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Pirates had a ton of good buzz heading in. Battleship has the opposite. They both have boats, I guess. {nm}
BOF/Xiayun's guesses are up: May 18, 07:37
Loving that Battleship number. {nm} May 18, 07:40
it's a doozy {nm} May 18, 07:42
Ned Ryerson? Needle Nose Ned? Is that you? {nm} May 18, 07:44
whehehew, watch that first step... {nm} May 18, 07:47
What to expect when you are sinking !! ;-) {nm} May 18, 08:05
+1 {nm} May 18, 08:09
Good stuff! {nm} May 18, 07:43
Would Battleship have been better off opening in August or another off-peak time with less competition? {nm} May 18, 08:11
Anybody remember the first Pirates of the Carribean?[nm] May 18, 08:18
Absolutely! I don't see what it has to do with What to Expect When You're Expecting though. {nm} May 18, 08:21
I meant with BTSHP's low projections[nm] May 18, 08:22
You'd be better off comparing Battleship with Poseidon. {nm} May 18, 08:28
BTSHP has much better name recognition than Poseidon, and more likable concept, imho[nm] May 18, 08:31
If you mean lotsa big asplosions and not much more, then yes. May 18, 08:35
Pirates had a ton of good buzz heading in. Battleship has the opposite. They both have boats, I guess. May 18, 08:29
Actually a lot of people expected Pirates to flop.[nm] May 18, 08:32
Name five. {nm} May 18, 08:33
Technically speaking, HSX, as it adjusted up ~50 points. May 18, 08:41
I meant more like Titanic, which had bad press leading up to it, then was predicted as a success closer to release time.[nm] May 18, 08:43
Ok. That's reasonable. {nm} May 18, 08:46
Is your premise that every movie with a stupid premise will turn out as well as Pirates did? May 18, 08:45
No, I'm saying there is precedent for it. Summer movie audiences aren't necessarily that smart[nm] May 18, 08:49
winter movie audiences traded 200 guys over, so that might have evened it out {nm} May 18, 08:55
Pirates at least had Johnny Depp's Oscar nominated performance to hang it's hat on May 18, 08:40
But if films with solid CGI and dumb plots should not do well... does that mean writers will be fired, or hired? :) {nm} May 18, 08:26
