The Amazing Spider-Man 2 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Box Office Prediction Thread

[webhead731]

I think I know one person who is excited to see this. Everyone else does not care or thinks it looks awful.

 

[Joeyjojo72]

There will be positive and negative reviews/reactions from die hard Spidey fans.as well as more casual fans and the GA (all are equally valid btw). A ton of them will be coming in by next Friday. If what youre looking for is universal praise from your fellow fans, the Hype could be a painful place for you in the ensuing weeks. Just the way it is.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Apparently, just because they've seen the movie one time in one theater with one crowd, they know exactly the entire situation of this film.... honestly, not much of a difference between seeing this movie once and not even seeing it yet. Both camps can/can't speak to the hype for this film equally. Seeing it one time in theaters doesn't give you some wealth of knowledge that those waiting for the US release lack. The only thing it gives you is your own real personal opinion of the final product

And yeah AS, I know you're good Just providing a little reinforcement ha

It's getting fairly mixed reviews, most of which is confirming things that tons of people all over the web (lol) have suspected of the film. Outside of here, I don't know anyone looking forward to the film. Not even non-comic fans, the GA, from what I've seen think it looks, at best, "okay." Now, marketing? Ohya, marketing is all over the place. But I don't know about hype, really.

 

[UltimateWebhead]

It's the 5th Spider-man film in just over 10 years. I can understand how people may be tired already or not looking forward to the movie.

 

[Angryfantasyfan]

It's the 5th Spider-man film in just over 10 years. I can understand how people may be tired already or not looking forward to the movie.

Fifth in twelve, but your point still stands. I definitely think franchise fatigue is a major factor. A sixth film in two years will push it into Police Academy territory.

I think the movie will do better than the last one, but won't get near a billion. Boxoffice.com, who's 112m ow prediction has been called bullish and bold, is only predicting a 265m domestic run.

 

[UltimateWebhead]

Fifth in twelve, but your point still stands. I definitely think franchise fatigue is a major factor. A sixth film in two years will push it into Police Academy territory.

I think the movie will do better than the last one, but won't get near a billion.

Oops. I meant to type 12 years. Thanks for catching that! But yeah, it's definitely a case of oversaturation, imo. When the first one came out in 2002, it was like "wow, it's Spider-man on the big screen!" and the movie was actually good, not like most CBMs that had preceded it. I haven't seen ASM2 yet, but I'm sure most of the cgi is better than the 2002 movie and as a fan I'll probably notice other visual improvements but to the average movie-goer, it's not a big deal. That WOW factor is kinda lost or really subdued to seeing Spidey in action, imo.

 

[JOE]

People don't give SM enough credit. The CGI leap was astronomical, that was the first time a CBM character was truly given justice on the big screen. It started the superhero boom, IMO. Everyone else followed suit.

 

[Green Goblin]

It's getting fairly mixed reviews, most of which is confirming things that tons of people all over the web (lol) have suspected of the film. Outside of here, I don't know anyone looking forward to the film. Not even non-comic fans, the GA, from what I've seen think it looks, at best, "okay." Now, marketing? Ohya, marketing is all over the place. But I don't know about hype, really.

Mixed? Some say it's Amazing... Some say it's bad... Just like every other film.

As for "confirming" what "tons" of other people suspected then I need evidence. I get you hate this movie with every bone in your body (from trailers) there isn't a shred of evidence to support it. ASM2 was voted the 2nd most anticipated
summer film, this was a poll of 100,000's of people. I'm not going to say this will def 100% mean it'll be the 2nd biggest money maker of the summer season but if we are measuring the "hype" levels of the type of people who will rate on RT then that's pretty f***ing high.

This isn't directed at you, I've also targeted the likes of avenging spidey who are influenced by their own views to speak for the general public. Don't worry, I do it too sometimes!

 

[Arach Knight]

People don't give SM enough credit. The CGI leap was astronomical, that was the first time a CBM character was truly given justice on the big screen. It started the superhero boom, IMO. Everyone else followed suit.

I believe we have Blade and X-Men to thank for the comicbook movie boom. Blade released in 1998 while X-Men released in 2000. Spider-Man wasn't on the scene until 2002, four years after Blade, and two years after X-Men. So if one is set to give credit to laying a foundation, give credit where credit is due. Granted, Spider-Man was a larger box office draw than either of those initial films, but there are a few social/political reasons for that relating to the American zeitgeist at the time, post 9/11.

 

[SM71]

There will be positive and negative reviews/reactions from die hard Spidey fans.as well as more casual fans and the GA (all are equally valid btw). A ton of them will be coming in by next Friday. If what youre looking for is universal praise from your fellow fans, the Hype could be a painful place for you in the ensuing weeks. Just the way it is.

Absolutely agreed, all opinions are 100% valid. I'm not trying to trash people's opinions, esp since I haven't even seen the movie yet. I could end up hating it. What I was trying to say, is that unless you're a die-hard SM fan, I don't see any reason to be in these threads if you didn't like the movie. I know there are some die-hard Spidey fans that didn't like the movie at all in here, but I have no problem with them posting negatively about the film. I believe they at least have a reason to be here despite disliking it

I didn't like the Thor movies at all, but I've also never been a die-hard Thor fan, so I'm not going to go in there and bash the films to all the Thor fans in there that love it. That's weird and pointless. And just mean to the die-hard Thor fans if you ask me. I see no reason to bring them down just bc I didn't like their Hero's film

It's getting fairly mixed reviews, most of which is confirming things that tons of people all over the web (lol) have suspected of the film. Outside of here, I don't know anyone looking forward to the film. Not even non-comic fans, the GA, from what I've seen think it looks, at best, "okay." Now, marketing? Ohya, marketing is all over the place. But I don't know about hype, really.

Again, I agree with your points. But, I was saying that some people were coming in here, claiming to know exactly how hyped this movie is or isn't just because they've seen it in theaters one time. And I was saying I don't believe they have any more (or less) insight about the hype of this movie than those who haven't seen it yet just bc of the mere fact they have seen it. All they have from that is a definite opinion of it, not some all-encompassing insight and knowledge about the flick

 

[SM71]

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[marcvader]

I'm hoping this movie at least makes what Amazing did but I have to agree with some on here that I'm not hearing the hype from the regular non fanboy community around me. They're the ones that bump up the box office totals major hit levels.

 

[Perry9]

I'll just quote what Jamie Foxx said in one of his interviews and it kinda stuck with me.

"The people that are going to see the movie, i'm pretty sure they don't blog".

 

[Green Goblin]

If they build on the first film's success they will do fine. Under 900M would be a disappointment for Sony considering they hyped it as "best spidey ever".

Sony are pretty confident so we'll just have to wait.

 

[hitmanyr2k]

I believe we have Blade and X-Men to thank for the comicbook movie boom. Blade released in 1998 while X-Men released in 2000. Spider-Man wasn't on the scene until 2002, four years after Blade, and two years after X-Men. So if one is set to give credit to laying a foundation, give credit where credit is due. Granted, Spider-Man was a larger box office draw than either of those initial films, but there are a few social/political reasons for that relating to the American zeitgeist at the time, post 9/11.

I remember after seeing Blade in theaters with a friend we jumped right back in line to see it again. I knew nothing of the character but became a fan because of that movie.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I think Sony hypes up every Spidey movie as the best Spidey ever and the movies are still huge so their tatics work. I disagree about that 900mil thing, surely I think that Sony would love 900mil but I do think even if it stays above 700mil that a drop from the first will be seen as a disappointment, especially in the domestic market. The first film didn't make 400 or even 300mil so there is room for growth.

 

[JOE]

I believe we have Blade and X-Men to thank for the comicbook movie boom. Blade released in 1998 while X-Men released in 2000. Spider-Man wasn't on the scene until 2002, four years after Blade, and two years after X-Men. So if one is set to give credit to laying a foundation, give credit where credit is due. Granted, Spider-Man was a larger box office draw than either of those initial films, but there are a few social/political reasons for that relating to the American zeitgeist at the time, post 9/11.

Spider-Man hit the world in a way Blade and X-Men didn't even come close to. It did their combined box office x 2. Can't even compare.

 

[Joeyjojo72]

Even an utterly mediocre Spidey movie makes $800 million as long as there's plenty of CGI spectacle to bring in the kids and the transformers audience. Spidey plus $225 million budget equals big bucks. Webhead is the biggest, most broadly loved superhero in the world. And as I said earlier, a Spidey movie of the quality of TDK or TA or even SM2 would annhiliate the box office.

 

[Green Goblin]

Even an utterly mediocre Spidey movie makes $800 million as long as there's plenty of CGI spectacle to bring in the kids and the transformers audience. Spidey plus $225 million budget equals big bucks. Webhead is the biggest, most broadly loved superhero in the world. And as I said earlier, a Spidey movie of the quality of TDK or TA or even SM2 would annhiliate the box office.

Spider-Man 2 is considered the best in the Raimi trilogy but it made the least amount of money.

Every fan and their mother could love ASM2 like they (well an awful lot) love TDK and TA but that's no guarantee of a billion mark.

 

[marcvader]

Even an utterly mediocre Spidey movie makes $800 million as long as there's plenty of CGI spectacle to bring in the kids and the transformers audience. Spidey plus $225 million budget equals big bucks. Webhead is the biggest, most broadly loved superhero in the world. And as I said earlier, a Spidey movie of the quality of TDK or TA or even SM2 would annhiliate the box office.

Sadly we haven't since SM2.

 

[superglowy]

Amazing Spider-Man 2: Biggest international opening weekend of 2014

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/...-opening-weekend-of-2014.html#~oCciAE7ND3qLCV

Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...fice-amazing-spider-man-2-earns-47m-overseas/

This movie is gonna surprise all of you by its numbers. 'TASM' was the 'Batman Begins', this will collect 'Dark Knight' style.

 

[SM71]

Honestly, it's not even opening week yet. The movie doesn't come out for 10 more days here in the US. I can't really remember hearing "buzz around me" for any movie 2 weeks prior to release. The buzz usually starts opening weekend. The only exception maybe being TA. But that's been every CB fans dream for life basically

 

[Ms. Marvel]

Amazing Spider-Man 2: Biggest international opening weekend of 2014

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/...-opening-weekend-of-2014.html#~oCciAE7ND3qLCV

Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...fice-amazing-spider-man-2-earns-47m-overseas/

This movie is gonna surprise all of you by its numbers. 'TASM' was the 'Batman Begins', this will collect 'Dark Knight' style.

Even if this makes $1 billion it will not surprise/impress people the same way TDK did. This is coming after a $750 million movie whereas TDK came after a $370 million movie. It will still be impressive but not as impressive as TDK increase.

 

[SM71]

Amazing Spider-Man 2: Biggest international opening weekend of 2014

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/...-opening-weekend-of-2014.html#~oCciAE7ND3qLCV

Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...fice-amazing-spider-man-2-earns-47m-overseas/

This movie is gonna surprise all of you by its numbers. 'TASM' was the 'Batman Begins', this will collect 'Dark Knight' style.

Watch out...

"Biggest International opening weekend of 2014" = Complete total disaster/failure around here

 

[SM71]

Even if this makes $1 billion it will not surprise/impress people the same way TDK did. This is coming after a $750 million movie whereas TDK came after a $370 million movie. It will still be impressive but not as impressive as TDK increase.

So now people are hypothetically saying if the movie makes $1B it's still not impressive. I understand you may just be saying it won't reach TDK status, which I agree with (I personally don't think anything ever will, for real), but it's getting a little out of hand around here

People truly do love to hate this franchise. I don't mind people hating TASM or TASM2 as movies, but people are even talking negatively on the positive things that are coming out/being said somehow