Amph The 2015 Box Office Bloodbath (And the winner is...)

Oh really? Well that doesn't really change anything. Isn't WoW decreasing in popularity due to the rise of Elder Scrolls Online and League of Legends?

 

No. WoW is decreasing in popularity because of WoW. Nothing else has really dented it.

However, there's still basically 9 million people guaranteed to buy a ticket across the globe which, by itself, isn't a lot -- but that's only a theoretical minimum...

 

I haven't played WOW in like 2 years but the game still has a player base of about 7-9 million people last time I checked. That's an instant audience. Heck I know I'll be dragging my wife to see it.

I screened Gravity in 3D this morning at work. It was awesome! Good story, very good acting and amazing visuals. Best looking 3D movie I have seen since Avatar. I can't wait to take my wife to see if again. It's that type of movie.

 

They did. They rolled out an R-rated sequel/blockbuster. That sucked tremendously.

I think they took the wrong lesson somewhere, but who knows?

 

Forgot about District 9. And I guess post-Kill Bill Tarantino is also an exception.

 

I don't think Elysium sucked tremendously. It was bland and uninspired, with a storyline that was hopelessly trite, but "sucked tremendously" just seems like the kind of thing I would say about a Marvel movie.

 

Not a sequel.

And Elysium was made for 3-4 times as much as District 9, though in comparison with other blockbusters isn't nearly as costly.

Elysium was disappointing. All of Blomkamp's visual style and flair was there, but he probably shouldn't be put in charge of story anymore.

 

^ That. The reason why WoW has decreased in any popularity at all is because of Diablo III. There was an article about that a couple of months ago, would have no idea where to find it now though.

As far as LoL....that has nothing to do with WoW's competition because it's a completely different style of game. Dota is LoL's competition, and that's not run by Blizz. Elder Scrolls is like any other of the 500 million MMO's to come out...even if it's amazing and awesome, there's too much that WoW has against it. Mostly stability, time put in, near flawless game mechanics because they already made all the mistakes when there wasn't much competition years ago. Even if ESO is a kick ass game (and I'll totally play it), it would have to do something reallyyyyyy different as an MMO to take down WoW. Rift, LOTR, FF haven't done anything to WoW's sales and those are the more successful of the mmos out right now.

 

I'd be more game for a Diablo movie than Warcraft.

 

I'd see a Diablo movie if the whole thing was shot from the same isometric view.

 

Considering the type of film that dominates the 2015 Summer schedule, that's actually great counter-programming. I didn't think Ted was all that great my self (Flash Gordon/Sam Jones stuff aside), but it made a boatload of money and my friends and co-workers were pretty unanimous in their love for it. I'd say it's one of the safest bets of '15.

 

2015 is gonna be crazy

 

It seemed to think it had something profound to say about immigration, but it didn't think through a single consequence of its ending. Everyone now has access to medical care that is going to enable them to live decades past a normal life span when the earth is already overpopulated and nearly out of resources. Plus, now that everyone's a Legal, the police force CAN'T ARREST ANYONE. And then that actor who played Spider gave one of the worst performances I've ever seen. God, he was awful.

But this isn't the Elysium thread. And, yeah, it isn't a sequel. Don't know why I said that.

 

The more I think about Elysium, the stupider the movie is and teh stupuder i becam,

 

**** Diablo or WoW. Where the frak is my HALO movie?!?!

Seriously though, Hollywood has to implode now, and it looks like the 2015 Bloodbath will be its last hurrah (hopefully). Nothing really motivates me to go to the movies lately considering how 95% of the stuff released is garbage.

 

How can we tell what anything looks like, honestly? 2015 is still a over a year away. The summer of 2015 is closer to two years away.

 

Didn't Alan Moore once say that Hollywood has become so desperate that they'd probably make a movie with Johnny Depp as Cap'n Crunch? That's probably going to be a reality.

 

I think you guys are 2012'ing 2015, making it out be some apocalyptic year for Hollywood. Things will probably remain the same, more or less, in the years afterward.

 

I dunno. 2011 was a dreadful year, and this year seems to be following suit. 2012 on the other hand was a freak success. I guess we'll see how 2014 turns out.

 

What's coming out in 2014, anyway? Let's see...

300 sequel
Captain American sequel
Rio 2
Spider-Man sequel
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Maleficent
22 Jump Street
How To Train Your Dragon 2
Transformers 4
Fast and Furious 7
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Hercules
Fifty Shades of Grey
Guardians of the Galaxy
TMNT
Expendables 3
The Giver
Sin City movie
Interstellar
Mockingjay, Part 1
Exodus
Hobbit movie
Night at the Museum 3

Honestly, judging by that list, 2014 looks to be far more of a potentially disastrous year for Hollywood than 2015 could ever be. The only ones I'm interested in: Days of Future Past, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Interstellar, and the final Hobbit movie. Movies like the Captain American sequel and FF7 will be moderately enjoyable, but I really don't have any expectations for them at all.

 

Spider-Man should do well, Transformers can be the worst thing ever made and it will still make big money.

300 was very popular so the sequel should attract people.

Most of the rest should be meh apart from Hobbit part 3, I liked the Night at the Museum movies but I don't really see where they can go with another one. It could ruin what fun there was in the first 2

 

I thought FF7 was coming out in 2015? When's the release date for that one? May?

 

Final Fantasy VII came out in the mid-1990's. Jeez.

 

I'd totally take that over another POTC sequel.

Mmm-hmm. Definitely going to be one of those Summers where movies open big on their first weekend out and then plummet %55-60 the following weekend as the next big thing opens.