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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Saw this today and liked it much better then Twilight. Eclipse was always a stronger book, and it far less...girly. I'll be seeing this again and I'm an adult male.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Eclipse? Are you seeing movies that aren't out yet?
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Originally Posted by Suprmallet
Eclipse? Are you seeing movies that aren't out yet?
Oops, meant New Moon. Had a few drinks before I went online.
Old 11-22-09, 10:31 PM
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
Oops, meant New Moon. Had a few drinks before I went online.
Pretty sure I'd have a few drinks too before I'd go see New Moon as well.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
I'm an adult male.
Yeah. Right.
Old 11-23-09, 12:29 AM
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Re: Humanity Is Dead - New Moon Breaks Midnight Record: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 11

Originally Posted by Matthew Chmiel
With Twilight and New Moon, it's setting back women's rights at least twenty or thirty years.
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Re: Humanity Is Dead - New Moon Breaks Midnight Record: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 11

Originally Posted by RobLutter
That said... 99% of the people are not in their demographic... which is 11-24 year old girls it seems who want to see hot guys with their shirts off moan and brood for 2 hours on screen.... and their poor boyfriends who get dragged along or give in to get some tail. Luckily my girlfriend is 25 and thinks the entire thing is just plain silly.
The reason why NM is exploding is because its not just teen girls. Surveys are showing that it is a 50/50% split between women under the age of 21, and women over the age of 21.

And it was a 80/20 split women and men. So many men were dragged to see this by their women.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Originally Posted by Suprmallet
So because it's geared to a specific demographic means it's beyond criticism? Why should we compartmentalize things that way? To me, it's the same argument that people use on Tyler Perry movies. "Well, it's not made for you, so of course you won't like it." That's bullshit. Good movies cross boundaries. You shouldn't have to be exclusively of a certain age, gender, or color to enjoy a good movie. If you do, chances are the movie probably isn't all that good to begin with.
While this is true, that's not how most people look at films. Film fanatics, perhaps, but not your average filmgoer.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

My Favorite thing about all this is how many men are complaining about this. I find it hard to believe THAT many men would be dragged to it... Ill admit, I dont mind the books/films (moderate fan, enjoyable enough) and my wife is about the same. We both could take it or leave it. But even if she was a card carrying member of the Twilight appreciation society, she would never drag me to it. Sure we compromise on which movies we see, but Ill be damned if I ever see something I truly don't want to. I think a lot of guys are secretely using that excuse because they really want to see it and not seem girly.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

I'm surprised it is doing so well if only because most fans I know don't like this book. My wife really enjoyed the books, kind of liked the first movie, but has little desire to see New Moon because she didn't really like the book.

It'll be interesting to see how the third movie does. I wonder how the books and movies will be remembered in the long run. Are future generations really going to get into them anywhere near as much as people do now?
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Haven't read the books. Saw the first one on BD and enjoyed it. I'll do the same with the second one, also. Congrats to a great opening weekend.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Originally Posted by Drop

It'll be interesting to see how the third movie does.
Even better, it opens in the summer, also Eclipse is seen as the best book in the entire series.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Originally Posted by superdeluxe
Even better, it opens in the summer, also Eclipse is seen as the best book in the entire series.
Also it seems like its also directed by the most respected by fanboys at least (he did '30 days of nights', and personal fave. 'Hard Candy'
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Actuals are out. NM goes up more than 2 million, everything else drops:

From RTH

1-NM 4024 142,839,137
FR:72,703,754 SA:42,288,881 SU:27,846,502
2-Blind Side 3110 34,119,372
FR 11,038,423 SA 13,742,443 SU 9,338,506
3-2012 3408 26,410,206 -60% 108,131,263
4-P51 3035 12,286,129
5-ACC 3678 12,275,024 -45% 79,836,002
6-Precious 629 10,881,772 +85% 21,277,521
7-MWSAG 2056 2,829,031 -52% 27,680,089
8-CR 1712 1,943,075 -53% 104,992,030
9-4thK 1648 1,747,085 -62% 23,359,890
10-TII 1640 1,617,417 -68% 70,258,545
11-LAC 1327 1,606,053 -58% 70,018,193
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

I haven't seen either of the films or read any of the books, but I'll have to say that I like Twilight better than New Moon because Twilight makes me think of this:

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while New Moon only makes me think of Sha Na Na:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1NyK3df0xaw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1NyK3df0xaw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

looks like this is going at 10 mil a day for the weekdays. In other words, it prob won't get to 200 mil till the weekend, unless theirs a spike on thanksgiving day.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

By Sunday we could be looking at 235-245. I know it's gutsy at this point, but 375 total.
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If New Moon beats out TF2 for #1 grossing pic of the year (domestic - the only numbers that count), then humanity is doomed.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

We were already doomed the moment that TF2 became the highest grossing film of the year.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Originally Posted by Suprmallet
We were already doomed the moment that TF2 became the highest grossing film of the year.
I still don't get all the hate for TF2. By far the best movie theater experience I had all year.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Originally Posted by dan30oly
I still don't get all the hate for TF2. By far the best movie theater experience I had all year.
By far the worst for me. I enjoyed TF1, but this movie was catered to people sharing the same intelligence level as a 4 year old.
Everything about this movie was juvenile and ridiculous to me, and my girlfriend agreed.
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By far the worst for me. I enjoyed TF1, but this movie was catered to people sharing the same intelligence level as a 4 year old.
Everything about this movie was juvenile and ridiculous to me, and my girlfriend agreed.
Thanks for insulting me.
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Re: Humanity is Saved--The Dark Knight's record is safe: Weekend Box Office 11/20 - 1

Originally Posted by dan30oly
I still don't get all the hate for TF2. By far the best movie theater experience I had all year.
i take it you only saw 1 movie in the theater this year?
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Originally Posted by dan30oly
Thanks for insulting me.

Yeah, that was pretty rough. You didn't have to quote his post in yours.
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Thanks for insulting me.
Butch up; it's only the Internet.

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