Dawn of Justice: "Anything less than $1 Billion Worldwide is a failure"
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Analysts... almost always worthless and almost always less accurate than a coin flip. Forgettable assholes to a man/woman. Remember Michael Pachter?
Yeah, me neither.
Yeah, me neither.
I honestly can't wait for Dawn Of Justice to crash and burn. With any luck, the idiots running DC will finally figure out what's been painfully obvious for years: the reason their movies suck (with the arguable exception of the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy) is because they're just not fun. Look at Marvel's mega-successes compared to Man Of Steel or...whatever other garbage DC/Warner Brothers has cranked out lately. Everything DC does is trying to be dark, edgy and "dramatic" (despite not having done The Killing Joke yet somehow, where that tone might work), and it just comes off as trying too hard and not being at all faithful to the comics.
Good God.
I'm probably going to see it, sooner or later, assuming the reviews aren't absolutely scathing (and I'll probably see it even then just for the spectacle, though I'll wait for a second run theater to pick it up.)
But... $1 billion...? Those aren't just "fill three theaters on the first night" numbers, those are "we'll go and see it again" numbers. I haven't seen anything in the trailers thus far that sells me on the level of "You haven't seen it yet? Look, I'll take you and go watch it a second time myself, it's that good." Once the spectacle has been seen, whatever plot details that remain unspoiled have been taken in, the performances witnessed in all their grand, pale, or hammy grandeur... What's left of this movie? Anticipation for all the tie-ins? DC and WB sure hope so, but I think a lot of people are going to leave the theater, blink into the light, clear their heads of all the bass-heavy explosions they've been exposed to, and make their plans to go see Civil War.
I'm probably going to see it, sooner or later, assuming the reviews aren't absolutely scathing (and I'll probably see it even then just for the spectacle, though I'll wait for a second run theater to pick it up.)
But... $1 billion...? Those aren't just "fill three theaters on the first night" numbers, those are "we'll go and see it again" numbers. I haven't seen anything in the trailers thus far that sells me on the level of "You haven't seen it yet? Look, I'll take you and go watch it a second time myself, it's that good." Once the spectacle has been seen, whatever plot details that remain unspoiled have been taken in, the performances witnessed in all their grand, pale, or hammy grandeur... What's left of this movie? Anticipation for all the tie-ins? DC and WB sure hope so, but I think a lot of people are going to leave the theater, blink into the light, clear their heads of all the bass-heavy explosions they've been exposed to, and make their plans to go see Civil War.
I went looking for the source to see if it was him, actually.Einspanner said:
I think they're too invested at this point to just cleanly pull out.undeadsuitor said:
I wonder how many babies... movies, I mean movies, have been made because of that excuse.Something Amyss said:
I don't know. Not many companies go this deep, only to have a mishap this early.AccursedTheory said:
When you say "good", are we talking "typical Marvel movie" good, "Batman Begins" good or "this is a follow up to a middle of the road movie that people can't even agree on if it was passable or bad and this looks good by comparison" good? Because the difference could mean my seeing it or not.Johnny Novgorod said:
Take this with a pinch of salt: it's much better than MoS, but not as good as the Nolan movies (and for all its flaws I liked TDKR).Zontar said:
Can't say I care too much, if Dawn of Justice doesn't make enough money to justify its cost, then that's the movie companies problem
Someone pointed it out, but I tend to agree. These are "I went to see it multiple times" numbers. To put this in perspective, Avengers made 1.5 billion and I saw it twice in theaters. The Force Awakens made 2 billion and I saw it three times in theaters.
I can't help but feel that I'm not isolated in this regard. And I can't help but feel BvS needs a similar showing from others.
Honestly, this movie had two terrible trailers, has no build up with other movies, and has way too many characters. Perhaps even worse is that it is a sequel to Man of Steel which has a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, and that many people are split on whether it was good or utter shit. Hitting a billion dollars may be a feat.
I can't help but feel that I'm not isolated in this regard. And I can't help but feel BvS needs a similar showing from others.
Honestly, this movie had two terrible trailers, has no build up with other movies, and has way too many characters. Perhaps even worse is that it is a sequel to Man of Steel which has a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, and that many people are split on whether it was good or utter shit. Hitting a billion dollars may be a feat.
That's... not exactly encouraging. I mean I don't hate TDKR, but it was certainly the weakest of the trilogy. And if you're saying BvS is not as good as that, it doesn't make me feel like it can do extremely well.Johnny Novgorod said: