Gentleman Jack
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Japan was in love with it for like a year, too.
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Japan was in love with it for like a year, too.
Exterminieren
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It's not surprising, but Christ alive is Wreck-It Ralph ever disproportionately loved on this forum.
Discotheque
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that and big hero 6 are the weakest disney movies in recent memory. tangled and frozen were so much better imo.
haven't seen zootopia but it looks like something i would enjoy.
86 on RT, 72 on MC
Solid but unspectacular reviews. I guess we got different definitions of a critically acclaimed masterpiece.
For comparison, Inside Out scored 98 on RT, 94 on MC. Not saying Inside Out's a masterpiece but it certainly got a massive amount of acclaim.
Nah.
Ralph sucked.
it's decisive
some people were disappointed that it didn't do more with the arcade setting. Some people probably also just wanted a non-stop onslaught of videogame references because that's the culture they identify with
these same people likely also think BH6 is a good movie, they are beyond help
Ip Man 3 had a $71M opening in China this weekend. That's about as much as the first two films grossed worldwide combined.
Zootopia had a much better than expected start of $24M in China, especially since its first day on Friday was only a bit over $3M. People following the Chinese box office are suggesting it has a shot at $100M there if legs hold up. Inside Out made $15M total in China.
The Mermaid is now up to $504M in China. The Chinese government extended its run to June, but it will be making peanuts long before then.
Zootopia had a much better than expected start of $24M in China, especially since its first day on Friday was only a bit over $3M. People following the Chinese box office are suggesting it has a shot at $100M there if legs hold up. Inside Out made $15M total in China.
The Mermaid is now up to $504M in China. The Chinese government extended its run to June, but it will be making peanuts long before then.
Zootopia is doing insane at my local theater. I was taking my daughter to meet up with her friends. While we were in line the 4:10 showing sold out. We got out of line to regroup with the other parents-we decided to go for the 4:30 showing. We got back in line and it immediately sold out too. We had to settle for an IMAX showing for 5:10-and that too sold out almost immediately afterward.
Man Called Aerodynamics
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Saw Zootopia today and it was excellent. Also, there was audible excitement in the theater for the Finding Dory trailer.
It beats Jedi, Empire, and Attack of the Clones combined.
A lot of people are (and have given) going to give you shit for this but I 100% agree. I don't know if it was just my expectations or what but Inside Out was just mediocre/average to me with some genuinely good scenes. The movie felt like 60% filler (I really didn't like the whole Joy/Sadness "subplot" trip). I was so completely underwhelmed after seeing it had received so much critical acclaim.
Their learnings on that journey was the main message of the film.A lot of people are (and have given) going to give you shit for this but I 100% agree. I don't know if it was just my expectations or what but Inside Out was just mediocre/average to me with some genuinely good scenes. The movie felt like 60% filler (I really didn't like the whole Joy/Sadness "subplot" trip). I was so completely underwhelmed after seeing it had received so much critical acclaim.
I know it was, I just didn't enjoy it. I know I'm in the minority here and I know that is the point, it's why said 'subplot' like that. As I said, maybe it was the hype but it just felt like the movie would have worked better as a short to me.
Lifejumper
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So what will be the final tally for tfa dom? 935?
manzoman96
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I'm glad to see the future of Disney animation looking bright. So much better than how things were looking a decade ago.
NHarmonic.
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Hard to find a character with more charisma than Baymax, though. Specially in disney's recent output.
Gentleman Jack
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I guess if you want to hold onto a worldview where films are either critically acclaimed masterpieces or they suck then nothing is ever going to meet your standards. But your initial post expressed shock that critics loved Wreck It Ralph, which they unquestionably did by a big majority.
BladeoftheImmortal
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I learned most people in this thread can't like things unless it's the best ever...even then they'll still hate it.
They sniped the talent from Pixar.
Surprised at London Has Fallen. Good for Gerard
Big Hero 6 isn't groundbreaking or spellbinding, but it's a great freakin' movie
Big Hero 6 isn't groundbreaking or spellbinding, but it's a great freakin' movie
That's obviously not what I was doing. You're projecting. I made that "masterpiece" comment because I'm surprised the film has such a rabid defense force. You'd think I was bashing Toy Story here.
Except it didn't. Still projecting.
catashtrophe
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Deadpool will cross $700 million this week but $800 million though? i'm not too sure of
I'd laugh if they kept Deadpool in theatres and added Ryan Reynolds extra credt snips each week until it got to a billion. Even if that took two years.
Wreck it Ralph was alright, not great but alright up until they spent the rest of the movie stuck in the most uninteresting of the worlds they've explored.
BH6 is so average it kinda annoys me. Great animation and style wasted on a forgettable movie.
Tangled still reigns supreme as the best of this era of Disney animated movies. Will probably check out Zootopia when it's out on BluRay.
BH6 is so average it kinda annoys me. Great animation and style wasted on a forgettable movie.
Tangled still reigns supreme as the best of this era of Disney animated movies. Will probably check out Zootopia when it's out on BluRay.
Really? Baymax felt like the most generic animated comic character possible.
There was nothing particularly interesting about Big Hero 6. I know Ghibli movies got no shot at the award nowadays (well, had now that Ghibli's dead) but it felt particularly sad when BH6 won with Jaguya.
Big Hero 6 is the shittiest Disney movie. Even the damn smurfs movie is better.Big Hero 6 better than Inside Out?
Hey hey hey, BH6 isn't anything special but let's not get ahead of ourselves, that's gaming side's "X is literally THE worst game ever and an affront to humanity" level of hyperbole
Deadpool has out grossed Man of Steel worldwide. That's so strange to think about, Deadpool's origin story being more popular than Supermans. Super happy for Ryan Reynolds though. Guy has clearly wanted to get Deadpool made for so long. Now just the extremely long wait until it's out here.
Boxoffice.com posted their initial domestic prediction for Civil War. Right now they have it at $163M OW and $425M total. That total seems a bit optimistic for a $160M opening given the film's genre, but I guess they are expecting good legs.
They currently have BvS pegged at $159M OW and $390M total.
Ratchet and Clank has a prediction of $7.5M OW and $19M total. Seems about right for a video game film.
In China news, Zootopia's second Friday was over 3X as high as its opening Friday. The film has already grossed $64M, and will be over $100M in China by the end of this weekend. Some of the posters on the China Box Office board of BOT are suggesting that Zootopia has a good shot $200M+ in China. Apparently it is getting explosive WOM. Even if it doesn't get that high, KFP3 will lose the top animation record in another week or two.
I bet Disney didn't expect Chinese audiences to prefer talking bunnies to Jedi, but here we are.
They currently have BvS pegged at $159M OW and $390M total.
Ratchet and Clank has a prediction of $7.5M OW and $19M total. Seems about right for a video game film.
In China news, Zootopia's second Friday was over 3X as high as its opening Friday. The film has already grossed $64M, and will be over $100M in China by the end of this weekend. Some of the posters on the China Box Office board of BOT are suggesting that Zootopia has a good shot $200M+ in China. Apparently it is getting explosive WOM. Even if it doesn't get that high, KFP3 will lose the top animation record in another week or two.
I bet Disney didn't expect Chinese audiences to prefer talking bunnies to Jedi, but here we are.
Deadline and Variety are both putting Zootopia in the $11-12M range today. They disagree on Cloverfield Lane ($12M vs $8M), but either way, Zootopia will easily repeat in First Place.
Reliable in what way? Presale numbers aren't a good predictor of performance as we saw with Star Wars, but the daily numbers we get after a film comes out are official numbers. There is a chance that some theatres skim off the top though, or redirect revenue to films they have incentive deals for, as was rumored to have happened to Terminator last summer. However, it's not like a film reported to make $100M actually made $150M or anything.
Reliable in what way? Presale numbers aren't a good predictor of performance as we saw with Star Wars, but the daily numbers we get after a film comes out are official numbers. There is a chance that some theatres skim off the top though, or redirect revenue to films they have incentive deals for, as was rumored to have happened to Terminator last summer. However, it's not like a film reported to make $100M actually made $150M or anything.
Bahahahaha, now you stop it. You just stop that right now.
crazy monkey
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How can anyone say brave was better than wreck it Ralph? No one even remembers brave. That won oscar. That year ralph was so much better or that stop motion movie.
I agree that inside out is so overrated as well.
I agree that inside out is so overrated as well.
PhoncipleBone
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Deadline early predicting the weekend for Zootopia to be $49.1m and Cloverfield with $24.5. Looks like Cloverfield got a cinemascore of B, which is better than the C the original one got.
Oh, and funny how the Deadline article about the box office also casually gives away a major thing about the end of 10 Cloverfield Lane. It is just casually there in the middle of a sentence.
Oh, and funny how the Deadline article about the box office also casually gives away a major thing about the end of 10 Cloverfield Lane. It is just casually there in the middle of a sentence.
Thanks for the reminder not to check in on their write up, which I do most weekend. Good grief. (Seeing it tonight.)
Bobby Roberts
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Deadline plays favorites, most definitely.
That Ghostbusters reboot story broke the way it did because Fleming at Deadline didn't like the idea of it.
That Ghostbusters reboot story broke the way it did because Fleming at Deadline didn't like the idea of it.
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