Snakes on a Bomb: The Saga Continues (aka Weekend Box Office).

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Eric Hall said:
i agree with omg rite

most people have know idea what a bomb is, allow me to show some examples again:

The Ant Bully
Poseidon
Lady in the Water
Final Fantasy: Spirits Within
Superman Returns
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For reference, how badly did these bomb?
 
Uhhh cult cinema, by definition, doesn't really lend itself to making a whole lot of money. At least not at the box office.
 
For a start, it doesn't have to make 3x the cost of the budget because the marketing wasn't as high as some films.

Then you've got DVD sales to count.

And maybe toys.

Bomb? Jesus, talk about overreacting.
 
Belfast said:
Uhhh cult cinema, by definition, doesn't really lend itself to making a whole lot of money. At least not at the box office.
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Exactly.

And I am buying the DVD as soon as it's out. Hell, let it tank. That means it'll be in stores much faster :)

Stench said:
More:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=C-7IgTDZCYc

http://youtube.com/watch?v=egdKn8hF-3E

**NSFW** http://youtube.com/watch?v=NU8EE-qBQiQ **NSFW** (This one's awesome)
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:lol

I would have loved to have been there!
 
Takuan said:
It doesn't matter. This movie will break DVD sales records.
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Umm...no, it won't. It'll probably do well on DVD, but I highly doubt it will break any sales records. DVD sales will probably mimic ticket sales. It'll do decent out of the gate to those who have bought in, and then fall off to a trickle.

JetSetHero said:
For a start, it doesn't have to make 3x the cost of the budget because the marketing wasn't as high as some films.
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That's true. They didn't spend as much as some films, but they still spent plenty. They had that "Sam Jackson will call you" promotion, and there were plenty of commercials on TV for the movie leading up to launch.

But, lets say they only need to double their budget to make money, which I think is being generous, they still aren't going to break even on ticket sales. DVD will help them make the money back for sure, but the studio can't see this as anything but a disappointment.

And when factoring in the three times budget to make a profit equation, a good deal of that goes to distribution and sharing of profits with the theaters that air it. SOAP played on 3500 screens or so, which means distribution costs and profit sharing are still pretty high.
 
they waited too long to release it. It should have been released at the beginning of the summer, waiting on it like that was pure suicide, even before the summer the joke was played out.
 
Belfast said:
Uhhh cult cinema, by definition, doesn't really lend itself to making a whole lot of money. At least not at the box office.
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To be fair, cult cinema isn't determined until it actually hits the box office anyways:P All cult cinema is is a movie that doesn't do well at the box office but has a rabid following. If it did well at the box office, I guess it'd be a religious cinema?:P

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Oh and woo Beerfest, not GREAT numbers, but it's a pretty small release and worth everyone's time.
 
Why hasn't the Snakes song been getting Radio time? There has been little non internet geek awareness on this film.. on my route I have been asking people if they are going to see it... almost universally they said no. Mostly they said it looked stupid. I told them you guys know it suppose to be stupid right? It's suppose to just be stupid fun? Almost a comedy?

Blank stare..

Nobody knew...

2nd most popular answer.. I'm scared of snakes.
 
Oh man those YouTubes were rough watching. I didn't realize that just because it was hyped on blogs meant that the entire rabid fanbase was as annoying and misguided as the collective blogosphere. WHOA, THERE'S A SNAKE ON THAT DUDE'S JUNK! The whole theatere's been turned into Moe's Family Feedbag.

Call me for the Midnight Showing of Kicking & Screaming.

"I'll tell you the worst thing about losing a foot."
"YEAHHHHHHHH!!!"
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
Oh man those YouTubes were rough watching. I didn't realize that just because it was hyped on blogs meant that the entire rabid fanbase was as annoying and misguided as the collective blogosphere. WHOA, THERE'S A SNAKE ON THAT DUDE'S JUNK! The whole theatere's been turned into Moe's Family Feedbag.

Call me for the Midnight Showing of Kicking & Screaming.

"I'll tell you the worst thing about losing a foot."
"YEAHHHHHHHH!!!"
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Jesus Christ, some of you are pathetically snobby.
 
VALIS said:
Poor snakes. :( Poor Sam. :(

Why the **** do people go in droves to unintentionally shit/cheese action flicks like XXX, Fast & the Furious, Charlies Angels and Mr. & Mrs. Smith but stay away from a clever, tongue-in-cheek one that's 100x as fun? Stupid bastards.
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Charlies Angels at least was definitely very intentionally cheesy.

After all is said and done, SOAP was a very fun movie. Should have done better, and sadly, it probably would if it wasn't R rated (although it would have been 10x crappier at the same time)
 
My problem was that I was perfectly happy/amused knowing that there was a movie that was actually ****ing called "SNAKES ON A PLANE" -- without ever seeing the movie.
 
FoneBone said:
Jesus Christ, some of you are pathetically snobby.
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Who? Where? Me? That's not snobbery. I'm dumb about all kinds of things (hence the second half of that post). There's just nothing "culty" or even "campy" about this film. It's just shit.
 
For a movie like that, I don't think it bombed that badly. I hardly can think they've even spent that much money on that movie besides SLJ's payroll.
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
Who? Where? Me? That's not snobbery. I'm dumb about all kinds of things (hence the second half of that post). There's just nothing "culty" or even "campy" about this film. It's just shit.
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Agreed. It isn't total shit, but does miss the mark, IMO, on both straightforward entertainment and campy fun. It was just a stupid movie.
 
Hotarubi said:
Agreed. It isn't total shit, but does miss the mark, IMO, on both straightforward entertainment and campy fun. It was just a stupid movie.
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Exactly. Those videos just prove that people were predisposed to making this movie a Midnight Movie Extraganza Experience that they were riffing collectively on everything when in reality, there was absolutely nothing to riff on.

They could have easily hyped up The Benchwarmers the same way and had the exact same outcome.
 
CNN is reporting that SOAP has grossed $26.5 million in ten days now.

this movie will make a profit before it ever hits dvd.

EAT IT NAYSAYERS!
 
whytemyke said:
CNN is reporting that SOAP has grossed $26.5 million in ten days now.

this movie will make a profit before it ever hits dvd.

EAT IT NAYSAYERS!
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BUT.. A MOVIE CALLED "SNAKES ON A PLANE" THAT PEOPLE ON INTERNET FORUMS TALKED ABOUT BECAUSE OF ITS NAME DIDNT MAKE 50 MILLION BOMB\

lol
 
Schafer said:
Holy shit American theater audiences are ANNOYING. Yikes.
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:lol should see Miami Vice with an audience full of black chicks.

"MMMMM MMM! DAT MY MAN! YOU SHAKE DAT ASS, JAMIE! MMMM OOOOH YEAH!"
 
whytemyke said:
:lol you don't think it'll make $3.5 mil from now til whenever they pull it? You're nuts. It'll probably pull that this coming weekend alone.
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Oh you're one of those. :lol

Protip: film studios don't get 100% of the gross. They get FAR LESS than that.
 
I can't believe some people are actually criticizing the audience reactions to Snakes on a Plane. Who the **** are you people? That's WHY you went to a midnight showing to ... wait for it ... SNAKES ON A PLANE. Christ.
 
omg rite said:
he's canadian, they're not used to excitement.
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I don´t know, I´d hate to go to a movie theather like that. Watching a movie surrounded by a bunch of idiots screaming and yelling is not exactly my idea of a good time.
 
max_cool said:
yes, 'tis a sad fact that ALL movies in EVERY theater in the US are just like that.
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You must be going to some really crap theaters, because none of the ones where I live are like that.

But seriously... for a movie like this, you WANT a crowd like that. It's called having fun. You people that call that annoying are probably the same people who go to Rocky Horror and get pissy when people talk along with the movie.
 
soap made £2mill on it's opening weekend in the uk, top of the pile, decent.

and the banter, cheering and shit doesn't pass in the UK. I've never seen that happen and wouldn't want to either.
 
shidoshi said:
You must be going to some really crap theaters, because none of the ones where I live are like that.

But seriously... for a movie like this, you WANT a crowd like that. It's called having fun. You people that call that annoying are probably the same people who go to Rocky Horror and get pissy when people talk along with the movie.
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Ehh, not so much. I've seen Rocky Horror a bunch of times and that is a completely different animal: A competently made film that's overabundant with it's own perspective and style. This is a piece of garbage that, throughout pretty much it's entire rendering, was constructed to walk people step-by-step through the "Cult Experience" that they had started to expect because people started telling them on the internet that this was exactly what they were going to get.

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ok.

You know, for any other type of movie, then yes, an audience like that is horrible and grating and obnoxious. But in this case, it's spectacular, and it works. I just don't understand how you have to be a "loser" to cheer along to a movie.

How is that annoying? How is it annoying to see a bunch of people having fun with something? Are you against seeing people having fun, for some reason?

If you go to a pub, is it "stupid" to have people yell at the TV screen during a sports match? Are they losers for doing so? When you go to a concert, is it "stupid" to have the audience cheer and sing along to their favourite band? Are they losers for doing so, too?

The reason I love vocal audiences during movies so much is because I love seeing people get excited over movies, even for something as stupid and forced like Snakes on a Plane, and any TRUE movielover can agree with this 100%. But I guess there's always got to be someone to reign on others' parades...
 
Stench said:
If you go to a pub, is it "stupid" to have people yell at the TV screen during a sports match? Are they losers for doing so? When you go to a concert, is it "stupid" to have the audience cheer and sing along to their favourite band? Are they losers for doing so, too?
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A concert is a different situation than a theater or pub you mention. With a live band, you're interacting with something, and there's a point to doing so. It's never made sense to me when people cheer or clap for a movie because, Cannes and similar fesitvals aside, who are you clapping for?
 
Hotarubi said:
A concert is a different situation than a theater or pub you mention. With a live band, you're interacting with something, and there's a point to doing so. It's never made sense to me when people cheer or clap for a movie because, Cannes and similar fesitvals aside, who are you clapping for?
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Who cares? People are enjoying themselves, right?

Why does there have to be a purpose to clapping?

And in the pub, you're still interacting with a TV screen, which is no different than a movie screen. In fact, given some of the reasoning within this thread, cheering during a sporting match on TV is just as stupid as cheering for a movie inside a theater.
 
Stench said:
And in the pub, you're still interacting with a TV screen, which is no different than a movie screen.
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Correct. It makes no sense.

In fact, given some of the reasoning within this thread, cheering during a sporting match on TV is just as stupid as cheering for a movie inside a theater.
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Sporting events are like concerts: there's the interaction with the band or teams playing. It has a purpose. Not the same as watching it on TV. Granted, I wouldn't expect people to stop, just that it strikes me as silly and pointless.
 
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