My estimate for MIB3 was $58MM for 4-day. I'm having real second thoughts after reading the comments below. Anyone else feel the same? {nm} on May 25, 14:30
No. Think it'll be ironic when the numbers come in. Y'all are a bunch of jittery mf's {nm} on May 25, 14:32
It will be ironic if it underperforms, but even with an underperforming Fri the positive WOM may impact the 4-day. {nm} on May 25, 14:38
i dont think irony is involved here {nm} on May 25, 14:49
Yes it is! {nm} on May 25, 14:54
This deserved more love than it got {nm} on May 25, 16:05
ironic because y'all were down on it and thought it would bomb. now u guys like it, but it still bombs. {nm} on May 25, 15:04
Will Smith and Bomb do not compute {nm} on May 25, 15:32
7 pounds didn't do too well.. For MIB3.. It was expected to do more than 80M OW initially.. anything below that would be a bomb {nm} on May 25, 15:42
Seven Pounds was not a franchise summer blockbuster, it was Oscar bait. {nm} on May 25, 16:08
So: You bet against Pacers beating Heat 4 of 7 because you think Pacers aren't good. Then you go see on May 25, 15:44
It would be ironic if u then switched and bet IND to win the series, only to see MIA win. You'd have lost both bets. {nm} on May 25, 15:53
It's irony in the ironic sense. {nm} on May 25, 16:07
Think word of mouth would help later weekends. Can't imagine too many people were on the fence, either you were going this weekend or not. {nm} on May 25, 14:34
Not to be rude, but who gives an "F" if a couple isolated traders liked it. Nikki Finke has the final say, and that **** weighs in later. {nm} on May 25, 14:37
My point is that people who were already not going to mib aren't going to be swayed by what they think are early pos "fanboy" reviews {nm} on May 25, 14:39
I concur! {nm} on May 25, 14:40
I didn't know MIB had "fanboys" {nm} on May 25, 14:42
I was not planning on seeing it this weekend, but positive reviews (especially Ebert calling it the best in the series) swayed me otherwise. {nm} on May 25, 14:47
Ebert is a has been. Pauper couldn't even keep his PBS show funded. I'm tired of his snarky ****. His post about Ryan Dunn after his death on May 25, 15:06
What about the 105 other reviewers who liked it on RT? Are they has beens too? {nm} on May 25, 15:16
I really don't think reviewers mean a damn thing. Maybe for movie like Marigold. But not for MIB3. {nm} on May 25, 15:25
So it doesn't matter that reviewers like it, doesn't matter if the audience likes it? {nm} on May 25, 15:31
That would seem to be the gist of it.. An odd analysis of the opening weekend imho. {nm} on May 25, 15:43
Reviewers doesn't make up a core percentage of the audience cos they only male up a small portion of the audience {nm} on May 25, 15:46
WOM from audiences affects mainly the legs, seldom are too massive to affect OW immediately, so in both scenarios, it doesn't matter ;-) {nm} on May 25, 15:48
If reviews don't matter, though, why do studios shield certain stinkers from being reviewed? {nm} on May 25, 15:51
Everyone want to protect their own child.. A higher review doesn't always translate to a great OW {nm} on May 25, 15:56
People trusts their own friends and those around more than some reviewers' comments {nm} on May 25, 15:58
Okay, if people trust the WOM of their friends, MIB3 has 84% fresh from the audience. FWIW, social media seems to be liking it right now. {nm} on May 25, 16:02
Didn't ya hear? Sony planted the audience. Everyone that sees MIB this weekend is studio plant. {nm} on May 25, 16:11
But studios don't see movies as children, they see them as possibly profitable enterprises that may lose some of that profit by way of a bad on May 25, 16:00
Right on...way to hold down the fort there...alright sticking with the original hunch {nm} on May 25, 14:37
I flipen OW to long last minute and stayed short on the call....... Im just going with the flow on the stock. Matinees are going to be on May 25, 14:38
lol similar to my play. long on OW and long on put on May 25, 14:41
I was sposed to flip the OW to long...oops. Have the call long. If it opens below 80+, I'll be dissappointed. on May 25, 14:49
If it opens above $60, I'll be suprised... {nm} on May 25, 15:50
Prepare yourself then. ;-) on May 25, 15:59
Oh, catzo.... {nm} on May 25, 16:17