Reed Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 It is kind of amazing how international markets lap up these big dumb American blockbusters. The terrorists didn't win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Bay makes amazing bad movies and if you were a crazy billionaire and you had to choose a director for your bio pic, the entire shortlist should be Bay and Paul Verhoeven. Goes without saying the Transformers movies are awful and the correct answer is Verhoeven, but still. I actually enjoyed The Island as a really dumb movie that tries to be kind of smart and fails totally at that and goes back to being dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Bay makes amazing bad movies and if you were a crazy billionaire and you had to choose a director for your bio pic, the entire shortlist should be Bay and Paul Verhoeven. The answer is Wes Anderson. The answer to this forever is Wes Anderson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 I still say Bad Boys and The Rock are awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 I'm not a big Transformers fan or anything, and I'm not beholden to any notions that there's a masterpiece just waiting to be made from the material, but it's kind of infuriating to me that there's this one guy who gets to be the sole cinematic voice of these characters. Can we maybe let someone else take a swing at making a giant transforming robot movie that isn't purile, incomprehensible horse shit? I believe there's someone out there who can do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Some possible shadiness with Transformers' $100m opening weekend. http://online.wsj.com/articles/100-million-debate-transformers-debut-was-big-but-how-big-1404174343 Rentrak Corp.'s reporting system has a direct line into the vast majority of theaters in the U.S. and Canada, to track actual ticket sales, but it isn't in quite all of them. To report their "actual" gross the Monday after a film opens, studios estimate the sales at the small number of remaining locations. That figure stands as the final publicly reported opening gross of the movie. Large openings, particularly ones that pass milestone figures like $100 million, are often touted for marketing and publicity purposes by studios. According to several people with access to Rentrak data, the system provided ticket sales data for about 4,100 of the 4,233 theaters playing "Transformers" in the U.S. and Canada. Together, those theaters sold about $95.9 million of tickets for the film. Theaters that don't report into Rentrak tend to be small, independent locations that do less business than average. So when calculating their Monday "actuals," studios typically assume that those outlier theaters each gross at most half of what the average theater reporting to Rentrak does. By that method, "Transformers: Age of Extinction" would have grossed about $97.5 million. In order for the movie to reach $100 million, the "Transformers" theaters not tracked by Rentrak would have had to gross more than the nation-wide average—a rare though not unprecedented assumption for a studio to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Apparently Transformers 4 has already passed $200 million in China making it pretty much the biggest American film ever to happen in brave new China. I don't know about this future we're crafting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 This franchise will never, ever die. It's like Cher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 That is so unfair to Cher. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 You know things are bad when Shia Lebeouf, aka the World's Most Irritating Man, leaves a franchise and it somehow manages to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 So the top 2 movies this weekend are Michael Bay's continued desecration of the Transformers, and a Melissa McCarthy movie? For shame america, FOR SHAME. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Well, The Expendables 3 flopped. Not sure if: 1) People don't see it as a proper action movie if Liam Neeson isn't shooting goons while trying to get his daughter back 2) Potential audience members wanted to see power-mad men go nuts with tanks and guns but then realized they could just stay at home and watch the news and not have to pay all that money for popcorn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Is there anyone new in this version (other than Rhonda)? What 80s action stars haven't participated yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Gibson. I think, against standard logic, the pg-13 rating probably didn't help. Lets be Cops is doing well. TMNT and GotG both did well. We're on pace for the best domestic August ever, after a brutal first three months of the summer blockbuster season. GotG is almost certainly going to pass Cap for #1 on the year (until Mockingjay comes along...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Snipes and Banderas were new as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 they need to do more than "Hey look it's those guys from the 80's!" Start with having an engaging plot. Maybe some stakes too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 I heard that he action just isn't that good. In the end, that's the backbone of an action film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted August 18, 2014 Author Share Posted August 18, 2014 It's gotta be killing Bryan Singer that DOFP is gonna finish just a *smidgen* short of THE LAST STAND for the top-grossing X-Men movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 The Expendables franchise has got to the point there's just too many people. Was there anyone in Hollywood NOT in that film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Was there anyone in Hollywood NOT in that film? People whose careers haven't died a grisly death within the last fifteen years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Outside of hardcore Ric Flair/Hulk Hogan fans is there anyone that actually wants to see senior citizens involved in action blockbusters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Outside of hardcore Ric Flair/Hulk Hogan fans is there anyone that actually wants to see senior citizens involved in action blockbusters? People who saw Red? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Helen Mirren is way more of a badass than a third of the cast of this film though. Come on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stennick Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I might be wrong but I think TMNT is the first movie to be first at the box office back to back weekends since the "official" start of summer. Transformers was making all kinds of money and looked on track to beat Cap but its still 16 million shy and judging but its 800,000 domestic its pretty much done earning for the year. TMNT still needs about another 18 million to become the top earning TMNT movie it should get close judging by it doing just under 30 million in its second week. Its been an underwhelming summer both in terms of box office money and really in terms of quality movies. Outside of GOTG I didn't walk away from any movie this summer thinking "man that was virtually perfect". Neighbors was fun, Days of Future Past was really fun but nothing seemed great this year for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Outside of hardcore Ric Flair/Hulk Hogan fans is there anyone that actually wants to see senior citizens involved in action blockbusters? People who saw Red? Given that Red 2 did 37 million less domestic than the first one, maybe not. Helen Mirren is way more of a badass than a third of the cast of this film though. Come on. Preach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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