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[BOOYAH SUCKAS]

Cant believe people though this would do 150m+. It should have been obvious that this movie was never going to do more than American Gangster, another long talky R rated movie. But that one had actual star power, and this one didnt. 

[Lestranger]

6 minutes ago, XO21 said:

No clue what movie you saw...

 

“wooden acting” the...?

I guess we saw a different movie from each other. The only performance that was decent was Harrison Ford and maybe Mackenzie Davis. Again I dont blame the actors. That was 100% the direction. A snail would have been bored.

[DAJK]

Blade Runner having an AWFUL Saturday at my theatre so far. Mountain between us so far has tripled it for matinees. 

[RobinHood26]

Dont remember where the article is but the dude who green lighted the movie and paid for it said some time back. Its ok if we don't make money. He wants too but thats not why he made this movie. He made this movie because it was dream of his. If you were a billionaire why not? 

 

That doesn't take away form the disappointing box office, but the financier understood there was a strong chance this didnt break the bank. 

 

 

Sad face though thought it was gonna do 45-50 

Edited October 7, 2017 by Jay Hollywood

[Lestranger]

30 minutes ago, ddddeeee said:

I haven't seen the film yet but I've listened to the score and thought it superficially sounded like Blade Runner but without any of the soul.

 

That is a great review of the entire movie. I literally thought that multiple times in the theater. This looks and sounds like Blade Runner but it feels like a copy of a copy of a copy. Zero richness to it.

[The Futurist]

Box office is relative.

 

Think in tickets sold from time to time for a change dear americans.

 

If BR 2049 does around 85-90m in the US, that s around 10m tickets sold.

 

Are you able to visualize 10m people ?

 

10 freaking millions.

Thats a LOT to me, yes, even for a country with 330m souls.

 

A US stadium has what 85 000 seats for the big ones ?

 

When 10m people see your movie, can you really say it s niche and GA didn't care ?

 

When GA starts, when does it end ?

 

Food for thought.

 

 

[That One Girl]

2 minutes ago, Lestranger said:

 

That is a great review of the entire movie. I literally thought that multiple times in the theater. This looks and sounds like Blade Runner but it feels like a copy of a copy of a copy. Zero richness to it.

 

35 minutes ago, Lestranger said:

I have no idea what movie [you] saw.

 

[MrPink]

21 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

every time someone says "lol noone can remember the names of the avatar characters" i always gotta hit back with "I REMEMBER TRUDY" because i've spent 8 years thinking about how weird it is that james cameron named his supposed to be badass michelle rodriguez character trudy.

 

HELLS BELLS COOLIO

 

[MrGamer]

4 minutes ago, MrPink said:

 

HELLS BELLS COOLIO

 

I miss Mad Men.

[Barnack]

9 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

When GA starts, when does it end ?

 

Food for thought.

on that subject

 

The frequent movie goers are around 40m people and see in average 16 movie a year, they buy around 50% on the ticket in a year.

 

Are they the general audience or the specialized one ? Not sure if it was ever defined, but if you get 20% of the frequent movie goers to see your movie you start are around 80m at the box office, how much of the 220m unfrequent movie goers you tend need to get to reach 150m, around 3% of them. 

 

But yes, the first weekend is not a no one care level for sure, that is Tulip Fever, Friend Request, etc... by the way some reacted in my audience they were non cinephile in there.

Edited October 7, 2017 by Barnack

[DAR]

Certainly disappointing for BR but it was going to be a tough sell.  

[CoolioD1]

1 minute ago, MrGamer2558 said:

I miss Mad Men.

every new tv show is flopping so revivals are big so we'll probably see 80s mad men in like 5 years. excited to see which emotional realizations cause don draper to invent ernest and where's the beef.

[a2k]

Last year, why did family films have a crappy discount Tuesday and great Wednesday after Columbus Day Monday?

 

Rank*	Title	Monday10/10	Tuesday10/11	Wednesday10/12	Thursday10/13
1	THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (2016)Universal3,144	$3,096,055-46% / $985$27,632,320 / 4	$2,956,295-4.5% / $940$30,588,615 / 5	$2,143,460-27.5% / $682$32,732,075 / 6	$1,851,520-13.6% / $571$34,583,595 / 7
2	MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDRENFox3,705	$2,300,515-49.5% / $621$53,495,787 / 11	$1,434,258-37.7% / $387$54,930,045 / 12	$1,145,927-20.1% / $309$56,075,972 / 13	$856,817-25.2% / $231$56,932,789 / 14
3	DEEPWATER HORIZONLionsgate/Summit3,259	$1,526,817-49.9% / $468$39,822,232 / 11	$1,337,254-12.4% / $410$41,159,486 / 12	$1,007,357-24.7% / $309$42,166,843 / 13	$818,489-18.7% / $251$42,985,332 / 14
4	THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (2016)Sony / Columbia3,696	$1,303,080-45.9% / $353$77,080,155 / 18	$1,024,485-21.4% / $277$78,104,640 / 19	$818,876-20.1% / $222$78,923,516 / 20	$704,046-14% / $190$79,627,562 / 21
5	STORKSWarner Bros.3,608	$1,672,654-34.6% / $464$51,635,457 / 18	$692,257-58.6% / $192$52,327,714 / 19	$751,131+8.5% / $208$53,078,845 / 20	$465,201-38.1% / $129$53,544,046 / 21
6	MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFELionsgate2,822	$1,256,135-36.9% / $445$8,134,572 / 4	$486,256-61.3% / $172$8,620,828 / 5	$603,427+24.1% / $214$9,224,255 / 6	$286,540-52.5% / $102$9,510,795 / 7

[DAR]

There's also a possibility the BRonie audience crossed over.    

[MrGamer]

1 minute ago, CoolioD1 said:

every new tv show is flopping so revivals are big so we'll probably see 80s mad men in like 5 years. excited to see which emotional realizations cause don draper to invent ernest and where's the beef.

You just reminded me of this Twitter account.

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/80sdondraper?lang=en

[LonePirate]

15 minutes ago, Lestranger said:

I guess we saw a different movie from each other. The only performance that was decent was Harrison Ford and maybe Mackenzie Davis. Again I dont blame the actors. That was 100% the direction. A snail would have been bored.

 

Wright and Hoeks were the acting standouts in the film. Ford had little to do and Davis brought nothing, even though she was part of the most interesting scene in the movie.

[grey ghost]

35 minutes ago, filmnerdjamie said:

Also not getting Villeneuve immediately being throne into Nolan territory.

 

Nolan built up his reputation with films that balanced out being critical darlings with crowd-pleasing commercial hits (a hard thing to do). Villeneuve hasn't. He's doing his own thing, which is perfectly fine. 

Villeneuve has had more success than Early Nolan though.

 

Really, Nolan had a niche fanbase until TDK and Inception which both somehow made him Spielberg/Kubrick/Hitchcock for millenials desperate for a modern,  iconic director.

 

If Villeneuve makes one or two cultural phenomenons most people will be like, "Nolan, who?".

[CoolioD1]

2 minutes ago, LonePirate said:

 

Wright and Hoeks were the acting standouts in the film. Ford had little to do and Davis brought nothing, even though she was part of the most interesting scene in the movie.

the fact that people can't agree on who the stand out of the cast is proves what i was saying earlier about this ensemble being super strong. all the actors mentioned were pretty great.

[aabattery]

Just now, CoolioD1 said:

the fact that people can't agree on who the stand out of the cast is proves what i was saying earlier about this ensemble being super strong. all the actors mentioned were pretty great.

 

Even...

 

Spoiler

Leto?

 

[Harpospoke]

Well the original Blade Runner didn't break into the top 25 in 1982 so it's not really a crowd pleasing franchise to begin with.   It's slow paced with little action compared to Transformers and Fast and Furious stuff.   Gosling may not actually know how to smile so I question his appeal.

 

Personally....I think I like this one better than the original though.   Loved the either cast except Leto.   My theater was empty so I had plenty of room to stretch out.    Too bad.   Scott makes movies I really like but he really has limited mass appeal.