Dawn of Justice: "Anything less than $1 Billion Worldwide is a failure"

[Strazdas]

Agree with basically everything except the IMDB thing. That's a really high score for a movie that hasn't even seen a full release yet. I'd hold off until Monday and see what the scores level off at.

yeah, IMDB is unstable[footnote]I accidentally wrote unsuitable, Freudian slip?[/footnote] during the first few weeks. It was more of a jab at the other services more than anything. Interestingly enough, average female score is 2.7. apparently women really hate this movie.

 

[WindKnight]

hears to hoping me not going to see it adds to the failure then, fucking Zack Schneider and his shit ass Frank Miller obsession.

You know it's funny: when DC does Frank Miller's work it fails miserably, but when Marvel does it it's an amazing success.

possibly because they don't worship the ground he walks on. could also be the lack of employing Zack Schneider.

I don't know, even Miller's own work for the two publications seems to have the massive divide in quality where his Marvel work is some of the best things the company's ever printed, while his DC work is honestly quite crap.

He's always had some peculiarities, but initially they were married to really good writing so they were ignored for the most part.

Then he wrote Sin City, and some joke he never stopped writing it.

Then 9/11 happened and he really lost it.

 

[Einspanner]

Analysts... almost always worthless and almost always less accurate than a coin flip. Forgettable assholes to a man/woman. Remember Michael Pachter?

Funny thing, Muchael Patchers predictions came out true 50% of the time (like literally exactly 50%) which, given the predictions being quite specific is a very large number and far better than random. Pachter was more right than most people give him credit for.

No offense, but I'm not believing that without being able to see where you got those figures.

 

[Strazdas]

Analysts... almost always worthless and almost always less accurate than a coin flip. Forgettable assholes to a man/woman. Remember Michael Pachter?

Funny thing, Muchael Patchers predictions came out true 50% of the time (like literally exactly 50%) which, given the predictions being quite specific is a very large number and far better than random. Pachter was more right than most people give him credit for.

No offense, but I'm not believing that without being able to see where you got those figures.

i found that data on this forum [http://nintendoenthusiast.com/forums/discussion/1110/michael-pachter-prediction-accuracy-thread/p1] where some nice guy seems to have made a prediction by prediction comparison. However it appears that the link is dead and google does not have a copy cached so i am unable to provide those figures anymore

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Well, it made like $30 million on Thursday. No Marvel movie ever earned that much on previews alone. I think it's gonna do fine.

 

[mduncan50]

Well, it made like $30 million on Thursday. No Marvel movie ever earned that much on previews alone. I think it's gonna do fine.

That's a pretty broad assumption. Thursday previews were always going to be huge because DC fans have waited literal decades for this to happen. I actually don't think we're going to have a fair idea of how it's going to do until next weekend, once most people that decided long ago to see it do so, and then we see about return business and whether the general public are interested.
For the record, the Thursday figure for BvS was $27.7 mill, and Age of Ultron did $27.6 mill before ultimately performing below expectations. That said, DC would be very happy with AoU's box office, but Marvel already had the trust of the general public, and a huge $240 mill from China where there were many previous Marvel movies to support it.

 

[Dizchu]

Are professional critics even worth listening to at this point, instead of seeing the movie ourselves and judging accordingly?

I mostly use Rotten Tomatoes to decide whether or not a film is worth seeing in the cinema, while listening to a few critics I trust to get the general consensus. Of course films that were panned can turn out to be pretty good but if I'm going to see something in the cinema I want to be sure that I'll be entertained. The worst thing I saw in the cinema was probably the two Pirates of the Caribbean sequels (well, back when it was a trilogy).

doesnt matter, the public loved it. 9.0 on IMDB [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975590/reference]

Literally every overhyped film skyrockets to the top of the IMDB charts due to idiots spamming 10-star ratings. It's especially bad with Christopher Nolan films, each one since The Dark Knight tends to temporarily reach Godfather status (and to be honest, the only one worth being in the top 50 since The Dark Knight was The Dark Knight).

 

[Vanilla ISIS]

$424 million worldwide on the opening weekend.
Seems like that $1 billion is going to happen.

 

[Evonisia]

$424 million worldwide on the opening weekend.
Seems like that $1 billion is going to happen.

Just read that and its related statistics. In one weekend this film has nearly managed more than two thirds of the overrall gross of "Man of Steel" ($668 million). I guess Batman is still a massive draw.

Shame that it's going to beat "Deadpool" for highest grossing superhero film this year though =/

 

[Antonio Torrente]

$424 million worldwide on the opening weekend.
Seems like that $1 billion is going to happen.

Just read that and its related statistics. In one weekend this film has nearly managed more than two thirds of the overrall gross of "Man of Steel" ($668 million). I guess Batman is still a massive draw.

Shame that it's going to beat "Deadpool" for highest grossing superhero film this year though =/

The question now is "how many people will see it again?" because Avengers made money with repeat viewings.

 

[mduncan50]

Shame that it's going to beat "Deadpool" for highest grossing superhero film this year though =/

I'm relatively sure that Civil War will beat it out still, that's assuming that Dawn of Justice numbers don't absolutely nosedive next weekend.

 

[Antonio Torrente]

I'm relatively sure that Civil War will beat it out still, that's assuming that Dawn of Justice numbers don't absolutely nosedive next weekend.

Considering the "see it no matter what" crowd usually show up as soon as possible, (like the happy little lapdogs they are) I'm confident this'll be the highest any movie has ever gotten before a very distinct nosedive.

Oh man, if that happens the butthurt of those fanboys will be glorious.