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Grown Ups 2 beat fucking Pacific Rim

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  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    Who doesn't wish the Matrix was a single movie instead of a trilogy? Who doesn't wish they'd just stopped with the first Pirates of the Caribbean?



    Guilty as Charged.

  • BastionBastion
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    A Pacific Rim prequel actually sounds like a great idea. There's a lot to expand on, and the prologue skipped over so much time that they have more than enough room to tell another story without feeling forced.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Relevant hipster clickbait:


    http://www.nyfcc.com/2013/07/best-movies-of-the-week-grown-ups-2-and-pawn-shop-chronicles-reviewed-by-armond-white-for-cityarts/


    http://www.nyfcc.com/2013/07/pacific-rim-reviewed-by-armond-white-for-cityarts/

  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    edited 2013-07-23 22:51:50
    (void)

    wow that Armond White Pacific Rim review is S-grade trolling.  I don't care if it's his 100% sincerely held beliefs, it's S-grade trolling.


    Also, two things.  One, as already mentioned, Pacific Rim's performance relative to the other movies coincidentally released on July 12, 2013 is not going to be the deciding factor in whether the franchise gets continued and whether movies along the same lines get greenlit.  Its performance relative to movies in the 2010s in general is going to be the deciding factor in those things, and in that respect, it's done quite well, especially since original blockbuster films are hard to launch nowadays.


    Two, stop pretending the United States domestic box office is the only box office.  Pac Rim owned the international box offices, in what was a surprise to exactly zero of the people who pay attention to things that aren't the United States.  I believe, after two weeks, when you combine worldwide box office returns, you get that Pacific Rim made back its huge budget in two weeks, and that's a good situation to be in, really.


    Also, I want a prequel with more Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon.  Those mechs were too awesome for what happened to them in the film.


     


     

  • AnonusAnonus
    edited 2013-07-26 16:32:59

    The movie business would be a lot better off if the whole "opening weekend is all that matters" mentality went away...(granted, it's in more force than ever now due to the ancillary markets drying up; home video is not the big seller it used to be, television viewership is declining, and they haven't figured out how to turn digital dimes into digital dollars yet)

  • Herma_MoraHerma_Mora

    Thanks guys. I guess I was just overreacting.

  • Naas_HumanNaas_Human

    Apparently, Pacific Rim only did so-so in Japan, but did pretty well, in China.


    I wouldn't say this is all that surprising. I'm pretty sure kaiju movies haven't done too well there in recent years, considering there hasn't been a Godzilla movie in a long time, and the next one is from an American studio.

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