Posted on 05/17/2015 2:30:50 PM PDT by Perdogg
“Pitch Perfect 2” stopped the show at the box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $70.3 million in first place.
That debut is about $5 million more than the entire domestic gross of the original film, and more than double the sequel’s $29 million budget.
Heading into the weekend, analysts expected the sequel to premiere in the $40 million range. But not much about the “Pitch Perfect” franchise has made sense by traditional Hollywood rules. The original film, an acerbic comedy set in the low-stakes world of collegiate a capella singing, opened in September 2012—hardly a time of year known for major features.
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I love how functionally random that list is. I mean it’s a great action movie and does everything an action movie should well. But 23rd best movie ever?! Kind of crazy land.
It will go down as more and more people see it...right now the only people seeing are those predisposed to like it.
Yeah there’s always a lot of that bubbling. But some stuff stays way more popular than it should. A couple weeks ago I did one of those “how many have you seen” FB things from the IMDB 250 and complained that the survey needed a third option “seen it, and you people are confused”.
‘The Shawshank Redemption’ being ranked first is an ongoing testament to anglophone philistinism.
Makes sense.
Folks wanted to know how they could finally get all the shawshanks they had lying around redeemed.
I like Shawshank a lot. But yeah, #1 ever?! Uh no. I could see it in the lower reaches around 150 or so, and I wouldn’t be horribly saddened to see it miss the list entirely. When looking at all of cinema history 250 is a small list and should really be the cream of the cream, and “darn good movie” is generally not a descriptor for cream of the cream.
Max was always a nothing character who barely had any lines.
There was a Cracked.com article on how the latest heroes like “Neo” in Matrix are almost blank slates, little to no emotion, minimal backstory, little development except plot and gaining new powers.
They’ve turned the desperate father and husband seeking vengeance or escape from his attackers and nightmares into “oh, he’s crazy, but fights for the good side sometimes”.
The female lead in Mad Max Fury Road had more personality, more background, more depth.
All we saw of Mad Max except for one good idea was crazy flashbacks that impaired his survival as much as helped it.
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