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[Bobby Roberts]

It's weird that, for as decently recieved as Watchmen was, it just DIED the following weekend.

Maybe it just came too early in the superhero renaissance? Which makes sense, considering the book itself was a deconstruction of the entire medium, which only really worked because of the long history it was working with. It's hard to have the film adaptation serve remotely the same purpose when the audience it's being sold to has all of like, 6 or 7 years worth of movies to work from.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

It's weird that, for as decently recieved as Watchmen was, it just DIED the following weekend.

Maybe it just came too early in the superhero renaissance? Which makes sense, considering the book itself was a deconstruction of the entire medium, which only really worked because of the long history it was working with. It's hard to have the film adaptation serve remotely the same purpose when the audience it's being sold to has all of like, 6 or 7 years worth of movies to work from.

I think the general movie going audience didn't know what Watchmen was at the time.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I think the general movie going audience didn't know what Watchmen was at the time.

I don't think that explains the 2nd week drop, though. Plus general audiences don't really need to be familiar with the history of a thing before they go see it. A ton of people who watched Lord of the Rings never read that book, either.

I wonder if it was just a combination of elements all hitting at just the right time: Movie was flawed, long, the narrative about Snyder was starting to seriously kick in, and the general conception of what a superhero movie should be was still not all that solidly formed. At least not to the extent it is now.

 

[Mechanized]

This made me listen to Without Me for the first time in years.

 

[Anth0ny]

Fuck yeah Straight Outta Compton. Well deserved. They killed it with the marketing for that flick.

Also lol @ f4

 

[DMczaf]

Friday Estimates:

Straight Outta Compton - $24.2M
Man From U.N.C.L.E. - $4.9M

 

[shintoki]

Possible high 50's million for Compton.

Glancing 60's

-_-

 

[Father_Brain]

Watchmen simply wasn't that commercial a film, ultimately. As an arty superhero film without a ton of conventional action sequences, it was more comparable to Ang Lee's Hulk than to The Dark Knight or Iron Man.

 

[Colonel Nasty]

Not surprised UNCLE bombed considering it's an unknown property with relative nobodies headlining.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

I don't think that explains the 2nd week drop, though. Plus general audiences don't really need to be familiar with the history of a thing before they go see it. A ton of people who watched Lord of the Rings never read that book, either.

I wonder if it was just a combination of elements all hitting at just the right time: Movie was flawed, long, the narrative about Snyder was starting to seriously kick in, and the general conception of what a superhero movie should be was still not all that solidly formed. At least not to the extent it is now.

It was a unique superhero movie at the time. It was basically an expensive experiment to see how audiences would react to a critical analysis of superheroes. I guess people just weren't ready for that type of movie yet.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Seems to have gotten a little more accepted/appreciated as time's gone on, though. At least there's that.

But I had forgotten until this FF debacle just how sharply Watchmen fell off a cliff in it's 2nd weekend.

 

[lazybones18]

Not surprised UNCLE bombed considering it's an unknown property with relative nobodies headlining.

Supes is a nobody?

 

[Tookay]

Supes is a nobody?

Yeah he is. I don't wager mainstream audiences even know his name.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

The fact we're calling him "Supes" and not "Henry Cavill" probably says something, yeah.

 

[Slayven]

The fact we're calling him "Supes" and not "Henry Cavill" probably says something, yeah.

He name always makes me think of the ice cream place in Patton Oswalt's comedy bit

 

[Lebron]

Supes is a nobody?

lol ain't no one know who Henry is. He's not Christopher Reeve

 

[strafer]

Like we know who the Fantastic Four actors are.

Never heard of them.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

lol ain't no one know who Henry is. He's not Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve wasn't really a "name" right after Superman: the Movie, either.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Like we know who the Fantastic Four actors are.

Never heard of them.

strafer post

 

[strafer]

strafer post

ok?

 

[Slayven]

Christopher Reeve wasn't really a "name" right after Superman: the Movie, either.

Dean Cain?

 

[DMczaf]

The dude from Wings?

 

[Slayven]

The dude from Wings?

Monk?

 

[DMczaf]

Monk?

Nah, the other dude from Wings.

 

[Lebron]

Christopher Reeve wasn't really a "name" right after Superman: the Movie, either.

After starring in his first movie? No shit.

 

[Escape Goat]

The dude from Wings?

 

[inm8num2]

The fact we're calling him "Supes" and not "Henry Cavill" probably says something, yeah.

I like calling him Cav-El.

 

[DMczaf]

Nah, the other other dude from Wings

 

[Slayven]

Nah, the other dude from Wings.

Sandman?

 

[cj_iwakura]

Like we know who the Fantastic Four actors are.

Never heard of them.

Invisible Girl is Zoe from House of Cards.

Season 1 spoiler:

Spoiler

I knew she survived!

 

[G-Fex]

Nah, the other other dude from Wings

Paul McCartney?

 

[Bobby Roberts]

After starring in his first movie? No shit.

No shit, no shit. Henry Cavill's really only known to the general public as the guy who played Superman. So was Christopher Reeve in the first few years after playing him. That's all I was saying. The conversation was about name recognition. Neither really had it so soon after playing Superman.

I like calling him Cav-El.

I like it.

 

[Slayven]

Nah, the other other dude from Wings

Dude from the Shining Remake?

 

[DMczaf]

Dude from the Shining Remake?

Nah, the other other other du....wait, there was a Shining remake??

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Nah, the other other other du....wait, there was a Shining remake??

Yeah. Starring the dude who caught a high heel to the eyeball in Single White Female.

 

[Escape Goat]

Nah, the other other other du....wait, there was a Shining remake??

Well, there is a book.

Not so much a remake as a sequel.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

He was perfect for Sandman. Shame he was wasted.

 

[G-Fex]

I think we should laugh at Dmczaf cause he actually watched wings

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Spoiler

Box office

BEAT

Spoiler

DOWN

S BY DRE

 

[Escape Goat]

I think we should laugh at Dmczaf cause he actually watched wings

Wings is cool. Im with you Dmczaf.

 

[lawnchair]

go End of the Tour, go

 

[DMczaf]

I think we should laugh at Dmczaf cause he actually watched wings

Wings was dope.

 

[Slayven]

Nah, the other other other du....wait, there was a Shining remake??

Yeah and it was pretty good. Not Rose Red good, but close

I think we should laugh at Dmczaf cause he actually watched wings

Well i watched it too. First Run too

 

[Abounder]

Straight outta Compton making the Man from U.N.C.L.E. cry...uncle!

Not surprised UNCLE bombed considering it's an unknown property with relative nobodies headlining.

I wonder if the Cruise Missile also torpedoed any chance UNCLE had. Tom Cruise's decision of moving Mission Impossible is gold

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Wings was dope.

had a couple crossovers with Cheers, too.

I think we're all learning a lot about each other in here this Saturday morning.

 

[G-Fex]

Wings was dope.

You're vanilla as fuck DM

had a couple crossovers with Cheers, too.

I think we're all learning a lot about each other in here this Saturday morning.

It did?!?

 

[Slayven]

Straight outta Compton making the Man from U.N.C.L.E. cry...uncle!

You were close

Straight outta Compton making the Man cry U.N.C.L.E.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

You a CAC DM

well damn

 

[Bobby Roberts]

It did?!?

Yup. A lot of the same writers/producers worked on Wings, so every now and again Cheers castmembers would show up. I know Frasier did. Norm & Cliff did, too. I think even Sammy did a bit.

edit: Slug's OT title might be something like "Compton makes Superman cry U.N.C.L.E, Fantastic Fail Flames On.."

 

[Slayven]

is Armie Hammer the new Ryan Reynolds?