Pacific Rim

[KC_Lee]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

I read a.story about how this movie is tracking horribly low right now. They said there was more awareness right now for Grown Ups 2 than this. I hope this doesn't flop, but I can see it underperforming.
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Does that say more about the state of the US movie going public or the movies themselves?

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by KC_Lee

Does that say more about the state of the US movie going public

Mostly this i guess...heh. but i dont know..... I always hear how the modern movie audience is sort of "dumbed down", but people have always naturally leaned towards the familiar. Thats just how we are wired.

I think a big problem is the budgets for alot of these modern blockbusters. 150-200 million +. Movies dont play nearly as long as they used to back in the day......so now days if you dont get that HUGE opening weekend number in relation to your budget, your viewed instantly as a disappointment, which then helps drive away business in later weeks, because "word of mouth" thinks the movie sucks.

My guess is this movie disappoints stateside, but is probably HUGE overseas. Stateside its the type of film that looks like its only going to appeal to die hard fanboy types. I dont see much female, older or family appeal.

[KC_Lee]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Mostly this i guess...heh. but i dont know..... I always hear how the modern movie audience is sort of "dumbed down", but people have always naturally leaned towards the familiar. Thats just how we are wired.

I think a big problem is the budgets for alot of these modern blockbusters. 150-200 million +. Movies dont play nearly as long as they used to back in the day......so now days if you dont get that HUGE opening weekend number in relation to your budget, your viewed instantly as a disappointment, which then helps drive away business in later weeks, because "word of mouth" thinks the movie sucks.

My guess is this movie disappoints stateside, but is probably HUGE overseas. Stateside its the type of film that looks like its only going to appeal to die hard fanboy types. I dont see much female, older or family appeal.

Well being a daikaiju eiga fanboy I will be dragging the wife to see this with me.

I do see your point. This will be huge overseas. Plus this will essentially be trial run for Legendry’s Godzilla re-boot.