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Chippy
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Star Wars wrote: jb007 wrote: Star Wars wrote: choubachou wrote: ChipMunky wrote: Oh, and nothing went wrong, we just expected too much  Dude, Kong had an opening day 1.5 million lower than Shrek 2, which was a kids film opening on a Wednesday, during the school year. And as people said, the Wednesday release was announced 12 days beforehand. Yeah, how people are comparing this to Shrek 2 is beyond me. Sadly, every Wednesday that opens up with less than $10 million (or a little more) will be compared to Shrek 2  True and most of them would be fortunate to come within $250M of Shrek 2's gross. Exactly. The Wednesday release took up some of the Friday-going people (that's why it opened with $28 million only) and then BAM more people came for Saturday. King Kong is a flop. Lord of the Rings was just a fluke for Jackson and this proved it. Stop with the pointless arguments... go watch the Star Wars trilogies again and cry... _________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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Jon Lyrik wrote: Star Wars wrote: Yeah, how people are comparing this to Shrek 2 is beyond me. Sadly, every Wednesday that opens up with less than $10 million (or a little more) will be compared to Shrek 2 This is more like Batman Begins if you ask me. That opened to "only" $15 million on a summer Wednesday. It would surely have had an opening day similar to Kong's had it opened on its slot. King Kong's current word of mouth is fantastic (#7 of all time and an A- on Yahoo, which made up of average joes and not movie geeks like IMDb is), as Begins' was. I remember some doomsayers for Begins as well, and look how that turned out. Batman Begins opened with $15 million. Kong? $9.8 million. That means Kong might hit $150 million according to you. Plus, Begins had a free second weekend (no real competition) AND it was in the summer AND it opened with a weak $48 million (it should've hit at least $70 million) - this movie may barely hit $40 million.
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Tyler
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Star Wars wrote: Batman Begins opened with $15 million. Kong? $9.8 million. That means Kong might hit $150 million according to you. .
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Jon Lyrik wrote: King Kong's current word of mouth is fantastic (#7 of all time and an A- on Yahoo, which made up of average joes and not movie geeks like IMDb is), You don't know that. And while Yahoo could help determine it, it's still not hard evidence of it. Plus, you don't know if 'average joes' reviewed it and not movie geeks. Maybe for Kong, they just did.
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Nebs wrote: You don't know that. And while Yahoo could help determine it, it's still not hard evidence of it. Plus, you don't know if 'average joes' reviewed it and not movie geeks. Maybe for Kong, they just did. You don't know if the world really exists and is not the dream of a dog.
Yoink!
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That's bullshit, I knew that since I was 5. Parents told me all those 'secrets'.
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jb007
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BKB, where art thou?
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Nebs wrote: That's bullshit, I knew that since I was 5. Parents told me all those 'secrets'. It's a Communist lie from the Balkans!
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Jon Lyrik wrote: Nebs wrote: That's bullshit, I knew that since I was 5. Parents told me all those 'secrets'. It's a Communist lie from the Balkans! That's what the Masons want you to think.
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Nebs wrote: Jon Lyrik wrote: Nebs wrote: That's bullshit, I knew that since I was 5. Parents told me all those 'secrets'. It's a Communist lie from the Balkans! That's what the Masons want you to think. Not the Masons, they are a distraction for the conspiracy theorists, it's the Illuminati.
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Jon Lyrik wrote: Star Wars wrote: Batman Begins opened with $15 million. Kong? $9.8 million. That means Kong might hit $150 million according to you. . And?
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ChipMunky wrote: Star Wars wrote: jb007 wrote: Star Wars wrote: choubachou wrote: ChipMunky wrote: Oh, and nothing went wrong, we just expected too much Dude, Kong had an opening day 1.5 million lower than Shrek 2, which was a kids film opening on a Wednesday, during the school year. And as people said, the Wednesday release was announced 12 days beforehand. Yeah, how people are comparing this to Shrek 2 is beyond me. Sadly, every Wednesday that opens up with less than $10 million (or a little more) will be compared to Shrek 2 True and most of them would be fortunate to come within $250M of Shrek 2's gross. Exactly. The Wednesday release took up some of the Friday-going people (that's why it opened with $28 million only) and then BAM more people came for Saturday. King Kong is a flop. Lord of the Rings was just a fluke for Jackson and this proved it. Stop with the pointless arguments... go watch the Star Wars trilogies again and cry... Already watched Return of the Jedi (parts of it) today.
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STEVE ROGERS
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 Libs wrote: I don't think anything went wrong. $10M is superb for a 3-hour film during the week.
Not only did a lot of people probably not even know it was opening on Wednesday, do you think a great number of people are gonna want to see such a long movie on a Wednesday night? I know I wouldn't.
LOTR had a more established fanbase anyway.  I'll tell ya what went wrong(and you beat me to it Neowolf  ) is too much overhype for this movie that apparently only existed with hardcore LOTR/Jackson fans and the casual moviegoer saw the running time and the fact that it's been done already with the 76 version... To some degree, the 76 version was actually better in some aspects than KONG 2005.. 9.7 Million for it's opening day is appalling and a hard pill to swallow for those that hyped the fuck out of this.. It's interesting to see Harry Knowles review and one thing that was mentioned in there: He saw this twice.. Once with the most enthusiastic audience on the entire planet as he put it and the 2nd time was with the most boring, sleep inducing audience he'd ever been with.. He said the difference was, was that the really enthusiastic crowd saw this for FREE and the pay going public was bored to tears and didn't give a shit apparently.. Either way, this is a good movie that perhaps will make a boatload on DVD $$$$$...
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Shack
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Oh fuck.
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Took long enough.
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ChipMunky wrote: Not every college student is like you Neo...  Wait for the weekend... just wait...  All you KONG haters will be punished
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Yay!!!!!
BKB is in the House...... 
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Chippy
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BKB_The_Man wrote: Libs wrote: I don't think anything went wrong. $10M is superb for a 3-hour film during the week.
Not only did a lot of people probably not even know it was opening on Wednesday, do you think a great number of people are gonna want to see such a long movie on a Wednesday night? I know I wouldn't.
LOTR had a more established fanbase anyway. I know this is going to be pointless to argue with you... as proven every day... but I don't see how the public could be bored to tears... it's opening day... if it has less than a 4 multiplier then you can say people were bored to tears... _________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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nghtvsn wrote: Simply read real reviews from people who haven't been bewitched to create unreal hype and vocalize overwhelmingly glowing reviews while glossing over the films faults. Now as a point, the people I speak of don't Hate the film they just feel the film was a Good film not a "instant classic" as some critics have proclaimed.
Other reasons why the opening sucked would be it's opening mid week, schools not on holiday , college exams, and running time.
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Star Wars wrote: Jon Lyrik wrote: Star Wars wrote: Batman Begins opened with $15 million. Kong? $9.8 million. That means Kong might hit $150 million according to you. . And? That inflated it's Wednesday number. All factors considered, I think it's safe to say Kong would have made as much or more if released on a summer Wednesday as Batman Begins did.
And yay, BKB is here! This is gonna be great.
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Whooopeee BKB in the house
Please say this ole BKB
"Uwe Boll would of done a better job with King Kong than PJ with a much smaller budget"
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Jon Lyrik wrote: Star Wars wrote: Jon Lyrik wrote: Star Wars wrote: Batman Begins opened with $15 million. Kong? $9.8 million. That means Kong might hit $150 million according to you. . And? That inflated it's Wednesday number. All factors considered, I think it's safe to say Kong would have made as much or more if released on a summer Wednesday as Batman Begins did. And yay, BKB is here! This is gonna be great. Lord of the Rings opened with $18 million en route to $314 million. So as I said since this movie made nearly half of its opening day (plus the increased competition by Jim Carrey, Steve Martin and Narnia) King Kong still won't pass $150 million. Horrible movie. Horrible.
As Marlon Brando said and I said after watching this movie... "The Horror... The Horror..." funny that I use this quote however because wasn't that dufus reading Heart of Darkness in the movie? Heh. I hate King Kong. GOdzilla would whoop his ass.
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ChipMunky wrote: BKB_The_Man wrote: Libs wrote: I don't think anything went wrong. $10M is superb for a 3-hour film during the week.
Not only did a lot of people probably not even know it was opening on Wednesday, do you think a great number of people are gonna want to see such a long movie on a Wednesday night? I know I wouldn't.
LOTR had a more established fanbase anyway. I know this is going to be pointless to argue with you... as proven every day... but I don't see how the public could be bored to tears... it's opening day... if it has less than a 4 multiplier then you can say people were bored to tears...
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El_Masked_esteROIDe_user wrote: Whooopeee BKB in the house
Please say this ole BKB
"Uwe Boll would of done a better job with King Kong than PJ with a much smaller budget" 
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Shack
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You'll bite your words when the weekend kicks ass viva Shrek 2.
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Chippy
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BKB_The_Man wrote: ChipMunky wrote: BKB_The_Man wrote: Libs wrote: I don't think anything went wrong. $10M is superb for a 3-hour film during the week.
Not only did a lot of people probably not even know it was opening on Wednesday, do you think a great number of people are gonna want to see such a long movie on a Wednesday night? I know I wouldn't.
LOTR had a more established fanbase anyway. I know this is going to be pointless to argue with you... as proven every day... but I don't see how the public could be bored to tears... it's opening day... if it has less than a 4 multiplier then you can say people were bored to tears... 9.7 million has NOTHING to do with how people perceive the movie on opening day... and nobody in my 500+ seater theater seemed bored or restless... and when people needed to take their bathroom breaks... they actually RAN so as not to miss much. Oh, and did I mention APPLAUSE at the end? _________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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