7 just got worse. When I rewatched 7 after liking it the first time, the dialogue was atrocious, the comedy seemed to take an age for the punchline etc.  

 

Okay dude, you've made your point.

 

Superhero movies are all popular around the world, can't we just agree on that?

Edited June 14, 2015 by Insidearcher

[BK007]

We all know why we got those scenes, we didn't need them but we knew we would get them. The internet fans are basically single handedly responsible for those scenes happening.

 

 

Then that's stupid on the part of the writers.

 

If they just did what every other movie used to do besides the gargantuanly stupid Man of Steel they would be fine.

 

No need to make a point to WB/DC/whomever because they don't give a shit and MoS still made hundreds of millions.

[redfirebird2008]

we've been in line for jurassic world for 2 hours already (and we're first in line...holla at ya boy) this movie better be life changing

— gabriel (@shapeshiftur)

June 14, 2015

[CJohn]

After I saw the movie I said I enjoyed the film but wasn't sure if it was actually a GOOD movie. That, much like The Avengers, people will shit on it in a few years when the shine wears off. Alot of people post hate about Avengers but it was untouchable when it came out. The overwhelming majority enjoyed the film upon release and now its said to be 'over rated'.

This is something nobody can accuse me off. I gave Avengers a 7/10 when I saw it for the first time. Never a big fan of it. Avatar is a different story. Beautiful visuals and 3D blinded me. I was never able to finish it a 2nd time at home. It was incredibly boring and generic.

[keysersoze123]

Lordmandeep's annoying.

 

and Sun rises in the east.

[Poseidon]

TDK dropped 43% because of spillovers. I think JW can manage something close.

 

Mid June is not mid july though.

[grim22]

I hope we never get half of a movie having scenes of people getting rescued again. 1 minutes is enough. We get it.

 

Yup, those scenes were basically "Hey, look, we are cool here right? I mean Iron Man directed the fight with Hulk into a conveniently empty and abandoned building. Look over here, we have ensured that we repeated that no one died during the initial ultron fight. Also, just when you think we are overwhelmed by having to save people.... HELICARRIER OUTTA NOWHERE"

 

This guy captures it best: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/05/13/the-avengers-vs-man-of-steel/

 

At a certain point during the critics’ screening of “Avengers: Age of Ultron”—I believe it was when Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) decided that it was more important to grab three people out of a collapsing tenement than focus on the world-ending event only he had the technical know-how to stop—I wrote “Oh, [expletive deleted] the civilians, get on with it” in my notebook.

[Dementeleus]

This is something nobody can accuse me off. I gave Avengers a 7/10 when I saw it for the first time. Never a big fan of it. Avatar is a different story. Beautiful visuals and 3D blinded me. I was never able to finish it a 2nd time at home. It was incredibly boring and generic.

[CJohn]

Universal went from having 0 100M OWs to one 150M OW and the all time OW record over 200M in 2 months. Cool.