Glass | Jan 18, 2019 | The 22nd Most Profitable Movie of 2019

[YM!]

1 hour ago, Blaze Heatnix said:

 

Check your PM.

Can you send me the spoilers too?

[The Panda]

If this movie is a bait and switch that’s not good for WoM.  I can hardly think of an example of a movie that sold itself as something that it wasn’t and didn’t have mediocre-bad WoM, even the good ones. Ultimately, people like to know what they’re buying.

 

Venom seems like a poor comp because the movie gives you what the trailer promises pretty much.

[Zakiyyah6]

It remains to be seen whether the poorly reviewed Glass will be well received by audiences but saying that it will be just because the poorly reviewed Venom was is not a good argument. 

[TombRaider]

This is giving me Mother! vibes

[Frozen]

I don’t spoilers, but I’d like to know what’s wrong with the ending? Was it boring? Or convoluted? Or just plain stupid? Or confusing? 

[robertman2]

DM me spoilers as well

[TMP]

4 hours ago, The Panda said:

Venom seems like a poor comp because the movie gives you what the trailer promises pretty much.

Venom trailers sold it as a self-serious, Daredevil 2003-type shitfest.

The actual film ended up being a live action looney tunes cartoon. The best kind of bait & switch

[The Futurist]

Venom trailers sold us crap, and that's exactly what we got so marketing was on point.

[The Gotham Bank]

Venom was a good time and exactly what one should expect from a PG-13 version of it. Glass is not something one would or should expect after watching the trailers or Split.

[NamakFiskKa]

On 1/10/2019 at 9:03 AM, grim22 said:

Reading the reviews makes me think this will have a horrible Cinemascore and word of mouth because every review is saying the trailer is a bait and switch.

Are we talking about The Nun kinda situation here... ?

[NamakFiskKa]

a  $65-55M ow going for 140-150 DOM final seems fine by me.

 

Atleast M Night can save face on the BO side this time

[LouderThanYou]

I had the opportinuty to assist to a preview screening of Glass in Spain, which is where I am from.

 

It certainly is quite quaint to see what happens to Shyamalan's movies, which aren't generally well received at first, and it is after their release that they are reivindicated (Unbreakable, The Village, etc).

 

Glass is not going to be any different. To say that it is a good movie is to stay far too short. I think it is a true masterpiece, way ahead of its time, with a script that has so many elements going on that it is mandatory to see the movie at least twice to fully get the big picture. And the crazy thing is that it works like a clockwork. Yeah, of course it has a few conveniences here and there, but overall it is a really really good script.

 

And that is just one part of the equation. Let me begin to say that I think the Shyamalan from The Village is long gone, but, yet, there is such craftmanship in how and where he works the camera, there is such control of the atmosphere and its tone that turns watching the movie into a blissful experience.

 

What is more, McAvoy, Jackson and Paulson give stellar performances, Willis is also pretty good, but those other three are just magnificient.

 

I am not sure what the general audience's reactions are going to be, they may feel indifferent about it, or they may be dissapointed after the first 20-30 minutes, which is the most crowd pleasing part of the movie.

 

Just go and watch the movie, and rejoice. For once, we are not living in mediocre times.

Edited January 11, 2019 by LouderThanYou

[John Marston]

reviews claim Glass is dull and boring. Venom at least had Venom action scenes and Tom Hardy acting weird 

[Boxofficerules]

Will reviews hurt the box office at all?

[The Futurist]

4 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

Will reviews hurt the box office at all?

The nature of the movie will hurt it.

[LexJoker]

The ultimate twist by Shyamalan. Raising all our hopes and then dashing it spectacularly.

[Blaze Heatnix]

53 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

Will reviews hurt the box office at all?

 

I'm not sure, but the ending might do that part. 

 

It'll probably have a great opening weekend and then it'll drop like a stone. I mean, that's usually what happens to this kind of movie. 

[filmlover]

1 hour ago, Boxofficerules said:

Will reviews hurt the box office at all?

The reviews being so weak and coming out more than a week before release will definitely hurt. This should still open with $60M+ over the 4 day but this will be dead by the time Valentine’s Day/President’s Day Weekend comes around.

[LexJoker]

Why did the studio lift the embargo so early?

[TimmyRiggins]

There are very positive and interesting video reviews by ScreenJunkies and Collider Video. Jeff Sneider on Collider loved the film and he's always super negative as he says so himself. Like John Rocha says in the Collider review, there's a moment in the film (ending?) where you'll either be on or off the train. They said their staff was mixed positive, so it's just one of those films really and that's a great thing imo.

 

The trailers don't seem to be a bait and switch, it's clear most of the film takes place in the 

Spoiler

institution

 

If anything, the ending is where it'll be divisive. I doubt the film will have dreadful WOM, we'll see. It'll be profitable on the OW alone, anything after that is gravy man