Wednesday Box Office - (Asgard pg 17) R1 about 15, Sing 11, Ass 4.5, Pass 4.1, Moana 2.2

[4815162342]

28 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Poor Alicia Vikander. She should bail on Tomb Raider if she still has the chance. Abandon all hope.

 

It has Walton Goggins as the main villain. His performance alone is worth the admission ticket.

[The Futurist]

Can Russian spy/Balerina Jlaw with a russian accent turn the tide for Jlaw next year ?

 

 

[Alli]

JL as a spy? I'm not buying it. another miscast role. i'm already preparing my UNDER 100M club

[Mattrek]

43 minutes ago, jandrew said:

 

Okay, I wasn't aware of that. But still, a big reason, if not the reason, video game movies fail is because they're two different mediums that tell their stories two different ways. Everyone wants a GTA movie, but condensing a GTA storyline into movie form wouldn't do it justice. Same with Call of Duty. Modern Warfare 2 is one of my favorite games ever, and it would make a bomb ass movie - if it was stretched out into maybe 4 films. And I wouldn't want 4 movies of that, I'd rather just play the game.

 

So if you're gonna make an Assassin's Creed movie, or any video game movie, what do you need to do? Simplify the story and make it it's own, rather than try to literally adapt the game for the screen and cram in every single plot point into 2 hours of film, which is what everyone does and why each of these movies fail. Uncharted would've been the same way. I'm not holding my breathe with Tomb Raider until I see otherwise. There's too much focus on making an "epic" rather than just making a good movie.

 

People are gonna go see AC for the 1400's asskicking action anyway, so even if the Source Code nonsense is in the game, you can easily cut it all out and give 110 minutes of Medieval Spanish parkour asskicking. Mold it for the screen and add in some new, more relatable elements to attract a bigger audience. It's not hard.

 

I actually think GTA could work well as a series of movies, the rest I agree with, but then again we kind of already have it with Fast and Furious.

[Ezen Baklattan]

Fun fact: Most Passengers predictions were over $150m in the winter game.

[filmlover]

Just now, Spaghetti by the Sea said:

Fun fact: Most Passengers predictions were over $150m in the winter game.

Yikes.

[The Futurist]

6 minutes ago, 4815162342 said:

 

It has Walton Goggins as the main villain. His performance alone is worth the admission ticket.

 

 

[Nova]

2 minutes ago, Spaghetti by the Sea said:

Fun fact: Most Passengers predictions were over $150m in the winter game.

[Mattrek]

So can we say that Passengers and Assassin's Creed are #notanevent? Too soon? 

[WrathOfHan]

6 minutes ago, Spaghetti by the Sea said:

Fun fact: Most Passengers predictions were over $150m in the winter game.

It's IDR all over again

[filmlover]

Just now, Mattrek said:

So can we say that Passengers and Assassin's Creed are #notanevent? Too soon? 

Assassin's Creed is most likely not even gonna make $60M in total and Passengers is likely to finish below $100M at this point, so probably not.

[Alli]

Let's just wait for numbers. maybe Passengers will surprise. AC is DOA

[The Futurist]

 

Jlaw was the first to rebel in the 2010's.

History will be judge.

 

 

 

[Jandrew]

10 minutes ago, Spaghetti by the Sea said:

Fun fact: Most Passengers predictions were over $150m in the winter game.

 

Wasnt there $300m "stans"?

[The Futurist]

Just now, jandrew said:

 

Wasnt there $300m "stans"?

 

Titanic in space they said ...

 

 

[filmlover]

Just now, jandrew said:

 

Wasnt there $300m "stans"?

There was a $200M+ club but I don't remember anything else. Yikes all the same.

[Elessar]

1 hour ago, jandrew said:

Simplify the story and make it it's own

 

I'm pretty sure that's what they did.

 

Making good movies IS hard.

[Plain Old Tele]

18 minutes ago, Spaghetti by the Sea said:

Fun fact: Most Passengers predictions were over $150m in the winter game.

 

Thank god I'm one of the unders... though I'm pretty close to 150. Only a few people went sub-100, they might end up closest. I hope it can crawl to 110 or 120 at least.

[JonathanLB]

Well on the plus side, I got even more screeners the last few days, so I'm having my own holiday movie marathon trying to catch up on all of this. It's Hacksaw Ridge right now while I wrap X-mas presents (yay?), but I got sent La La Land today and Silence by Martin Scorsese. I admit I haven't even heard of it, I feel bad, but I am looking forward to seeing it. Despite not feeling the trailer at all and not feeling like it's my type of movie in many ways, I have hope La La Land could be a surprise I actually enjoy more than I think. Given I have extremely low expectations, it's possible. While I don't like musicals overall, I do love "industry movies" and La La Land is an industry movie. Plus, I do like / love a number of musicals including Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Singing in the Rain, An American in Paris, and even My Fair Lady is a good, well made movie despite not being a "Jonathan" movie. Plus my GF wants to see La La Land so why not, since it's here and it's free ha ha.

 

I agree though wow when I saw the schedule I thought, ok, Passengers sounds promising honestly. I want to see that. Two big stars. Assassins Creed trailers looked fun enough, I may still enjoy it, but yikes both movies are going to bomb compared to expectations. Next holiday season looks extremely crowded, I'm really glad Star Wars is sending a Tier 1 saga film against that slate rather than a spinoff.

[Mattrek]

On a side note, I definitely just ate the wrong cookie. Hooboy   

 

Edited December 22, 2016 by Mattrek