Narnia 3 aka Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Grade,Review,Speculate

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

March seems too late too me. It won't last in the theaters in North America all the way through Jan.

It'll easily last through January in theaters in North America. In fact it should last through February and into March. The Golden Compass, which had a much faster drop-off rate, had a theatrical run that ran from the 7th December to the 2nd March.

Edit to add: Dawn Treader made $3,377,655 on Wednesday for a domestic total to date of $73,166,297.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Well then I'm not sure how long it will remain in our local complex. As I mentioned in my post it was already pushed back to the small theater in the very back. When it opened it was in three theaters, now it's only in one. The showing I went to only had two thirds full so while it might still make it through to February in some areas I'm not expecting it to last over the next two weeks at my complex. Not the best example because it's small but it still astonished me that it was already pushed back at the second week of release. I'm going to see "True Grit" there next week so I'll let you guys know if Narnia is still around lol.

 

[Captain Craig]

Dawn Treader managing to still be in the top 5 with that $3.3m despite Fox taking 500 screens from it and giving them to the poorly performing Gulliver's Travels. Wish someone could explain executive decisions to me. Clearly no one is interested in seeing GT.

 

[Saxman1]

I gave it an A! The wife, kids and I are huge Narnia fans (books and films - even the BBC 1980s series). We all loved Dawn Treader as well as TLTWATW. Prince Caspian, while not a terrible film, took too many liberties with the novel and added some unflattering elements, such as the Susan/Caspian romance and the failed raid on the castle.

The Silver Chair would seem to be the logical choice for the next film if another is made. I certainly hope it is - there's even a meaty role for The White Witch, or as she's known (sort of) in that story, as The Lady of the Green Kirtle (sic).

Dawn Treader was a huge comeback after the disappointment of PC.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ Agreed.

 

[O'Dib]

This was such an improvement over the book! For the lack of epic battles I'd come to expect from the series, this was the most moving Narnia yet. A

 

[Captain Craig]

Dawn Treader managed to bring in another $3.4m to bring its US domestic total to $76.6m. With any luck it'll have another good weekend and have a total closer to $90m come Monday actuals.

We should also have the new international numbers and Dawn Treader is likely to go over $300m. With every milestone it increases the faint chances of The Silver Chair being made I'd think.

 

[Admiral_Young]

A slow start...adequate finish? Let's hope so. I wanna see Giants!

 

[Saga]

did they not release any toys for this movie? i would have liked a toy/model version of the Dawn Treader.

 

[Captain Craig]

I didn't see any toys. Not sure if licensing falls under marketing or not but if it does it would make sense. Seeing has how marketing failed to promote the film adequetly. Just having toys on the shelf a few weeks before the movie hit would've been a marketing device in and of itself.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

The early weekend estimate from Boxoffice.com for Dawn Treader is $10.5 million, bringing it to a domestic gross of $87.1 million. It looks to be a sure thing to pass $100 million domestic now. Hopefully it can hold up well enough to end up at $110-115 million domestic.

 

[Captain Craig]

I saw those. I can't believe they are extrapolating 2 days worth of numbers just off of Friday. Still if that estimate holds it's a good number but I'm rooting for $11m+

 

[Admiral_Young]

I think it's doing pretty good. Top five. Finished fourth this weekend. 9.82 million or thereabouts.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

^^^
It looks like it'll be fifth this weekend (after Yogi Bear) and it should do at least $10.5 million based on its Friday number.

Edit to add: updated international numbers are available. Dawn Treader made $21.4 million in 68 foreign markets. That brings its international gross to $210 million and its worldwide gross to $297 million.

 

[suarezguy]

D. Eustace and Reepicheep were too annoying (the former was uniquely humorous in the book), Lucy inauthentic and Edmund bland. I disliked both the putting-down of Lucy's ambition (indeed anticipating the future condemnation of Susan) and the toning-down of it (the message being rewritten from "don't be vain" to "be yourself"). The idea of a whole island being evil, having a chance of corrupting the whole world and being stopped by the reunion of swords was also too much to accept.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ How was Lucy inauthentic? Eustace is supposed to be annoying. That's his character. He was played to a tee as far as I'm concerned. Edmund bland? Maybe a little but I thought this was Skandar's best performance out of the three films. As far as your latter statement...this is a children's fantasy film there are inevitably going to be aspects of it that one does not accept.

 

[Captain Craig]

The idea of a whole island being evil, having a chance of corrupting the whole world and being stopped by the reunion of swords was also too much to accept.

So is the idea Mordor and Mt.Doom as regions that are evil and can spread evil also too much to accept? How about one ring that solves the whole problem? Is that easy to accept cause it's you know, one ring and not 7 swords.

Please elaborate on this logic please for why in Dawn Treader an evil island and reunion of swords is silly.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Weekend actuals for Dawn Treader: $10,252,775 for a domestic gross of $86,926,397 to date.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Not to mention as Captain Craig brings up that the plot device of magical weapons or jewelry being used to defeat great evil in fantasy stories is a long traditional going back a great deal of time. It's fine that you didn't like the movie or whatever but your reasons for doing so seem...bizarre at best.

 

[suarezguy]

^ How was Lucy inauthentic?

I meant more the actress, her happiness in meeting Caspian and Reepicheep again felt excessive and she was too instant in deferring to Aslan's reprimand.

Eustace is supposed to be annoying. That's his character.

In the book his perspective felt ironically distorted and flawed rather than flatly, very unlikably wrong.

The idea of a whole island being evil, having a chance of corrupting the whole world and being stopped by the reunion of swords was also too much to accept.

So is the idea Mordor and Mt.Doom as regions that are evil and can spread evil also too much to accept?

Those regions were linked to a specific entity and weren't evil in themselves, though they were physically threatening. Evil being a force, of sporadic strength, felt inconsistent with the prior stories and implausible; if it was so effective, it would have been known about from the beginning of or before the film.

How about one ring that solves the whole problem? Is that easy to accept cause it's you know, one ring and not 7 swords.

The connection between Sauron and the ring was made clear in LotR (he made it and is tied to it); it's not clear why the swords are so significant to evil's increasing power or its end other than Aslan wanting them to be.