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Post by Tristan's Journal on Dec 23, 2018 13:13:50 GMT
indeed, Star Wars as the biggest mother-of-all-blockbuster-franchises ever, it's not DC's Aquaman. Um, strike that, clausula rebus sic stantibus: I wonder how much Solo would have flopped this year if they had actually put it next to Aquaman? Pains me to say, as I am a massively bigger SW and ST fan than DC. Anyway, we do not really have a bone of contention here. We can agree to speculate that Aqua would have presumably have a even higher US BO start (i) without the lukewarm Justice League reception and/or (ii) without the fierce family film competition and/or (iii) on a statistically more blockbuster-friendly summer release day, and that in any event this is a box office smash already. MarryPoppins is "underperforming" because it's a bland, unimaginative retread with mediocre songs (and Disney ruined it with "I'm Maryr Poppins ya'all" and CarryPoppin's-merry-flight-through-space). Bumblebee is "underperforming" because, while far, far, far the best Transformers film, it's an unremarkable ET/ShortCircuit -rip off with a lot of SJW-elements and sentimentality forced into it. And bc of AQUAMAN being the biggest and imaginative freaking action-fantasy movie of the year.
We will never settle the TPM is the best Prequel argument though. You will burn in SW hell for this, forever. Not that this is news to any regs at this point but only someone with the most unfathomable DCU bias could believe that to be true.
TPM is the better movie of the prequels. ^ the fanboy dost protest too much, methinks. Bias or not, this film features the most astounding and imaginative action sequences of the year, I just name the Sicily roof-chase, the deep-dive flare-sequence or the final underwater battle, not to mention the mano-a-mano duels. The 3D is technically outstanding. But bummer, you wouldn't know as you only watched a crappy China bootleg on your small screen. And you were so busy "looking at your watch" that you evidently did not catch elementary plot details as your "breathing" and "tattoo" threads amply demonstrate. As a reminder: ^ Just accept it, Norm. " You do your best thinking when you're not thinking at all. Hold still." (Mera)
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Post by NormanClature on Dec 23, 2018 14:32:46 GMT
Not that this is news to any regs at this point but only someone with the most unfathomable DCU bias could believe that to be true.
TPM is the better movie of the prequels. ^ the fanboy dost protest too much, methinks. Bias or not, this film features the most astounding and imaginative action sequences of the year, I just name the Sicily roof-chase, the deep-dive flare-sequence or the final underwater battle, not to mention the mano-a-mano duels. The 3D is technically outstanding. But bummer, you wouldn't know as you only watched a crappy China bootleg on your small screen. And you were so busy "looking at your watch" that you evidently did not catch elementary plot details as your "breathing" and "tattoo" threads amply demonstrate. As a reminder: ^ Just accept it, Norm. " You do your best thinking when you're not thinking at all. Hold still." (Mera) The only thing I am a fanboy of is good movies and Aquaman ain't one of those.
The thing is, bro, for a movie to be good it requires more than the odd visually arresting image. It needs good writing (FAIL!), it needs good characters which people are invested in (FAIL!), it needs good performances from the actors (FAIL!), if it's a superhero movie then we need a good villain (FAIL!)....the list goes on. You are correct, I did watch the bootleg version (so did you BTW...you may have seen it in theaters now but...well....who really cares??! ), I have a cinema pass and could go to watch the movie again, free of charge, to experience the full " visual splendor," but I am not going to. The reason being that there is nothing else there I want to see. The movie is lacking in virtually every other aspect and seeing a few pretty looking fishies on a big screen isn't worth my time when I could watch this on Youtube instead -
PS. You never did tell me where in the movie they talked about how he managed to get those tattoos or explained how "highborn" Atlanteans can breathe on land while others can't.
PPS. Urghhhh! Did you have to remind me of that piss "joke"?!!!
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Post by politicidal on Dec 23, 2018 17:11:43 GMT
Almost at $500M worldwide now.
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Post by havenless on Dec 23, 2018 18:48:11 GMT
The 60 million was just the weekend estimate, that 120m goes through Tuesday. So you're saying the estimate was $60 million for Thursday night through Sunday and another $60 million for Monday and Tuesday? That doesn't make any sense. The initial OW estimate was $60 million. Now it's doubled to $120 million. It was never estimated to be 120 for OW, you read the article wrong... and hey look! Barely broke 60m.
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Post by Jedan Archer on Dec 23, 2018 18:51:02 GMT
Not bad for one of the most ludicrous and fishy superhero characters ever. This film made me kind of nervous. I wasn't sure that you could do underwater dialogue and worlds in life action in an acceptable manner. James Wan did it superbly.
Here's hope that this commercial success and international audience approval cemented the gateway for other obscure DC characters and some great trilogies.
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Post by scabab on Dec 23, 2018 18:55:02 GMT
So you're saying the estimate was $60 million for Thursday night through Sunday and another $60 million for Monday and Tuesday? That doesn't make any sense. The initial OW estimate was $60 million. Now it's doubled to $120 million. The estimate was $120 million for the 5 day weekend. "Industry analysts estimate the film will earn $65-70 million domestically across the three-day weekend with an additional $46-55 million from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. This puts the projected five-day weekend earnings to $111-120 million at the domestic box office."
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Post by thisguy4000 on Dec 23, 2018 19:02:11 GMT
So you're saying the estimate was $60 million for Thursday night through Sunday and another $60 million for Monday and Tuesday? That doesn't make any sense. The initial OW estimate was $60 million. Now it's doubled to $120 million. It was never estimated to be 120 for OW, you read the article wrong... and hey look! Barely broke 60m. What do you mean “barely”?
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Dec 23, 2018 19:29:22 GMT
Wow who knew that Aquaman would be such a big hit over seas?
By the way a Aquaman movie just destroyed a Spider-Man movie.
Fucking Aquaman!
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Post by politicidal on Dec 23, 2018 20:27:26 GMT
Wow who knew that Aquaman would be such a big hit over seas? By the way a Aquaman movie just destroyed a Spider-Man movie. Fucking Aquaman! Que the “well actually...” about Ragnarok or The Winter Soldier doing it first in three...two...one...
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Dec 23, 2018 20:52:20 GMT
I would not say that Aquaman destroyed Spiderman. I see no causal connection as Spiderman - unfortunately considering the quality - underperformed before Aquaman was released. If anything, Aquaman destroyed Mary Poppins (!), Transformers & Co - and conversely those ate away junks from Aquaman. Stupid business decision to launch 3 blockbusters at once IMO. www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4469&p=.htm
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Dec 23, 2018 23:20:07 GMT
It was never estimated to be 120 for OW, you read the article wrong... and hey look! Barely broke 60m.What do you mean “ barely”? He likely means that domestic Aquaman is at $72,100,000+ (14.9%) that's barely 60m. Foreign is barely $410,700,000 (85.1%)
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Post by darkpast on Dec 24, 2018 0:00:43 GMT
Wow who knew that Aquaman would be such a big hit over seas? By the way a Aquaman movie just destroyed a Spider-Man movie. Fucking Aquaman! Me, OS likes spectacle, James Wan’s F&F is big OS
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Post by poelzig on Dec 24, 2018 1:51:56 GMT
That guy with the dinosaur avatar is suddenly conspicuously absent. I wonder why? 10 Caroling 09 Last minute gift shopping 08 Tried imitating his favorite emoji and broke his neck 07 Constructing a life sized gingerbread house 06 Drank Too much egg nog and passed out in a filthy toilet 05 Played Father Christmas and a gang of kids came over and robbed him 04 Tried to spend Christmas in Hollis and got jacked 03 Emojis stopped working on his flip phone and he ended it all 02 His mom told him to get a job so he moved to his Grandma's and she has no internet. And the #1 reason that guy with the dinosaur avatar is suddenly absent conspicuously I wonder which one it was?
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Dec 25, 2018 19:19:37 GMT
Aquaman crossed $500m cume worldwide.
An important threshold of becoming, not a hit, but a smash hit considering the production budget and relatively unknown IP. I believe the first not front row character that made a commercial splash for DC, if you discount SuicideSquad (which featured Joker, H Quin, BM etc).
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Post by politicidal on Dec 26, 2018 2:39:32 GMT
Aquaman crossed $500m cume worldwide. An important threshold of becoming, not a hit, but a smash hit considering the production budget and relatively unknown IP. I believe the first not front row character that made a commercial splash for DC, if you discount SuicideSquad (which featured Joker, H Quin, BM etc). It's still impressive that SS grossed that much even with the cast and marketing they did.
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Post by CowherPowerForever on Dec 26, 2018 5:44:40 GMT
So you're saying the estimate was $60 million for Thursday night through Sunday and another $60 million for Monday and Tuesday? That doesn't make any sense. The initial OW estimate was $60 million. Now it's doubled to $120 million. The estimate was $120 million for the 5 day weekend. "Industry analysts estimate the film will earn $65-70 million domestically across the three-day weekend with an additional $46-55 million from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. This puts the projected five-day weekend earnings to $111-120 million at the domestic box office." When you look at the data I'm not even sure the experts got those estimates of 120 million for the 5 day. They predicted 65 to 75 million for the 3 day(which it made), then admitted that Christmas Eve is historically a dead day for films. Christmas is big for films, but not 40 million or so big.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Dec 26, 2018 19:46:42 GMT
Recent Update
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Post by politicidal on Dec 27, 2018 0:45:20 GMT
Not bad for one of the most ludicrous and fishy superhero characters ever. This film made me kind of nervous. I wasn't sure that you could do underwater dialogue and worlds in life action in an acceptable manner. James Wan did it superbly. Here's hope that this commercial success and international audience approval cemented the gateway for other obscure DC characters and some great trilogies. Rumor is they planning to adapt Booster Gold, Plastic Man, and Zatanna.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2018 4:44:10 GMT
Not bad for one of the most ludicrous and fishy superhero characters ever. This film made me kind of nervous. I wasn't sure that you could do underwater dialogue and worlds in life action in an acceptable manner. James Wan did it superbly. Here's hope that this commercial success and international audience approval cemented the gateway for other obscure DC characters and some great trilogies. Rumor is they planning to adapt Booster Gold, Plastic Man, and Zatanna. Booster Gold could be amazing if they get the tone right. I greatly enjoyed the 52 era run of Booster even if it was uneven at times. It was adventurous and fun but still had some serious elements and interesting plot twists. If they can capture that feeling in film, even if it's not a smash hit, it will be a cherished classic. I just hope they don't go broody with him. Take the tone from Thor Ragnarok and you're set.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 27, 2018 5:37:01 GMT
Rumor is they planning to adapt Booster Gold, Plastic Man, and Zatanna. Booster Gold could be amazing if they get the tone right. I greatly enjoyed the 52 era run of Booster even if it was uneven at times. It was adventurous and fun but still had some serious elements and interesting plot twists. If they can capture that feeling in film, even if it's not a smash hit, it will be a cherished classic. I just hope they don't go broody with him. Take the tone from Thor Ragnarok and you're set. Between “Aquaman” and what “Shazam!” is shaping up to be, it seems they’re taking a break from brooding.
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