The Iceberg Lounge aka GeneralZodLives's Phantom Zone

[Darth Snoopy]

 

[Project_A]

I survived SS. It was fun, not bad either. Harley was great!

I was expecting more?


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[crows]

I have been fantasizing all week about sleeping 12 hours tonight.



WW looks like it can be at the very least be decent.



I wasn't keen on her, but after watching a bulk of BvS clips on Youtube, I've turned the corner. There's just something about her.

First flight is perfectly done. All the sonic booms really sell it. I think he looks the part, but Snyder doesn't get Superman at all.

Gal gadot definitely won me over. I love her now

 

[GeneralZodLives]

I survived SS. It was fun, not bad either. Harley was great!

I was expecting more?


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That's how I felt. I left the theater with a "was that it?" feeling.

 

[Plastic Bateman]

He said they're not making WB money. Which is complete BS for a number of the ones mentioned, including every recent DC-based movie. Some of the non-DC movies did abysmal box office, but every studio has clunkers.

Hollywood money is a strange thing. BvS cost $250 million to produce, that's the figure we know. What isn't made a public concern are things like the entirely-separate marketing budget - a big blockbuster event movie like BvS usually costs an additional $100-150 million to market, some industry pundits claimed WB spent as much as $250 million aggressively marketing that particular movie. So now we're talking up to $500 million+ in outlay.

Then you have to consider the gross earnings vs net reality. Once the cut that goes to cinemas, international distributors, etc is taken into account the studio supposedly sees about 50-60% of the gross.

BvS, according to Box Office Mojo, took $872,662,631 worldwide, all said and done. Divided by two, that's $436,331,316. Depending on how much they actually spent on marketing, they either made a small profit or a small loss. Their goal would have been to exceed the outlay of making the film by enough to fund another couple of movies, with a little profit to spare (i.e. a gross similar to The Avengers, $1,519,557,910).

Of course there are other factors, like how much money they were able to offset through product placement and merchandising, but however you cut it up BvS underperformed vs their expectations.

 

[crows]

Hollywood money is a strange thing. BvS cost $250 million to produce, that's the figure we know. What isn't made a public concern are things like the entirely-separate marketing budget - a big blockbuster event movie like BvS usually costs an additional $100-150 million to market, some industry pundits claimed WB spent as much as $250 million aggressively marketing that particular movie. So now we're talking up to $500 million+ in outlay.

Then you have to consider the gross earnings vs net reality. Once the cut that goes to cinemas, international distributors, etc is taken into account the studio supposedly sees about 50-60% of the gross.

BvS, according to Box Office Mojo, took $872,662,631 worldwide, all said and done. Divided by two, that's $436,331,316. Depending on how much they actually spent on marketing, they either made a small profit or a small loss. Their goal would have been to exceed the outlay of making the film by enough to fund another couple of movies, with a little profit to spare (i.e. a gross similar to The Avengers, $1,519,557,910).

Of course there are other factors, like how much money they were able to offset through product placement and merchandising, but however you cut it up BvS underperformed vs their expectations.

I think they broke even with bvs

 

[GeneralZodLives]

One thing that hurt BvS was the long run time. They could have condensed the story and that would have added more show times. I know people that liked it but didn't see it again in the theater because not only was it a long movie but it felt long.

 

[crows]

Technically, as far as vs movies goes

Freddy vs jason was a better made movie than batman v superman

 

[DasMuse]

One thing that hurt BvS was the long run time. They could have condensed the story and that would have added more show times. I know people that liked it but didn't see it again in the theater because not only was it a long movie but it felt long.

The theatrical cut was the cut down version, if they cut anymore of it out it would have been a disaster.

 

[crows]

The theatrical cut was the cut down version, if they cut anymore of it out it would have been a disaster.

Hello

 

[GeneralZodLives]

The theatrical cut was the cut down version, if they cut anymore of it out it would have been a disaster.

I thought it was a disaster regardless of the cut. I meant that they shouldn't have shoehorned so much into the film story wise. At the very least the death of Superman story deserves its own film and not be a tacked on 20 minute rush job.

 

[Jameson Rook]

If we're still on topic of BvS, here's an article of what the real Batman thought about Batfleck murdering people:

https://www.polygon.com/2016/8/12/12458678/batman-killing-joke-kevin-conroy-justice-league

 

[crows]

 

[morphosis]

An alledged former employee who is anonymous? Yeah that's creditable.

Yup, thats how I feel. it came off to me more like a disgruntled fan than anything. they do not even say what part of WB they worked for (if its true). I mean it could be anything. They may have been laid off for all sorts of reasons, but they dont give any further details. Plus They trashed tons of previous WB movies, but then said they expected to love SSquad? that doesn't make sense? If they hated all previous movies why was their expectations so high?

Then they say they found out the WW is a mess yet they heard nothing about SSquad until they saw it?

plus it originally comes from a obscure gossip entertainment website. thats what it was posted on. Now all these sites are picking it up. There isn't a lot of investigative journalism going on here, people just post things like this without even checking out the source to see how credible it is. happens all the time and most of the time these things just aren't even true.

i need way more proof this person really worked for WB, but i highly doubt they will provide anything further. hiding behind a fake name on the internet but calling out others by their name is pretty low. Just because you didnt like a movie.

 

[morphosis]

Patty Jenkins responded. Good!!!! she is basically saying its fake too.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/wond...ponds-to-negative-wonder-woman-rumors-a144523

 

[greygoose]

Besides, isn't everything on the internet true?

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

The theatrical cut was the cut down version, if they cut anymore of it out it would have been a disaster.

It still was

 

[Captain Clown]

Patty Jenkins responded. Good!!!! she is basically saying its fake too.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/wond...ponds-to-negative-wonder-woman-rumors-a144523

Even if it was/is true, what is she supposed to do? Agree that her movie is a mess?
I'm still hoping this movie is good. I have low hopes just like I did for Suicide Squad, and I ended up loving that.

 

[greygoose]

Even if it was/is true, what is she supposed to do? Agree that her movie is a mess?
I'm still hoping this movie is good. I have low hopes just like I did for Suicide Squad, and I ended up loving that.

It's DC's time to shine!

 

[Jameson Rook]

#makeDCgreatagain