I have never seen the industry circle their wagons around a film like this one. Even though it was clearly underperforming, they used every possible excuse to protect this film’s reputation.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 23, 2023 11:45 PM |
Barbie & Oppenheimer stole the audience.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 23, 2023 8:16 PM |
If you've seen one, haven't you seen them all?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 23, 2023 8:17 PM |
The Barbie drop will be interesting
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 23, 2023 8:26 PM |
Young, hot Cruise worked. Old man Cruise? Not so much. Same with Indiana Jones.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 23, 2023 8:27 PM |
It's out? Barbieheimer definitely steamrolled MI.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 23, 2023 8:27 PM |
My weekend is complete, OP. Thanks for the doom update! I can go back to work tomorrow morning knowing that everyone loses.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 23, 2023 8:30 PM |
But, but, but… Tom does his own stunts. He’s a maverick. The audience loves him.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 23, 2023 8:30 PM |
With Tom's resume, he can afford to have a flop here and there. He made Hollywood a shitload of money over the past four decades and is still the reigning king of Hollywood.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 23, 2023 8:33 PM |
Tom saved the cinemas in 2022!
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 23, 2023 8:34 PM |
[quote]With Tom's resume, he can afford to have a flop here and there.
Yes, but since this is the first of a two-part project, it might be two flops in a row. I suspect the marketing budget on MI8 won't be as exorbitant as 7's.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 23, 2023 8:37 PM |
Are these box office predictions ever wrong?
Sure, I know there are advance ticket sales but don't people decide to go to the movies on the weekend when the weekend hits?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 23, 2023 8:41 PM |
The best one was the one with PSH, 3.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 23, 2023 9:01 PM |
He’s 61. The movie is good but you’ve seen it all before.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 23, 2023 9:05 PM |
Maybe people are fed up of the formula by now and generic action films. Maybe it’s because Tom Cruise doesn’t look like Tom Cruise anymore (quit with the cosmetic procedures, already!).
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 23, 2023 9:07 PM |
You’re box office poison, Miss Cruise
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 23, 2023 9:09 PM |
So much for saving Hollywood. I hate Tom Cruise so I love to see him fail. And when he fails, his gross cult fails.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 23, 2023 9:38 PM |
Did the new flop have a pompous introduction from Tom, praising himself for single-handedly saving the movie industry?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 23, 2023 9:42 PM |
Industry gaslighting the public…”it’s a huge hit! Really!”
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 23, 2023 9:46 PM |
Thoughts and prayers.
But seriously, I thought it was a pretty good film.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 23, 2023 10:29 PM |
There isn’t any valid comparison that can be made with current films and those pre-Covid.
The Marvel films have dropped income because everyone knows they’ll be on Disney within a month or so of the cinema release.
Barbie is an event movie and Oppenheimer has been caught up in that publicity.
Dexter Fletcher was interviewed about the Chris Evans action movie he directed for Apple and said how the studio were critiquing his choices commenting that people watching at home don’t have the same attention span as cinema goers.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 23, 2023 10:35 PM |
People are tired of endless franchise installments. You know you're going to get the same thing you've seen a dozen times already. I think this has much to do with the huge success of Barbenheimer this weekend.
An interesting thought experiment is to ask, what if Tom had followed Maverick this summer with something original instead of the SEVENTH in a franchise? Say a big action-comedy ala True Lies or some kind of dramatic true story? If done well it could have been huge.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 23, 2023 10:36 PM |
Why are people so invested in these franchise type movies? To keep going to them and defending them...
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 23, 2023 11:02 PM |
Nobody wants to see Tom Cruise in anything now. He's clinically insane. He's the Trump of Hollywood. And then there's the Scientology thing...
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 23, 2023 11:05 PM |
That's silly, Top Gun Maverick was a massive success r25.
M17 underperformed because it opened a week before the Barbenheimer phenomenon. The box office is setting records this weekends, that's the cultural focus, no one was paying attention to Mission Impossibly.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 23, 2023 11:07 PM |
Tommy needs to take his ratty Korean wig and bitch tits and ride off into the sunset
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 23, 2023 11:14 PM |
Top Gun Maverick was a success in spite of Cruise R26.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 23, 2023 11:17 PM |
Oh shut your fanny R28 Tom is far from box office poison
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 23, 2023 11:32 PM |
It still happens. He’s still the GOAT. He saved the industry last year. Cruise will never stop getting his flowers.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 23, 2023 11:35 PM |
R32 what did you call me you squeaky little fart?
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 23, 2023 11:41 PM |
$25K for costumes and $50K appearance fee for AS9.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 23, 2023 11:42 PM |
ricksrealreel - you can't be that obtuse. Seeing as you write a blog about old movies. You don't have a clue why familiar repetitive yet polished popular entertainments appeal to the hoi polloi? Complete blank?
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 23, 2023 11:45 PM |
