Box office intake doesn't equate to which was the better movie. It was a fun movie, and well worth the price of admission.
I never said anything about box office returns equating to quality. I just think it's funny that this movie had so little interest in it that Wimpy Kid beat it.
I'm guessing there are some second thoughts about having Snyder on Superman now that a movie that cost $82 million to make only brought in $19 million on its opening weekend.
I'm guessing there are some second thoughts about having Snyder on Superman now that a movie that cost $82 million to make only brought in $19 million on its opening weekend.
I just came back from seeing it. The theater was a third full which hurt the atmosphere a bit but people were feeling it. I loved it. I had some minor problems with the acting, and pacing but otherwise it pretty much is as advertised. I was psyched going in and satisfied coming out so I'm pretty happy. I can't wait to see what Snyder does with "Superman" visually. He's certainly comfortably in his element in "Sucker Punch". I also loved all the life messages from Babydoll's sensei (Scott Glenn). I really want to see a director's cut of this film.
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It will be some time before I see this...but I have a feeling it will do better on DVD...based on everything I have read so far. It is the end of March and it does take more to get people out to the theater these days. 
^ I can't wait for a DVD release.
Wimpy Kid has a built in fan base... 
The books sell well enough to make 2 movies.
Where do these fanbases come from?
No, but previous successful films in a series constitute a basis for a franchise just as well.
Supposedly this weekend's performance was about what the studio expected, internally, for Sucker Punch - so even if there were such a simplistic equation as "we'll drop the director on our just-about-to-launch movie because his current flick underperformed," the effect of Sucker Punch on Warners' evaluation of Snyder had already been discounted.
Sounds like spin - why would they green-lit a movie and then pump so much money into marketing (right upto release) if they were expecting such a terrible return? What really going to kill this is not the savage critics reviews but that the WOM from audiences is so dire.
Having said that, I doubt it makes any difference to the Superman situation.
No, this is what folks were supposedly saying behind the scenes. As for the rest, there's a difference between what they may have expected when they budgeted and greenlighted the film and what they were expecting by the time it was finished, screened and about to be released. A film like this that you make an effort to market may well fail, but if you don't spend the money to market it you're virtually guaranteeing that it will tank. The situation has to be pretty dire before an exec will take the responsibility of saying "I'm spiking our big budget movie."
I take it you don't have any kids?