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#95624
Topic
Episode III box office potential
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95624/action/topic#95624
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Chaltab, Brits (and others) tend to have a different interpretation of "pound" seeing as how it's their native monetary system. Most other nations tend to have keyboards that reflect their distinctive characters and alphabets. Some may opt to use the same keyboard as we do, but the option is there to use one that more readily facilitates typing characters they would use that we wouldn't. We can still get many of those characters using ASCII keystrokes with the Alt key and a four-digit combination.

To see the British "pound" sign, look at HotRod's post a few above. It looks like a scripted "L" with a midline through it. Apparently, on western European keyboards, it's shift 3 to get the symbol. Here, shift 3 also gets "pound", just a different one.

We're weird like that.
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#95452
Topic
Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95452/action/topic#95452
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
it is one of the best movies ever made, it's a classic movie


Bear in mind, Ric, that what you are saying is purely subjective. It's one of the best to you and a classic to you. I don't agree. I feel it is an overhyped movie that just makes no sense whatsoever and is mindnumbingly boring. And I watched it when I was 23. But this is also just my opinion and I acknowledge it as such. I'm not requiring you to agree. But you shouldn't question my right to feel this way about it.

However, I would never lump it with Battlefield Earth. That's just a bad movie. Bad writing, acting, directing, everything. Whereas 2001 does have some redeeming qualities. I just can't think of them right now.
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#95449
Topic
Things we don't hate...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95449/action/topic#95449
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I just read recently about how some groups want it rereleased in theaters every Easter just like Chaltab said. But this, of course, would be dependent on demand. I get the feeling that any repeated rerelease will only happen in maybe a few select cities and that's it for like one or two weeks around Easter for one or two showings a day on a single screen and that's it. It will likely be a case where the theater itself actually purchases a copy of the film to keep. Kinda like that theater in Atlanta that always shows Gone With the Wind each year. It won't be enough to really affect its overall theatrical gross. Beyond this year, that is. This year's rerelease will bring in some cash, like I said. But only enough to bring it to #2 overall.

What would be funny is if Cameron decides, upon reading this plan, to go ahead and release his upcoming DVD recut of Titanic in theaters first to bring up the overall take to secure its lead on Passion. I know he's got a new DVD set of the film prepped for this year. It would be funny if he pushed back the retail release and put it in theaters. Maybe go IMAX or something.
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#95376
Topic
Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95376/action/topic#95376
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I agree that sci fi does not need to be fast moving or action packed to be good. But it does have to hold your attention.

Gattaca, one of my all-time fave scifi films is neither fast moving nor action packed. But it is absolutely spectacular because it does one thing that 2001 does not do... it holds my attention.

I'm with ya, Sessler.
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#95394
Topic
Cartoons!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95394/action/topic#95394
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Here's a good thing to do if you want to see how bad Hollywood can get. Get a copy of Batman (1989) and Batman & Robin (1997). Watch the first one, and just when it's over, watch the second one. It's a surreal, strage experience.


I'll pass. I'm waiting for the SE of Batman to come out on DVD. That's mine. I won't touch the rest. Here's hoping they're sold separately and not all together in a box set, a la Back to the Future. That would piss me off.

It's easy to hate Joel Schumacher, but then I remember Tigerland. Great film. He also did Falling Down which was pretty decent in it's own right.
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#95389
Topic
Episode III box office potential
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95389/action/topic#95389
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Yeah, but look at it in terms of the time it was released. Few, if any, sequels had ever come out by 1980. Most considered the success of ANH to be a fluke anyway so they never really gave Empire a chance. And the ending of Empire was such a downer that most "non-fanatic" fans were unlikely to see it without knowing that the story line would ultimately be resolved. Imagine if you had seen Empire, but very few others did making it a horribly attended movie. Then, due to the lackluster BO, Jedi was never made. You'd be left hanging and I think some people may have been afraid of that possibility after hearing from reviews or from friends that there was some big, depressing cliffhanger at the end. In retrospect, it's brilliant.

As you say, it's not your average sequel. But did they realize that back in '80?

Just possibilities.
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#95348
Topic
Things we don't hate...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95348/action/topic#95348
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It's being rereleased? Wow.

Well, here's the U.S. Top Ten...

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1 Titanic $600,788,188
2 Star Wars $460,998,007
3 Shrek 2 $441,226,247
4 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial $435,110,554
5 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace $431,088,301
6 Spider-Man $403,706,375
7 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $377,027,325
8 Spider-Man 2 $373,585,825
9 The Passion of The Christ $370,274,604
10 Jurassic Park $357,067,947


Will it be #1? No. It's been out on video too long. Everybody who wanted to see it has seen it now (or should have). There will still be some demand to see this movie on the big screen, no question about it. But for it to earn another $230 million to beat Titanic will require (no pun intended) an act of God. I see it moving into the number two spot at about $475-500 million.
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#95347
Topic
Episode III box office potential
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95347/action/topic#95347
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Originally posted by: Mr.Coffee
$315.50 million.


What is this... The Price is Right?

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
$277 Million.


The reason I didn't go that low is that no SW movie has ever made less than $290 million. Even though some of the public might be burned on it, this is the final episode of the series (or so we hope). Here are the U.S. Box Office totals for the first five movies...

Episode I - The Phantom Menace - $431,088,301
Episode II - Attack of the Clones - $310,676,740
Episode IV - A New Hope - $460,998,007
Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back - $290,475,067
Episode VI - Return of the Jedi - $309,306,177
(courtesy of Box Office Mojo)

Maybe it won't be as good or bring in as many people, but ticket prices are constantly on the rise. So that'll make up for it.

Oh, and go fig that my fave episode is the lowest earner. Aye aye aye.