Well I'll be. Bronson is actually right. Star Wars fanbase is the most horrible thing ever with the worst goddamn nerds in it.
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Wkd Box Office 1218-2015 - Force Awakens does good... gOOOood, opens w/ $248m
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Well I'll be. Bronson is actually right. Star Wars fanbase is the most horrible thing ever with the worst goddamn nerds in it.
It's true.
freenudemacusers
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I had a moment, a week ago, where I recited a line to that snowman song, and wasn't sure where I had heard it. Then a few days later, on my daughter's 1,000th viewing of frozen, which I had yet to actually *watch*, I happened to catch that scene and had a brain melt moment realizing that 90% of that film had seeped into my subconscious without my consent 😫
It absolutely is.
LucidMomentum
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All of it.
Mushroomer25
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Woot woot. Though frankly I probably estimated ten different opening weekends for Star Wars over the past few months. One of 'em had to be close.
I definetely overestimated Avengers (as did many people). I still feel like the Mayweather/Pacquio fight was bigger than most people anticipated, and siphoned off a solid amount of its' Saturday night numbers. Not saying that would've pushed it past 220M, but certainly would've been closer.
Bobby Roberts
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See, Bronson!
There was also the kentucky derby that weekend. I think AoU might have been able to match the opening for the first Avengers if not for the sporting events that weekend but the world will never know. It still wouldn't have come close to its final $623M DOM though.
CreepingFear
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I'm on my third viewing as well. I will see it at least 2 more times. I'm 33 and I don't find myself watching the same movie multiple times these days. I saw Guardians of the Galaxy 2 or 3 times. That's the only recent movie besides Force Awakens that I've watched multiple times in the theater.
The wrestling community.
Huh? You act like I make many Star Wars threads. I barely make any of them. Hell I doubt I have made more than 3 Star Wars threads this entire past year.
And yes there will be a crow thread for those who unwisely thought Marvel is bigger than Star Wars when this passes Ultron. And yes I plan to make it. Crow will be served. It will be beautiful.
You might want to check yourself...
4. Not yet to the point where I'm embarrassed to say the number, but it'll get there eventually.
I saw Titanic a few times.Seventeen times in theaters.
Holy god.
It better be your favorite movie of all time
freenudemacusers
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A marvel vs Star Wars thread is like two overachieving adults desperately trying to impress their cold, distant parents, who never return their calls. They'll never hug you, no matter how many cars or vacations you buy them!
In a weird way I have respect for them. I don't think I would survive two hours of Raw.
Just did, 5. Only 2 since May. A lot less than Brosnon makes it seem. Especially with how flooded the OT is with Wars threads.
I'm at 5 viewings. Might have one more in me sometime in the next couple of weeks but its really just dependent on getting asked along by someone who hasn't seen it yet, which sounds like its 50/50 on happening. I think the last time I saw a movie more than once was ROTS twice in 2005.
CreepingFear
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Problem for me is I need to see The Hateful Eight and The Revenant. I scored some 70mm tickets for The Hateful Eight for Christmas Day.
Hah that's my big thing too. I don't like going alone. Went with my wife once (very unwillingly, she couldn't give a shit about Star Wars) and my friends and dad have seen it already. My dad badly wants to go again so I have that. Running out of people who want to see it more than once.
Needing to see Hateful Eight is also a problem.
Really? The more it gets away from the prequels the best.
4-6 never got "rebranded" like that, though.But you underestimated by a whopping 66%!!!!!!!!!
Really? The more it gets away from the prequels the best.
Yes it did: http://lucasfilm.com/star-wars
I remembered more the later half of the year where I had barely any. Once TFA mania took hold there was 48583 people waiting to post the latest bit of non-news about the movie there was nothing to post topics about!
I might go for the 3rd time tomorrow. In fact I snuck into a theater today but it was playing in 3D so I had to leave. This theater by me is stupidly easy to just walk into. There is literally no one there to rip tickets. It's a garbage theater but it's right around the corner.
Oh. Okay.
It's even weirder since they are using prequel style font and logos for the spin-off films. Makes no sense.
Hey, it's better than the millionth MoS thread. Bring on more Star Wars!
BronsonLee
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No lies detected
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Heavy lies detected. Moving to intercept.
You even said you're going to make the crow thread! That's dumb. The money literally goes to the same company now. Neither is going away. Put the Fuck You Rocket away
Though you definitely aren't as bad as MCU-Gaf, fuuucking hell
That'd break even the opening Tuesday record. Good stuff.
Oh man I had never seen the Rebels logo before. Now that's bad.
Pretty much what I figured after we got the Monday number.
Assuming it ends up on the high side today (which has been the case so far) tomorrow will be $33-35M. I'm thinking $24M for Thursday.
That puts it at what, over $380 million before the second weekend even begins?
tiggerkiddo
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It can't be that bad, can it?
and it's funny cause unlike other fanbases you don't even have to dig deep to find the awful proof of the star wars fanbase.
Looking at you Toys R Us commercial
Bobby Roberts
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It's pretty bad.
You should have heard the fucking temper tantrum some of the most vocal aspects of the fandom threw when they heard they wouldn't be able to buy new Slave Leia toys in 2016.
The most popular Star Wars podcast online did like, three straight shows on it, culminating in them bringing their WIVES on, ostensibly to say "it's okay that you can't stop fetishizing Carrie Fisher from 1983" and when they were like "maybe you guys have had enough out-of-context boner-stroking over a character who was more than this bikini" they got yelled at.
Ya. I think that we can pretty much call $375M by the end of Thursday a conservative estimate at this point. $36M tomorrow, $31M on Wed, and $21M on Thursday is still $376M.
But WHY are they like this?
How come, say, Star Trek fans don't seem to be like this? (as far as I know).
Officerrob
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Pure insanity
Ignoring the fact that we still have another 10 days of Holiday grosses after this Thursday, The Force Awakens gets to $730M with Age of Ultron legs if it finishes Thursday at $375M.
If It finishes Thursday with the lower bounds of my guesses, it ends up at $745M with Ultron legs.
Time for those of you still hedging your bets on whether Avatar will keep the domestic crown to accept that we have a new domestic charts topper.
If It finishes Thursday with the lower bounds of my guesses, it ends up at $745M with Ultron legs.
Time for those of you still hedging your bets on whether Avatar will keep the domestic crown to accept that we have a new domestic charts topper.
BronsonLee
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That's a question I cannot answer
Along with the question of how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop
Fuck you owl, that was A BITE
Time to star prepping my Star Wars avatar.
BronsonLee
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Forgot about that. Right. Hats off to those that can sit through that.
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