Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast - Part 2

[X Knight]

I knew Disney shouldn't have signed that contract with themselves that they'd lose the rights to their adaptation of a public domain story after 26 years. They were much smarter with Cinderella though, signing it for 65 years. Much more foresight.

hey, Snow! did you see it yet??

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Also, it's kind of hilarious how bent out of shape some people got about LeFou being gay, when it's barely there in the movie.

It is barely there, and yet obvious. Does that make sense?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Gasp!!!! The nerve of those subversive filmmakers at Disney. How did that boycott work out?

Well.

 

[Snow Queen]

hey, Snow! did you see it yet??

Nope. Won't until April 1st, a touch busy through March 30th.

 

[X Knight]

Nope. Won't until April 1st, a touch busy through March 30th.

oh, ok. hope you enjoy it Snow as much as I did.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Snow is waiting to see it as to not crush my soul by how much she is going to hate it.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Got to be honest, absolutely loved it.

 

[X Knight]

Snow is waiting to see it as to not crush my soul by how much she is going to hate it.

Snow's not going to like it??

Got to be honest, absolutely loved it.

t:

 

[jmc]

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Jenny Nicholson on the money as always,

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Jenny lost my love when you couldn't think of a reasonable reason why Luke could be Rey's father and not be with her for the last decade.

 

[X Knight]

another change that I liked was that the town didn't have an actual bookstore.

it looked like Belle got her books from the church or ministry ( or someplace associated with religion due to the cross in the background ). and it wasn't a whole room of books but a few books from what looked like the guy's personal collection.

that makes more sense given the nature of the town. there wouldn't be enough demand ( and thus business ) for a bookstore to stay open.......lol.

 

[scarlet-witch]

170M opening per Box Office Mojo. The new March record.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

170M opening per Box Office Mojo. The new March record.

That is actually Disney's number.

 

[Drizzle]

For some reason, I thought BvS opened at $175 million opening weekend.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

For some reason, I thought BvS opened at $175 million opening weekend.

That is because based on its Friday number it should have. It was in the 180m projection and kept falling all weekend. It ended up behind Potter.

 

[kaypain]

Movie was everything I expected a Beauty and the Beast movie could be. It doesnt flow as fluent as the animation, often the movie feels like a highlight reel compilation of the beat favorite scenes from the original.

Emma Watson was great in my opinion. She gave us a lovable, realistic and mature Belle. When I rewatched the original I realized how cartoony Belle was. It works for cartoon or a stage play. But for a live action movie it would have looked out place. I felt Emma gave us the best effort to make the character her own.

I disagree the movie lacks charm. The movie just doesnt have the nostalgic charm from the original. The Beast feels more charismatic in this. Tho Ewan's Lumiere doesn't touch Jerry's its still a nice touch and valiant effort of making it his own.

 

[Schlosser85]

Movie was everything I expected a Beauty and the Beast movie could be. It doesnt flow as fluent as the animation, often the movie feels like a highlight reel compilation of the beat favorite scenes from the original.

Emma Thompson was great in my opinion. She gave us a lovable, realistic and mature Belle. When I rewatched the original I realized how cartoony Belle was. It works for cartoon or a stage play. But for a live action movie it would have looked out place. I felt Emma gave us the best effort to make the character her own.

I disagree the movie lacks charm. The movie just doesnt have the nostalgic charm from the original. The Beast feels more charismatic in this. Tho Ewan's Lumiere doesn't touch Jerry's its still a nice touch and valiant effort of making it his own.

Emma Watson is Belle. Emma Thompson is Mrs. Potts.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

This was a common thing with Harry Potter fans.

 

[DACrowe]

It is a funny comment. If you look at Belle and her father, the relationship is quite different. Members of the town are openly hostile to Belle. Even Gaston's ways is explained a bit.


I respect your opinion quite a bit Crowe. But not a million fold.

You'll come around to seeing it my way upon Blu-ray rewatches.... that or I need to see it again myself. No one can be right all the time.

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

http://deadline.com/2017/03/beauty-and-the-beast-weekend-box-office-selling-out-1202045224/

Disney has yet to make it official, but early morning estimates today indicate that Beauty and the Beast is opening right where we saw it would: Close to $174M.

Even though Belle has more cash, all records we saw yesterday still hold: Beauty and the Beast is the best opening for Emma Watson, Bill Condon, pre-summer, March, a Disney live action canon title, and the seventh best stateside debut ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 ($169.1m) and just below Iron Man 3 ($174.1M).

Beauty and the Beast grossed $48.3M yesterday, a 23% dip from Saturday, which ranks as the fifth best Sunday after Force Awakens ($60.6M), Jurassic World ($57.2M), Avengers ($57M) and Avengers: Age of Ultron ($50.3M).

 

[Schlosser85]

You'll come around to seeing it my way upon Blu-ray rewatches.... that or I need to see it again myself. No one can be right all the time.

I don't think being right all the time is something you need to worry about.

 

[Tra-El]

7/10 for Beauty. My wife is a big fan and enjoyed it. Though, she went from asking "I hope there's enough singing scenes.." to "Well, there was TOO much singing scenes.." so that came as a bit of a shock to me since that's Disney's bread and butter but I agreed that they way overdid the singing and orchestra aspects of Beauty that they're so keen in getting away with. There were some tweaks here and there to the mythology but it translated over well to the big screen that wasn't detrimental to Beauty's source material. The ending was totally rushed. Felt they put more of their eggs in the musical aspect of things rather than doing more to reveal how the house unwound from the curse. Overall, it was a typical Disney flick that knew exactly what to do to attract a big crowd with happy endings.

Overall, my show-stealer goes to Luke Evans as Gaston. Thought he was on the money in every aspect of his performance and was by far the most entertaining. Funny, hunky, charming, macho and hateable. Perfect intangibles for Gaston.

 

[chicagodave]

Looks like actualls are in : http://deadline.com/2017/03/beauty-and-the-beast-weekend-box-office-selling-out-1202045224/

174.8 mill is absolutely amazing, I love the movie and so glad its doing this well.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

357.1m WW over the weekend to go along with the March domestic record. A billion here we come?

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Even Stevie Wonder could see that Sunday number was too low. Okay Stevie Wonder if he followed the box office.