ST The Last Jedi Box Office Discussion (see warning on page 307 before posting)

Will finally see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes onDemand tonight.

 

They better NOT kill Maurice! I can take anything from Apes but that. Just No.

 

VERY good movie! I see a huge difference between this and other movies. The sheer emotion and depth was excellent. Every move was very deliberate and carefully thought through. Definitely deserved the 90% RT score it got.

 

95%.

ETA: Sorry, just realized you were talking about Dawn.

 

I'd easily put Rise and Dawn alongside the original Planet of the Apes, and it sounds like War may be the best yet. I find this astounding. (We can ignore the increasingly terrible sequels, starting with nuclear bomb-worshipping mutants and ending with a school bus riding into Ape Village...)

 

Apes are showing everyone how prequel movies are done. It's tough to do prequels cause we know how the story ends. Yet the journey there with Caesar&friends is really fascinating. I think it also helps that it takes place hundreds of years before the original POTA, so they have freedom with the story. It's much tougher to have freedom with characters who appear both in the original and the prequels.

 

There were aspects of Lion King, Avatar/Pocohantas and other stories but they were only aspects and not complete take aways (like Avatar) and it had its own compelling storyline. And it was one of those stories (like Logan) which was a very basic story with enough complexities within the script and action to make it fresh, emotional, tense, and exciting.

 

The decidedly mediocre Despicable Me 3 has already made 3x its production budget worldwide. Transformers is only at 2x budget worldwide after 14 days of release. The virtues of sequel budget control, although for Transformers the only selling point is the high end, bombastic, relentless visual effects, which doesn't come cheap.

 

I qualify this 'review' as an unashamedly massive Spidey fan, and the verdict, pun absolutely intended, amazing.

Everything that makes Spidey to my mind the greatest character in fiction is encapsulated in this movie.

They capture the essence of Peter so well and that's always been the central appeal of the character. Bruce Wayne is an act, Batman is who he really is. Peter Parker is the essence of the Spidey mythology.

Great fun, funny, dramatic and the youngsters will love it.


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Surely we are approaching the stage where you can tell an AI, "Here are some robot models and a city. Make them fight for 30 minutes", and press Enter and let it make you a fight sequence.

 

Two weekends in a row with big budget movies that are over 90% RT score is pretty huge. SMHC and WOTPOTA.

 

I always come to this thread and get confused by initials for movies....

 

You don't know about Shaking My Head Comically, the sequel to The Emoji Movie?

 

I love WOTPOTA.

 

You just have to FRTTR the MCNOR and look up the CNCHDMO number for the DOOMMM movies and you'll be WEINFO.

 

The DBO/GBO ratio of SMH relative to WW, other MCUFMs and the last SMR should be noteworthy. RT and MC for SMH are very comparable to WW.

 

Rylo Ken

What OD and OW we can expect for SMH based on its Thursday?

Excellent movie, BTW. Smaller scale which was so freakin good!

 

I agree with Guidman. After seeing the movie and reaction, this is breaking out. It's for the whole family but especially teenagers will lap it up cause Peter is a teenager (not played by a 30something) and high school is a big thing in the movie.

 

$15.4 million last in Thursday previews. Spidey is easily going to be the third biggest opening of 2017.... could it even make a run at the second slot? Doubtful but possible at this point.

 

also agree. I think it will exceed expectations.

 

Early reports from deadline and hollywoof reporter have Friday at 42-45m, quite a bit behind GotG 2's 56m. Those are just early numbers though, and they sound awfully low for such a preview number. Wouldn't be the first time deadline underestimates with the early numbers, maybe a 50m day is still doable with a really good evening. Makes topping GotG 2 for second best OW the year highly unlikely though.

 

So far or overall in 2017 including TLJ and Justice League for that matter?

3rd so far, without a doubt. No questions asked about that. Only three films have cracked $100 mill so far.

The big question is whether Spidey will beat WW and GOTG2 in overall domestic. Time will tell.Could be like how TFA brought SW back to the limelight. But I secretly still want WW to beat it.