For what it's worth...

[LastSunrise1981]

This is funny. Ok so we have a few versus polls where X3 is getting trashed and many peoples opinion is made right that X3 sucks. Then the front page poll, and people who voted for X3 are idiots and it doesn't deserve to be there. Ridiculous.

DVD sales alone proved the fact that most the general audience liked X3. And the excuse that everybody who bought it hadn't saw it is just stupid.

I don't consider JB a superhero and still haven't saw CR yet. Although I plan too eventually. I agree V was a good movie, but as a superhero movie it just wasn't my cup of tea.

You'd be surprised. I know quite a few people who decided to wait for the DVD or wait to watch a bootleg copy online. Most people figure why go to a theater when it'll be out on DVD in 5 to 6 months?

But I'd rather watch a big time movie like Superman Returns or Spider-Man 3 on the big screen than a computer screen.

 

[Storm22]

But I'd rather watch a big time movie like Superman Returns or Spider-Man 3 on the big screen than a computer screen.

Same here! Is it just me though or does anyone else find it annoying, what with being so used to DVDs now, when the cinema print is dirty and you get annoying jumps, white specks etc. The X3 theatrical print was annoyingly dirty in cinemas here! I much preferred watching it on DVD.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

Same here! Is it just me though or does anyone else find it annoying, what with being so used to DVDs now, when the cinema print is dirty and you get annoying jumps, white specks etc. The X3 theatrical print was annoyingly dirty in cinemas here! I much preferred watching it on DVD.

Really? Hmm, when I saw X3 on opening night the cinema print was pretty good. I remember when I saw Constantine the sound was pretty bad, as you could barely hear Keanu Reeves.

 

[danoyse]

I have friends at work who never see movies in the theater. The week X3 was released in theaters, one said she was so excited to see it that she'd already put it in her Netflix queue. Seeing it in the theater just wasn't an option.

I'll never understand how anyone can do that.

 

[danoyse]

Same here! Is it just me though or does anyone else find it annoying, what with being so used to DVDs now, when the cinema print is dirty and you get annoying jumps, white specks etc. The X3 theatrical print was annoyingly dirty in cinemas here! I much preferred watching it on DVD.

Did you see it late in the run? Sometimes the film wears after it's been in theaters for awhile. I remember seeing "Fellowship of the Ring" about 4 months after it's release just to see the "Two Towers" trailer they'd tacked on to the end, and by then the print had tons of scratches and jumps in the sound.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

I have friends at work who never see movies in the theater. The week X3 was released in theaters, one said she was so excited to see it that she'd already put it in her Netflix queue. Seeing it in the theater just wasn't an option.

I'll never understand how anyone can do that.

Some really don't wan to see it in a theater with a bunch of people. From my experience in seeing Spider-Man 2 opening night you have some rude, stupid, and obnoxious people practically ruining the theater experience.

Of course it's not just that reason alone either. Most people don't want that much money to see a movie, so they wait for it on DVD or a bootleg copy via their friends or the internet. I knew one girl who didn't want to see Batman Begins because it wasn't Michael Keaton or Jack Nicholson, in which she opted to wait for the DVD or wait for a friend to provide her a bootleg copy.

I have to say Spider-Man 2 was one of my worse theater experiences, Return of the King, as great as the film was, my experience was ruined practically by some stupid spoiled jocks/morons shouting out homosexual insults anytime Frodo or Sam had a scene.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

I remember I saw Spider-Man on opening night and as it was close to the climax between GG and Spidey, the film started to jump horribly and eventually cut off.

One woman in front of me yelled "REWIND IT RIGHT NOW OR I'LL BE PISSED!". The film was eventually back to Spidey being thrown through the wall by GG.

Funny night I must say.

 

[danoyse]

I remember I saw Spider-Man on opening night and as it was close to the climax between GG and Spidey, the film started to jump horribly and eventually cut off.

One woman in front of me yelled "REWIND IT RIGHT NOW OR I'LL BE PISSED!". The film was eventually back to Spidey being thrown through the wall by GG.

Funny night I must say.

I saw Spiderman on opening night in Times Square, in this 1000-seat theater, that was completely sold out and the audience was going beserk for the entire movie. It was one of the best opening nights I'd ever been to. But someone had brought a baby to the theater, and the kid screeched for nearly half the movie. It was awful.

But on Monday, Howard Stern was talking about the movie on his radio show, and mentioned that he'd seen it in Times Square and wanted to know what idiot had brought a baby to the theater.

It had to have been the same show I'd been to. We had no idea he was there.

 

[danoyse]

Some really don't wan to see it in a theater with a bunch of people. From my experience in seeing Spider-Man 2 opening night you have some rude, stupid, and obnoxious people practically ruining the theater experience.

Of course it's not just that reason alone either. Most people don't want that much money to see a movie, so they wait for it on DVD or a bootleg copy via their friends or the internet. I knew one girl who didn't want to see Batman Begins because it wasn't Michael Keaton or Jack Nicholson, in which she opted to wait for the DVD or wait for a friend to provide her a bootleg copy.

I have to say Spider-Man 2 was one of my worse theater experiences, Return of the King, as great as the film was, my experience was ruined practically by some stupid spoiled jocks/morons shouting out homosexual insults anytime Frodo or Sam had a scene.

I yelled at some obnoxious kids who wouldn't shut up the 2nd time I saw "Return of the King." And they shut up after that, it was great.

I had the BEST experience when I saw "Return of the King" on opening night. I'd seen all 3 LOTR movies with my dad on opening night at the same theater in NY, and when ROTK opened, Andy Serkis was appearing at the Toys R Us in Times Square, so we went there before the movie. I got to meet him (he was really nice!) and he signed a LOTR posters for me and my dad. He wrote my name, and "My preciousssss" over his signature. It was AWESOME.

And then we saw the movie--and during the end credits, people in the audience stayed and applauded when each member of the cast appeared. It was so cool.

 

[thedarks0ldier]

Why do I get the feeling that if V For Vendetta, Casino Royale, POTC 2, or Superman Returns had ranked #1, you wouldn't be dissing that poll so much?

Isn't SR ranked #1, or were you making a joke?

 

[gambitfire]

Still, when all is said and done...X3 is the 3rd highest grossing movie of the year, while that "unlikely movie" is way back at #16.

Yea but it still took it's spot.

It being 3rd high doesn't change that.

Besides #16 isn't a loss for that unlikely movie since it didn't have a HUGE budget it desperatley needed to win back.

 

[danoyse]

Yea but it still took it's spot.

It being 3rd high doesn't change that.

But it's weak little victory to cling to.

 

[gambitfire]

I'm not clinging to anything, i'm just saying.

Like i said, it also had a huge budget to recover so i wouldn't have expected that loss to happen.

You make it sound like we are battling over it.