TOP GUN MAVERICK/MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND THREAD | 126.7M 3-Day, 160.5M 4-Day. The biggest Memorial Day opening ever! | Doctor Strange 20.5M 4-Day, Bob's Burgers 14.8M

[Menor the Destroyer]

2 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

and the film sucked.

Your other points are valid, but these are fighting words. 

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

If you told anyone a year ago, Top Gun would make this much they'd think you were talking about the domestic total. 

 

While, going back in history and reading Deadline, Pirates 3 was a disappointment

 

The No. 1 movie in the country Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End didn’t meet the huge expectations for its 3-day box office gross receipts and trails Spider-Man 3‘s treasure trove. The Disney romp found $38 million in box office treasure Saturday, down 12% from its $43 million on Friday. Sunday is projected at $18.5 mil. So that’s $116 mil for its 3-day weekend from 4,362 theaters, well behind Sony’s Spider-Man 3‘s record-setting $151 mil from 4,252 venues earlier this month. “It looks like Pirates needed the full 4-day holiday weekend, plus the prime showtimes on Thursday, to beat what Spidey 3 did,” one expert told me. “As great as these numbers are, and they are indeed great, it looks like they really came up short compared to what people expected.”

 

 

[DAR]

On 5/30/2022 at 5:47 PM, Ronin46 said:

I don't see any mention of Color of Money. Very underrated.

That’s one I need to rewatch.  

[titanic2187]

3 hours ago, AJG said:

Was this the laziest weekend in history? Did we all just watch a screen for the weekend?

 

 

 

No wonder all holdovers have terrible holiday bump

[grim22]

14 minutes ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

If you told anyone a year ago, Top Gun would make this much they'd think you were talking about the domestic total. 

 

While, going back in history and reading Deadline, Pirates 3 was a disappointment

 

The No. 1 movie in the country Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End didn’t meet the huge expectations for its 3-day box office gross receipts and trails Spider-Man 3‘s treasure trove. The Disney romp found $38 million in box office treasure Saturday, down 12% from its $43 million on Friday. Sunday is projected at $18.5 mil. So that’s $116 mil for its 3-day weekend from 4,362 theaters, well behind Sony’s Spider-Man 3‘s record-setting $151 mil from 4,252 venues earlier this month. “It looks like Pirates needed the full 4-day holiday weekend, plus the prime showtimes on Thursday, to beat what Spidey 3 did,” one expert told me. “As great as these numbers are, and they are indeed great, it looks like they really came up short compared to what people expected.”

 

 

Pirates 3 was tracking at the exact same weekend gross and was looking to be a disappointment to such an extent that there were already pre-emptive defenses of its box office opening online.

 

Didn't help that the movie itself sucked as well. So the disappointment narrative stuck.

[ThomasNicole]

13 minutes ago, Menor Reborn said:

Your other points are valid, but these are fighting words. 

Pirates 2 and 3 are among the best big blockbusters Hollywood produced in this century, in my opinion 

 

And i think they're aging very well, people really liked those movies despite the bad reviews etc.

 

Sadly the 4 and 5 are among the worst.

[Menor the Destroyer]

2 minutes ago, ThomasNicole said:

Pirates 2 and 3 are among the best big blockbusters Hollywood produced in this century, in my opinion 

 

And i think they're aging very well, people really liked those movies despite the bad reviews etc.

 

Sadly the 4 and 5 are among the worst.

Yeah the first three Pirates are some of my favorite blockbusters ever. 2 and 3 are helped by the addition of the iconic Davy Jones and just going all in on the craziness. 

 

I haven't seen 4, I wouldn't say 5 was among the worst blockbusters I've seen (it was pretty average imo) but definitely a huge step down. 

 

Edited June 1, 2022 by Menor Reborn

[aabattery]

35 minutes ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

If you told anyone a year ago, Top Gun would make this much they'd think you were talking about the domestic total. 

 

While, going back in history and reading Deadline, Pirates 3 was a disappointment

 

The No. 1 movie in the country Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End didn’t meet the huge expectations for its 3-day box office gross receipts and trails Spider-Man 3‘s treasure trove. The Disney romp found $38 million in box office treasure Saturday, down 12% from its $43 million on Friday. Sunday is projected at $18.5 mil. So that’s $116 mil for its 3-day weekend from 4,362 theaters, well behind Sony’s Spider-Man 3‘s record-setting $151 mil from 4,252 venues earlier this month. “It looks like Pirates needed the full 4-day holiday weekend, plus the prime showtimes on Thursday, to beat what Spidey 3 did,” one expert told me. “As great as these numbers are, and they are indeed great, it looks like they really came up short compared to what people expected.”

 

 

 

box score reader vs game watcher type vibes

[Gavin Feng]

May 2007 was a very fierce period because studios put Spider Man 3, Shrek 3 & Pirates 3, -- three sequels to highest-grossing domestic films from different year -- in the same month. Intensive schedule become very usual later but was something very uncommon 15 years ago. I remember all three of them were seen as "disappointments". Paramount released first the TF movie in June/July that year, and that one topped Pirates 3 and was close to Shrek 3.

Edited June 1, 2022 by Gavin Feng

[keysersoze123]

59 minutes ago, Menor Reborn said:

Your other points are valid, but these are fighting words. 

 

At least back when it opend Pirates 3 was huge disappointment across the board. Reception and legs were meh as well. I saw it opening saturday at AMC Newport and it was barely 10% full and that is when I realized its not doing well. I was in pirates team on which of the three will win the May 2007 BO :-)

 

At least it was better than SM3(saw it opening friday night at a full imax show) or Shrek 3(I saw early screening 2 days before release). Not that it mattered when it came to BO. Transformers took all the buzz from that summer and the movie I liked the most apart from Pixar(Ratatouille is still my all time fav) was Simpsons. It was a blast for sure. 

[excel1]

13 minutes ago, Gavin Feng said:

May 2007 was a very fierce period because studios put Spider Man 3, Shrek 3 & Pirates 3, -- three sequels to highest-grossing domestic films from different year -- in the same month. Intensive schedule become very usual later but was something very uncommon 15 years ago. I remember all three of them were seen as "disappointments". Paramount released first the TF movie in June/July that year, and that one topped Pirates 3 and was close to Shrek 3.

 

2007 was a highly disappointing year; thank god we had the GOAT 2008 to bring things back to life.

[excel1]

1 minute ago, keysersoze123 said:

 

At least back when it opend Pirates 3 was huge disappointment across the board. Reception and legs were meh as well. I saw it opening saturday at AMC Newport and it was barely 10% full and that is when I realized its not doing well. I was in pirates team on which of the three will win the May 2007 BO 🙂

 

At least it was better than SM3(saw it opening friday night at a full imax show) or Shrek 3(I saw early screening 2 days before release). Not that it mattered when it came to BO. Transformers took all the buzz from that summer and the movie I liked the most apart from Pixar(Ratatouille is still my all time fav) was Simpsons. It was a blast for sure. 

 

Pirates 3 was just too soon and then scheduled far too close to massive competitors whose buzz just overwhelmed it. 

 

[keysersoze123]

@EmpireCity Any thing on TGM tuesday. Aladdin dropped 52.5% but Top Gun should have better weekdays as it skews older. But its monday hold was crazy strong and so that is a factor. I would take anything above 15m as good. 

[grim22]

10 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:

 

At least back when it opend Pirates 3 was huge disappointment across the board. Reception and legs were meh as well. I saw it opening saturday at AMC Newport and it was barely 10% full and that is when I realized its not doing well. I was in pirates team on which of the three will win the May 2007 BO 🙂

 

At least it was better than SM3(saw it opening friday night at a full imax show) or Shrek 3(I saw early screening 2 days before release). Not that it mattered when it came to BO. Transformers took all the buzz from that summer and the movie I liked the most apart from Pixar(Ratatouille is still my all time fav) was Simpsons. It was a blast for sure. 

Feels like people who didn't live through the build up to the May 2007 showdown don't know how much a feeling of disappointment ran through Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3 and Pirates 3. The three threequels which all disappointed to expectations and critical reception.

[Menor the Destroyer]

12 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:

 

At least back when it opend Pirates 3 was huge disappointment across the board. Reception and legs were meh as well. I saw it opening saturday at AMC Newport and it was barely 10% full and that is when I realized its not doing well. I was in pirates team on which of the three will win the May 2007 BO 🙂

 

At least it was better than SM3(saw it opening friday night at a full imax show) or Shrek 3(I saw early screening 2 days before release). Not that it mattered when it came to BO. Transformers took all the buzz from that summer and the movie I liked the most apart from Pixar(Ratatouille is still my all time fav) was Simpsons. It was a blast for sure. 

BO wise sure, I was just debating him on the quality of the movie  It's one of my favorites. 

Edited June 1, 2022 by Menor Reborn

[ringedmortality]

The first three pirates are beautifully made movies. The visuals are astonishing. Do I remember what they were about? Nope.

[excel1]

42 minutes ago, grim22 said:

Feels like people who didn't live through the build up to the May 2007 showdown don't know how much a feeling of disappointment ran through Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3 and Pirates 3. The three threequels which all disappointed to expectations and critical reception.

 

Spidey 3 absolute lived up to expect on opening weekend, but that's it.

[EmpireCity]

Ignore!

Edited June 1, 2022 by EmpireCity

[Gavin Feng]

2 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

$17m 

lol WTF.

[WrathOfHan]

Hello 80M second weekend