Weekend Estimates : BVS 52.39M | Zootopia 20M | Wedding 11.13M | God's Not Dead 8.1M | Sun Rth - Bvs 12 or 14.2, Zoo 5.3, MBFGW2 2.8, GND2 2

[CJohn]

Just now, Water Bottle said:

 

I said "better recieved" than BvS, CJohn, not well recieved. 

Also, the Internet complained about Whedon spending HALF OF THE THING having the heroes saving the civilians lol. 

 

The Internet is nonsense. WB and Marvel should have never cared about the complains in MoS. Instead they created an even bigger monster. 

[somebody85]

I said it last night

"The meltdowns are coming.....the meltdowns are coming"

How, just how is anyone spinning an 81% drop from last Friday as a good thing?! It's not normal and it's especially really bad for a big blockbuster. The only movies that usually fall like that are horror movies like Paranomal Activity, Oculus, The Devil Inside, etc. 

And this has major competition tomorrow. Wrestlemania isn't the big deal (although huge too), the season finale of The Walking Dead is.

Edited April 2, 2016 by somebody85

[Walt Disney]

7 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Do you think they got out of TDK or MoS happy? C'mon, all 5 movies are not for kids. This is not the problem. The problem is that people don't like MoS and BvS. It is as simple as that.

 

I know that people left TDK happy. They realized that they had just witnessed an excellent movie that ended the right way. Even TDKR had the happy ending because the last 5 minutes of that movie were the best 5 minutes of that movie....just a brilliant ending.

 

I agree with you about MOS though. I don't think people left that movie happy.

[CJohn]

Just now, somebody85 said:

I said it last night

"The meltdowns are coming.....the meltdowns are coming"

How, just how is anyone spinning an 81% drop from last Friday as a good thing?! It's not normal and it's especially really bad for a big blockbuster. The only movies that usually fall like that are horror movies like Paranomal Activity, Oculus, The Devil Inside, etc. 

And this has major competition tomorrow. Wrestlemania isn't the big deal, The Walking Dead is.

Final Four, Wrestlemania and Walking Dead season finale. All of them combined will give BvS the final blow. 

[The Futurist]

2 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Dude, the movie had shit legs. Not as bad as BvS, but it was definitely not well received at all.

 

Also, the Internet complained about Whedon spending HALF OF THE THING having the heroes saving the civilians lol. 

Heh, no argument against this. You spend 90% of the movie where you have nobody to root for in BvS because they are not fighting a villain. 

 

My problem with BvS is that to create the conflict and justify the vs in BvS, they turned both characters into assholes and/or psychopaths and I didn't like that plus their reasons were meh.

But I am probably in spoiler territory here.

[Ethan Hunt]

3 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Dude, the movie had shit legs. Not as bad as BvS, but it was definitely not well received at all.

. 

2.3x multi seems just fine for a movie that opened to 191M

[grey ghost]

3 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

 

I don't know, you root for Batman in TDK's trilogy.

Same for Supes in MOS.

 

Batman & Superman were both insufferable in BvS to me but that s all very subjective.

 

I think the Nolan s trilogy had something appealing to kids.

Nolan thought about this as there are kids in his movies that react to what Batman does.

 

This BvS movie is so grim, characters have no light in them.

 

 

 

 

I'm a Batman and Superman fan who enjoyed most of BvS but when they fight each other I wanted both of them to die.

 

I was fully on-board before that but that scene brought the worst out of both characters.

[somebody85]

14 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

This over the top grim dark, rainy night bullshit needs to die.

 

I personally liked Neo vs Agent Smith in Matrix Revolutions better then The Batman V Superman fight in the rain. It felt way more epic.

[CJohn]

1 minute ago, Walt Disney said:

 

I agree with you about MOS though. I don't think people left that movie happy.

I would argue that they did. I mean, if I recall correctly the movie has an happy ending? Might be forgetting a scene or two?

 

Even The Futurist puts MoS in the same basket as TDKT in his post. In the point he is trying to make, I understand using MoS. 

[HAL 9000]

25 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Dude, seriously? They scale WAY BACK from the CGI porn destruction of the first movie. It has FAR LESS than MoS.

 

Also, a good portion? It has like 20 minutes at the end against Doomsday. Man of Steel has like 90-100 minutes at the end plus the 20 minutes opener  

 

Eh - both for me felt over the top. I remember people getting up and leaving during the Zod battle when I saw it (Sunday night 9pm session) but i still got a similar vibe from this. Both films have an abundance of action at the end (MOS - World Engine/Krytponians/Zod, BvS - Bat vs Supes/Bat vs Luthors goons/everyone vs Doomsday) and its a bit exhausting. But one criticism of the film was that it spends 90 minutes more or less apologising for the ending of Man Of Steel and then ends up semi-replicating it with the Doomsday fight. They just go out of the way to drop in lines like "Fortunately its night and everyone has gone home!".

[CJohn]

2 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

2.3x multi seems just fine for a movie that opened to 191M

It is ok at best. Anything below 2.5 is not good. 

[Nova]

6 minutes ago, jj99 said:

 

As a life long Real Madrid hater and a Ronaldo Stan (Man Utd Fan) i don't know how to take the result.

I mean at least it was Ronaldo who put the knife through Barca's chest. He slayed the dragon. 

[La Binoche]

I can't wait for Jungle Book in Imax 3D! 

 

 

[WrathOfHan]

2 minutes ago, CJohn said:

I would argue that they did. I mean, if I recall correctly the movie has an happy ending? Might be forgetting a scene or two?

 

Even The Futurist puts MoS in the same basket as TDKT in his post. In the point he is trying to make, I understand using MoS. 

After Zod dies all you have is "He's hot" and "Welcome to the Planet"

[CJohn]

My friends were actually quite disappointed when they didn't wreck two entire cities in the final battle of BvS  But that is mainly because the insane destruction in MoS is a running joke between us when we talk about superhero movies. 

[Walt Disney]

1 minute ago, CJohn said:

I would argue that they did. I mean, if I recall correctly the movie has an happy ending? Might be forgetting a scene or two?

 

Even The Futurist puts MoS in the same basket as TDKT in his post. In the point he is trying to make, I understand using MoS.

 

You were the one that said that they didn't leave TDK or MOS happy. I agreed with you about MOS, but disagreed about TDK. Now, you're changing your answer. Obviously, I disagree about MOS, but you're entitled to your opinion.

 

The majority of people didn't leave BvS happy though. I hope we can at least agree on that.

[La Binoche]

Stole this from the Jungle Book's imdb board. Smash hit incoming! And Scarlett Johansson has yet to do a bad movie this decade. 

 

Germain Lussier ‏of Gizmodo: 
https://twitter.com/GermainLussier/status/716140078880268288
 

The Jungle Book is not only a great, beautiful movie, it's the first live action Disney remake that puts the original film to absolute shame

Slashfilm Editor Peter Sciretta 
https://twitter.com/slashfilm/status/716127000394539008

Jungle Book is better than the Disney animated classic, a dark dangerous fun adventure. Every frame is like a painting, a huge achievement.

BirthMoviesDeath 
https://twitter.com/devincf
 

I spent about half of THE JUNGLE BOOK stunner that they shot the whole thing in Downtown LA. The other half I was just lost in the world. I think JUNGLE BOOK is the first movie since AVATAR that 100% must be experienced on a big screen in 3D.

Uproxx's Mike Ryan 
https://twitter.com/mikeryan/status/716129035391262720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
 

Didn't know we could tweet about THE JUNGLE BOOK. I'm shocked how much I liked it. Idris Elba's Shere Khan: best villain of the year.

[Ethan Hunt]

3 minutes ago, CJohn said:

It is ok at best. Anything below 2.5 is not good. 

Correct me of I'm wrong but isn't The Winter Soldier the only Marvel sequel to have over a 2.5x multi? 

[EmpireCity]

I guess my main point in all of this is get rid of Zack Snyder as the director.  Keep his name off any advertising as a producer.  Replace him with someone competent that knows how to tell a story with characters.  

 

General audiences aren't all that intelligent, but they aren't completely stupid either.  By the end of the week Batman v Superman is going to be cemented as a failure in the mainstream news reporting.  Horrible reviews, record or near record box office drop (saw an article already  putting it in the same company as Gigli) and of course that viral video of Sad Affleck.  

 

If you turn around in September of 2017 when heavy ads start running for Justice League and it looks the same and has the same director attached, people are going to be like "this shit again? no thanks." 

 

If they see the advertising knowing that the director has been changed to someone new and fairly exciting, most will give it another chance.  

Edited April 2, 2016 by nilephelan

[CJohn]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

After Zod dies all you have is "He's hot" and "Welcome to the Planet"

So the satellite scene with the military and the getting the job at the newspaper scene, right?

 

I am starting to agree with Futurist here  BvS is too dark. MoS has a lot of "light" in it. The promise of a better future. The final scenes. Even in the movie itself. When he becomes Superman it is pretty cool. People want to cheer for the dude.