kongisking said:
If this movie had a princess in it, and became a hit...I wonder if Raveners would lament the loss of good ol' classic manliness in entertainment?
Just noting an annoying double standard.
[Laughingly] Dude, I will start lamenting right now without even having seen the film and without it having a Princess. I watched the last BH6 trailer with my kids a couple of days ago, and I get the story. And while I respect Le Sab's confidence about the film's prospects, I can't share it.
Less Bruckheimer (and even his stuff has gone bad), Disney has a spotty track record on male targeted films -- I'm thinking
Treasure Planet and
Atlantis -- and the
Cars franchise has always been repugnant to me. I would say there's a decent chance Disney again misses the mark with this film and it's squeezy robot angle because young boys will reject it because it's either a little creepy or lacking (I don't know to say this) an edge.
I've got an easy going nine year old boy who likes best to whale on things in Minecraft -- and he's not interested in BH6. But anything coming out of my household is likely bad data (we spent Saturday night watching the President's U.N. speach, which we couldn't watch earlier due to tests, soccer and music lessons), so let's take a step back and look at how the competition will impact BHG: I note that BH6 has less than two weeks in early November until Katniss and her crew come out swinging and bombing everything in sight with what looks like a bona fide big budget war flick. That film is going to vacu-suck up every last PG-13 filmgoer with an ounce of Testostrone on the planet for several weeks. Anyone afraid of explosions will take their kids to the cute (safe but entertaining)
Penguins of Madacasgar. So what am I saying? BH6 will be the choice that will only have lukewarm support in family debates about what film to see over the Turkey holiday -- in other words BH6 has pressure on both sides and if BH6 ain't raking it in over Thanksgiving, it isn't going to do bofo box office.
I also think there is risk to BH6 on possible holdover action from October. I think
Dracula Untold went with the PG-13 rating. If so and
if the film is good, than that film is going to deprive BH6 of critical tween and teen revenue (now obviously, Dracula won't be a holdover threat if it sucks but I know my kids want to see it). Also, every guy that I've talked movies with over the past three-to-four months that has an ounce of Testostrone has
Fury carved into their calendar with Lt. Aldo Raine's Bowie knife. Clearly,
Fury is not direct competition but there are a helluva lot of military families in this country that will don't do first fun films but will spend to see
Fury on date night and than wait to take the kids to a film over Thanksgiving (which takes us to the dilemma presented above). Similary, I think that Alexander very whatever horrible day film, if it is good, could hurt BH6 among some families that don't go to the movies every month.