Bad summer for movies, HTF did Pirates do over $350mill already?

[PlatinumGold]

must be nothing else worth watching.

i'll admit, i saw it, it was ok, but it definitely wasn't a great movie.

$358 million in 4 weeks, are you KIDDING me?

 

[Descartes]

I don't think they're trying to make a great movie. It's a fun movie, and great for summer.

 

[PinmasterJay]

I haven't seen it, but I have more than a few friends that have.....more than once....

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Descartes
I don't think they're trying to make a great movie. It's a fun movie, and great for summer.

Yep....total summer popcorn flick (lots of popcorn in 2 and half hours).

I thought this was supposed to be one of the better summers in the last few years box office wise.

 

[BrokenVisage]

A movie like that people will see no matter what others say about it, just one of those "can't miss" popcorn flicks that Hollywood knows will be a success even if it sucks. But yeah, movies suck this summer so far..

1. Miami Vice
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
3. John Tucker Must Die
4. Monster House
5. The Ant Bully
6. Lady in the Water
7. You, Me and Dupree
8. Little Man
9. The Devil Wears Prada
10. My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Wow, just wow.

 

[badmouse]

Agreed. It's a million degrees outside and I'd be living at the movie theater, but there is NOTHING I want to see.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Descartes
I don't think they're trying to make a great movie. It's a fun movie, and great for summer.

Yep....total summer popcorn flick (lots of popcorn in 2 and half hours).

I thought this was supposed to be one of the better summers in the last few years box office wise.

mb so box office wise, but not with good movies.

movies just don't have any replay value for me anymore.

i guess i'm just becoming an old fogey.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
A movie like that people will see no matter what others say about it, just one of those "can't miss" popcorn flicks that Hollywood knows will be a success even if it sucks. But yeah, movies suck this summer so far..

1. Miami Vice
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
3. John Tucker Must Die
4. Monster House
5. The Ant Bully
6. Lady in the Water
7. You, Me and Dupree
8. Little Man
9. The Devil Wears Prada
10. My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Wow, just wow.

sucks but can't miss should be about 200 million, not 360 million and counting. 360 million and counting should be a good film, frankly the spidey film was overall a much better film than the pirates one. but at this rate, pirates is probably going to finish in the top 5 all time film grossers. that's just gross.

 

[tm37]

Clerks 2 was awesome. However it does have a limited fan base

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
must be nothing else worth watching.

i'll admit, i saw it, it was ok, but it definitely wasn't a great movie.

$358 million in 4 weeks, are you KIDDING me?

/MPAA
Yeah, and if it wasn't for the other type of pirates, we'd have made $500 million.
/end MPAA

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
must be nothing else worth watching.

i'll admit, i saw it, it was ok, but it definitely wasn't a great movie.

$358 million in 4 weeks, are you KIDDING me?

that just tells me that the advertising campaign did its job. i agree that movie absolutely sucked.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I purely off the strength of the first Pirates movie. People really liked the first one so they're hitting up the sequel. Plus it gets good word of mouth for being a fun movie.

 

[PingSpike]

PotC 2 was a pretty bleh movie compared to the first one. It did well because 1) The first one was a big hit, and everyone wanted more. 2) There's NOTHING else to watch.

There was nothing worth a crap last year besides batman begins and harry potter. To me a movie has to be pretty good to brave the annoying theaters to see it. And the theaters aren't getting any more fun to go too while the movies continue to decline more and more in quality. Every time I end up begrudgingly seeing a movie in the theater out of habit these days I leave disappointed.

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
I purely off the strength of the first Pirates movie. People really liked the first one so they're hitting up the sequel. Plus it gets good word of mouth for being a fun movie.

and also cuz movies are made to sell and not to be good

 

[phantom309]

It was a fun movie. I especially enjoyed Keira Knightly's role as the emaciated skeleton of a once-beautiful woman.

 

[pclstyle]

still no plans to watch it, ever, but hey- doesn't look like they need my 9 bucks anyway.

i'll be enjoying lady vengeance in hd on the new plasma later today with some friends; so me and depp- we'll call it even.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

everyone i know that saw it said they loved it so maybey ou need to calibrate your expectations a little. for the record the people that saw it were between 23-34

 

[SirChadwick]

You, Me, and Dupree was awesome! I got lots of laughs from that one. It's the best flick I've seen so far this year.

 

[K1052]

Actually this summer has been pretty good for the industry.
The last 1/3 of this year is looking weak though.

2007 is going to fvcking rock the box office like none other. I suspect it will be the highest grossing year of all time by a large margin.

 

[technophile82]

i havent seen pirates, but i just saw miami vice and while the gunfights were completely awesome (incredible sound effects), the love story was way overdone. it was decent, id say.

 

[jlbenedict]

There are a couple of decent horror flicks that are scheduled soon..

I remember "Pulse" right off hand..
It looked to be decent..
Any others?

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: badmouse
Agreed. It's a million degrees outside and I'd be living at the movie theater, but there is NOTHING I want to see.

I agree!

Last weekend my fiancee and I had nothing to do for a few hours, checked out what was playing at the movies and saw it was all just crap so just went home.

I can't even think of any movies that are coming out that I want to see off the top of my head.

 

[2Dead]

i took my sisters to watch it... i enjoyed the slurpy more. But then again, i really like slurpys.

 

[yhelothar]

I just lost 30IQ yesterday.. after watching the benchwarmers.
Seriously, movies are getting dumber and dumberer.

 

[wyvrn]

Pirates DMC was more fun this time around, and they layed clear groundwork for a 3rd movie. I liked it.

I am waiting for a chance to see Vice, but too busy atm. I *love* Mann's movies.

Superman was pretty good, not great. Spacey saved the movie. I thought SP and LL had weak chemistry, and her husband was a pansy. He should have gotten pissed at SP, and turned evil and helped Luthor kick SP ass. That would have been a nice twist.

I didn't think I'd like it, but FAF-TD was a great popcorn movie. X-men sucked, and Davinci was so-so. Poseidon was boring and predictable but I saw it at discount theatre, so ok. Benchwarmers was typical SNL humor, but I laughed the whole time.

Want to see YM&D and Clerks II.