Founder / Operator Shawn Robbins Posted August 18, 2012 Founder / Operator Share Posted August 18, 2012 (edited) You can't compare Twitter in 2010 to Twitter in 2012. There was far less activity on Twitter in general two years ago. Incorrect as the comparisons take the time gap into account as much as possible. Whatever the difference is, its not *that* significant. Its not as if anyone said Exp2 should have tripled its opening because it tripled the number of tweets it had. Context is necessary. Edited August 18, 2012 by ShawnMR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I want to spread the message of Expendables 2: the movie is goddamn amazing! Go see it! Now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Twitter in June 2010: 65 million Tweets per dayTwitter in March 2012: 340 million Tweets per dayComparing the two films would have to be adjusted by a factor of 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Would you like me to make a thread congratulating all of you who said it would open to less than the first?I would like that very much so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wboxoffice Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Well, this whole weekend was disappointing at the box office cause all movies had bigger potential. If the earlier evacuation of 200 theaters and the resulting headlines discouraged some people to go to the movies this weekend, hopefully this means that these movies will all have better legs as many people are waiting to see them when crowds are smaller, perhaps on the weekdays.And I hope this doesn't mean that everytime a big violent action movie like Dark Knight Rises or EXP2 is released, that we're going to have to deal with lunatics and drama. What a world we live in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 People let their fanboyism get the most of them when predicted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Incorrect as the comparisons take the time gap into account as much as possible. Whatever the difference is, its not *that* significant. Its not as if anyone said Exp2 should have tripled its opening because it tripled the number of tweets it had. Context is necessary.It tripled the number of Tweets? Twitter expanded by a factor of 5 in less than 2 years. From 65 million Tweets per day in June 2010 to 340 million Tweets per day in March 2012. Sounds like the supposed expansion in TE2's audience from TE1 was smaller than the expansion of Twitter in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Paranorman deserves a little credit. It might post the 2nd best OW for a stop motion movie. That's not exactly a hard record to claim, but it still means it sold and appealed about as good as could be asked for with its sub genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 People let their fanboyism get the most of them when predicted.So true. Expendables 2 didn't really have a great trailer in the first place. If there were a few impressive money shots then it would have probably opened a lot better, but it just relied on the awesomeness of its cast to sell the movie which wasn't really a great idea seeing as Arnie and Willis barely had any screen time in the last movie. Audiences probably assumed they were going to have minor roles in this one aswell so just didn't bother watching it, which wasn't the case this time round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wileECoyote Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I want to spread the message of Expendables 2: the movie is goddamn amazing! Go see it! Now!So I guess you liked it . How much better than EX1 for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 So I guess you liked it . How much better than EX1 for you? Far, far better. I didnt like TE1 at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wileECoyote Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Good to hear! Can't wait to see it this afternoon or tonight. At least WOM appears to be better than the first. Now looking for a nice Saturday bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder / Operator Shawn Robbins Posted August 18, 2012 Founder / Operator Share Posted August 18, 2012 (edited) It tripled the number of Tweets? Twitter expanded by a factor of 5 in less than 2 years. From 65 million Tweets per day in June 2010 to 340 million Tweets per day in March 2012. Sounds like the supposed expansion in TE2's audience from TE1 was smaller than the expansion of Twitter in general.I don't claim anything to be a perfect science, but you're presuming an apples-to-apples comparison that doesn't weed out trash data (which we aim to do). The over-arching point here is that the film was tracking extremely well -- and not *only* on Twitter. Edited August 18, 2012 by ShawnMR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 People let their fanboyism get the most of them when predicted.Yep, this happened a lot this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder / Operator Shawn Robbins Posted August 18, 2012 Founder / Operator Share Posted August 18, 2012 Yep, this happened a lot this year. Happens a lot every year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Happens a lot every year. Yeah but there were 3 this year that really stood out more than usual. The Dark Knight Rises - Most people had it at 190-200m OW/575-600m which was just ridicuously outlandish. TDK had 6 months of dead celebrity hype and a villain that is bigger than Batman himself. There was no way TDKR was gonna increase in admissions or even gross on its own merits. Prometheus - Most people had it over 200m, yet that would've been astronomically high for an R-rated horror film... but then again Prometheus was sold as something it wasn't. Expendables 2 - Most people had this around 120-150m. Its one of the internets favorite movies + the addition of much more superstars in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Futurist Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Yeah but there were 3 this year that really stood out more than usual.The Dark Knight Rises - Most people had it at 190-200m OW/575-600m which was just ridicuously outlandish. TDK had 6 months of dead celebrity hype and a villain that is bigger than Batman himself. There was no way TDKR was gonna increase in admissions or even gross on its own merits.Prometheus - Most people had it over 200m, yet that would've been astronomically high for an R-rated horror film... but then again Prometheus was sold as something it wasn't.Expendables 2 - Most people had this around 120-150m. Its one of the internets favorite movies + the addition of much more superstars in it.No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 (edited) No.Yes. Try again.You're a chronically shitty poster Futurist, this should be fun if you wanna debate these. Edited August 18, 2012 by Shpongle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lab276 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 575-600m Who had it that high? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Yeah but there were 3 this year that really stood out more than usual.The Dark Knight Rises - Most people had it at 190-200m OW/575-600m which was just ridicuously outlandish. TDK had 6 months of dead celebrity hype and a villain that is bigger than Batman himself. There was no way TDKR was gonna increase in admissions or even gross on its own merits.Prometheus - Most people had it over 200m, yet that would've been astronomically high for an R-rated horror film... but then again Prometheus was sold as something it wasn't.Expendables 2 - Most people had this around 120-150m. Its one of the internets favorite movies + the addition of much more superstars in it.So a Joker movie without Batman in it would gross $440m domestic and $1 billion worldwide? Good luck with that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
