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Is your premise that every movie with a stupid premise will turn out as well as Pirates did?
There's no doubt that many expected Pirates to fail based on the premise, but that was before they saw that the finished product was mainstream manna.
There's no doubt that many expected Battleship to fail based on the premise, and that seems to be confirmed after people started seeing the movie.
In your comparison you are missing the key second part of the equation.
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. {nm} 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
