Predicting the Movie Hits and Bombs of 2015

The dude flick also apparently has some sort of "feminist" subtext so I'm not sure it's a fair matchup.

 

Nice try on the cynical stereotyping, but I think you're underestimating the appeal here, the first film brought in a wide range of ages...and I also know quite a few guys that enjoyed it.

 

I just see sequel vs. sequel, myself. New stories, please

 

It would be great, but as long as these sequels and reboots keep raking in mass amounts of cash you're going to see more and more of them and the original stories will be in the arthouse cinemas.

 

I was not really fussed about seeing Mad Max: Fury Road, but with all the good reviews it is getting I'm now keen to see it. And that seems to be an attitude on this board as well. A lack of buzz until the movie just opened can't be good for opening weekend box office.

--Geoff

 

Or not be seeing them, as it may be. The arthouse cinemas aren't exactly doing gangbusters either.

 

One of the many great things about living in Los Angeles is having lots of independent theaters to go to.

 

After watching the trailer this weekend, I thought it looked pretty good and was planning on seeing it. But then after the new Mad Max, the movie that followed the trailer, San Andrews all of a sudden it didn't seem so exciting anymore.

 

Yeah, I'm still not really excited to see it, but the reviews have convinced me I should...

 

That's my reaction to 99.9% of his posts.

 

You put but a person like Rebel Wilson, in it it looses any respectability it was suppose to have?
Maybe you should watch Josie & The Pussie Cats and Bratz The Movie.
Back to back . Then you tell me about quality. which nethier of these movies have.
Wide range ages .... This how the world ends not with whimper but,
A screeching sound from Rebel Wilson.

 

I fall in the spectrum of wide age range. I liked the first movie, despite not being a fan of Wilson.

 

You're so cynical and negative all the time that frankly, you're not worth my effort.

 

I do think it requires some degree of empathy--or at least a tolerance for the fact that people are different--to understand how Rebel Wilson can have appeal to a broad range of people.

John K.

 

I like the title of the summary to last weekend's box office results: Max "Pitch"-slapped

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4061&p=.htm

 

Even is someone disagrees with you it's not there fault they are wrong.
When a truth, shines brighter than ego.

 

What the who now?

 

Weekend actuals:

1. Pitch Perfect 2: $69,216,890
2. Mad Max: Fury Road: $45,428,128
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron: $38,859,900

 

Pitch Perfect 2 has reached $187 million worldwide so far which is over 6x the production cost.

Mad Max: Fury Road is at $200 million worldwide, still has a ways to go before it reaches profitability.

 

Very true. Mad Max reportedly cost $219 million, so on the low side it'll have to make close to $500M just to break even. My guess is that it'll get there, but only just barely.

 

The new Cameron Crowe film "Aloha" is getting trounced by critics. It is currently sitting at 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Variety: "Unbalanced, unwieldy, and at times nearly unintelligible, “Aloha” is unquestionably Cameron Crowe’s worst film. Paced like a record on the wrong speed, or a Nancy Meyers movie recut by an over-caffeinated Jean-Luc Godard, the film bears all the telltale signs of a poorly executed salvage operation disfigured in the editing bay."

Hollywood Reporter: "As with another major miss by the writer-director, 2005’s Elizabethtown, the new film has the awkward feel of a repository for everything but the kitchen sink. The chemistry is mostly forced, the story without an emotional core. And though Crowe’s facility for language can be striking, here it never moves beyond self-consciousness. The cast will entice audiences, but Aloha looks destined for a relatively quick hello-and-goodbye in theaters."

 

I'm sad about this because I know people who worked on the film who had hoped for good things. I also thought it might be refreshing to have an adult romantic comedy pop up in the middle of a summer filled with action flicks and comic-book sequels. And Cameron Crowe is a very bright man and a good writer. It definitely looks like a misfire.

 

But, I know you have bought advance tickets to Gem & Holograms.

 

I think the adult comedy with taste... is going bye, bye....