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Wkd Box Office 12•18-20•15 - Force Awakens does good... gOOOood, opens w/ $248m

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GhaleonEB

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Kagari said:
I just bought tickets for Saturday with my mom. My fiance said he didn't think he could sit through the movie again lol.
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Hah, I've been doing the same thing. I went with my older daughter, then my wife, then my younger daughter with wife in tow. I think I'm on my own for any subsequent viewings. :lol
 
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valkillmore

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GhaleonEB said:
Hah, I've been doing the same thing. I went with my older daughter, then my wife, then my younger daughter with wife in tow. I think I'm on my own for any subsequent viewings. :lol
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How many more viewings do you have in you? You've seen it three times bro! I saw Titanic twice in theatres and I've yet to watch it again lol
 
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Kagari

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BronsonLee said:
I have actively stopped both my sister and mother from going to see TFA.

I'm helping!

They hate going to the movies and prefer almost anything else
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I don't think I could see it 5+ times like some people have. It's not *that* good. I do want to see it a second time to reaffirm my thoughts over the whole thing since I saw it on opening night.
 
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Branduil

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Reading that thread is reminding me that up until just a few months ago, $1.5 billion was viewed as an amazing bar to reach, rather than just the new $1 billion for mega-blockbusters. The number of movies passing $1.5 billion is about to double in less than a year.
 
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GhaleonEB

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valkillmore said:
How many more viewings do you have in you? You've seen it three times bro! I saw Titanic twice in theatres and I've yet to watch it again lol
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4. Not yet to the point where I'm embarrassed to say the number, but it'll get there eventually. :p

I saw Titanic a few times.
Seventeen times in theaters.
 
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AdventureRacing

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GhaleonEB said:
4. Not yet to the point where I'm embarrassed to say the number, but it'll get there eventually. :p

I saw Titanic a few times.
Seventeen times in theaters.
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I think 6 times is my top ever for a movie. LOTR, batman, mad max are the ones I can think of (though it's usually more due to circumstance than anything).
 
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BronsonLee

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Kagari said:
I still don't understand that movie. I got dragged to it and it was fucking bad.
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I'll do my best!

1: Sendoff for Paul Walker
2: Payoff on the goodwill of 5 and 6 (which were legitimately good)
3: Being such a batshit stupid movie and not caring whatsoever

You know how TFA plays it pretty safe? F7 basically goes 'yeah, you guys bought that flip card in 6, so you'll buy us jumping this Lamborghini through a building
AND THEN DOING IT AGAIN
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Biggest-Geek-Ever

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G-Fex said:
wrestling gifs.

This thread has jumped the shark and hard.
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It's me, Skywalker!

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Even my immediate apprentice bought it
 
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JeffZero

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I'll be going a third time in a week or so. Got one more friend who didn't tag along with the large groups I went with the first two times. She was terrified of crowds.
 
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Dr. Black Jack

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JeffZero said:
I'll be going a third time in a week or so. Got one more friend who didn't tag along with the large groups I went with the first two times. She was terrified of crowds.
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At the risk of sounding like an asshole, why are so many Star Wars fans afraid of crowds? Like 2/3 of the people I talk to who were hyped to see it avoided this past weekend because of this specific phobia. It wasn't even like "I just prefer it that way", it was straight up "crowds terrify me". Really don't get it.
 
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Loxley

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I still can't believe there were people who were convinced TFA wouldn't break records because it was a December release.
 
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Branduil

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I love that that thread OP has a bunch of questions about TFA vs. Ultron, and then at the very end they put some random question about Kingdom Hearts.

Loxley said:
I still can't believe there were people who were convinced TFA wouldn't break records because it was a December release.
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Also the people who thought TFA couldn't possibly make more than 1.1 billion because no Star Wars film had before, as if the literal dollar amounts the old movies made were at all relevant to its potential gross in today's numbers.
 
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JeffZero

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Dr. Black Jack said:
At the risk of sounding like an asshole, why are so many Star Wars fans afraid of crowds? Like 2/3 of the people I talk to who were hyped to see it avoided this past weekend because of this specific phobia. It wasn't even like "I just prefer it that way", it was straight up "crowds terrify me". Really don't get it.
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It's not Star Wars fans, in my experience -- it's everyone else. Or rather, that is to say, it's folks who don't really have a vested interest, but the marketing got to them or they just want another popcorn flick. That's how it is with that friend I mentioned, and I've literally overheard at least a couple of dozen conversations about fairly casual moviegoers petrified of "that Star Wars fan craze" who are waiting until the diehards clear out and they can get seats. I heard that same conversation on a daily basis at the coffee shop I frequent.

It's the (often mistaken) fear that there will not be any seats available unless they wait in line for hours on end.
 
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BronsonLee

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To be fair, I've never seen a fanbase be so poisonous to the franchise they like as much as the Star Wars fanbase

The only ones I think that come close are the FGC or Dota community.
 
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borghe

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GhaleonEB said:
4. Not yet to the point where I'm embarrassed to say the number, but it'll get there eventually. :p

I saw Titanic a few times.
Seventeen times in theaters.
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Damn dude. For what it's worth Titanic ended up as my record also. Pretty sure 6 or 7.

Will likely have 5 and 6 this weekend. After that I'll probably only finish the AMC Sunday posters and then call it. Well I guess technically after xmas I'll just go for the rest of the AMC posters.
 
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opoth

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Branduil said:
Also the people who thought TFA couldn't possibly make more than 1.1 billion because no Star Wars film had before, as if the literal dollar amounts the old movies made were at all relevant to its potential gross in today's numbers.
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I think a lot of the armchair analysis is being done without context - to many doing so, they either weren't alive or not cognizant of Star Wars fever in its original incarnation. There was a lot of doubters that only had the PT to measure against, which is completely understandable. Put the original trio into a competently made film and James Cameron has nothing on them in today's dollars.

Now get off my lawn!
 
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kswiston

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You guys are crazy with your 3+ viewings of a single film. I wish I actually had the opportunity to see half the stuff I want to in theatres these days. A film could become my GOAT and it's still getting one theatrical viewing.
 
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Kagari

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kswiston said:
You guys are crazy with your 3+ viewings of a single film. I wish I actually had the opportunity to see half the stuff I want to in theatres these days. A film could become my GOAT and it's still getting one theatrical viewing.
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I saw Titanic... 5 times total between original and re-release I think?
And this is really shameful but I saw Episode I in theaters 10 times ONLY BECAUSE IT WAS $3 A TICKET and I was young and many of them were joke viewings.
 
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Chamber

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Tonight is my 4th viewing of Force Awakens. I keep finding different groups of friends who haven't seen it yet and tagging along.

I think 4 is my limit though.
 
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freenudemacusers

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kswiston said:
You guys are crazy with your 3+ viewings of a single film. I wish I actually had the opportunity to see half the stuff I want to in theatres these days. A film could become my GOAT and it's still getting one theatrical viewing.
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I've only done a double viewing once, and that was only for my sons sake. But re: titanic, I knew people who saw it 6-8 tImes in the theater, some just to hear the song again. Kinda weird to think back about how crazy everyone went about that movie.
 
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kswiston

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Kagari said:
I saw Titanic... 5 times total between original and re-release I think?
And this is really shameful but I saw Episode I in theaters 10 times ONLY BECAUSE IT WAS $3 A TICKET and I was young and many of them were joke viewings.
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Even when I was a kid I don't think I ever saw a film more than twice in theatres. I don't rewatch that many movies in general though.

Edit: Not counting the fact that I have a two year old and have had to sit through at least part of Frozen 20 to 30 times in the past few months.
 
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Spiritreaver

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I had my 5th viewing last night, but I live right next to a small theater (10 minute walk) that's also right by my gym. I'm always stopping by to watch something when I have nothing else to do.
 
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Cheebo

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Currently at 3 viewings. Will get 2 more in before its out of theaters, maybe 3 more depending how long it stays in theaters. Not sure yet.

Last film I saw more than once in theaters was The Dark Knight at 2 viewings.

Despite being old and bitter there is nothing like Star Wars (literally nothing else does this to many anymore, even movies I am hyped for) that brings out my inner 5 year old and makes me want to watch the same movie as many times as I can.
 
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