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Time to eat crow regarding "Guardians of the Galaxy"
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Dunno if you really want to group Godzilla in there. It had a great box office start but completely flatlined. It's been sitting at 199 million for 2 weeks now, but should cross it this weekend. It probably won't make much more, so it's a 200 million film with a 93 million opening weekend. Hardly a big winner. The RT is sitting at 73% (67% top critics) with 70% audience rating. I really wouldn't say that it was a "really well received" by critics and fans, nor that it made "serious money".
I am shell shocked.
I actually wish that it had been censored in the movie, I thought it was funnier that way.
gundamkyoukai
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Ahh this reminds me of the Avatar , Avengers and many more not counting the gaming side.
GAF really does eat a lot of crow .
GAF really does eat a lot of crow .
Well damn. Scratch that then. I sure as hell didn't like the film. Considering all the impressions and some of the early box office numbers, I thought for sure that it did much better. Guess not.
If it's genuinely good, word of mouth will pick up the slack for TMNT. But TMNT has to be amazing to topple GotG.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Guessing TMNT still loses to Guardians in week 2. 50mil vs 40mil domestic.
Still though, a 40mil domestic take in mid-august isn't THAT bad, especially for a Turtles movie being eyed as skeptically as this one has been due to the kinda off-putting marketing, which has only recently gotten better at showing what the tone of the movie will ACTUALLY be, but might be too late to turn public opinion around
JetBlackPanda
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I kind of feel meh about threads like these but considering there was a bomb thread it's kind of deserved.
Manmademan
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Let's be totally realistic here- there is basically zero chance that this happens.
You can replace it with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes though. Still sitting on 90% RT, and it looks poised to overtake Godzilla pretty soon. Sitting on 183 million now, still making a couple of million a day plus inflated weekends.
PlayALLtheGames
Banned
They're coming.
Jesus Christ what is with Rafael's face? All their faces are so fucked up looking and unsettling.
DerZuhälter
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Yeah I know, but I thought besides some of creature/robot design, it was a terrible movie. I can let 4 year-olds smash robot/monster toys at each other in complete darkness, lit only by some discolights and get similar action. I'm not even going to talk about characters and dialogue.
I'd say it has a 12% chance of being decent.
Dastardly Jerks
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I'm all for people taking personal responsibility for their posts. But this is some next level sad-ass shit.
Why would you want an echo chamber for a media announcement? Is that why you go to a discussion board? To hear everybody express the same sentiment over a Guardians of the Galaxy announcement?
Get something better to do with your life, bro. Collecting a handful of differing reactions to a Marvel movie franchise announcement is a cry for help.
EDIT: And a few of the people were right, the name "Guardians of the Galaxy" still doesn't ring true for mainstream audiences because it isn't a recognisable franchise.
Why would you want an echo chamber for a media announcement? Is that why you go to a discussion board? To hear everybody express the same sentiment over a Guardians of the Galaxy announcement?
Get something better to do with your life, bro. Collecting a handful of differing reactions to a Marvel movie franchise announcement is a cry for help.
EDIT: And a few of the people were right, the name "Guardians of the Galaxy" still doesn't ring true for mainstream audiences because it isn't a recognisable franchise.
the_firewithin
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That op is magnificent.
Waiting in the Theater now
Waiting in the Theater now
yeah op struck me as a bit weird to be honest.
All of this is mostly in good fun. Nobody is getting paid for any of this. Besides we all should be happy that a scifi film is doing well critically and commercially.
I'll gladly eat crow in real life if it means we get great scifi properties that do well enough financially to support sequels. I'm fucking sick of fantasy IPs.
Psychoward
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I was expecting it to bomb until I saw the first trailer, then it quickly went to my most anticipated movie of the summer.
Better than 11.
I'm not too well versed in box office threads but why doesn't worldwide numbers count for much? like you say Godzilla hasn't made serious money but just under 500 million seems serious to me especially for the type of film it is. Genuine question.
I'm glad this is doing well saw it Thursday night in the UK and absolutely loved it.
elrechazado
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cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
Those new turtle designs are fucking terrifying. Just awful.
Chezzymann
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Yeah, I was at an HEB and saw a kid walking with his mom, the mom said, "Do you want an action figure from the new ninja turtles movie?" and the kid said: "No, they look gross"
I think that statement may be the main explanation people point to if the movie actually does under preform.
The film in that case wouldn't have existed in the first place.
Smart kid.
Duh?
JetBlackPanda
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Based on marketing? Ok sure.. But that's why the system is there.
Or are you saying if you remove marvel and disney the movie itself is bad?
Manmademan
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nah. marvel and disney don't get you 90% ratings on rotten tomatoes. the film is legitimately good. Even if it wasn't MCU, it would still be a solid "cult hit" like district 9.
SonicMegaDrive
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That kid is awesome.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Guardians of the f*ckin' Galaxy beating Spider-Man is just an example of how wrong studios do Marvel properties. I mean hell, this is reaaaallly fringe Marvel stuff from the mainstream flagships. Its hilarious. Cant wait to see it next week.
Which is why a lot of people were pretty convinced it would bomb, films like this don't exist for a reason.
I mean I was a huge fan of Abnett & Lanning's comic but if you'd have told me it would be getting a $170 million dollar movie I'd have laughed in your face, it's so obscure even most comic fans didn't know about it.
elrechazado
Banned
This is the biggest most pointless non sequitur ever written.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
Before this movie, I'd never even heard of GotG. It does look more interesting than most superhero movies though.
LOL. Spending 20 minutes compiling your bad predictions = no life!
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
To be fair, after the first trailer was released I had zero doubt about Guardian's of the Galaxy becoming a financial success.
But going back and reading my posts in that first announcement thread..... yikes. I made a poor joke about Drax looking like Kratos, I'm sorry GAF.
But going back and reading my posts in that first announcement thread..... yikes. I made a poor joke about Drax looking like Kratos, I'm sorry GAF.
Ohhh man. Ripped Chris Pratt... I could get 99 out of 100 of my friends to see this movie just using that scene alone. Then I could get them all to go back a second time based on the story.
It's not that they don't count for much, it really depends on the context of the discussion. In this case, we're talking about a great opening weekend for GotG in the US, with no worldwide numbers, and this particular discussion is about possible reasons why it's doing so well (slow Summer, not many hits, low average critical reception, etc), most of it being US-centric factors.
Dastardly Jerks
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"I can't wait to go on a message board and trawl through multiple 10+ page threads to get differing opinions to something that was just released" is not really at the top of the priorities list for normal, healthy people.
I was really skeptical of GotG. I knew what they were going for, but it's been tried before (Howard the Duck) and didn't end well. It's nice to see they got it right.
I bet somewhere out there Ben Browder is like "DUDE! This is what we were doing 15 years ago!" Maybe the success of GotG will help rekindle interest in Farscape.
I bet somewhere out there Ben Browder is like "DUDE! This is what we were doing 15 years ago!" Maybe the success of GotG will help rekindle interest in Farscape.
Where does "complaining about other people's internet habits on the internet" rank?
Lighten up man, jesus.
And yet, the world is a better place for those people existing. He has brought the rest of us so much joy.
What in the name of all that is holy....They're coming.
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