Dolittle | Jan 17 2020 | Universal | 16% RT | Winner of the Kids Choice Award!

[Zakiyyah6]

1 hour ago, dudalb said:

And if this film opens in the 25/30 million range, you will have some people acting like that is a great triumph.

Not for a 175 Million film it's not.

Whether or not a opening is good or not for a film is tied directly into it's budget.

I am really tired of people ignoring the actual budgets of movies. If you have a 175 million budget you better be opening up with 50-60 million at least. 

[JB33]

17 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:

Read some letterboxd reviews of this and it actually doesn't sound so bad. Sounds pretty generic but maybe reviews won't be as bad as expected? Seems like the budget was actually well spent because the production design, the costumes, and most of the CGI is actually really good. Pretty dumb that Universal is dumping this movie when this could just be harmless fun instead of a Cats like disaster.

 

Also Nanjiani doesn't say "no one told me there would be a dragon" in the film lol.

It's interesting how people seem to see CGI a lot differently. The CGI looked pretty awful to me. It made the film look like the January release it is.

 

Granted, I haven't seen the 2nd trailer yet. Maybe it's better....

[lorddemaxus]

3 hours ago, JB33 said:

It's interesting how people seem to see CGI a lot differently. The CGI looked pretty awful to me. It made the film look like the January release it is.

 

Granted, I haven't seen the 2nd trailer yet. Maybe it's better....

I'm guessing its inconsistent mostly and thats why the CGI seems terrible in the trailers but not so bad in the final film. 

 

The start of it the also completely animated and supposedly the best part of it.

Edited January 14, 2020 by lorddemaxus

[Hatebox]

On 1/10/2020 at 6:28 PM, Alli said:

Apparently, this is doing very good in South Korea

This has become the box office equivalent of a band being 'big in Japan'. 

[dudalb]

8 hours ago, Hatebox said:

This has become the box office equivalent of a band being 'big in Japan'. 

TO be fiar, I think Alli was making a joke.

But yeah, this whole routine of citing a film doing well in one country when it is doing poortly almost every whare else is silly.

[dudalb]

16 hours ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

I am really tired of people ignoring the actual budgets of movies. If you have a 175 million budget you better be opening up with 50-60 million at least. 

I get tired of people here ignoring the realities of the film business in general.

Someone just said 30 Million would be triumph for Doolittle, because it was projecting a bit lower a couple of week ago.

A few more triumphs like that and Universal is going bankrupt.....

[dudalb]

13 hours ago, JB33 said:

It's interesting how people seem to see CGI a lot differently. The CGI looked pretty awful to me. It made the film look like the January release it is.

 

Granted, I haven't seen the 2nd trailer yet. Maybe it's better....

even if he CGI was a lot better, the film still looks bad.

I really get tired of the endless emphasis on visuals here. A badly written and directed movie with great visuals is still a lousy movie.

[MrGlass2]

 

14 minutes ago, dudalb said:

TO be fiar, I think Alli was making a joke.

But yeah, this whole routine of citing a film doing well in one country when it is doing poortly almost every whare else is silly.

Maybe people are looking at SK because it is one of the very few countries where Dolittle has been released, and the only major market?

10 minutes ago, dudalb said:

I get tired of people here ignoring the realities of the film business in general.

Someone just said 30 Million would be triumph for Doolittle, because it was projecting a bit lower a couple of week ago.

A few more triumphs like that and Universal is going bankrupt.....

Literally nobody thinks that Dolittle will be a financial success for Universal.

There, no need to write the same thing 50 more times in this thread.

[Eric Lasagna]

 

#hype

[JustWatching]

Apparently there’s more... 

 

[filmlover]

I imagine this and Cats are gonna make for a perfect "how and why did so many talented people (who likely weren't even hard up for cash) agree to participate in such an ill-conceived project?" double feature someday.

[lorddemaxus]

 

 

 

 

[lor15]

To surprise of nobody, bad reviews. Hope for good money from overseas

[aladdino]

he just made a sketch dissing taylor swift. well RDJ your #timesup

[Valonqar]

11 hours ago, filmlover said:

I imagine this and Cats are gonna make for a perfect "how and why did so many talented people (who likely weren't even hard up for cash) agree to participate in such an ill-conceived project?" double feature someday.

[Hatebox]

If this debacle encourages RDJ to go the Christian Bale post-superhero route and do a bunch of mid-budget movies he actually gives a damn about it might all still be worth it. Seriously Rob, there are no more worlds left to conquer. 

 

 

Edited January 15, 2020 by Hatebox

[reddevil19]

Wait... there's a dragon in this?! I mean, a guy speaking to animals (most likely as a result of narcotics-fueled hallucinations) is fine, but why are there dragons?

[reddevil19]

Just now, Hatebox said:

If this debacle encourages RDJ to go the Christian Bale post-superhero route and do a bunch of mid-budget movies he actually gives a damn about it might all still be worth it. Seriously Rob, there are no more worlds left to conquer. 

 

 

And in a decade, end up in a DC movie...

[Hatebox]

2 minutes ago, reddevil19 said:

And in a decade, end up in a DC movie...

he'd be the perfect [throws dart at collage of DC characters] Calendar Man!

 

 

Edited January 15, 2020 by Hatebox

[reddevil19]

Just now, Hatebox said:

he'd be the perfect [throws dart at collage of DC characters] Calendar Man!

 

 

Awww... was hoping for a new Ra's.