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

You can't be serious. I can possibly understand that feeling about Ratatouille since rats are repulsive animals no matter how cute they're drawn. But The Incredibles? Possibly the most fun and best Fantastic Four adaptation that will ever be made? "Worst" is simply an adjective that is universally NOT associated with this one movie.

 

someone's gotta be the .1% outlier of opinion on those movies. Might as well be you, Loyal Imperial

 

I didn't like The Incredible, but then I thought it'd be a comedy like other Pixar movies up to that point so ended up pretty disappointed.

 

Are any Pixar films straight-up comedies? I would describe them more as family-oriented "dramadies." I mean, I haven't seen the Cars merchandising juggernauts, so I could be wrong.

 

I never thought of it that's way, but I think you're right.

Looks like Tomorrowland, Pitch Perfect 2 and Poltergeist were neck and neck Friday with about $9.5 million each, followed by Fury Road and AOU.

If Star War: The Force Awakens had been opening this weekend it would have earned more than those four movies combined.

 

Five, even.

 

As someone with the misfortune of experiencing Cars 2 that one was basically just a comedy. There's some token issue of Larry the Cable Guy the Car not feeling appreciated by his best friend Owen Wilson the Car but it's an excuse to set up a super spy pastiche featuring Michael Caine the Car.

 

i liked both, i don't know how anyone can't like The Incredibles.

 

I'm voting with Aloha this weekend instead of San Andreas because Cameron Crowe has done good things before and I want to look at Emma Stone and I think this is the only time in 2015 I'll be able to look at Emma Stone in a movie theatre so, yes, Aloha.

My guess is San Andreas will clear at least a 50 mil opening and Aloha .... erm, 15? I think it's the only romantic comedy out there and has been, and will be, the only romantic comedy option for awhile. Maybe could do better considering Pitch Perfect 2 took a dive in the 2nd weekend and the only other options are explosions and earthquakes and robots.

 

Interesting that there are no reviews up on RT for either movie. It will be sad if next weekend is just as much a box office bloodbath as the Memorial Day weekend.

Reviews are of course beside the point for a disaster movie starring the Rock, but not so for Aloha.

 

Aloha is odd to me, because -- as far as I can tell -- Emma Stone (the whitest ginger in Hawaii) is playing a character with the surname of "Ng"

I know absolutely nothing of the movie, plot, whether she was married previously... but Ng is a very, very specific suname and it left a bad-taste in my mouth to hear about it.

 

I have a friend who grew up in Honolulu with a Japanese surname. Her father was half Japanese-American. It would be hard to tell anything about her ethnic background. She's not a redhead, but then again neither is Emma Stone.

 

San Andreas actually has two reviews up, which isn;t enough to show a score yet. But the score is 50/50.

 

And it may be totally innocuous in the film too, I'm just saying it left a bad taste in my mouth from the commercial with all of the white-washing going around these days...

 

It would be nice to have a cast in a movie set in Hawaii that reflects the actual demographics of the population.

 

I'm more curious how next weekend will look.

 

Furious 7 hits $1.5 billion worldwide today, just a few million shy of Avengers 1.

Age of Ultron is going to fall short of that with no more than $450 million in the U.S. and probably just shy of or right around $1 billion outside the U.S.

And TFA is unlikely to hit Furious 7 numbers abroad, so it's an easy call now for Furious 7 as the number one movie of 2015.

 

It's not the weekend, it's the movies thrown into that slot. Last year it was the Adam Sandler flop "Blended" and the dull X:Men days of future past.

If TFA had opened on Friday it would have made $200 million.

 

lucky too it got that slot, since Memorial day weekend accounted for nearly half its domestic box office gross.

 

Just another reminder to Hollywood not to open anything but big budget sequels on holiday weekends. The Tomorrowland flop is bad news for everybody.