This was #3 at the Box Office last weekend?!

[rushmore223]

I consider myself to be pretty knowledgable when it comes to films, but where the hell did this come from and why was it #3 at the box office?

Never heard of it til 5 minutes ago.

 

[Buttmunch]

They advertised it fairly well, but the movie is absolute garbage. Worse film of the year by far already. My sister-in-law wanted to see it because she loves all things Hercules, and even she hated it. It probably won't even be in the top 10 next week.

Waiting to see how the version with the Rock turns out now.

 

[JonWes]

It's been advertised and promoted for a while. I didn't see a ton of TV ads though. I think they kind of knew they had a stinker. They withheld it from early critic screenings, too.

 

[Buttmunch]

It's been advertised and promoted for a while. I didn't see a ton of TV ads though. I think they kind of knew they had a stinker. They withheld it from early critic screenings, too.

Definitely. And I think they wanted to get it out ASAP before more people find out a version with the Rock is coming out later this year. I mean the Twitard that played Hercules was buff and all, but anyone looks like a smurf when stacked up against the Rock. The Rock is an absolute beast right now. I mean he's almost at Mr. Olympia levels right now (no pun intended )!

So with a version with the living Hulk coming out later, I think they knew they had the weaker film and needed to cash in before it became impossible. Funny how it worked out the other way around with the White House Down/Olympus Has Fallen last year - the first film did better than the second.

 

[Niltusk]

I consider myself to be pretty knowledgable when it comes to films, but where the hell did this come from and why was it #3 at the box office?

Never heard of it til 5 minutes ago.

If polled at the ticket counter, with the question, "Are you a huge twilight fan?" I am sure alot of the answers would be yes.

 

[crows]

yeah I am hearing that it is one of the worst movies ever lol

 

[fosing]

Hot Toys figure of the year here. pure gold.

 

[Niltusk]

Yikes, 8 mil opening for a 70 mil movie and apparently those that went to see it are puking after leaving the theatre.

It may be #3, but thats not great when you're that far behind the top dogs.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

The version with the Rock is coming soon. That will make this one be as irrelevant as it deserves to be.

 

[K07]

Why bother making Hercules movies? Kevin Sorbo's Legendary Journeys are all that matter

 

[karamazov80]

When the Rock dreams, he imagines himself as Kevin Sorbo.

 

[The Josh]

I had no interest in seeing this. I'll go check out the version with The Rock as I'm sure it will be the better of the two and it sounds like it is without ever being seen by anyone.

 

[Natrix]

I don't know why anyone would have wanted to go see this in a theater. The commercials made it look like it was one of those ****ty SyFy original Saturday night movie at best.

 

[thenammagazine]

"The EPIC untold story of Hercules..." that apparently should've remained so.

 

[EVILFACE]

A movie staring a nobody from Twilight?

Wait, looking at IMDB this has Spartacus in it!

But, No Rock No Care.

 

[Batty]

It looks like they ripped off every visual idea from 300 that they could... but so have a dozen other movie.

 

[Niltusk]

The fact that this is a Renny Harlin movie banking on a twilight star was enough to make it an instapass...the fact that tween girls going to see it are even saying its crap just reinforces this, otoh...

July's Hercules release...

Big budget.... check
The Rock as Steroiducles...check
Adapted from a Graphic Novel.... check
Brett Ratner - Director...WTF?

 

[karamazov80]

To me, the Ratt is about on par with Zack Snyder. Give him decent enough source material, and an appropriate budget, and he'll put out something serviceable. He's no great filmmaker or anything, but based on the films I've seen him direct, I think the major problem was mediocre scripts. He didn't write X3. I thought Red Dragon was quite good.

 

[Centurion]

The reason this movie is at #3 at the box office this past weekend is simple... there are only two movies worth watching right now. #1 Lone Survivor. #2 Frozen. The other movies competing have already been released so interest is slowly dwindling down for those.

This was the opening weekend for Legend of Hercules. Now that word is out, I expect it to fall significantly within the following weeks.

That said, the big winner is:

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Gross= $413,775,859 in 8 weeks. Budget= ~$130M.

Runner up:

Frozen. Gross= $317,319,106 in 8 weeks. Budget= ~$150M.

Ouch!:

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Gross= $242,226,788 in 5 weeks. Budget= ~$225M.

 

[Niltusk]

Rattner has like 20 movies under his belt, glad you could find something you liked.