cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26522728
Overall weekend totals plunge 60% from last year as the absence of a “Dune: Part Two”-level hit is felt
It’s barely afternoon on Saturday as I read this - I don’t get how they can decide it bombed already. Feels like someone’s trying to make it bomb.
The movie is critical of capitalism, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Honestly had little interest in this but you just sold me on it
Never heard of this movie but I too am now interested!
havent watched this one yet, but arent these usually sprinkled with some anticommunism and doomerism to compensate for it?
Ticket sales pre-orders.
If Friday’s pre-sales = x% final sales, and you know pre-sales for Sat/Sun, you can roughly predict the weekend.
Yep. Literally decades of sales data is used to predict various aspects of a films revenue.
Not just weekend sales but weekly drop off can be accurately predicted.
They often know how a movie will be perceived well before it hits theaters and use that determine how much to spend on promoting it.
They release these on Saturday or early Sunday pretty frequently, projected from presales, previews, and Friday #s. They can be a little off but they’re usually pretty close.
LOL this is no Dune: Part Two blockbuster. Stop pretending that its supposed to be one.
Ruffalo does a solid, loathsome Trump.
I thought every actor was great and the story is solid. It’s just too long.
yeah I wish the satire could have been more witty and less bludgeony
This is pretty much exactly where I would exact an arty, anticapitalist lark of a movie to land. Anyone thinking this would do much more than $40m globally this weekend was probably fooling themselves.
It makes fun of all the Space obsessed billionaires, so I bet they have been making sure it bombs
There doesn’t need to be a conspiracy for the average person to have bad taste
Yeah the movie is not very good. Saw it the other day.
To be honest, I didn’t find it very good. I don’t know about the books, but the movie makes it seem like there’s something interesting about the expendables, and ends up being about something completely different, much more boring and overdone. Characters are also basically useless.
It was a 2.5 hour slog to get through some very ham fisted political commentary and philosophical ideas about the worth of a clone with an “original” still alive. Moon and Star Trek cover the ideas way better and in less time.
