Weekly Box Office and Film Discussion Thread

[Drtooth]

This Weekends Actuals
1 1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Sum. $43,641,448 -69.1% 4,070 - $10,723 $227,366,118 $120 2

Was there any doubt that overrated thing was going to continue to be overrated? I'm SOOOO glad circumstances happened and her other book got leaked, or we'd have ANOTHER movie for people to pretend to not like them and pretend to like them.

Tyler Perry movies are relatively cheap to make, and can exceed their budget pretty easily, so he can keep making them and turn a decent profit.

He's also a huge self made businessman as a result of these films... yet, the last Unfunny Self Deprecating Racial Jokes Coming Out of a Cross Dressing Fat Suit Madea film flopped. Other than that, these films do decent enough business to keep making more, like Charlie said... and the fact that he's a hot celebrity right now, and he doesn't even need to bankroll these himself, though he totally could.

(Facepalm) Another Paranomal Activity!?!?, Huh Oh Well There REALLY Cheap To Make Anyways So I Can See The Point Why They Would Make Another One, But... Just... WHY.....????
Anyways, It's Slated For October 25, 2013.

Because it's a horror movie. While crappy, cheap, easy to produce sequels of horror films is hardly new (remember how they used to add the title "Son Of..." to a monster's name and they have an instant sequel), it's a tradition to keep recirculating the same film with a different number at the end of it because it's also Halloween. Crappy horror films do great at Halloween time.

My problem is, these aren't like the GOOD crummy horror franchises that have too many sequels. Look at Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13Th. While I can't say the sequels are great, they work because they stopped giving a crap and stopped taking themselves so seriously. After a couple movies, you stop fearing the villain and start rooting for them. Kids LOVE Freddy Kruger. Paranormal Activia can't find enough humor in itself to do that, and instead it became a Mission Pack sequel... for those who don't read TV Tropes, it's essentially making the same movie with the same exact plot, sometimes with different characters.

And people will still see it.

 

[robodog]

The Paranormal Activity movies are fun to watch once. I don't think I've ever seen any of them more than that though. I doubt they'd hold up to repeated viewings and they aren't nearly as scary as some would have you believe.

 

[charlietheowl]

He's also a huge self made businessman as a result of these films... yet, the last Unfunny Self Deprecating Racial Jokes Coming Out of a Cross Dressing Fat Suit Madea film flopped. Other than that, these films do decent enough business to keep making more, like Charlie said... and the fact that he's a hot celebrity right now, and he doesn't even need to bankroll these himself, though he totally could.

The problem is, because of the techniques his movies rely on (cheap stage-play budgets, questionable stereotypes with roles), he can't break out of those kinds of movies. His attempt to break loose with Alex Cross failed because no one can take him seriously anymore.

 

[KremlingWhatnot]

This Weekend's Actuals, Sorry They Took So Long
1 1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Sum. $17,416,362 -60.1% 4,008 -62 $4,345 $254,598,866 $120 3
2 2 Skyfall Sony $16,555,894 -53.4% 3,463 -63 $4,781 $245,585,083 $200 4
3 4 Rise of the Guardians P/DW $13,388,852 -43.7% 3,672 +19 $3,646 $48,836,105 $145 2
4 3 Lincoln BV $13,376,696 -47.9% 2,018 - $6,629 $83,566,169 $65 4
5 5 Life of Pi Fox $12,151,853 -45.9% 2,928 +1 $4,150 $48,512,994 $120 2
6 6 Wreck-It Ralph BV $6,948,550 -58.1% 3,087 -172 $2,251 $158,184,813 $165 5
7 N Killing Them Softly Wein. $6,812,900 - 2,424 - $2,811 $6,812,900 $15 1
8 7 Red Dawn (2012) FD $6,500,245 -54.5% 2,781 +57 $2,337 $31,272,953 $65 2
9 8 Flight Par. $4,479,067 -47.0% 2,603 -35 $1,721 $81,465,903 $31 5
10 N The Collection LD $3,104,269 - 1,403 - $2,213 $3,104,269 - 1
11 9 Silver Linings Playbook Wein. $3,090,131 -29.5% 371 +4 $8,329 $10,740,112 $21 3
12 12 Anna Karenina Focus $2,245,570 +150.5% 384 +318 $5,848 $4,106,921 - 3

 

[Drtooth]

Somehow, I'm pretty happy Life of PiRsquared is doing so poorly. Seems very self indulgent. Wish Ralph and Rise of the Guardians were doing better, Twilight's Twilight, and James Bond's a strong brand.

Anyway, I can't wait for the 3-D rerelease of Monsters Inc. I thought that was supposed to happen in February. I need to get that one on DVD before they rerelease it as a "Blu Ray bonus only." It's one of my favorite films to come out of Pixar, and I hope they have a bigger trailer for Monsters Inc -1 in front of it (after all, that's basically the reason they're rereleasing it).

 

[mr3urious]

Rango, Paranorman, and to some extent Pirates band of Misfits, are the only animated movies that really deserve a PG rating.

I just came across this via Wikipedia:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/2011-03-08-rango08_ST_N.htm

The anti-smoking advocates don't think that Rango deserves a PG due to all the depictions of smoking, still believing that PG = kids' stuff.

 

[Drtooth]

The anti-smoking advocates don't think that Rango deserves a PG due to all the depictions of smoking, still believing that PG = kids' stuff.

UGH! Spaceballs had a PG rating, and it has heavy cussing in it. From "We ain't found *&^%!" to "&^%! Even in the future nothing works" (the wisest, most realistically accurate words ever formed in a movie period). I hate this whole "protect kids from the horrible sight of tobacco existing." It's just garbage.

Funny thing is, I found this quote on TV Tropes page for the first Hoodwinked:

Avoid the Dreaded G-Rating: A writer for Focus on the Family's Plugged In magazine said the film could have squeaked by with a "G" rating. Let me reiterate that: Focus on the Family said the content rating on a movie was too strict.

 

[KremlingWhatnot]

It's Appears That Wreck-it Ralph 2 Could be Made As Sarah Silverman, John C. Reilly, And Director Himself Says They'll be Getting to Work on The Sequel In The Near Future
http://moviehole.net/201260257exclusive-reilly-silverman-and-moore-on-wreck-it-ralph-2 This Is Radical, We Could Be Acutally Getting Wreck-it Ralph 2 And Mario, The Mickey Mouse Of Video Games, Could Be Appearing Too

 

[Oscarfan]

"RAISE YOUR HAND IF THAT SURPRISES YOU!"

Honestly, they were talking about the sequel before the movie even came out and Disney being the money-whores they are would no doubt jump at the chance to profit of their successes again. I wouldn't mind a sequel, mind you.

 

[Drtooth]

"RAISE YOUR HAND IF THAT SURPRISES YOU!"

Honestly, they were talking about the sequel before the movie even came out and Disney being the money-whores they are would no doubt jump at the chance to profit of their successes again. I wouldn't mind a sequel, mind you.

If the movie flopped, they would have let it just languish in obscurity and not give it a proper continuation. However, I'd venture to say the film makers built in sequel possibilities, especially since the game is called Fix it Felix Junior, and no mention of as to why it's called Junior (implying the game is a sequel itself) in the film at all. I was kind of expecting Felix to have some odd one off moment where he discusses Felix Sr. or mention it somewhere, but that was the hidden sequel hook they were looking for.

Still, I'd rather this get a sequel than half the movies that get sequels based on good box office performance. As it stands, there's going to be a Hotel Transylvania 2, and that's all because it did shockingly well at the box office.