# Maleficent (film) will be a box office bomb.

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**Created:** [May 12, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maleficent-film-will-be-a-box-office-bomb/688296 "2014-05-12T19:13:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maleficent-film-will-be-a-box-office-bomb/688296/201 "2014-09-04T14:57:16Z")

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So I think it’s fair to say it wasn’t a bomb.

The movie was okay. Angelina Jolie was great, and Shartlo Copley plays a desperate nut as well as anyone, but really I don’t think it will be remembered as a classic. It kind of blew part of the story (the third fairy godmother’s blessing was forgotten about, a curious decision) and overall it’s just, well, kind of forgettable. The character of Aurora is a big zero, and after she is revived the movie devolves into a forgettable CGI chase-and-fight fest that manages, somehow, to make a dragon scene boring. It does have a coherent story with a main character who experiences an arc, which these days is saying something.

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maleficent-film-will-be-a-box-office-bomb/688296/202 "2014-09-22T21:01:55Z")

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> [@blueslipper](#):
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> I think about 120M in the USA and 250M worldwide.

Bumping to note that the $120M prediction is now off by more than $120M, sure as the $250M prediction has long been off by more than $250M; not a whole lot of movies have made it past the three-quarters-of-a-billion mark, but danged if this one didn’t swing it with Australia to spare.

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**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maleficent-film-will-be-a-box-office-bomb/688296/203 "2014-09-23T01:21:56Z")

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> [@blueslipper](#):
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> Just want my prediction on record- Maleficent (film) will not do well at the box office.

I’ll admit that I suspected this very same thing when I heard about it coming out. I thought, no way this will ever top Frozen, it will be mocked as a pale imitation.

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