The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[bjmdds]

I will see it next Saturday FBF. How many times will you see it? It looks like the BEST monster movie ever made so far. Did you see it in 3-D IMAX?

[bjmdds]

Godzilla, hoping to finally launch a Hollywood studio franchise headlined by the giant lizard, is a defining moment for Legendary Pictures, which spearheaded the reboot. Legendary financed 75 percent of Godzilla, with Warner Bros. putting up the rest of the money. An origin story, the movie tries to remain true to the Japanese Godzilla movies made by Japan's Toho studio.

[FormerBondFan]

I will see it next Saturday FBF. How many times will you see it? It looks like the BEST monster movie ever made so far. Did you see it in 3-D IMAX?

I'll see it the second time next week in IMAX since I haven't seen it in this format yet, and that will be my only repeated reviewing for the big @$$ lizard.

[bjmdds]

California Chrome wins Preakness Stakes, eyes Triple Crown shot. So far, so good. As was mentioned Calfornia did win the second leg of the Triple Crown. Let's hope he stays healthy and in 3 weeks he comes to my town where it will be pandemonium at Belmont if he wins again, ending a 36 year Triple Crown draught Go baby......GO

[Kristatos]

Is this a horse you own, or do you just have money on it?

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[bjmdds]

I wish I owned it Kris. He is wondeful to watch race. It cost the owner only $10,500 to buy the mare and breed her and now they can win the Triple Crown of racing in 3 weeks at Belmont Park in NYC. It will be a mob scene of celebrities and news outlets the first Saturday in June in Queens NY. He pays very little to win. I just love watching great horses race and get media attention................Deadline.com: "Godzilla will end up the weekend probably around $93.2M after a 17% drop from Friday to Saturday. Nevertheless, the lizard did outstanding business this weekend for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, surpassing all expectations, with the best opening day of the year, beating Captain America: The Winter Soldier."

[FormerBondFan]

It's not just a lizard. It's a big @$$ lizard.

[bjmdds]

Forbes: It earned another $103m overseas, for a massive $196m worldwide cume. It is beyond cliche to refer to a Godzilla film as a “box office monster”, but if the shoe fits…...Warner Bros. (a division of Time Warner) is surely thrilled with this debut, as it’s right in the wheelhouse of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($91m) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95m). It’s their biggest May debut ever, supplanting the $91m Fri-Sun debut of The Matrix Reloaded and their eighth-biggest debut overall. And unlike Amazing Spider-Man 2, Godzilla didn’t cost $250m to produce. At $160 million, the film is set to earn back its budget domestically by the end of next weekend and has already topped its budget worldwide by about $30m. It in total earned 51% of its grosses via 3D ticket sales. It played 58% male and 60% over 25 years old........The opening smashed analysts' projections of $70 million and marked the largest opening of all time for a monster movie. The previous champ, 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park, bowed to $72 million, according to Box Office Mojo. The movie also earned $22 million globally on IMAX screens, the second-largest May debut since last year's Iron Man 3 with $28.7 million. "Chalk this up to being one of the few blockbusters where reviews seemed to matter," says Reagen Sulewski, analyst for Box Office Prophets. "There's little doubt that the Godzilla name is not one associated with high-quality films, especially with the memory of Godzilla '98 still fresh in a lot of people's minds." That version, starring Matthew Broderick, earned $136 million but was excoriated by critics and fans. Sulewski credited Legendary Pictures and distributor Warner Bros. with elevating traditionally camp material. "Taking the material seriously, and producing a thoughtful monster movie that still had plenty of eye candy has proven to be a masterstroke," Sulewski says, hailing director Gareth Edwards for creating "something that's being mentioned in the same breath as films like Jaws, Aliens and Jurassic Park."

[bjmdds]

Star Trek Into Darkness is almost unwatchable on tv. J.J. Abrams has ruined this fine franchise. Chris Pine is terrible as Kirk. He must go. Spock is no ladies man who suddenly dates Uhura and beats his enemies to a pulp with his fists. Quinto spends more time trying to be Nimoy than Spock. The twisted ending reversing death roles was pathetic. Cumberbatch was a terrible Khan and the film was more of a hodge podge of ST 2 and ST 3 combined into one mess of a plot. I find this film insulting to Trek fans' collective intelligence. Abrams is not the guy to continue the franchise.

[Omega]

Good opening for godz. I might see it this week but still don't think the ads have sold it well


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[Kristatos]

Godzilla 2 has been greenlit on the strength of the first film's opening weekend.

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[dirtybenny]

Star Trek Into Darkness is almost unwatchable on tv. J.J. Abrams has ruined this fine franchise. Chris Pine is terrible as Kirk. He must go. Spock is no ladies man who suddenly dates Uhura and beats his enemies to a pulp with his fists. Quinto spends more time trying to be Nimoy tha Spock. The twisted ending reversing death roles was pathetic. Cumberbatch was a terrible Khan and the film was more of a hodge podge of ST 2 and ST 3 combined into one mess of a plot. I find this film insulting to Trek fans' collective intelligence. Abrams is not the guy to continue the franchise.

I very much agree. I'm not a huge Trek fan and even I found this new retelling ridiculous and unnecessary. It shows lazy screen writing, when there are so many ways to explore the idea of a young Enterprise crew why rip off a story that was already told. And your absolutely right about the Spock, Uhura love story, it's tedious and adds nothing to the series. The one compliment I'll give to EON is they haven't started retelling previous Bond films...Yet. Tho I'm sure the "gritty" "realistic" reboot of Dr. No is sitting on Barbara's desk as we speak!

[bjmdds]

Correct Dirty one. This reboot is way off course. If you do it, REDO it, not repeat it and savagely rework classic storylines. Pine is dread awful as Kirk. I rooted for this to do well but this last film was terrible

[bjmdds]

Domestic: $93,188,384 47.4%
+ Foreign: $103,400,000 52.6%
= Worldwide: $196,588,384 ............It's also worth noting that Godzilla earned more in its first three days than Star Trek Into Darkness earned in its first four ($83.7 million) on the same weekend last year. It was also above 2011's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($90.2 million).

Godzilla's success this weekend can be attributed to some smart choices made by the Warner Bros. marketing department. Coming off last Summer's disappointing Pacific Rim, Warner Bros. opted to pitch Godzilla first-and-foremost as a disaster movie (instead of a monster movie). Advertisements hid the title character—and avoided even mentioning the other monsters—and instead put an emphasis on the human impact of large-scale destruction. Much of this was hung on Bryan Cranston's character, who was positioned as the movie's focal point; while that was very misleading, it was also highly effective.

Many moviegoers opted for premium-priced screenings of Godzilla. 3D showings accounted for 51 percent of revenue. Included in there is $14.1 million from IMAX, which is the biggest haul on those large-format screens so far this year. Godzilla opens in China in June, and then Japan in July. If it lives up to its potential in those two markets, it should wind up with over $400 million...... (It should do better business than Cavill's crummy Man Of Steel trash that our beloved Sweeney despised, and I agree with him on that. FBF knew Godzilla would be huge, but whoever thought it would top the Man Of Steel?)

[Omega]

Really good numbers for gz


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[bjmdds]

This is why Spiderman with Garfield is tanking:

[FormerBondFan]

FBF knew Godzilla would be huge, but whoever thought it would top the Man Of Steel?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhe9KO8Z1Y[/video]

[carl stromberg]

I thought Star Trek Into Darkness had a grea cast and looked fantastic. But I did not want to see a Wrath of Khan remake. I'd like to see some normal Star Trek films; but there is not much chance of that as the new films are hits and not many people liked the last few Picard films. What would be good is a new tv series.

[FormerBondFan]

Should the new series take place in the classic universe or the Alternate Reality?

[Kristatos]

Should the new series take place in the classic universe or the Alternate Reality?

If it's using different characters, it probably doesn't matter too much.