Official Weekend Estimates |MI5 - 56M; Vacation - 14.9M; Ant-Man - 12.6M; Minions - 12.2M; Pixels - 10.4M; Trainwreck - 9.7M| Pg58

[TServo2049]

The son was the worst. It pissed me off so much he returned alive at the end.

Your opinion is in line with anyone else I've heard complaining about Cruise's kids in that movie. I've never heard anybody single out Dakota as the worse of the two before, I always thought the prevailing opinion was that Dakota was fine and the son was awful.

That is one of the most out-of-left-field character resurrections I can think of. Jaws: The Revenge is the only non-kids/animated movie I can remotely compare it to (and even that wasn't actually in the American theatrical cut).

Edited August 3, 2015 by TServo2049

[Ozymandias]

Your opinion is in line with anyone else I've heard complaining about Cruise's kids in that movie. I've never heard anybody single out Dakota as the worse of the two before, I always thought the prevailing opinion was that Dakota was fine and the son was awful.

 

Edited August 3, 2015 by Ozymandias

[terrestrial]

Serious question here:  If AM opened with 57m and has a projected domestic total 150-175, why would MI5, which is estimated to open with 1m less, have a projected total upwards of 200m?

 

 

About 62% of the audience was male, and 81% was 25 or older.

 

The older audience tends to not go at OW to a higher percentage than the younger audience. The older... a few other behaviour details combined with good reviews tends to spread the results a bit more than with movies aimed at families too

 

Not sure about the 'upwards' of...

Edited August 3, 2015 by terrestrial

[CoolioD1]

Just walked in to say that I think War of the Worlds is pretty incredible. it's like top 5 spielberg for me.

[The Dark Alfred]

Glad to see some love for WotW. So many good sequences and nice metaphors from Spielberg. We follow Cruise and the daughter all way through, so it's no bother to me that the brother was alive. He just played an annoying teen quite realistic if you ask me. Spielberg said that he wanted a happy ending for the family to be different from Clouse Encounters. I love how the military involvement is minimal and we don't know what the hell is going on elsewhere. Again, realistic. No international togetherness or Presidential heroics.

[Chewy]

I love WotW. One of those movies that gets better with every viewing

[Ethan Hunt]

I guess I should probably watch WotW being as big of a Cruise fan as I am

[The Dark Alfred]

You kidding? His best blockbuster film along with Minority Report. Must see.

[Chewy]

Ethan is gonna report back that he wasn't fond of the movie but the kid from Shameless was his favorite character

[eddyxx]

I guess I should probably watch WotW being as big of a Cruise fan as I am

 

You've never seen WAR OF THE WORLDS?

 

[The Futurist]

The sound design of War of the Worlds was so good.

[Ethan Hunt]

You kidding? His best blockbuster film along with Minority Report. Must see.

I prefer Ghost Protocol to Minority Report for sure. Maybe M:I 3 + 5 as well

[ACSlater]

Never liked WOTW that much...Now Minority Report is still as good as ever even if it ends a bit too much like Total Recall...

[MrPink]

Ethan is gonna report back that he wasn't fond of the movie but the kid from Shameless was his favorite character

 

I can't get over how disproportionate his head seems to his body.

 

Also, the fact that he was Goku

Edited August 3, 2015 by MrPink

[Mojoguy]

Never liked WOTW that much...Now Minority Report is still as good as ever even if it ends a bit too much like Total Recall...

How are their endings any way similar?

[ACSlater]

How are their endings any way similar?

 

Basically if the ending is real or fake...

 

After TC is placed in the statis like thing, there's a comment that visions, dreams and other stuff may come to him while in the stasis...so the fact that it all ends happily ever after is kind of up in the air in my view...not to mention how his ex-wife magically goes through all that to rescue him...seems almost like TC is dreaming of how it should play out...

[Deep Wang]

I guess I should probably watch WotW being as big of a Cruise fan as I am

 

Ugh.  

 

I'm curious how many of his you've actually seen now.

[Mojoguy]

Imagine how horrible Minority Report would have been if the son had randomly showed up alive at the end.

[Deep Wang]

Imagine how horrible Minority Report would have been if the son had randomly showed up alive at the end.

 

Uh, there are plenty of people that hate the happy ending of Minority Report. 

 

My best friend swears it should have ended with Anderton being locked up.  That's a bit too much for my taste.

[MrPink]

I could have done without the epilogue, but I was OK with the villain being caught. Should have left it mostly at that for Minority Report

 

Ethan strikes me as the guy who hasn't watched Top Gun but randomly watched Lion for Lambs just because he saw Andrew Garfield was in it along with the Cruise Missile.

Edited August 3, 2015 by MrPink