The bad start of summer 2010

[BlackLantern]

Im with Figs...I enjoy Brand and his over the topness sometime but, like a lot of Brit comedians its all about the character he puts out there....ie Benny Hill, Eddie Izzard, Dame Edna

 

[-Arya-]

Tron Legacy??

Nope, not interested.

 

[dude stannis]

2011 (Green Lantern vs Captain America vs Thor vs X-Men vs Pirates IV vs Transformers 3) and 2012 (Spider-Man vs Batman vs Avengers) are loaded with big hitters, so the best is yet to come.

So basically your whinging and moaning about how this summer sucks because they're no superhero and other bloated CGI fest movies?

And I'll have you know 90% of the Expendables cast are action heroes that came to prominence in the 00's, not twenty years ago.

 

[Big Daddy]

you are underestimating it's popularity my friend there were people who thought Avatar was TLA

also alot and i mean alot of tLA fan base is made of female's as well as kids and adults

having Twilight's Rathbone has even got Twilight fans excited and it just looks awesome

Also not to mention the latest trailer was liked the most of those attached to IM2.It has been advertised big time from The Superbowl to the Winter Olympics to the NICK Kid's Choice Awards to American Idol Finale.It will also be promoted at MTV Movie Awards this weekend and TV Spots play daily On NICK for kids to see.

McDonald's is also gonna promote it just like it did with Shrek 4

+1 people here are underestimating it just because they have no interest in it. Your generation isn't generation x anymore guys. This show was huge when it was on.

Other than TLA, I'm excited for Inception (it WILL make money) and Toy Story 3 (will make mad dough). I wasn't excited for Get'em to the Greek, it looked stupid to me. But you guys are convincing me otherwise, so I might check it out.

 

[Red Mask]

I don't mind. I've been so occupied this season with my plans to move overseas. I went to Hawaii weeks ago. I've got to sell some stuff now. I'm working on some illustrations. Had fun watching Iron Man 2 twice. I already bought a DVD copy of ***** Slap! As far as I'm concerned, the theater season is over for me. I already hope October will provide some decent films.

 

[cryptic name]

2010 may not be 2008 caliber, but I'm really excited for Inception, and Tron Legacy and am looking forward to A-Team, Toy Story 3, The Expendables and Predators. I'm digging the return to badass group movies, even liked The Losers.

 

[Red Mask]

Hmmm. No. I can just watch those on cable television, if I ever get it where I'm moving to.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The Summer started out with a disappointing thud when the tepidly reviewed Iron Man 2 opened with nearly 30million less than even the lowest predictions. It's still a hit and has a 65% chance of outgrossing the first but it's still going to make 70mil less than most thought. And it sucked...not hard but it sucked lightly. IMHO that set the tone, this whole Summer is probably going to be pretty disappointing movie and boxoffice wise.

Prince Of Persia was a fun movie and I thought that it could break out but it's not a shocker that it bombed. Sex And the City did way less than expected and thats a little surprising to me but it shouldn't be. It was a pointless sequel. Still not sure about Toy Story 3 quality wise but it should still make alot of money...probably over 300mil.

Inception looks great but I'm still not sure how well it will do. I see 200+mil but I'm not sure about these 300+mil predictions yet.

Eclispe will probably be hurt by the two soon release date, I wouldn't be surprised if it just crawled over 200mil. I'll say it's probably a lock for 190mil but thats it. If it bucks the two quick sequel trend so be it but I'm not predicting that. I know I'm seeing it though, it's based on my favorite book in the series.

I expect the A-Team to crack 150mil atleast and The Karate Kid looks like it could break out. Maybe 80 to 110mil? Or it could tank. Who knows? Salt could do well and Knight and Day should do well.

Air Bender looks mediocre. It could hit but I just have a hard time believing that it's going to be one of the big ones.

There are ofcourse going to be some surprises.

 

[Punisher Rising]

This Summer doesn't have a very impressive or appealing line-up of films, IMO. I'm only looking forward to Predators and The Expendables, everything else is either passable to me or not interesting at all.

 

[Rumpy Bulge Dubz]

Yeah, it can't be because the movies have just not been good. I liked Iron Man 2, but every other May movie hasn't peaked my interest at all.

Shrek wore out it's welcome with the third installment, it's doing well, but not nearly as well as previous installments. The first was good, but the second and third just seemed to rely too much on pop culture references and lame ones at that.

Prince of Persia is based off a videogame so had a big hurdle to jump right off the bat, a 40% rated at RottenTomatoes probably didn't help either.

Robin Hood, well it just didn't look like Robin Hood to me. It looked like another swords and sandals epic that wore out their welcome years ago

MacGruber, how this movie was even made is beyond me

Sex and the City 2, well I'm not the intended audience, but my girlfriend who loved the series wasn't interested either because of the hot flash/menapause jokes, she just felt like she wouldn't relate and that the series has run it's course, sequel not needed.

Agreed 100%

especially the bold, when I saw the trailer before Iron Man 2 I just face palmed myself. Seriously?

who's actually pathetic enough to take the time out to drive to the theater (too much effort required right there for this particular movie), waste the gas, walk up to the counter to purchase the ticket, then to the person that tears the ticket, then the walk down the hallway to your screen room, of course you still haven't walked up the stairs to find your perfect aisle near the top yet.

not doing any of that for freaking MacGruber

 

[LastSunrise1981]

The Summer started out with a disappointing thud when the tepidly reviewed Iron Man 2 opened with nearly 30million less than even the lowest predictions. It's still a hit and has a 65% chance of outgrossing the first but it's still going to make 70mil less than most thought. And it sucked...not hard but it sucked lightly. IMHO that set the tone, this whole Summer is probably going to be pretty disappointing movie and boxoffice wise.

Prince Of Persia was a fun movie and I thought that it could break out but it's not a shocker that it bombed. Sex And the City did way less than expected and thats a little surprising to me but it shouldn't be. It was a pointless sequel. Still not sure about Toy Story 3 quality wise but it should still make alot of money...probably over 300mil.

Inception looks great but I'm still not sure how well it will do. I see 200+mil but I'm not sure about these 300+mil predictions yet.

Eclispe will probably be hurt by the two soon release date, I wouldn't be surprised if it just crawled over 200mil. I'll say it's probably a lock for 190mil but thats it. If it bucks the two quick sequel trend so be it but I'm not predicting that. I know I'm seeing it though, it's based on my favorite book in the series.

I expect the A-Team to crack 150mil atleast and The Karate Kid looks like it could break out. Maybe 80 to 110mil? Or it could tank. Who knows? Salt could do well and Knight and Day should do well.

Air Bender looks mediocre. It could hit but I just have a hard time believing that it's going to be one of the big ones.

There are ofcourse going to be some surprises.

I disagree. Eclipse will most likely battle Toy Story 3 for the biggest grossing film this Summer. Twlight fans are very excited for this and the quick release date isn't going to hurt it a bit.

Most of the fans were already aware they were releasing it quickly so they can start shooting Breaking Dawn. Iron Man 2, Toy Story, possibly Inception, and Eclipse will be your big films this year in my opinion.

 

[Figs]

Inception looks great but I'm still not sure how well it will do. I see 200+mil but I'm not sure about these 300+mil predictions yet.

Same here. I'm really excited for it but I think a big factor in how well it does is how much action is going to be in it. I don't need or require a lot of action in a film like that but i'm pretty positive that the GA will.

SPIDEY, what did you like about Prince of Persia? My gf and I felt bored throughout most of it and I blame that mainly on the action. I felt they could have upped the ante with it and I also felt they didn't use the dagger's powers well enough. Alfred Molina was great as the comedy relief and after this movie i'll defend gyllenhaal in regards to him being able to be an action star in these fun type of films. I have a few friends that were ragging on him saying stuff like "I can't take Bubble Boy seriously trying to play an action star" and I had to tell them that he's not playing some hardass '80s type but the more fun type of action hero and I think he played it really well.

 

[Drizzle]

I really don't think that The Last Airbender will be a hit. In fact, it will probably be #2 to Eclipse its opening weekend.

 

[Evil Twin]

Okay. Maybe that was an exaggeration, but it can't be denied that Alice in Wonderland was not well-liked by most audiences. And, yet, it grossed $1 billion worldwide. So, that comes to show that audiences aren't as picky as people on the internet. Or, should I say, as people claim to be on the internet. So, like I said, the movies themselve are not to blame. It's the economy.

Alice in Wonderland got an "A-" from Cinemascore. I don't know why myself, but apparently it delivered what most people were looking for.

 

[Project862006]

Eclipse comes out 3 days before TLA

TLA has a wider audiences and many Twilight fans themselves want to see it because of Jackson

TLA has - martial arts/action/special effects/sci fi/fantasy/adventure/ all in 1

TLA has kids/adults/parents/females(people forget this TLA has a huge female fan base) as it's movie demographic

i think it will do fine

 

[Drizzle]

I don't know. I just never figured that the show had that big of a following.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Eclipse could have awful reviews and a 10% score on Rotten Tomatoes, but it will probably end up with over $200 million at the box office.

Don't underestimate the power of Twilight fans. It's why I think Eclipse will be one of the biggest movies of the summer, alongside Toy Story 3 and possibly Inception.

 

[Big Daddy]

I don't know. I just never figured that the show had that big of a following.

Its an Emmy award winning series with a huge following, especially internationally. It will do fine. And it has 3D ticket prices in its favor. It looks like its one of the most faithful adaptations I have ever seen so fans wont have any rational complaints.

 

[Kargo Warrior]

Eclipse could have awful reviews and a 10% score on Rotten Tomatoes, but it will probably end up with over $200 million at the box office.

Don't underestimate the power of Twilight fans. It's why I think Eclipse will be one of the biggest movies of the summer, alongside Toy Story 3 and possibly Inception.

Exactly and the bolded word is not needed.

The last movie had awful reviews and just about a bad word of mouth from everyone apart from the target audience and it made $300 domestically and $700 worldwide.

It has a huge fan base and movies like that have an assured gross no matter how bad or cheesy they are.All Harry Potter movies have made between $850 and $950 even when some of the films like Goblet Of Fire or Prisoner of Azkaban had excellent reviews and were very well liked by the average audience.

 

[Thundarr]

Wow, its hardly began and people are pissing and moaning.

That didn't take long did it? Just like how people where whining from the first two months of this year.


And its none of you people are ever happy with anything and its hardly began.

That's exactly what I've been thinking the whole time I've been reading this thread! People are pissing and moaning about how sucky this summer's movies are, and most of the films their complaining about haven't even come out yet. I mean June has barely even begun and they're calling this "the worst summer ever". I think maybe you people should wait until September before making such claims. How do you know The Last Airbender is gonna flop? Or The A-Team? Or The Expendables? Have most of the films that have come out thus far been crap? Sure! About the only one I can think of which hasn't been a complete diappointment has been Iron Man 2. But the same could be said for any summer. For every Matrix or South Park: The Movie, there's at least one Gigli, or Reindeer Games, or Glitter (usually more). And all the really huge blockbusters don't always come out in May or even June. Sometimes the biggest blockbusters of the season hit in July and/or August.

Point is, talk about what you know. Most of the movie sequels will likely flop, because sequels by their very nature never do as well as the originals at the box office and often times fail miserably (though there are exceptions, Lethal Weapon 2 anyone?). Movies that are already out and have proven to be failures, go ahead and write whatever you want.

I'm not a Twilight fan, but there are millions of Twidiots out there who are and will likely make Eclipse a success. I am a Harry Potter fan, and I'm sure Deathly Hollows 1 & 2 will both be huge successes. Why? Because each previous installment has been so far. As there's never been an A-Team movie before, I'm reserving judgement on that until after I've seen it.

 

[Nightmare]

Exactly and the bold word is not needed.

The last movie had awful reviews and just about a bad word of mouth from everyone apart from the target audience and it made $300 domestically and $700 worldwide.

It has a huge fan base and movies like that have an assured gross no matter how bad or cheesy they are.All Harry Potter movies have made between $850 and $950 even when some of the films like Goblet Of Fire or Prisoner of Azkaban had excellent reviews and were very well liked by the average audience.

Wow, amazing Avy.

 

[Kargo Warrior]

Wow, amazing Avy.

Thanks.

 

[Catman]

And the summer continues its slump. The #1 movie on Friday was Shrek Forever After with only $6.5 million. Unless The A-Team pulls a fast one it seems like the box office will be dead till Toy Story 3.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Karate Kid is getting good buzz and everytime I see the trailer the audience seems to be into it so I think that it has potental. Could I see it tanking? Ofocurse but I'm not counting it out. As a matter of fact I wouldn't be surprised if it opened with more than A-Team. To be honest both movies are iffy prospects so none of them are a lock to make alot of money.

Right now I'm predicting

A-Team: 48-53mil

Karate Kid: 38-45mil

 

[Dr. Evil]

Karate Kid is getting good buzz and everytime I see the trailer the audience seems to be into it so I think that it has potental. Could I see it tanking? Ofocurse but I'm not counting it out. As a matter of fact I wouldn't be surprised if it opened with more than A-Team. To be honest both movies are iffy prospects so none of them are a lock to make alot of money.

Right now I'm predicting

A-Team: 48-53mil

Karate Kid: 38-45mil

Jackie Chan needs a hit in the worse way, so if the Karate Kid hits (no pun intended), it will be the success Chan hasn't had in a long time.