Just want my prediction on record- Maleficent (film) will not do well at the box office.
Any particular reason you suspect this? I don’t see anything that indicates it will be an obvious failure. It could be a huge hit or a huge flop for all I know, I’m not great at predicting box office performance.
Also, how big of a bomb do you think it will be? A lot of films now are disappointments stateside but are profitable when worldwide grosses are taken into account.
I like Angelina Jolie and some of the other actors in the movie. I can’t really tell how good the movie is going to be though. I’ll probably wait until reviews are in before deciding to go see it.
I’m gonna go see it and unless it’s absolutely godawful, I expect I’ll like it. Maleficent and Ursula have always been my favorite of the Disney villains and I’m always down for a good re-invention.
Maleficent is one of Disney’s least impressive villains in one of their weakest fairy tale movies. But then, there are people who thing Darth Maul is a great villain. :rolleyes:
However, that will have no bearing on the success of the film.
I agree with you. Not really sure why. I wish there was some way to make money off of predicting box office hits and failures…I seem to have a sixth sense about these things.
I always found her the scariest, probably because of the scene where the goblins are dancing around the fire. It was “Hell” for me for a lot of years (I didn’t really believe in Hell, but that was the picture I conjured up mentally when someone used the term).
I wouldn’t be surprised if it broke $300M worldwide. It’s a high-budget film, but it has pretty good odds of breaking even after DVD sales and video on demand.
But, as played by Angelina Jolie, damn does she have screen presence. Zowie!
FWIW, my daughters, 2 tweens and a teen, have already started lobbying to see this opening weekend.
Wow. She’s actually my number one favorite of the animated fairy tale villains.
I’d be interested to hear who you think the best ones are. None of them were scary to me the way she was.
Is it a “reform the character” revision, like “Wicked?” Can anyone point to some pre-release spoilers?
I do intend to see the movie…but, to be honest, I’d like to know a lot more about it before I see it. I’ll probably wait till it’s been out a couple weeks and read all the spoilers I can find.
Anyway, the trailer looked good. And in the original (Disney) “Sleeping Beauty” that dragon was (heh) Fantasmic! One of the best movie dragons ever.
(But it did make me sad, watching the movie years later, as an adult, how stupid her goblin lackeys are. Geez! You just can’t get good evil minions these days! If she’d hired competent labor, she’d have conquered the world.)
Yeah, I’m going to have to disagree. Angie’s first film role in three years (four if you don’t count voice work); an executive producer who worked on many of Disney’s best movies; a re-telling that makes a well-known villain sympathetic which is a recipe for a blockbuster (Wicked, I’m looking at you…); premiering on the 55th anniversary of Sleeping Beauty… it’s got too much going for it. It’s Stromberg’s first directing shot, but he’s won two Academy Awards, so he’s no slouch.
And I’m not just saying all this cause she’s my favorite villain. She turns into A FREAKING DRAGON. How can you not love her??
Sleeping Beauty and Alice in Wonderland are my two favourite animated Disney features. Linda Woolverton already butchered the latter, and the film made a killing (though that was surely in part due to the post-Avatar 3D fad). I imagine Maleficent will do decent business at the very least.
The story is not the best, but the style of the animation and the music! How can you go wrong with a Tchaikovsky score?
I’d say the one and only worry (other than bad word-of-mouth if it sucks) is the old formula of “Girls will go to the movie their boyfriend wants to see but boys won’t go to see the movie that their girlfriend wants to see”. It’s a problem every female lead movie has to deal with.
Have you seen the trailer? Action, special effects, and while I’ve never been a big Jolie fan, a main character who is, shall we say, in a dominitrixish sort of way, fun to watch? (What can I say, strong females are sexy.)
Boys will want to see this movie.
Really? Most Disney fans I’ve seen expressing their opinion generally rate her among or as their favorite. She has the lead villain role among the Disney characters in the Kingdom Hearts game, and is the “final boss” of the Fantasmic show. I’ve probably seen more Maleficent fan art than I have of the next two or three villains combined.
I have zero interest in it, but there seems to be a pretty big market for rehashes of classic Disney characters, so I’d guess it’ll do well.
Plus big-budget kids films do well, and a lot of parents would probably watch Maleficent then Alvin and the Chipmunks VIII.
Yeah, I’ve seen the trailer. They’re definitely shouting at the top of their lungs “Hey, BOYS, this movie is for you too!!!” And they’re hitting that message so hard precisely because it’s a difficult demographic for a female lead movie to capture.
This movie isn’t selling sex the way the Resident Evil series or the Underworld series or other “Female Lead . . . but for adolescent boys’ fantasies” did.
I’m not saying they’re not going to get boys in to see this movie. I’m just saying that, with as much as this film has going for it, that is the only significant uphill battle that I can see.
Not this one. The action and special effects look a hell of a lot more Narnia than any action I’d be excited to see. I don’t expect Game of Thrones from a Disney princess movie, but it looks exactly like the sort of thoroughly harmless action that makes The Hobbit look like a Tarantino flick by comparison.
What it looks like to me is yet another fractured fairytale pave-over like and Snow White and The Huntsman. It’ll do all right numbers, and likely get around 50% on Rotten Tomatoes. If anything, I think my prediction is optimistic. Flat out bombing wouldn’t be a surprise. It’s plainly too dark for the little girl demo.