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[ViewtifulJC]

Wasn't crazy about that church scene in Kingsman tbh. Brad Allen is dat dude, but there's no tension to any of it, no suspense, no danger. Once Firth takes down the first few people in that cartoony manner, you know he's just gonna take down the next one hundred just as easy. Plus, its a bunch of American civilians being wiped out left and right the film and the film expects us to laugh because they were "just" Westboro Church-style religious bigots". So morally I'm not even on the same wavelength with it, on top of the whole thing feeling a bit superfluous and ancillary to the actual story.

Its interesting only on the level of craft, which again, shoutouts to Brad Allen.

 

[jett]

MM's electrical tornado was awe-inspiring in the truest meaning of the word. You sit there flabbergasted. It's absolute elation.

I love the church scene, but the emotion that scene in MM evokes in me is pretty much on a different level.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

MM's electrical tornado was awe-inspiring in the truest meaning of the word. You sit there flabbergasted. It's absolute elation.

I love the church scene, but the emotion that scene in MM evokes in me is pretty much on a different level.

I felt more disturbed during the church scene than anything else.

 

[Game4life]

Honestly, the storm scene was pretty as a painting, but it's nowhere near as original or inventive or fun as the

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poles

near the end. A much better rival for the church sequence.

Oh yeah that sequence is fking awesome. You are right. That would be a better choice.

 

[Discotheque]

MM's electrical tornado was awe-inspiring in the truest meaning of the word. You sit there flabbergasted. It's absolute elation.

I love the church scene, but the emotion that scene in MM evokes in me is pretty much on a different level.

that whole sequence from the spiked up vehicles pursuing all the way up to the end of the "brothers in arms" scene is god tier.

there's literally maybe 3-5 minutes to breathe for that whole first 40 minutes. christ.

the church scene in kingsman was really cool but it was a one-time wow for me, watching again on youtube and it's not as awe inspiring as it was. though i really like some of the camerawork in it, felt very kinetic. makes me want colin firth as a villain in a bond movie more than anything else.

 

[3N16MA]

So Rth at the BOT forums is putting the early estimate for Inside Out's Saturday at 33-35M. That would give it a $67-70M 2-day gross, which is about where tracking was putting the entire weekend.

With Father's Day tomorrow, I think that $93M will be the low end for Inside Out if it manages that $33M Saturday. $95-100M is definitely on the table.

If it manages to increase on Saturday it would be the first Pixar film to do that since 2009 (Up).

I had its OW around MU with the upper end being the high 80s but it looks like it will blow past that.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

Jurassic World in the hands of any of the apes directors or Joe Cornish would have been a lot better

I dunno what Spielberg and co were thinking with hiring trevorrow, but it certainly paid off for them financially tho

I completely disagree with this, and JW's complete lack of story pissed me off.
The problem with this movie is the script, not directing. In fact, I would argue that most of it is pretty well shot, with no action sequence turning into intelligible drivel like in most other movies.

The thing that comes to my mind with JW is Prometheus: both make no sense, have clear conflicts of producer / studio in the background, and too many cooks in the kitchen (or in P's case: Damon Lindelof, which is basically the kiss of death anyway). Both are also summer movies that studios know people will come to see anyway.

 

[Discotheque]

^^^he also rewrote the script too. though i have no idea who was ultimately responsible for the mediocre film. there's a lot of names on that credit. but considering the former writers were responsible for the apes films i think the blame probably rests more on colin's hands.

 

[BronsonLee]

I put the tornado sequence of Mad Max vs fucking ANYTHING, not just this year. I liked Kingsman, but christ. Mad Max basically sucks all your breath away for the first hour. And the Polecat sequence..AAAAAAAAAHHHHH

Just got back from JW. Mediocre as hell, but I think I've figured out why Universal seems to be doing so well. They're giving fans of franchises what they want.

Furious 7? I want some really dumb shit, some crazy car shit, and The Rock. Done.

Jurassic World? I want dinos. I got em all.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

^^^he also rewrote the script too. though i have no idea who was ultimately responsible for the mediocre film. there's a lot of names on that credit. but considering the former writers were responsible for the apes films i think the blame probably rests more on colin's hands.

most of the

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hybrid / military angle

stems from earlier scripts, so I'm not going to cast blame in any particular direction until we learn more. I suspect having Spielberg around may have been detrimental though. It's hard to say no to an industry leviathan when you have basically no credit to your own name.

I'm sure BobbyRoberts would have something more useful on it, but he's chilling in the banned section right now.

It does seem like a typical "producer written" movie though. Big scenes and showdowns, virtually no story. This is as old as Hollywood, so it's not surprising.
The other names are probably scenes, bits of dialogue rewrites, and script doctoring. All of these produce credit, but effectively nobody works on the whole, or for very long. This is kind of common with "so many credits" on writing in movies. You could probably take the writing credits off imdb, correlate them directly with the user scores, and come with a negative correlation between number of writers and user score.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

lol @ Spielberg being a detriment to the film. I can't imagine how bad the script was when he made them delay the movie because it wasn't up to snuff.

 

[CrichtonKicks]

I don't think that had anything to do with the director, though.

I don't think JW is shot particularly well (couldn't shake the feeling the entire movie of "this scene is cool but I can only imagine what Spielberg would do with it") but, one week out, there is no denying that people are really responding to JW in a big way and it's disingenuous to take credit away from the director for that. JPIII had cool CGI dinosaurs too but it didn't take off like this.

 

[Toothless]

So Rth at the BOT forums is putting the early estimate for Inside Out's Saturday at 33-35M. That would give it a $67-70M 2-day gross, which is about where tracking was putting the entire weekend.

With Father's Day tomorrow, I think that $93M will be the low end for Inside Out if it manages that $33M Saturday. $95-100M is definitely on the table.

If it places in second still, I'm betting this record lasts even longer than Day After Tomorrow's.

 

[crazy monkey]

spilberg would have made million time better movie than jw.

 

[guek]

spilberg would have made million time better movie than jw.

Well that's contentious when most people are saying Jurassic World is better than The Last World

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Well that's contentious when most people are saying Jurassic World is better than The Last World

Don't forget 1941. He made 1941. Shouldn't really be trusted to make any good movies after that, let alone a Jurassic Park flick.

 

[Wafflecakes]

Can't believe this might beat the second week record while up against a film tracking for 90 million...

 

[duckroll]

Huh, I thought I was in the box office thread, not the Film Critique Discussion & Debate |OT|. Lol.

 

[crazy monkey]

Well that's contentious when most people are saying Jurassic World is better than The Last World

My childhood loved the hell out of the lost world. city parts included. it is the internet that i found out it was not a good movie. I still feel it was worthy follow up to jp. I will see how jw stacks to it. Spielberg knows how to create tension. the tent scene in lost world is still one of the best dino scene.

 

[Finaika]

My childhood loved the hell out of the lost world. city parts included. it is the internet that i found out it was not a good movie. I still feel it was worthy follow up to jp. I will see how jw stacks to it. Spielberg knows how to create tension. the tent scene in lost world is still one of the best dino scene.

There was no tension at all in Jurassic World.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Huh, I thought I was in the box office thread, not the Film Critique Discussion & Debate |OT|. Lol.

That should be a real thread no joke.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

There was no tension at all in Jurassic World.

There was none in Avatar either. We all knew that the white dude will save the native race. And I would disagree with their being no tension in JW. Granted nothing holds a candle to the ending of JP in terms of tension.

I think The Lost World should have ended before the city part. That would have made the overall film better. But I also liked it when I saw it in the theater, granted I was in like 10th grade at that time so I just loved seeing some dinos.

Saturday is looking like 38.9 million.

Looks like JW will end the weekend at 397-399 million, in either case come Monday 400 million mark falls and so does Avenger's record. Though JW could over perform Sunday than expected and hit it Sunday itself.

 

[ahoyle77]

Wait, we dont even get to enjoy movies for a couple of weeks in the box office threads now before people complain about it being overrated?

 

[AdventureRacing]

Coming into this year I think most people were expecting it to be a record breaking year but it seems as though a lot of that is coming from surprising places. A lot of movies seem to be doing surprising well, incredibly so in some cases.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Wait, we dont even get to enjoy movies for a couple of weeks in the box office threads now before people complain about it being overrated?

Success breeds contempt.

 

[CassSept]

It's funny as hell people using Jurassic World of all movies to prop up against Avatar. People sure like their dinosaurs. Fake-ass "dinosaurs" in this movie's case, anyway.

Yeah all the practical effects in Avatar had blown my socks off ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Well all I can say is ebert gave avatar a 4/4 but hasn't even mentioned Jurassic world. The silence is deafening.

10/10

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Deadline now saying that JW is looking at $101-103m for the weekend. That will make it the second movie to ever have a $100m+ second weekend, and it could squeak by for biggest second weekend ever. This one's gonna be close.
It should also pass $400m on Monday, making it the fastest film to do so.

They are also saying $91-93m for Inside Out, making that the second highest Pixar debut ever after Toy Story 3.

 

[CassSept]

Crazy, did anyone call JW being that big?

 

[JABEE]

lol @ Spielberg being a detriment to the film. I can't imagine how bad the script was when he made them delay the movie because it wasn't up to snuff.

I'm guessing most people don't look for that when going to popcorn movies.

One man's shitty rip-off of a Godzilla monster flick is another man's shitty rip-off of Dances with Wolves.

 

[Caode]

Estimates of a $102 million second weekend coming in now for Jurassic World. $398.2 million total. Could be slightly higher when actuals come in.

$90/91 million for Inside Out.

 

[shintoki]

Estimates of a $102 million second weekend coming in now for Jurassic World. $398.2 million total. Could be slightly higher when actuals come in.

$90/91 million for Inside Out.

Looks like Inside out did take a bit out of the king.

 

[Shepard]

That's huge both for Inside Out and Jurassic World. Nice to see a healthy and varied market.

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

Boxoffice.com is saying $103.3 million for JW.

 

[3N16MA]

Boxoffice.com is saying $103.3 million for JW.

That is early a weekend estimate not a studio estimate.

Universal going for a repeat of last week. Conservative Sunday estimate and then takes the record when the actuals hit.

 

[inm8num2]

I wonder how attendance numbers compare to the past few years around this time.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Looks like Inside out did take a bit out of the king.

Not really. This is only the second time a film has made over $100m in its second weekend, and it had a drop of just barely above 50%. That is crazy good for a film as big as Jurassic World.

The real story is that JW didn't seem to hurt Inside Out at all since that over delivered.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

spilberg would have made million time better movie than jw.

The Lost World says no

 

[3N16MA]

At least I was much closer in predicting IO OW than JW.

 

[kswiston]

I'm not seeing any official estimate for Inside Out anywhere. Where are people getting $90-91M?

 

[CassSept]

Inside Out at $90 mil and it's still second. Damn.

 

[JABEE]

Impressive showing again for JW. Saw the movie yesterday. Fun film.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I'm not seeing any official estimate for Inside Out anywhere. Where are people getting $90-91M?

I got it from Deadline but don't see it anywhere else.

 

[kswiston]

I got it from Deadline but don't see it anywhere else.

Meh. I will wait for the official estimate then. Deadline is horrible at projecting grosses. They were still clinging to $190-200M last weekend for JW when they basically had Saturday numbers.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Meh. I will wait for the official estimate then. Deadline is horrible at projecting grosses.

NOT A RECORD!

 

[BronsonLee]

NOT A RECORD!

SON OF A BITCH, NOT AGAIN

 

[kswiston]

Deadline was right for once. $91M estimate for Inside Out

Global total for Jurassic World is $981M. It will pass $1B tomorrow or tuesday.

EDIT: New fastest to $1B record will be 13 or 14 days. Furious 7 took 17 days.

 

[3N16MA]

91.06M for IO.

981.3M WW for JW.

Inside Out scores the biggest OW for an original property. I believe Avatar held the record.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Deadline was right for once. $91M estimate for Inside Out

Global total for Jurassic World is $981M. It will pass $1B tomorrow or tuesday.

EDIT: New fastest to $1B record will be 13 or 14 days. Furious 7 took 17 days.

JW with fastest to $400m domestic as well. I forget, did it also set the record for $300m?

 

[BronsonLee]

Deadline was right for once. $91M estimate for Inside Out

Global total for Jurassic World is $981M. It will pass $1B tomorrow or tuesday.

EDIT: New fastest to $1B record will be 13 or 14 days. Furious 7 took 17 days.

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Inside Out scores the biggest OW for an original property. I believe Avatar held the record.

That's fucking awesome!

 

[3N16MA]

JW with fastest to $400m domestic as well. I forget, did it also set the record for $300m?

It did.

This will be updated but it was pretty much all Avengers before JW.