I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but haven’t yet got around to it. Apparently, noone else has either, according to this and that.
Anyone else completely surprised as I am that this film isn’t white hot?
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I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but haven’t yet got around to it. Apparently, noone else has either, according to this and that.
Anyone else completely surprised as I am that this film isn’t white hot?
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Can a mod help a brother out and move it to its rightful home? :wally
Thanks!
YES IT’S TOO GODDAMN EARLY!
The thing hasn’t even had an actual openening weekend yet. And remember, Titanic had a modest opening weekend (and has overlong and expensive as hell), and it went on to become one of the biggest financial successes in film history.
Also, when did we the viewers start caring so much about a film’s box office? The beancounters run things in Hollywood, but do they have to run us? Some of my favorite films were outright flops. I don’t care, I still liked them.
You can’t even wait until the estimates from the opening weekend are in?
I don’t think a less than record-breaking opening would be that big a deal for this movie. It’s so long that the theaters won’t be able to do as many screenings, which cuts down on the money.
I liked it.
I saw it once already and took a date. I plan on seeing it again. I think it will recoup its investment.
I plan on seeing it, but in a week or two when I’m with my family over the holidays. There might be others also waiting for similar reasons.
Depending on who you ask, the movie cost somewhere between $200 million and $300 million to make. That’s a l-o-n-g way to go to make it to profitability.
Here’s hoping it does, thought. Peter Jackson is brilliant, and I want him to have smash after smash, so that he can retain creative control over his projects and get the kind of budgets he needs to tell grand tales.
But if I were a bean counter at the studio, I’d be worried. A $300 million flop is the kind of disaster that brings movie studios down.
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Way too early. If it’s still in the dumps after next weekend, then you can make the flop pronunciations.
True. But most of the profits are going to come from the DVD (and maybe video game?) sales anyhow. So a slow opening week wouldn’t be doom there either. The reviews I’ve seen have all been good, and I’d be surprised if a lot of Lord of the Rings fans and a lot of action movie fans didn’t go see this.
This sounds like a self-fulfilling snowball of media cynicism/envy in the making; shades of *Ishtar *and Showgirls. (Though only shades, mind you; the parallels are minimal. And I don’t mention Heaven’s Gate because the parallel I’m making is with *good *movies that were sabotaged by the media; not *bad ***movies.)
I hope not. Something needs to knock *Titanic *off the top of that list. *Kong *is a worthy rival.
Private viiwer weighing in.
I probably won’t go see it. Simply put, I’ve seen King Kong. The new version might be prettier, but it seems it stuck almost exactly to the old plot. So… what really do I go see it for? Giant monsters? Cool, I’ll grant you, but maybe not worth the admission price.
I didn’t even realize this movie was opening on Wednesday. I’m not sure how many people will take the time to see a three-hour movie after a workday when they have work again the next day.
My boyfriend is a huge fan of the original. He was disappointed in the movie but he says he may see it again to try and figure out what exactly he doesn’t like about it. I don’t think he was going to be happy with it no matter what. I liked the movie, my main problem was that it was too long. I could have done without the bug scene. It was a very exciting edge-of-your seat type movie so if people can get over the fact that it’s long and not the original and suspend disbelief a lot, it may do okay. I agree that it’s too early to call it a flop. People are too busy getting ready for Christmas to be able to spend 3 hours at a movie.
Presumably, then, you would have never seen the original either if you’d had to pay for it?
YE BLASPHEME.
If I didn’t know how everything is going to turn out, maybe. Nothing I’ve heard about the new King Kong has, in any way, shape, or form, sounded like it added anything interesting. Maybe I’ll take a show for the spectacle, but it’ll be a matinee at best.
The weekend before Christmas is usually a little soft. With Christmas being on a Sunday, that means that this weekend and next will be soft. People are out Christmas shopping.
However the Wednesday number of 9 million is really low.
It is a good movie. It’s got flaws, and major ones, but it’s good.
As for interesting additions:
I would’ve paid to see Kong sitting around picking his nose for three hours. That’s how good the cgi/motion capture/animation is. Truly.
I found myself having to remind myself that this ape does. not. exist. He is absolutely amazing. Andy Serkis is my freaking hero.
It also is a tearjerker. I cried for the last hour. Literally. Sobbing in my little stadium seat. Not too many movies are emotionally manipulative enough to get me to cry, especially action flicks.
Also:
Sumatran Rat Monkey!!!