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| Angel | Mar 11 2012, 10:41 PM Post #1 |
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John Carter," Disney's $250 million sci-fi spectacular, floundered at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, pulling in only $30.6 million, according to studio estimates. Universal's "The Lorax," a $70 million animated picture in its second week of release, beat it by almost $9 million. Not that anyone expected otherwise. In fact, the closest thing to a surprise is that "John Carter" performed as well as it did. On Thursday, Disney said it "aspired" to an opening above $30 million, but tracking had it a few million dollars below that. The audience -- what little there was -- liked the movie well enough that the survey firm Cinemascore assigned it a "B+" rating. article You know I really haven't heard much about this movie other then it is supposed to suck. Has anyone seen it yet? I kinda want to know why. Also other movies came out that failed too. Like "Silent House" which is a new horror movie REMAKE of a Urguain film that is a straight 78some min shot. Yeah, not totally surprised that one bombed either. Opinions? |
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| MarcusOrion | Mar 11 2012, 10:50 PM Post #2 |
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Well, the way I see it... Changing the name from John Carter of Mars to just plain vanilla John Carter probably didn't make it stand out enough. Marketing for the movie sucked, trying to play it up like Prince of Persia, there last big movie.. Which also sucked btw.. And with a budget of 250 million? It already needed a miracle! Taylor Kitsch (spelling?) Is not a big name star yet, he could never lead a movie of this size.. Pairing him with Lynn Collins? Looking at the cast, I only know two big stars in the film, Willem Dafoe, who got absolutely no marketing done for his weird Alien character, and Bryan Cranston, who I don't even know who he is. But basically, who cares? I know nothing of the plot besides, hey I think John Carter is a character in it. I know he goes to mars, but.. That's all I know. The ads never mentioned being set in the civil war, which is kind of an intriguing thing. It's up to the International market if this can make back it's money or not. Edited by MarcusOrion, Mar 11 2012, 10:52 PM.
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| Darkness | Mar 12 2012, 12:50 AM Post #3 |
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Books are far more better than the movie and by reading the series it needed a bigger team. Disney is trying to take teen and adult themes and make them family okay but it's not. If John Carter was by the people of Avatar then you would have one spectacular movie. Only because you have to make sure you tie in the fact that a Civil War soldier gets abducted and sent to Mars where because he's human he has traits the 'aliens' don't have thus making him like the Superman of Mars. It's a good book plot but for a movie.. I'm not sure. And Silent House I still want to see. I'm sure the foreign is better because from what I hear, Americans tone down the brutality. Horror needs to make me jump and cringe and try to 'hide' from the scenes. |
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