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Movie: Man of Steel 2 - July 17, 2015
Member Since: 11/26/2011
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Wow.
The film has its faults but it should be AT LEAST in the 70's right now
I'm hoping critically-it finishes stronger.
I saw the film last night. I feel critics are being way too harsh on this thing.
"Man of Steel is too dark"
"They took the fun out of Superman"
"Why is it so serious?"
"Where is the camp of the Donner films?"
"Snyder takes action over plot"
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Entertainment Weekly celebrates Superman's Birthday.
Also can you figure out who is missing from this cover?
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Originally posted by LP54
Entertainment Weekly celebrates Superman's Birthday.
Also can you figure out who is missing from this cover?
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Brandon Routh from Superman Returns.
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Quote:
Originally posted by LP54
Entertainment Weekly celebrates Superman's Birthday.
Also can you figure out who is missing from this cover?
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They ain't **** for that!
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Member Since: 3/13/2011
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Quote:
Originally posted by LP54
Entertainment Weekly celebrates Superman's Birthday.
Also can you figure out who is missing from this cover?
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So messed up but that movie was trash.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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They are a mess for that but the movie was horrible so I don't blame them.
so excited for tonight
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Member Since: 4/21/2012
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Started off really slow but picked up the pace during the centre of the movie. 8.5 / 10 from me.
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It's very strange because the critics loved Superman Returns and the public hated it.
Now it seems so far the critics hate Man of Steel and the public loves it.
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Originally posted by Nathan's Nicely
Started off really slow but picked up the pace during the centre of the movie. 8.5 / 10 from me.
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I really liked the beginning with Krypton.
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Member Since: 8/20/2011
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Good news so far box office wise:
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‘Man Of Steel’ Begins Worldwide Release; Record Opening Day In The Philippines
THURSDAY AM: Warner Bros’ and Legendary Pictures’ hotly anticipated third Superman franchise reboot opens officially in North America at midnight although the studio says it’is having ”only corporate group sales” participate in an earlier screening at 7 PM today. On Friday, Man Of Steel goes wide in a whopping 4,207 locations: 850 are 2D only, and the remaining venues will play in 3D with a 2D component. Tracking has ranged from Warner Bros’ lowball $80sM aimed a managing expectations to rival studio projections around $95M-$100M. Still, even with a longish running time of two hours and 23 minutes, the Chris Nolan-Zach Snyder-David S. Goyer-Henry Cavill pic could pack an unexpectedly stronger punch because of the 3D premium. According to MovieTickets, domestic advance ticket sales for Man of Steel accounted for over 55% of total daily transactions Monday and Tuesday, them jumped to over 75% on Wednesday. According to Fandango, it represented more than 60% of Wednesday’s sales. Overseas, Superman is opening in 24 markets day and date with the U.S., including 3 Top Ten countries: UK, Korea, Mexico. Warner Bros will launch an additional 26 markets on the second weekend, including China, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Spain. Ultimately, the film will be on more than 21,000 screens internationally. My sources have some early news from the Philippines which opened the film on Independence Day (Wednesday) to record results. The film became the biggest opening day ever with P69,284,858 ($1,657,532) comprising 347,626 admissions from 466 screens nationwide. That made Man Of Steel #1 with over 90% market share. Meanwhile, Fandango surveyed more than 1,000 Man Of Steel ticket-buyers and found that 88% are fans of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight franchise, 83% said the supporting cast of Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Shannon increased their interest in seeing the movie, 81% claimed the darker interpretation of Superman made them more interested in buying a ticket, 75% cannot wait to see the villain General Zod, 72% are fans of director Zack Snyder’s previous films (300, Watchmen), 69% want to see the lead played by Henry Cavill and not by an established box office superstar. Much more to come all weekend. Counter-programming the Man Of Steel juggernaut this weekend is Sony/Columbia Pictures’ raunchy apocalyptic comedy This Is The End. It received a ‘B+’ CinemaScore from audiences and 82% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and a #1 reception Wednesday. With a dearth of both ‘R’-rated movies or well-received laughers in the marketplace, pic made $6.5M from 3,055 theaters including $2.2M from Tuesday late shows and Wednesday midnights. Projections are for $30+M over the next 5 days - which is about the same dollar figure as its $32M negative cost. Read more here.
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60% on RT now, 1 percent from being rotten. Not gonna lie that I'm disappointed but the only review that should matter is your own so oh well. Tonight is finally here.
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My sources have some early news from the Philippines which opened the film on Independence Day (Wednesday) to record results. The film became the biggest opening day ever with P69,284,858 ($1,657,532) comprising 347,626 admissions from 466 screens nationwide. That made Man Of Steel #1 with over 90% market share.
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I'm part of this!!!
my country's stanning hard for THEE King!!!
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I am so pumped for tonight. I love midnight premieres. You can have so much fun, depending on your theater.
I would have loved if the film got positive reviews, but if I like it, others opinions don't matter, tbh.
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It's rotten now.
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If you read the rotten reviews, none of them are actually that bad and some of the stuff that they found bad, you may end up liking.
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Am I the only one who found it okay? The action during the last hour and a half of the movie was just... tiring. It didn't even give me time to breathe and it was getting really draggy at some point. It just keeps on going and going to the point that I was looking for more story during the action scenes. :/ 6.5 out of 10 for me.
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Member Since: 3/13/2011
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Gonna leave in a little for my 7 PM showing. Anxious.
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Down to 57% now on RottenTomatoes.
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I told ya it would go lower, and you didn't listen
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