TheGoldenBoy said:
Heavenly_King said:
TheGoldenBoy said:
S.T.A.G.E. said: If this bombs for good, then let this send a message to Fox that we are done with their version of Fantastic Four. The next Xmen is looking shitty too so that might be the next one to have a low attendance. |
I really doubt that's going to happen.
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Days of Future past was a mess. Apocalypse should have been an Avengers Boss, he is an Omega mutant, the dude is ridiculously mega powerful. I think that movie will be a mess too. Also he needs to be CGI in order to have the face he has in the comics, and not a dude in make up.
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Most people loved Days of Future Past though and I personally thought it was a really smart way of doing a reboot. It did really great commercially and critcally among critics and consumers. I'll admit Apocalypse looks like a mess right now, but I learned after DOFP's Quicksilver not to judge before seeing the final movie.
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DoFP has some logical inconsistency problems and coherency issues with the previous movies. It would have worked better as a reboot without any returning cast from the first 3 movies. Having returning cast means people looking for continuity. And in theory at least the start of DoFP should have continuity with the previous movies, because the reboot is what happens to screw up with the timestream during the movie.
The final tally for F4 is in for the weekend, and it's lower than the estimate based on the Friday and Thursday night box office. This means really poor word of mouth (not surprising) meant lower receipts that is typical for what was already a pretty pathetic start. The second weekend drop is going to be brutal. Probably under $5 million if they're lucky. It will be pulled from screens inside a month. $50 million for the USA is a far off dream and it makes Green Lantern's $116 million positively marvelous by comparison. Actually, Green Lantern's opening weekend in the USA is quite close to F4's all countries gross for the opening weekend.
Green Lantern was a flop, and it made $216 million in the end. What does that make F4, which will be lucky to make $100 million? At least it didn;t have Green Lantern's $200 million budget. Who the hell thought a Green Lantern movie would turn a profit with a $200 million production budget? People going insane over the success of Iron Man?
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