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Wkd Box Office Est. 0518-20 12 Avengers sinks the Battleship & drowns The Dictator
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He's sucked in everything I've ever seen him star in, although Clash of the Titans was a special level of suckitude that's hard to reach. I'd be willing to bet his stand in could have done a better job.
It's a dream
sigh....yeah I know but I can dream.
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Wow. Is that all you require from actors?
James Woods
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Nah. I just don't hate actors for being mediocre, man. I find Andy Dick offensive. You have to be actively awful for me to hate you as an actor.
Sony made a 120m Rom-Com, nothing they do surprises me anymore.
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No one hate Kitsch. We hate the fact that he is shoved up in our face for no real reason
Being mediocre is a far worse sin, IMO. We used to require character from our leading men. Charm, personality. These guys barely qualify as actors. More like meat props that exist to hold up wardrobe and fill space.
ViewtifulJC
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Same here. Probably that gif.
200 Million? I thought it was another low 100 million, maybe less. Guess we need another bomba this year.
Also, I don't see why people want Marvel to get Spiderman back. As of right now, Sony is 2/3 with them. Spiderman 1 was decent and Spiderman 2 is still one of the best. Amazing Spider, I'll with hold judgement on, but it doesn't look too bad either. Leaving 3 potentially being the only mishap. Compared to Marvel which finally delivered a competent movie, after 6 attempts.
People want to see Spider-Man show up in the Avengers despite the fact his presence would completely ruin the movie since he would probably show up all the other heroes.
You'd be in the minority of people if you thought Iron Man 1 was a bad comic book film. Spider-man 2 is one of my favourite comic films, but I'm not a huge fan of the first movie. That and X-men 1 benefited by coming out at a time where comic films had sucked for a decade.
Spiderman 2 is miles, miles better than any of the shit Marvel has churned out. I'm a Garfield fan, not a Marc Webb fan though, and the screenplay looks like a trainwreck waiting to happen (Peter Parker is not Jesus, you dumb motherfuckers. He's like... the opposite of Jesus. Ugh)... new one could go either way.
The only great Marvel movie is
The only great Marvel movie is
the first 45 minutes of the Incredible Hulk.
Femmeworth
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What. Iron Man is good. >:|
Kitsch is the Amanda Peet of 2012
sonycowboy
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Thor is actually pretty good IMO. I was never particularly interested in the Asgard/realm worlds in the comics, but I found the main characters pretty well executed and enjoyed the Warriors 3 and Lady Sif.
Captain America was pretty bad though. I like the development of the character itself, but that was about it.
Hero_of_the_Day
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200M film.
$200 million dollar movie two weeks after TDKR with a lead who has never really drawn big crowds.
What could go wrong?
Femmeworth
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I really wanted to like Thor, but it didn't do much for me. Captain America wasn't very good, I agree.
kame-sennin
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A Princess of Mars was the template for Star Wars and Avatar. That movie should've been a huge hit. Stanton snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Yea, I like the shared universe, but only to an extent. The Avengers cast works well together, but I don't want Spider-man or the X-men to show up out of nowhere. Aside from how crowded the cast becomes, I always thought it strained credibility that all those heroes lived in the same city but somehow had separate adventures. I know the Fantastic Four were always off in another dimension, but if Magneto is rampaging through Manhattan, the fucking Avengers are going to show up. Every time. I think X-men, Spider-man, and the Avengers should all stay in separate universes.
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What is aceshowbiz and why is it on my Neogaf?
Worthington is a million times more annoying, and sadly his movies don't bomb.
StriKeVillain
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Total Recall picture is so terrible it triggers a malware warning? :eek
1. Didnt hotlink, it was my own upload.
2. abload.de isnt malware site. If it was then the Total Recall pic would also trigger the alarm.
3. I think the filename triggered the alarm, so I edited out the gif. It seems fine within the quote, weird.
4. Glad to see so many Chrome users on GAF.
Good Job Bob
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artist trying to give us viruses now? These BO threads have really gotten out of hand.
I only give out Avatars.
The Total Recall pic is the one triggering the alarm. It is not hosted on abload. Unless you run Aceshowbiz, it isn't your own upload. If you do, then you're running a malware site.
Three magnificent bombas in a calendar year?
200M film.
At this rate, 2012 will see every high and every low there is to see in box office.
:lol
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=releases&id=starwars4.htm
yeah 138 million.
edit: beaten like a hillbillies
Yes. Star Wars, E.T. and the Lion King would not be in the top 10 if we were only going by initial grosses. E.T. would be the only one in the top 20.
However, it has never fallen out of the top 5 until now. The lowest it had ever been before the re-release was 4th place (after E.T., Jurassic Park, and Forrest Gump). After the re-release, it was briefly #1 until Titanic, and then #2 for over 10 years before TDK. Avatar pushed it to fourth, and the Episode 1 re-release pushed it to 5th.
planar1280
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Even if you take out the rerelease and take into account inflation star wars todays money would be 1.17 billion domestic alone it would still be number 2 ahead of Sound of Music which is at 1.12 billion
planar1280
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Wrong . If you take out rerelease star wars would still be at number 2 with 1.17 billion gross domestic
Box Office Mojo's inflation number for Star Wars is not accurate.
I was obviously talking about actual grosses, like everyone talks about in these threads. So, no, none of that is wrong.
So Hunger Games is at $391.9M after 60 days. Transformers 2 was at $398.2 after the same number of days, but was making less money per day at that point.
The Hunger Games' 9th weekend was about the same size as Revenge of the Fallen's 7th weekend. After its 7th weekend, Revenge of the Fallen made another $8.3M. That would put the Hunger Games at almost exactly $400M. The Hunger Games has had better holds, but Transformers 2 had summer weekdays. Also, the Hunger Games is going to lose most of its theatres in the next 3 weeks and will probably start seeing larger drops (it's still playing in 2000 locations, and newer movies are going to need those screens as the release schedule picks up). It's going to be close.
The Hunger Games' 9th weekend was about the same size as Revenge of the Fallen's 7th weekend. After its 7th weekend, Revenge of the Fallen made another $8.3M. That would put the Hunger Games at almost exactly $400M. The Hunger Games has had better holds, but Transformers 2 had summer weekdays. Also, the Hunger Games is going to lose most of its theatres in the next 3 weeks and will probably start seeing larger drops (it's still playing in 2000 locations, and newer movies are going to need those screens as the release schedule picks up). It's going to be close.
Besides that adjusting numbers isnt a real guage. Different market conditions and all that, we have already discussed this at length.
It will cross 400M. I cant see it stopping at 397M or 398M.
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