Mary Poppins Quits with Kristen Bell
Posted on 12/20/2018 12:38:59 PM PST by simpson96
“Mary Poppins Returns” scored only $4.7 million on its opening day yesterday. Projections for the five day weekend are $35 million, which is very low. Twice that should have been the result.
Disney has a problem on its hands because it planned sequels and has invested a lot in retooling its most prized film. Rob Marshall did an excellent job, and Emily Blunt is wonderful, frankly. The animation is terrific. Surprise appearances from Meryl Streep, Dick van Dyke, and Angela Lansbury just add to the thrill of it all. Lin Manuel Miranda is quite terrific, too.
But Rotten Tomatoes has “Mary Poppins Returns” at a low 78. The New York Times’s Manohla Dargis didn’t help, eviscerating the new movie in her review. The headline was a killer–
“A Truck Full of Sugar Can’t Make This Uplift Go Down”
Yikes.
Remember the movie “Saving Mr. Banks”? Somehow I think P.L. Travers, who wrote “Mary Poppins,” has jinxed this movie. Or maybe it’s just bad karma. Disney held a “private” opening of the movie in New York this week, didn’t invite press, and staged the whole thing at a not very glamorous theater. It was a sign of bad things to come.
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A younger relative saw it last night and preferred it to Aquaman.
Don’t mess with a classic …..
You’ll only screw it up and p*ss people off to boot
Waiting for Mel Gibson flick in the spring - current title is “DESTROYER” (which may change because of other movie with same name )
Tells story of USS LAFFET which on April 12 1945 withstood attacks by 50 kamikazes
It was hit by 4 bombs and 6 kamikaze
Suffered 31 dead and 71 wounded , but was able to survive
Hope its as good as HACKSAW RIDGE
Instead of “pound”, they could always use “octothorpe”, but that might conjure up images of tentacle porn.
5 million opening on a Wednesday night for a family flick on a school night? That’s not a flop.
It’ll Likely be near or over $100M by end of next weekend.
As good as the first movie? Of course not, but honestly trying to spin a Wednesday night opening of a film targeted at families with kids in single digit ages at $5 million as a flop is nonsense.
It’s quite simple. The movie is strictly a G-rated flick, with no transgender chimney sweeps, no gay children trying to find themselves, no lewdness, no wardrobe malfunctions, and no pro-muzzlime soapboxes. It is a truly family-friendly movie, with children born within wedlock, a loving parent, children being held to high behavioral standards and corrected if they don’t, lots of fun, several black actors performing splendidly in flattering roles, demonstrations of generosity, etc. It is no surprise at all that libtard rags would pan this wholesome family entertainment.
She ruins it.
It’s not a re-make. It’s a sequel about the grown up Banks children who now have children of their own.
Exactly right. I predict this movie will be a BIG HIT.
Over $100 Million and it’s not even the end of its opening weekend.. what a garbage article.. and those jumping on it as the movie flopped are fools.
Next week with kids off easily add another 100-200 million more.
Exactly right.
Dick Van Duke has a reprisal of his old rone in the original Mary Poppins.
Don’t forget RedLetterMedia.
Thanks to Meryl Streep, I’ll likely catch it for free sometime.
My leftist acquaintances and the NYT seem to hate it.
The film is overall simple, it’s one of the better sequels I went for since I am tired of all these franchise films with endless trash sequels that get hyped up so much.
Sometime a movie company will add a "damn!" or something similar to a film to avoid a "G" rating. A "G" will kill a movie with the teen crowd.
Thanks, enough leftists hate it to attract me, but Streep doesn’t, so I won’t pay to see it.
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