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So Inception may not have made tracking, but that $60mil seems to have people relatively pleased. -- (link)

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Jul 18 '10, 13:04

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100718/ap_en_mo/us_box_office (news.yahoo.com)

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice = BOMB! -- nm - Bacon Jul 18, 14:31
It's one of the movies that needs some WOM to make it bigger. - the liioulu with sore foot Jul 18, 14:23 27
- as opposed to . . . - chuckles Jul 18, 14:30 26
  - *See the movies that they don't send out for review ahead of time and do bang up box office." -- nm - the liioulu with sore foot Jul 18, 14:32 23
    - name one -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 14:33 22
      - more than one: tyler perry movies. -- nm - b! Jul 18, 14:43 8
        
        well those do their $30 million opening weekends consistently and then disappear -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 14:49 7
        
        I was thinking of early on, for which there was unquestioned surprise success. - b! Jul 18, 14:54 6
        
        Not quite. It'll be a blockbuster because of WOM. -- nm - the liioulu with sore foot Jul 18, 14:55 5
        
        I think there's more to the BB thing -- big budget, big star, director coming off a big success, summer release, and, as in this case, growth - b! Jul 18, 14:59
        
        It could have the worst WOM ever and still crack blockbuster (100m) status. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 18, 14:56 3
        
        I'm talking bigger than that, with steady numbers for a lot longer than three weeks. -- nm - the liioulu with sore foot Jul 18, 14:58 2
        
        If it's moderately recieved, it's a 175mil movie. It'll be an unquestioned success - Will Hunting Jul 18, 15:01 1
        
        I think maybe she's thinking plot/contents vs. something like "charlie's angels" or the like. -- nm - b! Jul 18, 15:04
      - Yeah, once a movie gets out that it won't be panned before it's release it's dead movie walking. -- nm - Bacon Jul 18, 14:36 12
        
        That's WOM having the opposite effect. I'm saying that Inception isn't front-loaded. A lot of block busters are. - the liioulu with sore foot Jul 18, 14:41 11
        
        which is to say every movie needs positive WOM to get bigger -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 14:42 10
        
        Sort of. But you're still not getting it. Inception is not some mindless summer action flick. -- nm - the liioulu with sore foot Jul 18, 14:46 9
        
        even if it was a mindless summer action flick, it still needs positive WOM from people who have already seen it to increase it's B.O. take - chuckles Jul 18, 14:47 8
        
        How were the reviews for the last Transformers and how much money did it make? -- nm - the liioulu with sore foot Jul 18, 14:51 2
        
        It's no different than almost any other movie. People go see what they want and then from there, it'll float WOM-wise. - Will Hunting Jul 18, 14:56
        
        less than $100 million more than the original, because the WOM *sucked* -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 14:54
        
        Not really. Al ot of summer blockbusters are about the air-conditioning and the big bangs. - the liioulu with sore foot Jul 18, 14:50 4
        
        a/c likely adds something, but there has to be something more for a movie to be an ongoing success. something beyond just good bangs. -- nm - b! Jul 18, 14:56
        
        "well the movie kinda sucked but the air conditioning was AWESOME!" - chuckles Jul 18, 14:52 2
        
        And the big bangs and action. How well did Transformers do last year? -- nm - the liioulu with sore foot Jul 18, 14:54 1
        
        how much better would it have done if people didn't think it sucked ass compared to the first? -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 14:55
  - I just noticed you are pretty snarky, OR ARE YOU? -- nm - Bacon Jul 18, 14:31 1
    - no, i am consistent - chuckles Jul 18, 14:33
Inception quite easily may be one of the best motion pictures I've ever seen. -- nm - Qale Jul 18, 13:56 2
- It's easily the best movie of the year for me (so far). -- nm - JaxSean Jul 18, 13:58 1
  - I was quite literally bouncing up and down in my seat when I was unraveling some of the pretzel logic. I love Avatar for it's visuals, but wow...wow.. -- nm - Qale Jul 18, 14:00
it outperformed the last tracking i saw, which had it more in the mid-40s, low-50s -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 13:07

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