Niners Fan in CT Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 1 hour ago, Brysynner said: but does not really care too much about a woman who is over a hundred years old and hasn't aged a bit and is a much more skilled fighter than either Batman or Superman. He doesn't see what she's capable of until the end when she SAVES him. There's a big difference between that and Superman who he thought was at least partially responsible for the deaths in Metropolis. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 3 minutes ago, Vader does my taxes! said: I thought the common denominator is that Michael Bay and Zach Snyder both manage to make big budget blockbusters that make craploads of money (thus insuring them further work) without quite being loved by most moviegoers. I think Watchmen, 300 and Dawn of the Dead did okay with critics. Man of Steel was certainly mixed. This was decidedly negative. Batman v Superman will be the first time that audiences had a mixed reaction. The others audiences mostly enjoyed. Man of Steel had an A- on Cinemascore. I can't remember the last time anyone liked a Transformers movie. I'm not sure how they still make a fuck ton because even audience reception has been poor for a while. Maybe there's enough kids to make it work. And China. That said, I love Michael Bay's early work. The Rock, Bad Boys, Bad Boys II. I kind of like Armageddon but I think most hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I am loathe to put stock in anything Forbes.com has to say, but apparently #BvS had the largest Friday to Sunday drop ever. Handily beating out last year's FF reboot with a staggering 55% drop compared to FF's 48% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Weekend actuals were adjusted down to $166 domestic, which doesn't have any impact on the records it set for March, Easter weekend, or WB best open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 It was Easter Sunday but I agree this will drop dramatically in the states. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 18 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said: It was Easter Sunday but I agree this will drop dramatically in the states. From the article, just for discussion: You might be thinking that Sunday was the Easter holiday, which could account for the big Sunday drop. But that still wouldn’t explain the Friday-to-Saturday decline of 38%, which was the second worst opening Friday-to-Saturday drop in the annals of superhero releases, after a 40% dip forThe Dark Knight Rises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Also from the article, it apparently took a similarly huge Friday to Sunday drop in China... Which would in some ways be worse news. If it drops big worldwide, that's a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 https://youtu.be/X9ZoKKQsxis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I do find it most interesting that they dropped TWO Lego Batman trailers in the course of a weekend. Almost like they were saying "look, we know you'll hate BvS, look at this!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 1 hour ago, Niners Fan in CT said: I think Watchmen, 300 and Dawn of the Dead did okay with critics. Man of Steel was certainly mixed. This was decidedly negative. Batman v Superman will be the first time that audiences had a mixed reaction. The others audiences mostly enjoyed. Man of Steel had an A- on Cinemascore. For the record, here's Zack Snyder's Rottentomato scores: Dawn of the Dead: 75 300: 60 Watchmen: 65 Legend of the Guardians: 50 Sucker Punch: 23 Man of Steel: 56 Batman vs Superman: 29 1 hour ago, Niners Fan in CT said: I can't remember the last time anyone liked a Transformers movie. I'm not sure how they still make a fuck ton because even audience reception has been poor for a while. Maybe there's enough kids to make it work. And China. Foreign sales are actually the main profit driver. Age of Extinction made barely 20% of its overall more-than-a-$billion in American theaters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 That trailer played before the movie in my theater, minus the intro. "I've aged phenomenally well" might actually have gotten the best reaction of anything in my theater the whole time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I have no idea what Legends of the Guardian is. Never heard of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 4 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said: I have no idea what Legends of the Guardian is. Never heard of it. That animated CGI movie about superheroic owls that nobody went to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 1 minute ago, Jingus said: That animated CGI movie about superheroic owls that nobody went to see. Yeah I don't think I've ever even seen so much as a trailer for this. Never heard of it. I forgot about Sucker Punch. I knew that existed but I've never seen it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Guardians of something or another. Sucker Punch was.... Interesting.ke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 We saw the owl movie in the theater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 1 minute ago, Matt D said: We saw the owl movie in the theater. I'm so sorry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 12 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said: Yeah I don't think I've ever even seen so much as a trailer for this. Never heard of it. Practically nobody heard of it. Despite being an animated kids' movie that was released in over 3,500 theaters. It barely scraped together a little over 50 mil domestically. 12 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said: I forgot about Sucker Punch. I knew that existed but I've never seen it. Don't bother. It's almost like a parody of all of Snyder's worst tendencies. It's like a version of Tank Girl which is played completely serious without a hint of humor or levity. I've rarely seen a better cast of great actors give such top-to-bottom miserable performances. About half of the movie looks like a series of endless cutscenes from a video game. It's also the kind of movie that features a bunch of strippers as the main characters... who never actually get naked. It pretends to be all about female empowerment, while dressing all the characters as sexy cosplayers and having all the women be a bunch of rape victims who are nothing but pawns for their male oppressors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 12 minutes ago, Brian Fowler said: I'm so sorry We actually have a book of the first three ... books somewhere in the house. I'm not 100% sure the current teenager made it through them though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 4 minutes ago, Jingus said: It's like a version of [comic book] which is played completely serious without a hint of humor or levity. I've rarely seen a better cast of great actors give such top-to-bottom miserable performances. Boy, this sounds familiar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 2 minutes ago, Mike Zeidler said: Boy, this sounds familiar I think Affleck, Irons, Fishburne were great. Adams was okay. Caville was not good. Gadot was good in her one talking scene. Eisenberg was.. something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Admittedly, it's one thing to be grim and gritty in a Batman movie; it's quite another to be grim and gritty in a movie about a bunch of teenage superheroes who are all dressed as porno schoolgirls, who have epic CGI fight scenes against a bunch of giant robots (in dream sequences that are Incepted inside another dream sequence). He's taking the basic concept of Sailor Moon and directing it as if it were The Matrix, and doing a shitty job on both counts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Wow, that first hour fuckin' sucked. This was basically The Dark Knight Returns for The Death of Superman, with some elements flipped on their head or outright reversed. I liked the Doomsday fight, but.. I don't know, nothing else really seemed all that... good? It's got me interested in a Cyborg and Wonder Woman movie, though. I don't know about that dream sequence with Parademons and the Flash. That combined with the Mother Box.... Fourth World? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 And there was an Omega symbol in the dream. Clearly Darkseid. Kneel before him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Yeah, I forgot about that. Then there's this deleted scene too: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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