Yeah, I wouldn’t call AoU bad. I was a bit disappointed in it, though. Out of all (2) the movies I’ve seen, Fury Road is definitely my favorite so far. I’m glad it’s making enough money to get a tentative sequel.
I agree, but I also expect that I’ll be a bit disappointed by it as well. It is a rare sequel that surpasses the original. Ironically, The Road Warrior is one of those few. 
The gross will, of course, determine which sort of movies will be produced in the future. Not just the sequels, but all sorts of trends the movies of tomorrow will follow.
I was disappointed when my favorite movie of last year, Edge of Tomorrow, didn’t make a ton of money because that means we’re less likely to get more of those types of films.
It’s kinda like how the failure of Cutthroat Island scared studios away from pirate movies for years.
While this is undeniably true, I’ll be the first to state that IMO Mad Max: Fury Road will set more trends and influence more future films than Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Avengers 2 is clearly the odds-on favorite, but I think that Mad Max has a good chance of tying up second place. All the reviews of it are not just good but raving, and it’s a sort of movie that can also appeal to the blow-em-up demographic.
Dude, have you seen Fury Road yet? The blow-em-up demographic is it’s main target.
My pick of Age of Ultron as this year’s summer hit is looking like a winner. And this is following my winning pick last year of Guardians of the Galaxy.
I will, however, formally concede at this time that my pick of Turbo as the biggest summer blockbuster of 2013 did not work out.
Sure, we will.
They just won’t be very memorable.
In the trailers I’ve seen, Chris Pratt is riding a motorcycle, looking serious with his jaws clenched. It’s kind of laughable but maybe he’ll be better in the actual movie. I liked him better in Parks & Rec or Guardians of the Galaxy where he wasn’t trying so hard to be serious.
Well, yes, and that tends to be a very lucrative demographic. But the point is, even reviewers who are not in that demographic are giving it great reviews.
Just noticed this comment. I also like this movie a lot, and would have liked for it to have done better financially . That said, box office was actually nearly okay for this film, and apparently both DVD sales and online rentals were strong, so it wasn’t a failure either. Hopefully the financial results didn’t discourage anybody from thinking about similar projects.
Which, come to think of it, makes me wonder why the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE flick set to come out in July ain’t on the list; the last one did, what, $690-$700 million? I mean, sure, it won’t beat ULTRON – but it’s bound to beat some of the above, right?
I’m going with Jurassic World because it will get fans of the older movies and new younger people.
Plus renaming it for streaming means some people may have re-bought it by accident. 
Originally it was supposed to be Josh Brolin, but he dropped out at the last moment. So the role is for an actor who can act reasonably tough with a certain Clint Eastwood-ish gruffness, not Pratt.
In any case, let’s be honest, they had me at “dinosaurs”. Everything else is irrelevant.
But their tie-in ads with DQ and other products are really well done. With that and advance merchandising (why am I feeling a flash-back to several of the lines in Spaceballs?) it could put their box office over the top.
“Jurassic World” had a great opening weekend. In fact, they had the biggest Friday box office in History, in pure Friday numbers.
We’ll have to see if it has legs. It’ll need them to catch up with Age of Ultron which is still #8.
Legs hardly matter, though the 86% Audience score at Rotten Tomatoes indicates it will have legs. In 3 days, Jurrassic World has made over a half-billion dollars.
Domestic: $204,600,000 40.0%
- Foreign: $307,200,000 60.0%
= Worldwide: $511,800,000