8mm Forum: Opening Weekends

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Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on May 19, 2014, 09:58 AM:

Just been looking at the opening weekend take for Godzilla it is of course in $$$, but how many people went to see it?

I much prefer the older ways of number of tickets sold, mainly because you can really tell how popular the film is.

If 1.000.000 say paid $1 that's $1.000.000, but if 500.000 went five years later and paid $5 that's $2.500.000.

Ah I now see why. Creative Accounting.

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on May 19, 2014, 05:30 PM:

I wouldn't take to much notice of the figures as to how much it made and how many went to see it, to determine if the movie is worth going.

Film companies spend millions on advertising there product and its all done by professional people who know how to do the big "sell". They depend much on the "hype" that's created from all this, to get Joe public to go....The movie might be good or total rubbish but like sheep to the slaughter Joe public will go.

In the end, its best just to go to the cinema and hope for the best that you will enjoy it and not fall zzzzzzzzz by it all

Graham. [Smile]

Posted by Clay Smith (Member # 4122) on May 19, 2014, 06:12 PM:

I took Alex over the weekend to see Godzilla in 3D Imax (my eyes were spinning). Ugh, but okay, we had a good time. The movie started off well I thought. Then it became a CGI blizzard. Our City by the Bay laid to waste again, there goes Google, la la la. Anyway, the most interesting thing about this movie for me were the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) signs in the evacuation scenes. It wasn't the real BART logo, it was like some graphic student design logo. Which made me wonder, at the last minute they couldn't get permission from BART to use the real one? It's pretty bad when the most interesting thing I could take from this movie was that. Anyway, Alex enjoyed it and we got to spend some time together. And I related to him the time when I was six and dearly wanted to see King Kong vs Godzilla playing at the Ozark Theatre (in Webster Groves, Mo). To which Alex replied, "Oh, you mean the guys in the rubber suit one?" Yeah, that one. I liked that one.

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on May 20, 2014, 04:01 PM:

I feel they changed from the number of people to money to make them look better. Like you say Graham HYPE.

Clay. My son Henry also likes to watch them men in rubber suits, we have that on dvd plus super 8 trailer. They were more fun then, I like to think they had fun making them too. When they start to blow everything up in the battles its great fun.

With a big grin on his face he came to me on Saturday night "Can we watch this on blu-ray?" Of course we can the title 'Where Eagles Dare' WOW do I love to watch that film.

I wonder how long the committee took to come up with the name BART [Mad]

I do feel sorry for San Francisco though, they seem to get a few monsters, like octopuses. It is a beautiful city I was lucky to have three holidays (vacations) in the 80's. Went to 2Twin Peaks" for the fantastic views, sadly the famous fog got there before us.

Posted by Clay Smith (Member # 4122) on May 20, 2014, 06:10 PM:

David - Yes, San Francisco gets it's fair share of destruction. I think the octopus attack was "It Came From Beneath the Sea", great sci-fi.

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