Jack Nevada Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 (edited) On other news ZDT has dropped to 94% on RT Edited December 20, 2012 by MerryXMas from Jack Nevada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockNrollaDIM Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 How is ZDT that controversial? I mean, I think we all knew there was torture involved.There's several that might take offense to it.1. Baumer types2. Anti-torture types3. Republicans ("It's Obama propaganda!")4. Extremist Muslims5. Regular Muslims that think it makes them look bad 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 There's several that might take offense to it. 1. Baumer types 2. Anti-torture types 3. Republicans ("It's Obama propaganda!") 4. Extremist Muslims 5. Regular Muslims that think it makes them look bad Don't extremist muslims take offense in pretty much everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Also, why would anti-torture people get butthurt over this movie? It probably doesn't glorify waterboarding or anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAR Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Yes they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockNrollaDIM Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Don't extremist muslims take offense in pretty much everything?Yeah, but probably even more so to a celebratory film detailing the assassination of the most famous terrorist of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Yeah, but probably even more so to a celebratory film detailing the assassination of the most famous terrorist of all time. But ZDT isn't an MURICA FUCK YEAAH SUCK MAH DICK SADDAM type of celebration? Isn't it more of a cerebral thriller? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druv10 Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 There's several that might take offense to it.1. Baumer types2. Anti-torture types3. Republicans ("It's Obama propaganda!")4. Extremist Muslims5. Regular Muslims that think it makes them look badIMDB loses credibility when they allow trolls to change scores of a movie. I haven't seen it but definitely looking forward to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Also, why would anti-torture people get butthurt over this movie? It probably doesn't glorify waterboarding or anythingAnti-torture people have been publicly and loudly getting butthurt over this movie for like the past two weeks. That they hadn't seen it themselves wasn't an obstacle, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockNrollaDIM Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 But ZDT isn't an MURICA FUCK YEAAH SUCK MAH DICK SADDAM type of celebration? Isn't it more of a cerebral thriller?Of course not, but do you think non-Westerners will see it that way? Hell, non-Americans, period? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 IMDB ratings mean zilch until at least a week after the movie's been out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Heh, I remember Taken 2 being at 8.7/10 at first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmnerdjamie Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 (edited) There's several that might take offense to it.1. Baumer types2. Anti-torture types3. Republicans ("It's Obama propaganda!")4. Extremist Muslims5. Regular Muslims that think it makes them look bad6. Military types who object to how the film depicts them7. Democrats ("It doesn't give Obama credit!") Edited December 20, 2012 by filmnerdjamie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Does ZDT reference the 2004 Abu Gharib scandal at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 That's pretty silly. The only reason TH had a bigger weekend gross is because of midnights: 13M for Hobbit vs 3M for IAL. Its weekdays are slightly bigger right now because it gets a boost from IMAX.That TH can eventually outgross IAL's final total is far from a lock.Did you see anywhere in my post that said it was a lock to outgross IAL? Are you reading someone else's words and interpreting them as mine.And btw....outgrossing IAL is a lock. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 Does ZDT reference the 2004 Abu Gharib scandal at all?I doubt it. The reason why (I believe) so many are against the film is because there are more people like me out there than you guys care to admit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTX Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Did you see anywhere in my post that said it was a lock to outgross IAL? Are you reading someone else's words and interpreting them as mine.And btw....outgrossing IAL is a lock.LOLI see no sign of great legs so far. This flick is frontloaded. 4x multiplier from OW (excluding midnights) seems like best case right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Guys with Tin Foil hats ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 These are my projections for where The Hobbit will finish depending on the Friday number:10M - 260M11M - 275M12M - 295M13M - 315M14M - 335M15M - 360M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mango Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Those are some pitiful numbers aside from The Hobbit and Zero Dark Thirty. Monsters, Inc. 3D had a very lackluster start as did The Guilt Trip.Let's just hope Django Unchained breaks out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
