2012: A Monster Year? (box office predictions) - Part 2

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[lime]

Yeah, I know it's early for BO predictions, but 2012 looks like a real BO monster year for me.

What do you think?

 

[Boom]

I can never win with crowded theaters. Nine times out of ten, I will experience one or more of the following:

- Someone forgetting to silence their phone, and letting it ring
- Someone talking/texting on their cell phone
- Someone talking to the person next to them at room volume, despite the fact that the person next to them is mere inches away
- Someone smelling like dog ****
- Kids running up and down the aisles while their parents sit there and do nothing
- Kids screaming/crying while their parents sit there and do nothing

I really can't ****ing stand inconsiderate parents. If your kid is acting up, take him/her out into the lobby until they calm down or straighten out. It's a movie theater, not a goddamn daycare center.

 

[ALP]

I know what you mean Boom. Happens to me all the time.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I don't usually have bad audiences. In the NY/NJ area, I don't ever go to bad crowds. The crowds are usually quiet and respectful, especially when I see a movie in NYC.

I usually watch PG-13 or R movies so I don't encounter many children in theaters.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

I can never win with crowded theaters. Nine times out of ten, I will experience one or more of the following:

People who bring babies. Not toddlers, or preschoolers, but tiny, screaming babies. ARGH!

People who bring in bags of chips and then rattle the bags all night. ARGH!

People who put their feet up on the seat in front of them. ARGH!

 

[Boom]

When I saw X-Men: The Last Stand in theaters, someone urinated down the aisle, and an old man had a stroke.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

I swear to you, when I saw X-Men: The Last Stand in theaters, someone urinated down the aisle, and an old man had a stroke.

That was probably just their review.

 

[ALP]

People who bring babies. Not toddlers, or preschoolers, but tiny, screaming babies. ARGH!

People who bring in bags of chips and then rattle the bags all night. ARGH!

People who put their feet up on the seat in front of them. ARGH!

And especially when their feet stink like hell

I went to the theaters last year and there was a guy who brought a FULL PIZZA in the theater. He pulled out a dominos box from under his jacket and also had a ziplock bag of popcorn and several cans of soda. Then he sat back, put his stank ass feet on top of a chair near me and started devouring his h'orderves.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I still bring Wendy's or Arby's into the theater in their faces and they don't do anything.

 

[Micromind]

I always get annoyed when someone sitting in the next row or adjacent to my seat starts texting messages / checking email from his mobile phone or blackberry, its glare makes it difficult to concentrate on what is happening onscreen.

Additionally someone sitting nearby sneezing/ coughing while the movie is in progress is a awful.

 

[The Morningstar]

I remember when Ali came out, me and like, 20 of my friends went to see it. We took up basically the whole back 2 rows, as it was a pretty small screen.

And we were ****s. hahaha. We were smoking joints, shouting, just acting like little pricks really.

Luckily enough the cinema was empty apart from a few other teenagers.

 

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Top 10 worldwide so far:

1. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island $309 million
2. The Intouchables $291,7 million
3. The Hunger Games $249,2 million
4. John Carter $236,3 million
5. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax $202,8 million
6. Safe House $190,1 million
7. The Vow $170,1 million
8. Underworld Awakening $159 million
9. The Secret World of Arrietty $144,7 million
10. This Means War $131 million

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Hunger Games will take the top spot domestic and worldwide...

till the Avengers assemble.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Mulling together my predictions for summer box office on podcast this weekend.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Mulling together my predictions for summer box office on podcast this weekend.

Can't wait to hear them. I still haven't come up with mine yet. I'm going to be drastically wrong on half of them but thus is the nature of predictions.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

The big dogs are easy to call. June is full of question marks and the real wild cards this summer.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The big dogs are easy to call. June is full of question marks and the real wild cards this summer.

Yeah TDK and The Avengers are going to be tops.

June does seem to the the most interesting month with the excellent looking Snow White and The Huntsman and Prometheus, and Rock of Ages, Brave and a ****** Adam Sandler comedy.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

and a ****** Adam Sandler comedy.

Aye, I don't like most of his comedies, I don't know what your asterixes are spelling, but I can imagine.
I feel sorry for people that go for the easy targets, thinking they know it all, absolutely pity them, phonies of the highest order, whose mouths are just full of bile and hate every day of their lives, sad, sad people. they just go for the easiest targets in their movies.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

EDIT: Okay my bad as well as yours. All is forgiven.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Well screw you too.

I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about crap comedians like Adam Sandler who go for the easy targets in their comedies. haha
Sorry for the confusion, actually i edited my post to make that clearer, as i know folk can be paranoid on the net sometimes.
I also took out the word 'despise', becasue it is silly to hate someone you have never met, hell, it's silly to hate someone period, leads to mental illness.

edit: I don't like Adam Sandler film, I've said that many times on the boards, with the exception of that one with Drew Barrymore.

 

[The Morningstar]

I used to like Sandler. But he has just turned into a proper money grabbing hack. I don't think i'll ever forgive the guy for Jack and Jill.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I LOVE early Adam Sandler and early Tim Burton but they have lost their edge and I avoid their movies like the plague now a days.

 

[Iceman]

I don't watch them so I don't get pissed off about them lol.

 

[chaseter]

The only possible heavy hitter in June is Brave. Snow White won't do Alice numbers or even come close. Prometheus I think has a ceiling of $150-$200 domestic and would be lucky to achieve that.