Phoenician_Viking
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Actually that includes the 13-18$ million that made on midnight on Thursday. You can as well consider it Friday, but just for clarification.
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Actually that includes the 13-18$ million that made on midnight on Thursday. You can as well consider it Friday, but just for clarification.
ryutaro's mama
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Haha.
Kasumi1970
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I saw the movie today and I enjoyed it alot. I think some of you are being overly critical.
Midnight IS Friday.
Also, if you assume a 2x multiplier, you're looking at a $136M weekend, 6th best ever and best ever for a non-sequel. Jesus. The sequel will probably set a new opening weekend record.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Midnights accounted for 29% of the OD, as opposed to the 40+% saw by the recent Potter and Twilight films. I'm quite certain it can get to $150m this weekend, which as I said before, is the most impressive opening in modern history.
Deadlne is reporting an estimated $140M for the weekend. It will be fun to watch the studio estimates tomorrow and to see the actuals on Monday. Either way, this is your new Twilight franchise. I'll be curious to see how it does next weekend. Will it sink like a stone or will it have some staying power?
planar1280
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Fyi hunger games kindle edition is currently free for amazon prime users
GasProblem
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Just came back. I enjoyed the movie but I prefer the book (but that's how it always is for me when I read a book that gets moviefied). Didn't like how they kept cutting away from Katniss to the control room. The wobbly camera annoyed me from time to time, especially when they first step into the arena. Wish they just showed the kills upfront and more clearly, but that would've upped the rating I guess.
Saw the movie last night with some friends and thought it was alright. I wasn't a fan of the book so I went in with pretty low expectations so I wasn't really disappointed. All in all, it was entertaining but nothing to go crazy about.
The fighting scenes were extremely disappointing/annoying though. I understand why they wanted to get a pg13 rating.... but shaking the camera around like it was on an ice machine or something was just obnoxious.
The fighting scenes were extremely disappointing/annoying though. I understand why they wanted to get a pg13 rating.... but shaking the camera around like it was on an ice machine or something was just obnoxious.
I'd wager sink (not that it'll matter, given how much money this has raked in and how cheap the movies probably are). The fanbase is comprised of rabid tweens - Twilight, Harry Potter both posted 60+% drops after just about every big "record-breaking" opening and the bigger the opening, the quicker they collapse (relatively speaking - this will make it to 250m or so, which is a massive success for Lionsgate). I have a hard time seeing it get to 300m.
VeryGooster
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Considering the content of the second book I sure as hell hope so.
I would imagine they will. I could see the budget easily doubling for it as they pretty much know it will do gangbusters.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I'd wager on staying power at this point. The first Twilight stabilized after the second weekend drop, and this has a far wider appeal, as has been reported. The first day was 39% male, and that should go up for the rest of the weekend. Compare it to Twilight, which was roughly 20% male for the whole weekend.
Phoenician_Viking
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I said so, but the movie made 68$ million from 2 nights, and not one, which is my point.
No, its one day. A millisecond past midnight is the next day. Unless you're going to be ludicrously rigid about this, all $68M was made in one day.
Phoenician_Viking
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I think these kind of movies are full loaded. I don´t think it will cross 70$ million next weekend. But 70$ million is pretty good for a second week.
You´re right so i fixed my post.
2 nights then
I think these kind of movies are full loaded. I don´t think it will cross 70$ million next weekend. But 70$ million is pretty good for a second week.
You´re right so i fixed my post.
2 nights then
Technically one very early morning and one night
Pachterballs
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why are people saying this movie looked cheap/low production value? I thought it was well filmed and the citadel bits even had great looking cg; and the talk show bits looked quite good as well. I really don't get it. It was suitably filmic and not once when watching this did I think this was "shot for tv" as some of you have said - I posted that I walked out of Ghostrider2. Now that was a cheap looking movie.
Fact that so much of the film was outdoors also; well; um what can you do to up production values/look.
don't get it.
Fact that so much of the film was outdoors also; well; um what can you do to up production values/look.
don't get it.
I agree. I also wasn't distracted by the shaky camera. If it's between that or leaving out a lot of the violence, the shaky cam on those scenes was a good compromise.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Spoilers regarding book 2
Most of the contestants are adults, so they could possibly get away with a lot more violence in the second movie. I haven't gotten to the Games yet though.
Everything looked cheap. The sets, the costumes, the CG, you name it. The only stuff that looked good was the stuff they actually shot on location outdoors somewhere.
About $100M, reduced to $78M after subsidies/tax credits.
Never read the books so I'm not sure what was needed in terms of scale or set pieces but based on the trailers parts of it does come off as cheap looking.
Like I said a bit earlier, the good thing about the movie's success is that the budget will likely be doubled for the next one, and its greatly needed.
Yup. BOOK 2 SPOILERS
The forest Arena is pretty straightforward, but they're gonna have to work hard on the Quarter Quell arena to make all the "obstacles" look good.
demosthenes
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I would think this has better legs than Twilight. First based on the reviews, and second I would think more adults would be up for seeing this than seeing Twilight.
Actually a lot of them are illusion so I was thinking it would be easier then Mutts (They would have been the most difficult thing to convey imo since it was far more than slapping a player's face on it)
However, I hope the extra budget will go into the Capital, set design, as well seeing the scope of the other districts
Pachterballs
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I think CGI
were quite convincing in this. They could have been a bit bigger to convey menace. They were essentially some sort of
in this.
Maybe its not that there's low production value; but a perceived lack of; but I'm fucking glad they didn't spend days shooting in front of green screens to then do some awful "star wars" room. That might have production value but it looked tacky as all shit and is ugly. All the "production value" in the world didn't save the prequels from sucking.
I'm at about page 120 in book 2 now
I disagree. /shrug I thought it looked good.
the one thing that I might give you as not being 100% was
but that was always going to be difficult to do. But what was onscreen did its job.
animals
bulldogs
Maybe its not that there's low production value; but a perceived lack of; but I'm fucking glad they didn't spend days shooting in front of green screens to then do some awful "star wars" room. That might have production value but it looked tacky as all shit and is ugly. All the "production value" in the world didn't save the prequels from sucking.
I'm at about page 120 in book 2 now
I disagree. /shrug I thought it looked good.
the talk show was suitably garish but they focused on tucci more and it was perfection
CGI citadel inside looked good. Train going to citadel looked good. flying patrol ship looked good
the one thing that I might give you as not being 100% was
the forest fire
SCULLIBUNDO
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I think CGIwere quite convincing in this. They could have been a bit bigger to convey menace. They were essentially some sort ofanimalsin this.bulldogs
Maybe its not that there's low production value; but a perceived lack of; but I'm fucking glad they didn't spend days shooting in front of green screens to then do some awful "star wars" room. That might have production value but it looked tacky as all shit and is ugly. All the "production value" in the world didn't save the prequels from sucking.
I'm at about page 120 in book 2 now
You're kidding, right? Those things looked like absolute shit. Like something out of Ang Lee's Hulk.
ryutaro's mama
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TBF, there were a lot of adults lining up to see Twilight.
But, yeah, I get and follow your point. THG appeals to a broader audience, no doubt.demosthenes
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TBF, there were a lot of adults lining up to see Twilight.
Hahaha, you're right, there are some scary adults out there
Now it seems like you're hating just to hate on the movie. They were miles better than those freaking poodles, good lord.
It felt like something out of a game.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Hahaha, you're right, there are some scary adults out there
Now it seems like you're hating just to hate on the movie. They were miles better than those freaking poodles, good lord.
To be fair, I can't really remember the poodles, I just remember they looked very bad, so bad animal CG was there to be compared to. But I would be surprised if the majority of people thought these things looked good.
Pachterballs
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can't take scullibundo seriously here. I'm sorry THG is crappy on JC but face it; marketing failed.
The hulkified poodles were retarded (plotting them into the script and thinking that was a good idea aside) but they're weren't terrible. ILM worked on the CGI for the Hulk.
THG
were convincing.
The hulkified poodles were retarded (plotting them into the script and thinking that was a good idea aside) but they're weren't terrible. ILM worked on the CGI for the Hulk.
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ohhthegore
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They looked really shitty
SCULLIBUNDO
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Yeah, I was actually being unfair. I rewatched the shitty Hulk dogs and I think they might have been better than The Hunger Games'.
Pachterballs
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It was a night chase. The murkiness helped They looked like they could have used real bulldogs in lieu of those animals. Seriously, you'd be hard pressed to tell they were CGI in those shots (outside of the fact that they came out of the ground in a magical puff). Their design was also like a real dog. Not once did I think watching the mutts; this is CGI.
unlike the Hulk monsters.
You're certainly on a mission.
Pachterballs
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SCULLIBUNDO
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I think the fact that they looked so obviously CGI in a night scene with sporadic moonlight forest lighting is a testament to their shittiness. I really can't see how you can call them convincing. I'm also reminded of Cerberus in the first Harry Potter film.
I'm not talking about my opinion of the film's narrative here. This isn't stemming out of my distaste for the film. The film just had some cheap looking CGI. The fire-dress I can excuse, because fire is something that nobody has really been able to nail down yet. But those things looked really jarring.
Pachterballs
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SCULLIBUNDO
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I actually watched Battle Royale for the first time last night, just because I wanted to get my fix. I liked how balls out insane the movie was and how it dealt with the characters past with one another more, but it was still a lot weaker than I was hoping for.
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