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X-Men FC: Only $56 Million estimated for opening weekend.

When my boy was finally old enough (11, I think.), I started buying him booklets of movie money for his Christmas and birthday so that it was within his own power to see a movie now which had nothing at all to do with me paying to sit my own ass in front of Pixar bullshit beside him.

Gods, my mother used to dump me in theatres to watch what ever when I was 5.

Most of the 10 year olds I know these days are idiots I wouldn't trust to cross the road by themselves.
 
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Just one. Almost old enough to drive.

He likes those manga comics.

No interest in my towers of X-Men comics.

He also refused to watch the low quality cam I put on his hard drive and insisted that he must see X-Men First Class at the theatre because he didn't want to soil the complete experience with the wrong colours, no focus, monotone sound and unfortunately placed foreign subtitles.

Such a snob.

He has his own money, so he can flush it howsoever he wants.
 
Last time I went to a movie was Star Trek 09....its just too damn expensive unless it is a date night, and I am a ugly bastard and my last few dates didn't want to see a movie, no movies.
 
34? Possibly.

Children having children.

It's months, maybe weeks, till I'm going to be told that I am a grandfather.
 
lurok said:
billcosby said:
Even the wife stayed awake during the film!
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There's a poster quote there for Fox marketing ! :)
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Lol, she has an aversion to sci-fi. When she can't sleep, we watch Phantom Menace. She's never made it to the podrace!! :lol:

Guy Gardener said:
When my boy was finally old enough (11, I think.), I started buying him booklets of movie money for his Christmas and birthday so that it was within his own power to see a movie now which had nothing at all to do with me paying to sit my own ass in front of Pixar bullshit beside him.

Gods, my mother used to dump me in theatres to watch what ever when I was 5.

Most of the 10 year olds I know these days are idiots I wouldn't trust to cross the road by themselves.
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Stop it Guy, you're killing me!! :guffaw:
Pixar bullshit should be trademarked.
 
For 50 dollars US, you can buy the loyalty of a few dozen vagrants for a day or two to raid and loot a JC Penny as if you were a modern day Viking.

The real question is if you make more than minimum wage?

(Wikipedia tells me that that is $7.25 per hour in the US. I watch a lot of old TV and assumed it was still some where near 3 dollars. La dee dah.)
 
Dennis probably means that four wallets can pay for four people which would collectively cost 50 bucks US. A group of friends on an outing. How many kegs of beer would 50 dollars US buy? Getting back to the problem with children is that there's only one wallet paying for at least one adult and then multiple half concessions of basically terrorists.

I was once assured that only losers go to the movies by themselves, but I remember the first time over ten friends of mine got together to see a movie, Dusk to Dawn was the plan, hadn't seen it yet, sold out however. Instead the girlpower won over and 10 people paid 12 dollars NZ each to see the 20th anniversary release of Grease.

120 dollars could have bankrolled a sweet party.

It's like no one knows how to use communism with any effectiveness anymore.
 
There is a reason why I don't go to the movies often. Crack is cheaper. I sometimes can talk some friends to go to movies two weeks old when you can get cheaper tickets, but all my friends just wait till netflix as its a whole lot cheeper.
 
I've been to the movies alone only 3 times thus far:

Cash- first time I saw Bean on the big screen!
Jane Eyre- Fassy
First Class- I do like this one beyond him, too.

If I were totally alone in the theater, however, that would be weird!
 
KB24 said:
I've been to the movies alone only 3 times thus far:

Cash- first time I saw Bean on the big screen!
Jane Eyre- Fassy
First Class- I do like this one beyond him, too.

If I were totally alone in the theater, however, that would be weird!
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I saw the three Musketeers by myself in a naked theatre.

I felt free to not only heckle, but run around when they were sword fighting.

Criss O'Donnel blows.

If it wasn't for the projectionist, would I have kept my shirt on?
 
MacLeod said:
Well it's up US$317m and change for it's worldwide takings. I think the studio would be happy with that.
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Adopting the more liberal percentages of Jay Epstein, 40% of the international gross leads to $73.6 million, 60% of the domestic gross leads to $79.68 million, so the film has earned a total of $153.28 million theatrically. That's close to covering the $160 million of the production budget, but it's not anywhere near covering the cost of prints and advertising.

Still, the good word of mouth might help sales on home video, and the studio is well aware that the film had to deal with the poor word of mouth of the two previous sequels.

I still haven't managed to see the movie yet, though. My brother thought it was average, my roommate thought it was okay, and the one film professor I know who has seen it thought it was the best superhero movie ever made. I'll probably catch it on video at this point.
 
Harvey said:
Still, the good word of mouth might help sales on home video, and the studio is well aware that the film had to deal with the poor word of mouth of the two previous sequels.
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Its simple psychology. American and World audiences do not want to see non-contemporary settings in their science fiction movies. Both Watchmen and X:FC proved that. Poor word of mouth for previous movies mean squat if the movie itself is engaging, interesting and doesn't drag. Both X:FC and Green Lantern were affected by this. They had uninteresting, unengaging, dragging boring stories. Its that simple.
 
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