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June 5th, 2017 at 3:56:59 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013	Quote: terapined Nope Cruise couldn't kick anybodys ass Big difference between Small and weak Cruise has one of the best bods in Hwood, weak he is not. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

June 5th, 2017 at 3:58:45 PM permalink
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11816	Quote: Evenbob Cruise Photoshop They guy is in the pretend business Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"

June 5th, 2017 at 4:04:36 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013	Quote: terapined Photoshop They guy is in the pretend business I'm finally doing it, blocking you. You post just to say nothing but inanities. Look up the word, you have no idea what it means. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

June 5th, 2017 at 4:09:13 PM permalink
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11816	Quote: Evenbob I'm finally doing it, blocking you. You post just to say nothing but inanities. Look up the word, you have no idea what it means. Lol EB wants to pretend Cruise is a big tough guy in real life Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"

June 5th, 2017 at 4:09:55 PM permalink

rxwine

Member since: Oct 24, 2012
Threads: 189
Posts: 18770

Quote: Evenbob
. That's what I liked
about the LOTR books, the few
women there were acted like women.
The movies were good in that regard
also.

I sometimes wonder about the depiction of women in more ancient times. Life was hard and they worked hard and it probably made them tough. Plus if your women were taking the opportunity to clobber the heads or slash the throats of enemies, it would have helped out a lot in a raid in defending their homes from invaders.

But I wasn't there.

You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

June 5th, 2017 at 5:22:15 PM permalink

Pacomartin

Member since: Oct 24, 2012
Threads: 1068
Posts: 12569

Wonder woman is actually the lowest opening weekend of the four films of the DC extended universe. But it is the best reviewed, so the hope is that it will sell more tickets after the first three days.

Special interest or just plain bad movies sell their tickets in the first weekend where promotion matters more than quality of the movie

Fifty Shades of Grey, the previously most successful debut of a woman directed film (before Wonder Woman) burnt out domestically very quickly although it had a massive international audience especially in countries where women don't see a lot of porn.

Number of Tickets Opening Weekend - Name of Film - Number of tickets after opening weekend


28,501,900	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	79,613,200	
25,546,600	Marvel's The Avengers		51,334,600	
25,309,900	Jurassic World			53,739,300	
22,215,000	Avengers: Age of Ultron		31,311,900	
22,062,900	The Dark Knight			52,206,100	
21,964,600	Spider-Man 3			26,949,700	
21,308,500	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2	26,681,400	
20,781,000	Iron Man 3			28,027,400	
20,707,600	Dead Man's Chest		43,920,800	
20,679,600	The Dark Knight Rises	36,902,200	
20,519,900	Captain America: Civil War	26,235,300	
19,768,200	Beauty and the Beast		37,034,600	
19,766,600	Spider-Man			49,718,100	
19,348,200	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	18,912,400 DC UNIVERSE  <--------------------------
19,259,600	The Hunger Games		31,603,700	
18,931,100	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	32,183,500	
18,769,900	The Twilight Saga: New Moon	20,140,200	
17,678,700	Shrek the Third			29,228,300	
17,643,000	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	42,799,600	
17,640,100	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1	18,272,800	
17,523,900	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2	18,804,600	
17,397,400	Shrek 2			53,653,500	
17,094,900	Furious 7			23,928,900	
16,916,700	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	42,407,900	
16,676,300	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	28,297,600	
16,573,500	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	23,650,600	
16,259,200	Iron Man 2		23,040,600	
16,019,700	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	29,155,600	
15,953,100	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	39,959,900	
15,715,200	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	34,194,800	
15,708,800	Suicide Squad		22,470,300 DC UNIVERSE  <--------------------------
15,687,100	X-Men: The Last Stand	20,093,400	
15,607,700	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1	21,381,500	
15,470,800	Finding Dory		40,687,300	
15,435,300	Deadpool		26,857,700	
15,219,600	The Matrix Reloaded	31,476,300	
15,207,800	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	29,708,100	
15,086,500	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	25,097,200	
14,686,500	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	26,040,400	
14,606,700	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	39,294,200	
14,603,900	Alice in Wonderland (2010)	27,432,700	
14,195,800	Spider-Man 2	45,962,900	
14,188,800	X2: X-Men United	21,457,900	
14,026,500	Minions	26,687,700	
13,998,400	Toy Story 3	38,203,500	
13,946,800	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	30,217,700	
13,916,400	Man of Steel	20,814,600 DC UNIVERSE  <--------------------------
13,774,200	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones	38,238,100	
13,735,200	Iron Man	30,610,700	
13,502,100	The Passion of the Christ	46,123,400	
12,760,000	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace	72,065,800	
12,576,800	Austin Powers in Goldmember	24,137,100	
12,324,000	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	31,936,900	
12,262,400	The Secret Life of Pets	31,011,400	
12,134,400	Batman Forever	30,171,600	
12,108,300	Planet of the Apes (2001)	19,694,300	
12,044,700	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	49,493,400	
12,038,700	The Mummy Returns	23,653,800	
12,009,400	Transformers: Age of Extinction	18,366,200	
11,909,600	Rush Hour 2	28,048,800	
11,828,300	The Jungle Book (2016)	29,882,400	
11,800,700	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	20,600,900	
11,766,900	The Da Vinci Code	21,444,700	
11,680,000	Wonder Woman	 DC UNIVERSE  <--------------------------
11,673,400	Guardians of the Galaxy	29,504,200	
11,650,400	Finding Nemo	44,687,100	
11,620,000	Fast & Furious 6	16,862,100	
11,407,400	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	19,788,000	
11,401,900	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	12,711,100	
11,363,900	Independence Day	57,905,000	
11,359,100	Jurassic Park	74,846,700	
11,347,400	The Incredibles	30,682,600	
11,297,000	Toy Story 2	36,539,500	
11,269,200	Bruce Almighty	29,001,000	
11,222,600	I Am Legend	25,501,400	
11,207,600	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	31,234,900	
11,187,100	Godzilla (2014)	12,920,700	
11,185,100	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	18,742,400	
11,175,000	The Fate of the Furious	14,142,600	
11,126,000	Men in Black	43,490,700	
11,069,800	The Day After Tomorrow	19,001,200	
11,056,000	Monsters, Inc.	34,032,100	
11,009,100	Batman Returns	28,227,500	
10,997,400	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	13,365,900	
10,993,700	American Sniper	32,086,300	
10,977,000	Skyfall	26,865,000	
10,962,500	Inside Out	32,224,100	
10,903,200	X-Men: Days of Future Past	17,229,800	
10,810,600	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	29,748,500	
10,761,200	The Simpsons Movie	15,857,300	
10,732,000	Mission: Impossible II	29,232,700	
10,694,600	Fast Five	15,343,400	
10,672,600	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	46,626,700	
10,663,300	The Hangover Part II	20,924,100	
10,652,700	Despicable Me 2	36,241,400	
10,511,500	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	27,322,200	
10,489,100	Fifty Shades of Grey	9,962,500	WOMAN DIRECTED <--------------------------
10,438,000	Pearl Harbor	24,640,200	
10,433,700	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	30,037,400	
10,386,800	Ice Age: The Meltdown	19,434,700

June 5th, 2017 at 5:57:41 PM permalink

Ayecarumba

Member since: Oct 24, 2012
Threads: 89
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Quote: rxwine
I sometimes wonder about the depiction of women in more ancient times. Life was hard and they worked hard and it probably made them tough. Plus if your women were taking the opportunity to clobber the heads or slash the throats of enemies, it would have helped out a lot in a raid in defending their homes from invaders.

But I wasn't there.

The reality is that the women were spending most of their time preparing food and raising babies. Even the Spartans didn't train their women to swing swords or wear armor, but they would throw javelins.

There were women warriors among the nomadic tribes in what is the steppes of the Urals today:
Smithsonian Magazine

Quote:

(In) the early 1990s... a joint U.S.-Russian team of archaeologists made an extraordinary discovery while excavating 2,000-year-old burial mounds—known as kurgans—outside Pokrovka, a remote Russian outpost in the southern Ural Steppes near the Kazakhstan border. There, they found over 150 graves belonging to the Sauromatians and their descendants, the Sarmatians. Among the burials of “ordinary women,” the researchers uncovered evidence of women who were anything but ordinary. There were graves of warrior women who had been buried with their weapons. One young female, bowlegged from constant riding, lay with an iron dagger on her left side and a quiver containing 40 bronze-tipped arrows on her right. The skeleton of another female still had a bent arrowhead embedded in the cavity. Nor was it merely the presence of wounds and daggers that amazed the archaeologists. On average, the weapon-bearing females measured 5 feet 6 inches, making them preternaturally tall for their time.

June 5th, 2017 at 7:42:41 PM permalink

Pacomartin

Member since: Oct 24, 2012
Threads: 1068
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One way to rate a movie is what percentage of total tickets were sold in the first three days. Movies with loyal audiences that are susceptible to promotion sell up to half their tickets in the first three days.

Older movies, family movies, and movies with good word of mouth or good reviews make more money after the first three days. The movie is often said to have "legs".

This list the 100 strongest opening weekends.

13.2% Jurassic Park 6/11/1993
15.0% Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 5/19/1999
16.4% Independence Day 7/3/1996
18.6% The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 12/18/2002
19.6% The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 12/17/2003
20.4% Men in Black 7/2/1997
20.7% Finding Nemo 5/30/2003
22.6% The Passion of the Christ 2/25/2004
22.7% Despicable Me 2 7/3/2013
23.6% Spider-Man 2 6/30/2004
23.6% Toy Story 2 11/24/1999
24.5% Shrek 2 5/19/2004
24.5% Monsters, Inc. 11/2/2001
25.4% Inside Out 6/19/2015
25.5% American Sniper 1/16/2015
25.8% Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 7/15/2009
26.4% Star Wars: The Force Awakens 12/18/2015
26.4% Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 7/11/2007
26.5% Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 5/16/2002
26.7% Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 6/11/1999
26.8% Toy Story 3 6/18/2010
26.9% Mission: Impossible II 5/24/2000
27.0% The Incredibles 11/5/2004
27.1% Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 6/24/2009
27.5% Finding Dory 6/17/2016
27.8% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 12/14/2012
27.8% Transformers: Dark of the Moon 6/29/2011
28.0% Bruce Almighty 5/23/2003
28.1% Batman Returns 6/19/1992
28.3% The Secret Life of Pets 7/8/2016
28.3% Guardians of the Galaxy 8/1/2014
28.4% The Jungle Book (2016) 4/15/2016
28.4% Spider-Man 5/3/2002
28.5% Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 5/19/2005
28.5% Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 11/16/2001
28.7% Batman Forever 6/16/1995
29.0% Skyfall 11/9/2012
29.2% Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 12/16/2016
29.7% The Dark Knight 7/18/2008
29.8% Pearl Harbor 5/25/2001
29.8% Rush Hour 2 8/3/2001
30.6% I Am Legend 12/14/2007
31.0% Iron Man 5/2/2008
31.5% The Lost World: Jurassic Park 5/23/1997
31.6% Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 5/22/2008
32.0% Jurassic World 6/12/2015
32.0% Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 7/7/2006
32.6% The Matrix Reloaded 5/15/2003
33.2% Marvel's The Avengers 5/4/2012
33.7% The Mummy Returns 5/4/2001
33.8% The Hangover Part II 5/26/2011
33.9% Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 11/15/2002
34.3% Austin Powers in Goldmember 7/26/2002
34.5% Minions 7/10/2015
34.7% Alice in Wonderland (2010) 3/5/2010
34.8% Beauty and the Beast (2017) 3/17/2017
34.8% Ice Age: The Meltdown 3/31/2006
35.4% The Da Vinci Code 5/19/2006
35.5% Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 11/18/2005
35.9% The Dark Knight Rises 7/20/2012
36.1% The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 11/21/2014
36.4% The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 11/20/2015
36.5% Deadpool 2/12/2016
36.6% Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4/4/2014
36.8% The Day After Tomorrow 5/28/2004
37.0% The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 11/22/2013
37.1% Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 5/25/2007
37.4% Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 5/20/2011
37.5% Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 6/4/2004
37.7% Shrek the Third 5/18/2007
37.9% The Hunger Games 3/23/2012
38.1% Planet of the Apes (2001) 7/27/2001
38.8% X-Men: Days of Future Past 5/23/2014
39.5% Transformers: Age of Extinction 6/27/2014
39.8% X2: X-Men United 5/2/2003
40.1% Man of Steel 6/14/2013 DC UNIVERSE<-------------------------------------------------
40.4% The Simpsons Movie 7/27/2007
40.8% Fast & Furious 6 5/24/2013
41.1% Fast Five 4/29/2011
41.1% Suicide Squad 8/5/2016 DC UNIVERSE<-------------------------------------------------
41.2% Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 5/5/2017
41.4% Iron Man 2 5/7/2010
41.5% Avengers: Age of Ultron 5/1/2015
41.7% Furious 7 4/3/2015
42.2% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 11/19/2010
42.6% Iron Man 3 5/3/2013
43.8% X-Men: The Last Stand 5/26/2006
43.9% Captain America: Civil War 5/6/2016
44.1% The Fate of the Furious 4/14/2017
44.4% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 7/15/2011
44.9% Spider-Man 3 5/4/2007
45.1% The Amazing Spider-Man 2 5/2/2014
46.4% Godzilla (2014) 5/16/2014
47.3% X-Men Origins: Wolverine 5/1/2009
48.2% The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 11/16/2012
48.2% The Twilight Saga: New Moon 11/20/2009
49.1% The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 11/18/2011
50.6% Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 3/25/2016 DC UNIVERSE<-------------------------------------------------
51.3% Fifty Shades of Grey 2/13/2015 WOMAN DIRECTED

-------- Wonder Woman 6/2/2017 DC UNIVERSE<-------------------------------------------------

The DC comic book movies have burn out relatively quickly, making 40% or more of their revenue in the first three days.

June 5th, 2017 at 8:24:11 PM permalink

zippyboy

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Quote: terapined
Lol
EB wants to pretend Cruise is a big tough guy in real life

OMG what's with all the Tom Cruise hate here? TC does great movies. I think he pulled off Jack Reacher just fine even though the character was written for a much larger guy. Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Last Samurai, War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, and on and on and on.....TC makes friggin' great movies. I don't get the hate at all. Everything I've ever read on him says he's a humble, professional actor who bonds with his underlings in every movie. Sure...Scientology is silly, but that's separate from Hollywood in my opinion. His movies are AWESOME.

June 5th, 2017 at 8:32:34 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013	Quote: zippyboy OMG what's with all the Tom Cruise hate here? TC does great movies. . Never seen a Cruise movie I didn't like. He can play anything from comedy to drama to sci fi. Terapined has no idea what he's talking about. Just saw Samurai for the 3rd time last week. Saw E of T at least 5 times. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

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