'Mickey 17' Sinks at Box Office to $18.5 Million Opening Weekend
'Mickey 17' Sinks at Box Office to $18.5 Million Opening Weekend
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26522728
Overall weekend totals plunge 60% from last year as the absence of a "Dune: Part Two"-level hit is felt
It's barely afternoon on Saturday as I read this - I don't get how they can decide it bombed already. Feels like someone's trying to make it bomb.
The movie is critical of capitalism, it wouldn't surprise me.
Honestly had little interest in this but you just sold me on it
Never heard of this movie but I too am now interested!
Maybe a little bit, but everything after the beginning of the movie seemed to take place in more of a monarchy situation where roles and resources are allocated directly by the ship/colony leadership and the only apparent economy was the black markets for drugs and extra rations.
havent watched this one yet, but arent these usually sprinkled with some anticommunism and doomerism to compensate for it?
Ticket sales pre-orders.
If Friday's pre-sales = x% final sales, and you know pre-sales for Sat/Sun, you can roughly predict the weekend.
Yep. Literally decades of sales data is used to predict various aspects of a films revenue.
Not just weekend sales but weekly drop off can be accurately predicted.
They often know how a movie will be perceived well before it hits theaters and use that determine how much to spend on promoting it.
They release these on Saturday or early Sunday pretty frequently, projected from presales, previews, and Friday #s. They can be a little off but they're usually pretty close.
LOL this is no Dune: Part Two blockbuster. Stop pretending that its supposed to be one.
Ruffalo does a solid, loathsome Trump.
I thought every actor was great and the story is solid. It's just too long.
yeah I wish the satire could have been more witty and less bludgeony
This is pretty much exactly where I would exact an arty, anticapitalist lark of a movie to land. Anyone thinking this would do much more than $40m globally this weekend was probably fooling themselves.
It makes fun of all the Space obsessed billionaires, so I bet they have been making sure it bombs
There doesn't need to be a conspiracy for the average person to have bad taste
I thought this was a direct to video/streaming release.
Now that I know it's in theaters, I'm gonna go watch it.
To be honest, I didn't find it very good. I don't know about the books, but the movie makes it seem like there's something interesting about the expendables, and ends up being about something completely different, much more boring and overdone. Characters are also basically useless.
Yeah the movie is not very good. Saw it the other day.
It's a fairly horrible movie.
The brain scan and brain upload mechanic doesn't account for perfect recall of deaths (no ability to brain scan after death), the mickeys should only have memories up to their last brain scan, so no mickey should have any memories of death.
It's like one really long SNL skit, over the top political commentary with a very minor scifi flavor.
I was wondering how they were planning on doing the “memory after death” as that seemed like a major thing that would need to be accounted for that I was hoping would have some cool explanation.
Oh well. Not a big fan of Pattinson anyways. Thanks for the honest review! :)
It was a 2.5 hour slog to get through some very ham fisted political commentary and philosophical ideas about the worth of a clone with an "original" still alive. Moon and Star Trek cover the ideas way better and in less time.
