Competition: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn

[Sgt Floyd]

Speaking of Happy Feet, I gotta ask. When the penguin was in the zoo, were the people standing there looking at him real people, or photo realistic cgi people? Because they were creepy. That whole scene was accidental nightmare fuel. Those people just looked too realistic to be part of the movie...and it was disturbing.

Happy Feet sucked. I'm kinda glad the Simpsons Movie had that brief slap in the face to it.

But back to the original topic. Like DrT said, the Twihards wouldn't have seen the Muppets anyway.

 

[Oscarfan]

In this article on the Muppet movie (go to page 1), it says the movie has a budget of at most $50 million. So, I don't see how they can't sell over that.

 

[Speed Tracer]

Cloudy With A Chance of meatballs was probably the worst animated movie I ever saw it was so bad

Like I said - difference of opinion. We're all entitled. Worst animated movie I've ever seen? Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights.

 

[dwmckim]

I'd be far more worried if Twilight opened the same weekend. As it stands not only does the Muppets open a week before and gives people a chance to see it in the theatre first, but they also get the benefit of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

 

[Drtooth]

Like I said - difference of opinion. We're all entitled. Worst animated movie I've ever seen? Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights.

Eh... I actually saw that one on television... it's basically an animated version of EVERY Adam Sandler movie EVER. I didn't hate it at all, I LOVED the animation... but it just was too deep in being an Adam Sandler movie to keep it from being anything else. I will say, even if I didn't hate Cloudy, I'd still find 8 Crazy Nights more visually appealing. I can't say what half the characters look like, or what girls would do if they had action figures... you can imagine what I'm talking about, though... just... ehhh....

I'd be far more worried if Twilight opened the same weekend. As it stands not only does the Muppets open a week before and gives people a chance to see it in the theatre first, but they also get the benefit of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Again, there's like 3 Kid's movies coming out on the same day... Twilight or no Twilight, the real competition is family films. Twi is NOT family friendly no matter how Mormon the person who wrote the thing is. Add the week's previous Happy feet, and you have strong family movie competition. Having kids cheer at both the Happy Feet and Christmas Trailers gave me no faith (seeing them in 3-D almost made me puke... kinda wish I saw Puss in 2-D now... it cost the same).

So basically we have Hugo (said pretentious Harry potter wannabe), Arthur Christmas, and the Muppets all opening the 23rd, and last week's Happy Feet 2. And while 2 of those movies disgust me to the core (Hugo's not without it's charm, but why would an American Italian guy make everyone and the kid's British, rather than New York kids?), it's like voting. The fact that you don't like the film and don't want to watch it doesn't affect the movie's success minus your 6-12 bucks. It's the other people you have to worry about.

This IS a high stakes movie. A franchise relaunch that's the first major MAJOR project under the helm of a massive entertainment conglomerate. If it's successful, we'll see more movies, TV specials, merchandise, DVD releases and rereleases and Disney will put the franchise into overdrive. Maybe to a Cars extent where you can't trip over a Kermit doll in a Disney Store and not knock over 50 bucks worth of Beaker and Pepe coffee mugs. If it underperforms slightly, even if it makes it's budget back, that'll be the end of it. NO ONE, not even the Jim era only people want that to happen. And if it can't out perform a generic Christmas movie with a plot ripped off something higher quality you can watch for free, or a lame sequel to an eye destroying, ear drum exploding abortion that shouldn't have been made in the first place (much as I LOVE Robin Williams... I wouldn't see Jacob the Liar or Bicentennial man either), that will be a source of botheration to come to the fan base. Then we'll take this beautiful little film based on the will of a big name Muppet fan and turn it into something ugly and poke out all the flaws and blame the film. I'd absolutely hate to see that happen.

 

[Muppet fan 123]

Again, there's like 3 Kid's movies coming out on the same day... Twilight or no Twilight, the real competition is family films. Twi is NOT family friendly no matter how Mormon the person who wrote the thing is. Add the week's previous Happy feet, and you have strong family movie competition. Having kids cheer at both the Happy Feet and Christmas Trailers gave me no faith (seeing them in 3-D almost made me puke... kinda wish I saw Puss in 2-D now... it cost the same).

So basically we have Hugo (said pretentious Harry potter wannabe), Arthur Christmas, and the Muppets all opening the 23rd, and last week's Happy Feet 2.



That Hugo movie looks so stupid the trailer made no sense to me, no competition in that. The only thing we've got to worry about is Happy Feet

 

[Drtooth]

I don't think Hugo's anything to worry about. It looks to be a Mr. Magorium/Waterhorse/Last Mimsy pretentious kid's film that looks good cinematically, but seems way too insistent upon itself and it just can't find an audience.

Happy Feet and Arthur Christmas are the true competition, though I won't rule anything out. Jack and Jill only plays to immature audiences that still think Adam Sandler is funny. That movie's such an eye sore and it belongs back in the 90's. But Arthur, even more so than Happy Feet for me just because families LOVE crappy Christmas movies. Hopefully 2009's horrendous Jim Carrey Christmas Carol will be an indication that said families can just rent any of the GOOD Christmas movies already available and let this thing quietly go to DVD.

 

[Beauregard]

It occurred to me the other day that over here, I don't have to worry about any of those Family-aimed, big-budget movies coming out because we get it at Valentine's day when I guess it will be up against a few romcoms and maybe a horror movie.