Matrix Reloaded to suffer biggest drop EVER

[Guest GameCop]

Here are the Friday estimates and estimated weekend grosses for May 23 - May 25:

 

Bruce Almighty: 20,400,000 / 60,000,000

 

Matrix Reloaded: 11,210,000/ 33,000,000

 

Last week, the Matrix Reloaded made 93,000,000 in its first weekend. If the numbers hold up for this weekend, it will be a.................................

 

65% drop !!!!

[Guest Flyboy]

 

I guess people are getting the word out about how much it sucked.

[Guest El Psycho Diablo]

 

I guess people are getting the word out about how much it sucked.

It didn't suck.

[Guest razazteca]

I thought it would be #1 longer

[Guest RedJed]

 

I guess people are getting the word out about how much it sucked.

I havent really seen it panned all over the place, what are you talking about. For what its worth, I thought it wasnt too bad at all.

 

With that said, that drop, if true, is wild. Consistent with R rated shows in general though, in that they can only get a certain amount of people into the theaters, and then it stops eventually. As simple as it can be put, everyone who really wanted to see this film (which were ALOT) went sometime during that first week and a half. Makes sense to me.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Wow...

 

Bruce is gonna open up at #1.

[Guest Marshall]

It didn't suck. It was just overhyped, and not as good as the first. But it was still a lot better the 80% of other new movies.

 

Plus, you'd think there would be a lot of people who wanted to see it again. I know I do, the film has been on my mind for days. I can't wait to give it a second look.

[Guest Flyboy]

It didn't suck. It was just overhyped, and not as good as the first. But it was still a lot better the 80% of other new movies.

It wasn't overhyped to me. Why? I didn't even love the first one like most did. I liked the first it (it w1as okay), but I didn't orgasm over it. The movie was just fucking boring.

 

"But Flyboy! It's the second one in trilogy! It has to explain things!"

 

*points to Empire Strikes Back*

 

I just didn't like the movie (and apparently other people didn't and told others about it OR people just don't want to see OR people ain't taking their kids to it because it's Rated R). If not liking the Matrix Reloaded is 'uncool', then call me uncool.

[Guest Lil Naitch]

I still haven't seen it.

No money + 66 hours of work in one week= no free time for me.

[Guest Lil Naitch]

I still haven't seen it.

No money + 66 hours of work in one week= no free time for me.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

But you have time to doublepost?

[Guest Mole]

HA, I KNEW that Bruce would be number 1.

[Guest wrestlingbs]

Ouch. Looks like Neo may be The One but Bruce is the Almighty.

 

Yeah, that sucked. sorry

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Actually a 65% drop is pretty usual for blockbuter flops. On average, you should face a 35% drop from your first week. However, opening as big as it did means that you're going to have a bigger than usual dropoff after the first week. Most films that open with huge numbers, like say Titanic, experience big dropoff, but that's only because the numbers were so big to begin with. $33 million would make you number one most weekends.

[Guest SP-1]

Considering the money it made in it's first weekend, I don't think it really matters much. The people who say it sucked will say it sucked, and the people who listen to them and don't go see it to make up their own mind are idiots and sheep. Idiots and sheep wouldn't be able to comprehend the damn thing anyway so everybody wins on that one.

 

Considering the cash it made opening weekend, nobody can call it a financial disappointment. Sorry, but it's done pretty damn well, like it or not. Reloaded will probably do very similar.

[Guest bob_barron]

Here are the Friday estimates and estimated weekend grosses for May 23 - May 25:

 

Bruce Almighty: 20,400,000 / 60,000,000

 

Matrix Reloaded: 11,210,000/ 33,000,000

 

Last week, the Matrix Reloaded made 93,000,000 in its first weekend. If the numbers hold up for this weekend, it will be a.................................

 

65% drop !!!!

That's not the biggest drop ever- movies have dropped much more then Matrix probably will in their second week.

 

Sci fi movies do the majority of their business in week 1 as their target audience usually tries to see it in the first week.

 

This is the case for most big event movies

[Guest Urine Sane]

I guess people are getting the word out about how much it sucked.

 

It's a good movie, just because they didn't caiter to the mass of idiots by dumbing it down to an insane level doesn't mean it sucks.

 

I think it's by far the most intriguing film I've seen in years.

[Guest Lethargic]

The fact that more than one person liked that movie makes me want to shoot myself. It was the first movie I ever actually walked out of the theater on. That thing is truly the worst movie I have ever seen. Usually bad movies at least have an appeal BECAUSE of their being bad. This movie was just ungodly painfully boring and a insult to any person with the slightest bit of intelligence. To say that this was NOT dumbed down when it was the most dumbed down movie in years is itself, dumb. I haven't seen a movie this dumb since Charlie's Angels. The problem here is that Charlie's Angels was supposed to be dumb and this wasn't. I never thought I would hate a movie more than I hated the remake of Thin Red Line, but I finally found one. People have told me, but it's a summer movie, just turn off your brain and enjoy it, don't think about it. Good God. I'd have to have a lobotomy not to notice the glaring plotholes in this movie.

 

Ironically, I saw the Freddy vs Jason trailer with it and on the big screen I thought the trailer looked awesome. Go figure. haha Hell, all the trailers before the movie was better than the actual movie.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

I personally liked A Walk To Remember better, but than that's just me ya know?

[Guest Urine Sane]

The fact that more than one person liked that movie makes me want to shoot myself. It was the first movie I ever actually walked out of the theater on. That thing is truly the worst movie I have ever seen. Usually bad movies at least have an appeal BECAUSE of their being bad. This movie was just ungodly painfully boring and a insult to any person with the slightest bit of intelligence. To say that this was NOT dumbed down when it was the most dumbed down movie in years is itself, dumb. I haven't seen a movie this dumb since Charlie's Angels. The problem here is that Charlie's Angels was supposed to be dumb and this wasn't. I never thought I would hate a movie more than I hated the remake of Thin Red Line, but I finally found one. People have told me, but it's a summer movie, just turn off your brain and enjoy it, don't think about it. Good God. I'd have to have a lobotomy not to notice the glaring plotholes in this movie.

 

What plot holes?

[Guest Polish_Rifle]

With blockbusters coming out all the time now, movie studios are looking to cash in big on the first week since another blockbuster is bound to come out the following week to rake in the big bucks. It makes sense to me. Roughly, the same people go to the movies, so why would they pay an inflated movie price to watch the same movie twice, when they can go see a new blockbuster flick.

[Guest Madmartigan21]

I don't know if it's technically a plothole, but there's definitely one inconsistency (of many) that bothers me.

 

Obvisously everything that is seen inside the Matrix is a program or a series of programs running in conjunction. This would include bullets from guns. At one point Neo just waves his hand and all the bullets fall to the ground and turn into marbles, I believe. The way things work inside the Matrix he must be changing the program of the bullets by using mere thought. If he can alter the program of the bullets, why does he ever need to fight? Why can't he just change the program of those attacking him? If he can alter one program, why not ANY program?

 

Here's another thing off the top of my head. If the machines are using human beings just for their body heat as a source of energy, why do they even need to supply the Matrix to the humans? Why not just lobotomize them all? People can live for years as vegetables.

 

Why even use human beings at all? Why not elephants, or dogs, or whatever, if all they need is body heat?

[Guest Flyboy]

I personally liked A Walk To Remember better, but than that's just me ya know?

What the hell are you talking about?

 

A Walk To Remember rocks the house. I own the DVD.

[Guest Nanks]

Lethargic, you should be immediately fired as the movie reviewer. If you genuinely walked out of the movie because you thought it was so terrible, you're either just immature or you felt bad because you couldn't understand. But either way, go on, point out some of these glaring plotholes.

 

On the one Madmartigan brought up

Spoiler (Highlight to Read):

The reason Neo doesn't do that is because he doesn't have a full grip on his powers, hence zooming in and bullet-timing when Neo bled blocking the sword shot in the staircase scene

That's not a plothole or an inconsistency, it's actually a pivotal part of the story.

[Guest Urine Sane]

Obvisously everything that is seen inside the Matrix is a program or a series of programs running in conjunction. This would include bullets from guns. At one point Neo just waves his hand and all the bullets fall to the ground and turn into marbles, I believe. The way things work inside the Matrix he must be changing the program of the bullets by using mere thought. If he can alter the program of the bullets, why does he ever need to fight? Why can't he just change the program of those attacking him? If he can alter one program, why not ANY program?

 

I have two possible answers.

 

1.) Neo hasn't reached his full potential as The One.

 

2.) Since the machines created the prophecy and "The One" they gave him his powers in the matrix and put limits on them, otherwise Neo could do anything, and that's bad for the machines.

 

 

 

Here's another thing off the top of my head. If the machines are using human beings just for their body heat as a source of energy, why do they even need to supply the Matrix to the humans? Why not just lobotomize them all? People can live for years as vegetables.

 

Why even use human beings at all? Why not elephants, or dogs, or whatever, if all they need is body heat?

 

Answer: BECAUSE IT'S A FUCKING MOVIE, also they do it as a way to get back at man for using and disposing of machines for so many years.

 

If this is all you've got then your previous post was garbage, and your just part of the masses that doesn't understand the story therefore says it sucks.

 

I didn't fully understand Donnie Darko, but I know it was a good movie, and surely didn't suck.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

I actually said that because I expected you to think I was mocking you, to which I'd say that I typed it with that intention but that I was fully telilng the truth, but I guess you're not skeptical enough. Even if it was sort of a cliched copy of that shitty movie, you know, the one about a Love Story, I still thoroughly enjoyed it. Maybe it was because it was a teenage love movie that didn't look like all the rest due to it's Christian theme, I don't know, but I still loved it regardless, and can watch it again and again. I really am a sensitive sixteen year old aren't I?

 

On a side note, it's ironic that my 666th post has to do with two Christian movies. I don't care what anyone says, all of my suspicians were confirmed when Neo brought Trinity back from the dead; he really *is* Jesus.

[Guest Flyboy]

I actually said that because I expected you to think I was mocking you, to which I'd say that I typed it with that intention but that I was fully telilng the truth, but I guess you're not skeptical enough.

 

Oh, so since I like A Walk To Remember, I don't know what a good movie is? Matrix Reloaded was not a good movie, and if you're mocking me and like the same movie as I do, then you doing a horrible job at it.

[Guest Retro Rob]

$33,000,000 is nothing to sneeze at.

[Guest godthedog]

Considering the cash it made opening weekend, nobody can call it a financial disappointment. Sorry, but it's done pretty damn well, like it or not. Reloaded will probably do very similar.

slow down there, tiger. it can't be considered a success until it recoups all the money that went into it. considering the god damn thing cost $127 million dollars just to MAKE, it's barely made back its production budget so far. and considering the market's been bombarded with matrix shit, i'd say at least another $200 million went into marketing. and it still doesn't include the cost of making all the 35mm prints (and IIRC, it costs around $60,000 to make one full-length print--not a lot in itself, but when you open in thousands upon thousands of theaters around the world, often on multiple screens in the same theater, it adds up).

 

i don't doubt that it WILL make all its money back & then some, when all is said and done, but can't really be called successful yet.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

I was typing it for real, than I expected you to think I was mocking you, and instead of changing the wording of my post, I left it as is just to gauge your reaction. Read through the post again, and if you still feel the need to bitch, than you're slower than your two previous posts suggest. Loser.