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[baja]

Originally Posted by clarker

Baja it does't matter how it ranks this weekend. It has made over $600 million world wide. There is no way anyone can call it a box office bomb. To say so would be to be in as much denial as Chief fans were last year about Goonther being the answer to their defense.

I don't know Clarker here is a movie with a huge ad budget that is playing in over three thousand theaters on multiple screens and could not hold the top spot for even three short weeks. I predicted in week one this movie would fade fast and it did.

[clarker]

Originally Posted by baja fan

I don't know Clarker here is a movie with a huge ad budget that is playing in over three thousand theaters on multiple screens and could not hold the top spot for even three short weeks. I predicted in week one this movie would fade fast and it did.

$600 million. Everyone who made a movie this year wishes that it would "fade" so fast as Sith did. I mean it was 3rd but it still made $25 million in the U.S. alone. I mean what movie wouldn't want to make $25 million in it's 3rd week? Hell, most movies, and by that I mean all but a hand full that have ever been made, would love to make $25 million in week one, let alone week 3.

You can always say your right because you never said how much money you or the "experts" thought it could make. So it can make a billion and you could still say with all the places it was showing at it should have made 2 billion. If it made 2, then you would up it to 3.

If it never makes another dime, your wrong. It was not a box office flop.

[baja]

If you show Killer Clowns from Outer Space in every theater in the world and hyped the crap out of it and if it was a pre quil to a very popular colection of films it too would rake in millions. Lots and lots of people just had to see this movie but that doesn't mean they liked it. If it were really good word of mouth should have held it on top for several weeks as it turns out Sith could not hold the top spot for even three weeks. Like I said no staying power.

[clarker]

Originally Posted by baja fan

If you show Killer Clowns from Outer Space in every theater in the world and hyped the crap out of it and if it was a pre quil to a very popular colection of films it too would rake in millions. Lots and lots of people just had to see this movie but that doesn't mean they liked it. If it were really good word of mouth should have held it on top for several weeks as it turns out Sith could not hold the top spot for even three weeks. Like I said no staying power.

What ever. $25 million in it's 3rd week is still out of this world, just admit it.

If it stops making money right now it ranks 15 ALL TIME for gross in the U.S. alone.

I'm sure when George is counting the $600 million, he is worried about staying power.

[baja]

Originally Posted by clarker

What ever. $25 million in it's 3rd week is still out of this world, just admit it.

If it stops making money right now it ranks 15 ALL TIME for gross in the U.S. alone.

I'm sure when George is counting the $600 million, he is worried about staying power.

That's not the point. Just because it is a financal sucess does not necussarly make it a good movie. You seem to think that just because it did not bomb financaly that it can't bomb as a popular film. If everyone in the world saw it and hated it it would still make a shiit load of money

[clarker]

Originally Posted by baja fan

That's not the point. Just because it is a financal sucess does not necussarly make it a good movie. You seem to think that just because it did not bomb financaly that it can't bomb as a popular film. If everyone in the world saw it and hated it it would still make a shiit load of money

No, don't be dumb. Of course just because a movie makes money doesn't mean it was good.

I like it. It has nothing to do with how much money it makes. You do not. Which is fine. Every one has their own taste. It is just plain stupid for two people to argue about the fact that one person likes apples and the other doesn't.

But you assume that because you didn't like the movie, that no one will and that it would bomb. Which by the fact that it is has made $600 million you are wrong about that. Another reason your wrong is because your one of the few people on this board alone who didn't like it. Just because you only saw it once, that means no one else saw it more than once?

BTW your take that "if everyone one in the world saw it" is pretty pointless. Because of course if everyone in the world saw any movie it would take a ton of money. But since that has never happened or will ever happen, then for it to make $600 million, someone has seen it more than once.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Taco John

No dude... Get her into it... It's really not that hard. I talked my wife into watching them all with me, and by the end of it, she was totally into it.

1st - my girlfriend is a NASCAR fan, who has watched all 3 SW's flicks and really doesn't give a fat frog's azz.

2nd - If I could convince her to get into $#it I was into I wouldn't even have internet service and there'd be two women in the other room.

[Orange4Life]

Originally Posted by baja fan

If you show Killer Clowns from Outer Space in every theater in the world and hyped the crap out of it and if it was a pre quil to a very popular colection of films it too would rake in millions. Lots and lots of people just had to see this movie but that doesn't mean they liked it. If it were really good word of mouth should have held it on top for several weeks as it turns out Sith could not hold the top spot for even three weeks. Like I said no staying power.

I really don't want to get into this because I know Baja has to just be egging people on and getting a good kick out of it (I would anyway). But the movie Godzilla from a few years ago totally disproves this theory. That movie was super hyped in every theater and bomb horribly.

I'm not into this argument that much but if I was I would go back and see how many times 25 million for the weekend would rank number 1 this year. I'm guessing at least 80% of the time it would be good enough for number 1.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Orange4Life

I really don't want to get into this because I know Baja has to just be egging people on and getting a good kick out of it (I would anyway). But the movie Godzilla from a few years ago totally disproves this theory. That movie was super hyped in every theater and bomb horribly.

Well, and that depends on your definition of bombed as well. As far as what Godzilla made as far as sales (with pr0n level acting) it wasn't bad at all.

Compared to what was investied into the flick it was a complete failure.

[clarker]

Originally Posted by Orange4Life

I really don't want to get into this because I know Baja has to just be egging people on and getting a good kick out of it (I would anyway). But the movie Godzilla from a few years ago totally disproves this theory. That movie was super hyped in every theater and bomb horribly.

I'm not into this argument that much but if I was I would go back and see how many times 25 million for the weekend would rank number 1 this year. I'm guessing at least 80% of the time it would be good enough for number 1.

Orange4life has made my case for me. It makes me sad that you did it in one post and I didn't make it a zillion posts.

[Orange4Life]

Originally Posted by clarker

Orange4life has made my case for me. It makes me sad that you did it in one post and I didn't make it a zillion posts.

you were doing all right, just trying to help.

[TomServo]

still trying to sell r o t s as a bomb baja? check yahoo or msn or any entertainment sites and the average review for 'sith is like a b+.
you know what "bomb" meant and theres no way you can erase that post-statement.

[clarker]

Originally Posted by Orange4Life

you were doing all right, just trying to help.

I would have gave you a good rep but I think I just gave you one a while back for something else.

[clarker]

Originally Posted by TomServo

still trying to sell r o t s as a bomb baja? check yahoo or msn or any entertainment sites and the average review for 'sith is like a b+.
you know what "bomb" meant and theres no way you can erase that post-statement.

No that can't be, because in Baja's way of thinking since he didn't like it, then no one did.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by clarker

I would have gave you a good rep but I think I just gave you one a while back for something else.

Understandalbe. He's a solid BB member.

However, I'm a Chiefs fan trying to make my way in a volatile Donk enviornment. I'm not above begging for rep-scraps.....

[TomServo]

now these are Bombs
http://www.virgin.net/movies/toptens...ficeflops.html

[baja]

Originally Posted by clarker

No that can't be, because in Baja's way of thinking since he didn't like it, then no one did.

Actually this is true, each of us create our own universe so in my universe Sith bombs and every pretty woman wants me. And the people of America stood up and voted George W. Bush out of office for deceiving them. Enron exs were striped of all their wealth and the money was turned over to the enron employee's retirement fund.

[-Slap-]

Originally Posted by baja fan

If everyone in the world saw it and hated it it would still make a shiit load of money

Fewer than half of the people in the world have ever spoken on a telephone.

[clarker]

Originally Posted by baja fan

Actually this is true, each of us create our own universe so in my universe Sith bombs and every pretty woman wants me. And the people of America stood up and voted George W. Bush out of office for deceiving them. Enron exs were striped of all their wealth and the money was turned over to the enron employee's retirement fund.

Here is what Bill Clinton thought of Iraq when he was in office.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/16/clinton.iraq.speech/

I believe he also thinks that when a movie makes $600 milllion is not a box office bomb.

[baja]

Originally Posted by clarker

Here is what Bill Clinton thought of Iraq when he was in office.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/16/clinton.iraq.speech/

I believe he also thinks that when a movie makes $600 milllion is not a box office bomb.

So do I care what Bill Clinton thinks.

[clarker]

Originally Posted by baja fan

So do I care what Bill Clinton thinks.

Fair enough. The movie still made 600 million and it is still not a box office bomb though.

[baja]

Originally Posted by -Slap-

Fewer than half of the people in the world have ever spoken on a telephone.

Interesting!

Along those lines fewer than half the people of the world have stood up to take a piss. :-)

[Bob's your Information Minister]

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