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*** Official Film Thread ***

DHSF said:
well - lets see it big boy.
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:-k The tone of this conversation has changed significantly..... ANYhoo, I've run out of words so, er um er to quote a certain Californian governor 'I'll be back' (I've forgotten the original quote so yeah, call it a draw?)
 
JellySpur said:
The Robert Downey Junior Sherlock films are simply balls, poor acting, directing and just doesn't really have anything that makes it a sherlock holmes film apart from the names, perhaps if it was a different name and characters it would be okay but, as it is it just seems to be hanging off the name and despite the brickyness of the films, this is proving successful, boggles the mind. I fell asleep in the cinema with Wall-e unfortunately, but I've watched it since and its fairly good.
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Marry me
 
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I'm waiting.
 
markysimmo said:
The Avengers is the new king of the opening weekend.

The superhero movie grossed a unprecedented $200.3 million in its Friday-Sunday box-office debut, its studio estimated.

The film is the first to break $200 million in three days. It destroyed the mark held by the previous weekend record-holder, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

MOVIE REVIEW: The Avengers Is Simply Super

The Avengers started out bigÔÇötaking in $18.7 million in midnight screeningsÔÇöand got bigger: $80.5 million for all of Friday; $69.7 million on Saturday, a new record for that day; and, a projected $50.1 million on Sunday.

The film easily bested the opening-weekend performances of the Marvel Studios movies whose hero-stars were assembled for The Avengers: Iron Man ($99 million) and Iron Man 2 ($128 million); Thor ($66 million); and, Captain America ($65 million).

It blew away even the superhero-record $158.4 million posted by The Dark Knight, and raised the bar considerably for the Batman franchise's upcoming adventure, The Dark Knight Rises, due out July 20.

The Avengers made money the old-fashioned way: Everybody bought tickets.

The opening-weekend audience was evenly split between the young (under age 25) and the older (over age 25), polling data showed. It was watched by women (40 percent) almost as much as men. It worked as a date-night movie (55 percent of ticket-buyers were part of couples), and a family movie (24 percent were part of a family group).

And then there was perhaps the most quaint thing of all: People went to see it in 3-D.

The once-promising, then presumed-dead format represented slightly more than half of all ticket sales.

In IMAX, the movie grossed about $15 million, roughly tying it for that format's biggest-ever opening weekend.

"IMAX had one big issue," IMAX exec Greg Foster said in an email. "We ran out of seats to sell!"

The people who saw the movie liked the movie, and, if possible, liked it more than critics. The Joss Whedon-directed film was graded an A-plus by audiences.

After just over a week in release worldwide, The Avengers has grossed $641.8 million overall.

Elsewhere, there was no elsewhere. The Avengers outgrossed the weekend's second-place movie, Think Like a Man, which held well all things considered, by 2,500 percent, and the new Kate Hudson movie, A Little Bit of Heaven, which averaged $894 at 11 theaters, by $200.3 million.

Here's an Avengers-revised rundown of the top 10 all-time opening weekends, as compiled per BoxOfficeMojo.com stats:

The Avengers, $200.3 million
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, $169.2 million
The Dark Knight, $158.4 million
The Hunger Games, $152.5 million
Spider-Man 3, $151.1 million
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, $142.8 million
The Twilight Saga: Breaking DawnÔÇöPart 1, $138.1 million
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, $135.6 million
Iron Man 2, $128.1 million
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, $125 million


Read more: http://uk.eonline.com/news/avengers_smashes_opening-weekend_record/314126#ixzz1uBizdxZB
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It forgot to add that alot of people would go back and watch it again. I cannot remember that feeling in a film like for ages.. maybe when I was younger. I think its rare the older you get, that you want to see the film again straight after seeing it.
 
Hmm offered a fight and marriage and still less than 100 posts, that's got to be some sort of record, surely?
 
DHSF said:
Is that the animated movie? Not for me but will give it a go. Not sure I trust ya though - your taste is worse than Linnets.

I did watch this means war today - brick film.
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What's that supposed to mean? :)

Yes Up is an animated movie, and a damn good film regardless of the fact that it's an animated film. It's very rare that you see a film and half the people in the cinema are shedding tears within the first 15 minutes!
 
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whilst i like the Pixar titles most have nothing on the true Disney classics

Dumbo, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan ...... actually going through a list ive got up on another tab there are far too many to list

you might have an argument if you say they are the best Disney films of the modern era as they were definitely starting to churn out a lot of toss, but of all time ? not a chance
 
billyiddo said:
whilst i like the Pixar titles most have nothing on the true Disney classics

Dumbo, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan ...... actually going through a list ive got up on another tab there are far too many to list

you might have an argument if you say they are the best Disney films of the modern era as they were definitely starting to churn out a lot of toss, but of all time ? not a chance
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An interesting point. Classic Disney films are great. I can remember the Disney Cinema in St Martin's Lane. It was always mobbed, even for re-releases on The Jungle Book (which was ten years + old).

The Pixar films are consistently excellent, with Cars being the only misstep imv.
 
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