Box Office Is Not Great For M:I:III Opening

Cafe Society
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In this Hollywood Reporter article, the opening weekend box office for Tom Cruise’s newest Mission Impossible did not perform as well as expected. $48 million instead of the predicted $58 million or more.
While hardly a flop, it does appear other factors may be in play.

They dance around the reasons, but as mentioned in another thread currently running, it seems quite a few people no longer consider Tom a box office draw.

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Frankly if it wasn’t for someone mentioning in a South Park thread Mission Impossible III was coming out I never would have known it existed. Where are the ads for it? I guess on none of the shows I watch.

I had to turn the first one off on that stupid exploding helicopter jump and never bothered to check the second one out.

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So all in all, Comedy Central pulled the Scientology rerun for nothing?

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It’s even worse. The third is a slightly better film than the other two, but is so filled with plotholes, etc. that it’s worth a rental at most. The theater I saw it in was barely populated with people. I think more people were at the showing of Hard Candy I saw last weekend than at M:I:III.

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I saw it on the weekend and it was a very small audience where I was. One of my son’s friends had wanted to get a group of people to go but couldn’t find one other person willing to go. Interestingly he said that all cited Tom Cruise animosity as their reason.

It will be quite some achievement if Cruise manages to sabotage his own career by taking greater control of his off screen activities.

I quite enjoyed the movie - it was a pretty good time waster. Nice looking.

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How was Hard Candy? Worth watching?

Personally, a friend and I only went to watch M:I:3 because poor time management meant we weren’t able to make the showing of Brick we were shooting for. :o

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There’s a bit too much of the jerky camera work that’s all the rage these days, but I found it to be a good film overall. A few parts didn’t really work for me, but they weren’t so bad that I wanted to scream at the screen like I did with M:I:III. There’s nothing so special about the film that it needs to be seen in a theater, but it’s good enough that you don’t mind plunking down the bucks for movie tickets.