Weekend Thread 11/16 - 11/18 - Grindelwald $25.7M Friday, Instant Family at $4.5M Friday

[dxmatrixdt]

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Edited February 19, 2019 by Slave Animal Rights

[Napoleon]

I love The Dark Knight Trilogy but Batman v Superman is the greatest comic book film. Zack Snyder made a film that managed to be entertaining, thought provoking, faithful to the vast source material and also delve deep into the meaning of those characters. He made the impossible once again. BVS is right up there along with the greatest Hollywood classics like Citizen Kane and Casablanca, and will be the most influential film of the 21st century. That means it's not yet given the recognition it deserves and comments like this are still met with mockery. But the day will come that BVS will be seen as the masterpiece that it is. I just hope people appreciate Zack Snyder as the brilliant genius that he is before it's too late. But considering how Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock died without getting an Academy Award for Best Director goes to show how shitty we are.

 

P.S.: I predicted a $63 million opening weekend for Crimes Of Grindelwald two months ago and people here reacted with mockery and disdain. It's now inside the range of what the trades are predicting today after the Friday numbers.

[dxmatrixdt]

I would be down with BvS but I would need to take Adderall and take a tour with the movie or somewhere.  (in terms of detail vs other comic book movies, it only rivals ASM2)

I don't understand how kids dug it, but when I left one of the matinees, all of the 10-15 year olds seemed to be crying and were worried en masse like they think about these movies overnight and envision them...

Edited November 18, 2018 by the Quran 2015ama

[TalismanRing]

[The Futurist]

The Dark Knight Trilogy barely qualifies as superhero movies and it spends half its time to remind you of that sad fact, coming from a director who publicly said he could only take seriously Batman in a nealry 80 years old art form that created thousands and thousands of characters.

Michael Mann was very touched when he saw TDK though.

Edited November 18, 2018 by The Futurist

[MrPink]

Everybody reading each other's hot takes.

 

 

 

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Edited November 18, 2018 by MrPink

[dxmatrixdt]

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Edited February 19, 2019 by Slave Animal Rights

[GraceRandolph]

47 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

 I just hope people appreciate Zack Snyder as the brilliant genius that he is before it's too late.

He won't be forgotten that's for sure. Not a single FRESH movie this decade. 

 

40% Justice League

27% Suicide Squad

44% 300: Rise of an Empire

56% Man of Steel

23% Sucker Punch

51% Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

 

 

 

[fabiopazzo2]

The best 3 comicbook movie ever Made 

 

1)The Dark knight

2)IW

 

3)Xmen 2

Edited November 18, 2018 by fabiopazzo2

[Ruthie]

grr...liberals.  They read, process, respond, and make decisions.

Could we lay off all the liberal mods on this forum?

Are there any private forums about box office that are a bit more conservative and don't have the censorship I am looking at?

 

Hmmm, that doesn't sound any better.  

 

Anyway...NUMBERS!

[Legion Again]

5 hours ago, Jonwo said:

Considering FB2 is going to be gross less than the first film, it's refreshing there's no fan wars compared to what happened with JL or Solo's weekend thread. 

It’s because no one cares about FB franchise enough to have a fan war/ meltdown   

 

Spoiler

... would be one hypothesis. Some other factors to consider might be that JL and Solo did literally less than 60% of some fan expectations, whereas CoG won’t be nearly as far below

 

Edited November 18, 2018 by Thanos Legion

[That One Girl]

Widows fucking rules.

 

Fantastic Beasts 2 could’ve been condensed into the first half of a movie.  It’s boring as hell as it stands.  I’m sure the sequels will be better.

[John Marston]

7 minutes ago, Charlie Jatinder said:

$13.5mn Saturday for Fantastic Beasts at 19:30 EST. Full day would be about $21mn Approx. Will get a better idea by 5:00 EST on Sunday.

 

 

Damn I thought you meant it made about 13m on Saturday which would be disastrous 

[MOVIEGUY]

Widows is fucking good, go watch it. I read a review comparing it to Heat, which is one of my favorites, and I was thinking the same while watching it, in that it's a sprawling, epic crime story that also gets into the character's personal lives and makes them feel like real people. Everything about it just worked beautifully for me, perfect cast, sharp writing, very stylishly directed but completely tasteful and doesn't pander a bit to the audience's intelligence (all other things it has in common with Heat). Highly recommend.

Edited November 18, 2018 by MOVIEGUY

[DAJK]

Overlord I really enjoyed, it's definitely a future cult classic. Really well-made IMO for what is essentially a silly B-movie. The strictly war-movie that it is during the first act is very well-shot, well-acted, and while it plays like a slow-burn, it is very gripping. 

 

The movie is also really fun when it turns into a zombie gore-fest that the trailers promised. And I think the blending of the genres worked overall, but I can totally see how it would alienate a lot of people. Understandable why it isn't doing better at the box office, but I think it will have a long healthy life on streaming etc. ala Kick-Ass or something. 

[Mojoguy]

Where are the Sat numbers, RTH?

FALSE GOD

[Webslinger]

1 hour ago, That One Guy said:

Widows fucking rules.

Damn right - I said the same thing, but with "friggin'," in the Classic Convo Thread earlier.

[Felandria]

1. Where is this lunacy coming from, regarding Spider-Man Homecoming?

 

it was great.

 

2. I really enjoyed CoG, saw it at noon at Disney Springs, it has one crucial element all previous films lacked, the element of surprise.

 

even the first Beasts, you knew what was coming, and how the movie would end, this one, I did not see most of that coming at all.

 

BTW, when I asked how Beasts was doing today, they said it was doing considerably better than yesterday.

[MattW]

1 hour ago, Mojoguy said:

Where are the Sat numbers, RTH?

FALSE GOD

Bannable offense

[Darth Lehnsherr]

Haha yup I definitely feel I love Spider-Man Homecoming far more than most on BOT