The Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man: Box Office Thread - Part 1

[Bruce Malone]

More than enough people were content with tobey's performances. Audiences are not taking to TASM nearly the way they were for the last franchise.

Aside from the part 3 he did fine.

 

[spider-neil]

The hell you talking a about?

Maguire got $5M for SM1, $12M for SM2 and $17M for SM3

I found his performances to be severely underwhelming and disingenuine. He was completely miscast.

Maguire was excellent in SM3, the high point being the Uncle Ben speech to Aunt May, but in SM3 he phones it in and his end cry over Harry was a frigging disgrace and an insult to the proffesion of acting.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

In contrast Garfield got 500,000 for his role in SM1 and despite that,the way he threw himself into that role was amazing

Best comic book related performance after Heath Ledger's without a doubt

Are you seriously comparing Andrew Garfield's performance in this... to Heath Ledger as The Joker?

That's just about the biggest load of crap I've heard in a long time.

Hyperbole at it's finest.

 

[Nathan]

I don't know if I'd say Heath Ledger, but I also don't want to downplay Andrew's performance. Andrew did a fantastic job, but Heath could do a lot more range wise, because Joker is simply such and eccentric, sadistic, outrageous, over the top persona.

It's probably not fair to compare the performance of one playing a teenager, with that of one portraying the Clown Prince of Crime.

But to me right now, Andrew Garfield IS Spider-Man.

 

[Spiderdevil]

The hell you talking a about?

Maguire got $5M for SM1, $12M for SM2 and $17M for SM3

I found his performances to be severely underwhelming and disingenuine. He was completely miscast.

So,Maguire was payed 10 times more for the same role than Garfield
Despite the previous series being more successful,Garfield's role was hundred times better

Which was my point basically

 

[Spiderdevil]

Maguire was excellent in SM3, the high point being the Uncle Ben speech to Aunt May, but in SM3 he phones it in and his end cry over Harry was a frigging disgrace and an insult to the proffesion of acting.

I had no problem with his acting in the 3 movies except the way he cried,Riami wanted the nerdish Peter rather than an outcast like Webb wanted and Tobey potrayed that pretty well.But his crying face was pathetic

Garfield's crying face is more like how a man cries,no distorsion like a baby's,just red eyes and few tears

 

[Spiderdevil]

Are you seriously comparing Andrew Garfield's performance in this... to Heath Ledger as The Joker?

That's just about the biggest load of crap I've heard in a long time.

Hyperbole at it's finest.

I said it was the best comic book related performance after Heath Ledger's.Thats not comparing

The two roles arent even comparable.Ledger's role is more comparable to Dafoe's in SM1 than Garfield's

 

[Anno_Domini]

It's not even the best performance after Ledger's Joker.

But on a different note...I did not expect Ice Age 4 to top TAS-M. Kinda stunned to hear that.

 

[Spiderdevil]

It's not even the best performance after Ledger's Joker.

What is then?

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

What is then?

Michael Fassbender as Magneto.

I'm not counting RDJ since his first time in the role was pre-Ledger.

 

[Anno_Domini]

Hiddleston's Loki.

 

[Anno_Domini]

Michael Fassbender as Magneto.

That would be my second choice.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Yep...

1. Fassbender
2. Hiddleston

And frankly, I think Bale is going to give one heck of a performance in TDKR (From the trailers alone even).

All above and beyond Andrew Garfield in ASM.

 

[JP]

But on a different note...I did not expect Ice Age 4 to top TAS-M. Kinda stunned to hear that.

Don't you follow projections? I don't see how anyone could be "stunned" to hear that.


Anyway, did better than the -50% drop everyone expected. Only -43%. Crosses $200m domestic today.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Maguire was paid a ton more than Garfield..

Which I don't understand, I don't even know of any Maguire's roles besides Spider-Man.

The Ice Storm
Pleasantville
The Cider House Rules
Wonder Boys
Seabiscuit
Brothers

No offence, but you seriously need to watch more films if you aren't familiar with an actor as well known as Maguire. He was one of the hottest young independent film actors around about 10-15 years ago. He was so well known for that sort of thing that he was even used as a gag in Tropic Thunder, starring alongside Kirk Lazarus/RDJ in some blatant Oscar bait picture.

 

[eLPAtitoyUPI]

Michael Fassbender and Andrew Garfield are very tied up with me on my top list. RDJ would be next if you count Avengers after Heath Ledger.

Tobey Maguire, as I said a lot of time in this forum, doesn't know how to have normal faces in the SM saga, he just has a confused face EVERY SINGLE MOMENT OF THE MOVIES. If not, he's doing strange faces while crying or screaming. And let's not talk when he's in the suit...

He's a great actor, but he doesn't know how to be Peter Parker or Spidey, I'm sorry.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

That would be my second choice.

And Hiddleston would be mine. I also loved James McAvoy and Mark Ruffalo too. Hemsworth and Evans are probably around the same level as Garfield.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

So how much does this need to make in order to gain a legitimate profit?

 

[©KAW]

It did cross the half billion mark worldwide. $521,400,000

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

So how much does this need to make in order to gain a legitimate profit?

For TASM to make a profit, probably around 600-700 million. Nobody knows for sure, but it is usually about double the production and promotion budgets.

For Sony Pictures to actually make a profit this quarter, a lot more than that seeing how badly Total Recall is going to be tanking in a couple of weeks.

 

[roach]

He demanded truckloads,50M combined for SM4 and SM5 was his demand

In contrast Garfield got 500,000 for his role in SM1 and despite that,the way he threw himself into that role was amazing

Best comic book related performance after Heath Ledger's without a doubt

he didn't demand 50M...they offered him 50M

 

[roach]

It's not even the best performance after Ledger's Joker.

But on a different note...I did not expect Ice Age 4 to top TAS-M. Kinda stunned to hear that.

1) Its a family film and they always kill at the BO
2) The last Ice Age movie almost did 1 Bil at the BO

 

[Scarlettess]

Hiddleston's Loki.

I actually agree, though I don't know, I don't think it's neccesarily fair to compare an actor portraying a hero to one portraying a villain. Both, in fact any role is hard to pull off, but I think villains tend to get alot more credit as it's 'harder' to get into the mindset of one, and as villains tend to be so 'out there' to how a human acts etc. I don't agree with that, but I do agree that to play either demands different capabilities.

but yeah as iconic villain portrayels go.
1. Heath Ledger
2. Tom Hiddleston
3. Macheal Fassbender

iconic hero portrayals
1. Robert Downey Jr
2. Andrew Garfield
3. Chris Evans

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

I actually agree, though I don't know, I don't think it's neccesarily fair to compare an actor portraying a hero to one portraying a villain. Both, in fact any role is hard to pull off, but I think villains tend to get alot more credit as it's 'harder' to get into the mindset of one, and as villains tend to be so 'out there' to how a human acts etc. I don't agree with that, but I do agree that to play either demands different capabilities.

but yeah as iconic villain portrayels go.
1. Heath Ledger
2. Tom Hiddleston
3. Macheal Fassbender

iconic hero portrayals
1. Robert Downey Jr
2. Andrew Garfield
3. Chris Evans

Lol Chris Evans? Hahahahaha
1. Bale
2. Downey Jr
3. Garfield

 

[Spiderdevil]

Yep...

1. Fassbender
2. Hiddleston

And frankly, I think Bale is going to give one heck of a performance in TDKR (From the trailers alone even).

All above and beyond Andrew Garfield in ASM.

Dont agree

Garfield's was better