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'Blade Runner 2049' Is A Box Office Disaster With Poor $13M Friday
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*sad trombone*
Blade Runner is something special, i never understood why they even made a sequel to begin with really.
PositiveGamer
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If people can seat through shit like transformers which is over 2 hour and 30 mins, anyone can sit through BR 2049.
Knuckle Sandwich
Member
It's better than the first imo. Amazing movie.
I couldn't recommend to a lot of my friends and family though because I know they wouldn't dig it.
I couldn't recommend to a lot of my friends and family though because I know they wouldn't dig it.
I thought I was the only one. I didn't like him in drive or any of the other critical movies he's in. Just don't like the dude or find him convincing
michaelius
Banned
Should have been crappy superheroes movie instead for instant box office hit.
Hopefully rest of world saves us from future full of YA movies and Marvel/DC endless sequels.
Hopefully rest of world saves us from future full of YA movies and Marvel/DC endless sequels.
you could instead tell them to stray out of them comfort zone once in a while, I don't think it hurts.
Who's "they"
How do you know his friends like those movies either? Are we just going to assume anyone who wouldn't like BR 2049 is an idiot?
nhlducks35
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"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?"
Fox Mulder
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It's good, but a sequel to a 30 year old movie.
The studio didn't do shit to make the original more accessible. It's not on any paid streaming service like Netflix. It was out of print on bluray for months until just recently.
The studio didn't do shit to make the original more accessible. It's not on any paid streaming service like Netflix. It was out of print on bluray for months until just recently.
BuckRobotron
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It unfortunately doesn't surprise me. I don't recall seeing many ads for it and was among the apparent many who was unsure how much friends/family would be interested. This with the knowledge of complaints of it being slow. As I said in another thread, we almost shifted to American Made.
Theater had 12 or so people in it at a 3 pm showing yesterday but everyone seemed engaged with it, none of these absurd walkouts I hear about. Loved the film overall and considering watching again in theaters. If not, definitely Day 1 on the bluray.
Theater had 12 or so people in it at a 3 pm showing yesterday but everyone seemed engaged with it, none of these absurd walkouts I hear about. Loved the film overall and considering watching again in theaters. If not, definitely Day 1 on the bluray.
Sygma
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Probably ghost in the shell before it
Mainstream audience isnt too big on cyberpunk anymore.
Total Recall reboot grossed $198,467,168 for a budget of 125 so yeah
This was Dennis' first blockbuster film? (as in budget wise)
I'm suprised that the studio didnt meddle with the film to make it more approachable/mass audience friendly. It's impressive they let him do his own thing and it gave us an amazing film that only few would love.
In comparison, Nolan seems to have learnt a lot from making blockbusters like TDK and knowing what appeals to the hoi polloi (especially stuff like interstellar and dunkirk that did well despite their genres).
I'm suprised that the studio didnt meddle with the film to make it more approachable/mass audience friendly. It's impressive they let him do his own thing and it gave us an amazing film that only few would love.
In comparison, Nolan seems to have learnt a lot from making blockbusters like TDK and knowing what appeals to the hoi polloi (especially stuff like interstellar and dunkirk that did well despite their genres).
ronaldthump
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word of mouth stronger than the tomatometer which should drive attendance? I doubt it
It kind of did. It took 35 years to revisit the world.
DarkestHour
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I had no idea this movie was even out yet. Have not seen a single commercial for it. I thought it was still years out...
chrisPjelly
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This is definitely one of the biggest factors. When you have a VEEEERY niche property, the last thing you want to do is scare away even more viewers who don't want to walk into a movie without the right "context". They should have hyped up a reprint of ONE version, and released it for streaming services in the month leading up to the movie.
Nobody wants a Blade Runner cinematic universe or pointless sequels. They did this one 100% right.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Welp, between this and GITS bombing, no more cyberpunk.
Fuck I hate people.
After all the handwringing over Akira, if it actually gets made, I bet it bombs too.
Fuck I hate people.
After all the handwringing over Akira, if it actually gets made, I bet it bombs too.
BlackDoomShadow
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The original Blade Runner is probably the most famous case of studio meddling in history, so they were likely very aware that any perception of interfering with the director's vision could backfire badly.
whitemex88
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It needs that Big Bang Theory bump. Once Sheldon says he loved it on air people will go see it.
joking
PositiveGamer
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BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
When Tron Legacy came out, the theory is that Disney deliberately buried the old Tron because they didn't want people to watch the original. Too boring for mass audiences.
Maybe Columbia thought the same about the first BR.
SENPAIatLARGE
Banned
The average American movie goer vs the true auteurs on NeoGaf that see Blade Runner
timetokill
Banned
Huh, I was waiting for next weekend to avoid the crowds...
The average American movie over vs the true auteurs on NeoGaf that see Blade Runner
lol. dude that works out obviously likes garbage like the michael bay transformers movies
Sectorseven
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I feel like they featured Denis Villeneuve rather prominently in a lot of the promo material, and for the mass audience maybe he comes across as a little too...foreign?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Isn't Transformers 2 hours of explosions.
Arrival was a hit wasn't it? They probably thought there was some cachet with scifi fans.
Dice//
Banned
Because the sequel was awesome
Muppet of a Man
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The masses are a mistake. They are nothing but trash.
Sectorseven
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Sure, but I don't remember his face being plastered all over Youtube like this movie and I certainly don't think they had the same box office expectations on it.
Sequel is pretty special too.
This movie can't hold Fury Road's cod piece.
In terms of sequels to franchises from the late 70s/early 80s, this was more in line with the The Force Awakens/Rogue One school of sequels than Fury Road - right down to trotting out old Harrison Ford and CG versions of characters from the old movie. Getting a sequel to an established IP that just throws out all the old, keep the callbacks to a minimum, and moves forward with basically new everything is a rare gem that I imagine will not come along again for a long time.
Poor GRIMES
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Giving a $150 million budget on an extremely niche cyberpunk film that initially flopped was a poor decision no matter how you cut it. Couple this with the fact that the original is incredibly inaccesible in terms of streaming, then you get this failure.
Even then transformers 2-3 were really pushing it time wise and boring. Aside from Lord of the rings and Harry Potter, and TF before he downfall, what else was long and doing good numbers
Dash_Riprock
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Once again the marketing for this movie sucked. As with the original, they pitched it as a cool-looking sci-fi action film when it was anything but.
Exactly. Also seen people say it's a tough sell because of it's melancholic narrative...
People pay money to sit through absolutely depressing, vulgar, dire shite like The Human Centipede, or Hostel, or whatever horror gore shite they can come up with.
Humanity was a mistake, I want to be a Replicant.
Poor GRIMES
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Its disingenous to compare those films to a film with Bladerunners budget.
Paquete_PT
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We really can't have nice things. This was the best sci fi film I've watched in recent years and way better than Arrival. The aesthetic is simply too good, a masterpiece really. I admit that the movie is slow and could be too slow for some people, for me it was perfect. I was never bored at what I was seeing in front of me, when the plot wasn't moving the visuals were.
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