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David
Pure Phase
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 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong?  Discuss. _________________   1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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David
Pure Phase
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? Should have called it Catching Herpes.
_________________1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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Mannyisthebest
Forum General
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? Movie only appeals to white people.
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Magic Mike
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong?
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1924
Indiana Jones IV
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? reasons for underperformance
-No Taylor Swift song
-Release of Xbox One distracting audiences
-People saving their money for The Hobbit 2
-Male audiences distracted by Call of Duty: Ghosts
-Adult audiences too busy watching Hobbit : Extended Edition and Appendices
-Delivery Man stealing away audiences
-Thor 2, Best Man's Holiday and Last Vegas still drawing in huge crowds
-Most men have subconscious hatred to women so don't want to support a female led film
-JLaw's new haircut turned audiences away
-November is the worst month of the year
-Wes Bentley fans steered clear
-Sam Claflin and Phillip Seymour Hoffman turned audiences away like they did for Pirates 4 and Mission Impossible 3 respectively
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Excel
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? should have pulled the MAN OF STEEL strategy and sold millions in tickets to large corporations who would never be able to resell them so they could play it off like the film is more successful than it really is!  _________________Ari Emmanuel wrote: I'd rather marry lindsay Lohan than represent Mel Gibson.
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thompsoncory
Rachel McAdams Fan
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? 1924 wrote: reasons for underperformance
-No Taylor Swift song
-Release of Xbox One distracting audiences
-People saving their money for The Hobbit 2
-Male audiences distracted by Call of Duty: Ghosts
-Adult audiences too busy watching Hobbit : Extended Edition and Appendices
-Delivery Man stealing away audiences
-Thor 2, Best Man's Holiday and Last Vegas still drawing in huge crowds
-Most men have subconscious hatred to women so don't want to support a female led film
-JLaw's new haircut turned audiences away
-November is the worst month of the year
-Wes Bentley fans steered clear
-Sam Claflin and Phillip Seymour Hoffman turned audiences away like they did for Pirates 4 and Mission Impossible 3 respectively 
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Excel
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? 1924 wrote: reasons for underperformance
-No Taylor Swift song
-Release of Xbox One distracting audiences
-People saving their money for The Hobbit 2
-Male audiences distracted by Call of Duty: Ghosts
-Adult audiences too busy watching Hobbit : Extended Edition and Appendices
-Delivery Man stealing away audiences
-Thor 2, Best Man's Holiday and Last Vegas still drawing in huge crowds
-Most men have subconscious hatred to women so don't want to support a female led film
-JLaw's new haircut turned audiences away
-November is the worst month of the year
-Wes Bentley fans steered clear
-Sam Claflin and Phillip Seymour Hoffman turned audiences away like they did for Pirates 4 and Mission Impossible 3 respectively _________________Ari Emmanuel wrote: I'd rather marry lindsay Lohan than represent Mel Gibson.
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BJ
Killing With Kindness
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:57 pm
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Location: Anchorage,Alaska
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? 1924 wrote: reasons for underperformance
-No Taylor Swift song
-Release of Xbox One distracting audiences
-People saving their money for The Hobbit 2
-Male audiences distracted by Call of Duty: Ghosts
-Adult audiences too busy watching Hobbit : Extended Edition and Appendices
-Delivery Man stealing away audiences
-Thor 2, Best Man's Holiday and Last Vegas still drawing in huge crowds
-Most men have subconscious hatred to women so don't want to support a female led film
-JLaw's new haircut turned audiences away
-November is the worst month of the year
-Wes Bentley fans steered clear
-Sam Claflin and Phillip Seymour Hoffman turned audiences away like they did for Pirates 4 and Mission Impossible 3 respectively _________________The Force Awakens
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BJ
Killing With Kindness
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? AND WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS THREAD EXIST!
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1924
Indiana Jones IV
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? seriously though if this opens a lot less than The Hunger Games I think exactly why this is happening and how the future movies will do could make an interesting discussion
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Libs
Sbil
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? Quote: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? Food.
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Proud Ryu
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? The release of both PS4 and XBox consoles is a legitimate point in competition for audience that could spread it out quite a bit over the week. This is the first weekend for both consoles.
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Brian
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? CF didn't sell all its walmart tickets
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jmovies
Let's Call It A Bromance
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? not enough advertising of Stanley Tucci
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MGKC
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? The Subway commercials. What the heck was going on with those. Do not use entire parts of the trailer to sell sandwiches.
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Jack Sparrow
KJ's Leading Idiot
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? Jennifer Lawrence is not a draw at all....
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? Magnus wrote: Not enough Stanley Tucci Exactly. I hope the third part takes place entirely in the capital.
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Tuukka
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? - First film had really good, but not great WOM.
- The marketing kinda didn't stand on its own, it assumed you had to have seen the first film. Compare that to how most successful franchises market the 2nd film with some killer trailers and TV-ads, as a *stand-alone film*.
- Playstation 4 was released on Monday, and Xbox One got released on Friday. Both consoles sold over 1 million units in North-America, in the first 24 hours. Both consoles are hitting hard on the male demographic, which was potential audience for this film. The kind of people who want a new console in the very first day, are also likely to be kind of people who spend the next few days playing it.
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Mannyisthebest
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? Plus Males got duped by the first one like myself and friends
It was still a good movie but I thought it be more action.
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Libs
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? Mannyisthebest wrote: Plus Males got duped by the first one like myself and friends
It was still a good movie but I thought it be more action. Please stop talking.
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Mannyisthebest
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? How is that silly?
THG exploded with guys as they had a lot of interest?
Do you think THG exploded simply because of the book? No it was the novelty and hook about the actual games themselves. Kids killing kids.
Interest wane when they learn it was more YA film.
Yes many guys like it but the guys I know did not get drawn much into the world.
They likely did not come out as they did for THG.
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? Mannymannymannymannymannymannymanny
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Mannyisthebest
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Re: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - What went wrong? Tell me how I am wrong?
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