Stop Complaining Please! Is Anybody Else Sick of It?!

[Theweepeople]

1 - You just don't do sarcasm or humor very well and often come off sounding too serious and/or passionate while at it.

I thought you were one of the many people who were amused by my analyses of Simon Kinberg's Q and A sessions at thexverse.com because they were filled with satire. My intentions were always to expose Simon for the big fat liar that he is in a humorous way.

 

[gambitfire]

That's the thing...we don't know exactly how many millions the studio spent making the movie. What's listed on Box Office Mojo is an estimate, not the actual figures.

I know that already stop telling me.

I'm just saying it wouldn't make any sense to round off by the millionth, and even then when you're involving millions what difference is a thousand let's say?

So whatever profit percentage any of us put together here is not going to be accurate to what Fox actually made, because we don't have the exact figures.

I never said otherwise.

And again, we also don't know how that profit was broken down and who got what out of it. None of us know who earns what part of that profit, but we haven't heard anyone complain that they didn't make any money off it it.

But why would they?

It's not a flop, it may be the least profitable out of the three but that wouldn't be a reason for the studio to come out and say it.


I mean really this is FOX are they going to completely admit to anything?

I read the 1st qtr financial report released by Fox a few weeks ago. Profits were down due to their lackluster fall TV schedule (which is interrupted by the MLB playoffs, and because their 2 biggest shows don't start until January). It was sales of the X3 DVD that boosted their profits for the 1st quarter.

But you said Studio's don't fully disclose this kind of information, so how accurate was this report?

It was always going to be a big-budget movie, especially since they would have to re-sign that entire cast. Had they scrapped the whole thing and started over when Matthew Vaughn left, they would have lost tons of money. Instead they finished it and it was ultimately profitable.

And it was successful enough that I don't think you'll see a restart anytime soon.

I don't know about that, out of the 3 movies i think it was the least profitable (in the sense of how much they spent compared to).

I'm not saying it wasn't profitable just that it wasn't as successfull in profit terms (and critic) to the past movie.

Financially the franchise might move on, however, take into consideration because this one did good doesn't mean the next one will.

You have fans that walked out unhappy but FOX already got their money.

Yes there are people who enjoyed the movie, but i feel sure there are almost as many that didn't.

As far as DVD sales go, I know alot of people who just buy'em to complete the set.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

I thought you were one of the many people who were amused by my analyses of Simon Kinberg's Q and A sessions at thexverse.com because they were filled with satire. My intentions were always to expose Simon for the big fat liar that he is in a humorous way.

I was amused by quite a few of them.

As in you'd get the passing grade, but not with honors. Never meant that you didn't have any sense of humor.

But then again, I kinda have high standards when it comes to satire/sarcasm/cynism. Am a huge vintage Dennis Miller fan and the guy just so happens to be dispassionate cynism/sarcasm incarnate. t:

 

[Drago]

Just my opinion on the box office stuff, X2 was the most profitable, and after inflation you may even consider X1 to be on par with X3 in terms of profit. BUT X1 had the least reels and showings, where X3 had the most, and there still isn't too much of a difference in terms of profit

Lastly, box office for sequels depends heavily on the film preceding it- thats why X3 had such a big 1st weekend, X2 rocked, and why it crashed after that... compare that to something like Batman Begins, which didn't have any amazing weekends but had awesome legs (lets be honest, tons of people were skeptical of that movie... even now I'm amazed when I watch it with a friend and they go "I've never seen it... isn't it going to be really cheesy?")

 

[Error]

I agree the deaths were so sudden and all in one movie, it was so spontaneous in the movie it was terrible.

 

[Squaremaster316]

I love how a poster like YJ1 (aka. TopDog1, aka, Doetreve AKA. 50+ other sock puppet accounts) can bring up box office grosses and home video sales as some sort of "proof" of X3's superiority over something like Batman Begins, despite:

- Ignoring the fact that BB made twice as much as X3 in home video sales

- Trying to claim something like Daredevil as being superior to BB, even though it grossed less than half of BB's box office and made nowhere near as much on home media

- Steadfast refusing to qualify the Dark Knight as superior to Iron Man two years later, despite the former grossing nearly twice as much as the latter and vastly outperforming it on home media.

- sidenote: He also brings up Roger Ebert's thumbs up review of X3 with great admiration, yet slyly ignores that perfect 4-star review of Batman Begins.


I would say his reasoning for justifying quality is poor, but that would require him to be consistent with his qualifications.

 

[danoyse]

Hard to believe we waited seven years for you to chime in on this.