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RSoxNo1

RSoxNo1

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GiveMeTheMusic said:
Can't wait to hear. While we're waiting, anyone want to comment on the newest extension of the Disney PrincessTM(R)(C)SM brand?

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I wish to God this was fake. This fall, DCP is launching Disney Princess Palace Pets. Top row L - R: Ariel's kitty Treasure, Rapunzel's pony Blondie, Snow's bunny Berry. Bottom row L - R: Cinderella's puppy Pumpkin, Belle's puppy Teacup and Aurora's kitty Beauty. Not pictured is Mulan's panda, Blossom.

I can't even.
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RSoxNo1

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Disneyhead'71 said:
I didn't care for the last 2 POTC films. Why would I pay money for an obvious repackaging of a franchise I am already sick of? I don't HATE the movie. I haven't seen it. Probably WON'T see it unless I catch it on cable. But I feel like I have seen it 4 times already with varying degrees of enjoyment.

Is it my imagination or did Universal, with DM2 top both of Disney's summer efforts?
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Here's the thing, you've already decided that The Lone Ranger is a repackaging of Pirates of the Caribbean and you haven't seen the movie. Yes, there are obvious parallels with the people involved but they're not the same movie any more than Star Wars. vs. Indiana Jones.
 
Disneyhead'71

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RSoxNo1 said:
Here's the thing, you've already decided that The Lone Ranger is a repackaging of Pirates of the Caribbean and you haven't seen the movie. Yes, there are obvious parallels with the people involved but they're not the same movie any more than Star Wars. vs. Indiana Jones.
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Then Disney's crack marketing team should have done a better job of explaining to me that it isn't POTC:Jack Goes West. Actually, Disney did everything in their power to convince me that it IS POTC:Jack Goes West.
 
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khale1970

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WDW1974 said:
And my theater (about 70% full) all seemed to enjoy the film quite a bit with laughing and cheering.
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Saw LR with my family today in a theater that was also approximately 70% full. It was showing on two screens, and when I accidentally went into the wrong one at first I noted it was around 70% full as well. Everyone in my family liked the movie, including my teenage daughter. My 7 year old son loved it. I don't think he would have gotten the heart eating scene at all if it hadn't been referenced later as it was so ungraphic (is that a word?). There was plenty of laughter, cheers, and applause from the audience at my viewing as well.

Prefacing this with an acknowledgement that personal observations mean little, I have to wonder, with the bad reviews and dismal box office so far, how showings have crowds in the 70% of capacity range on a Sunday afternoon? And if this is the case in other locations, how are the numbers as bad as they are? I don't doubt the numbers, but is it possible this is something like National Treasure? If memory serves, that got horrible reviews and started kind of slow, but then word of mouth caused it to take off a bit and stick around long enough to make good money at the box office.
 
Irie

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khale1970 said:
Saw LR with my family today in a theater that was also approximately 70% full. It was showing on two screens, and when I accidentally went into the wrong one at first I noted it was around 70% full as well. Everyone in my family liked the movie, including my teenage daughter. My 7 year old son loved it. I don't think he would have gotten the heart eating scene at all if it hadn't been referenced later as it was so ungraphic (is that a word?). There was plenty of laughter, cheers, and applause from the audience at my viewing as well.

Prefacing this with an acknowledgement that personal observations mean little, I have to wonder, with the bad reviews and dismal box office so far, how showings have crowds in the 70% of capacity range on a Sunday afternoon? And if this is the case in other locations, how are the numbers as bad as they are? I don't doubt the numbers, but is it possible this is something like National Treasure? If memory serves, that got horrible reviews and started kind of slow, but then word of mouth caused it to take off a bit and stick around long enough to make good money at the box office.
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My theatre was about that full also. This took at place at 9:30 am on the 4th. I'm not seeing how the numbers can be that bad.
 
RSoxNo1

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Disneyhead'71 said:
Then Disney's crack marketing team should have done a better job of explaining to me that it isn't POTC:Jack Goes West. Actually, Disney did everything in their power to convince me that it IS POTC:Jack Goes West.
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That's a fair point, but it's also pointing to what some on here are already saying, they didn't do the best job marketing this. I know for me personally, I thought John Carter could have been marketed with at least a reference to the academy award winning director. Sure, it probably wouldn't have made much sense to say "Academy Award winning director of Finding Nemo," as the audience parallels wouldn't have been there.

If I was marketing this movie I probably would have also played up the triumvirate from Pirates, it's the logical choice. But I also would have played up the comedy in one trailer and the action in another.

Unlike @WDW1974, I did think there were similarities between the Tonto and Jack Sparrow characters, but I don't think it's in the way many people expected. For me, it was in the resourcefulness of each character in the action sequences. I could certainly see Jack Sparrow doing many of the same things in these sequences as Tonto. However, the dialog of Tonto was very different than Sparrow's dialog.
 
novawildcat18

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It seems as if Lone Ranger is a movie that no one is really in a rush to see, especially since there are so many other good movies out at the same time. I know I've pushed it off a couple of days, but I'll be seeing it sometime this week. The most disheartening thing for me was trying to invite friends to come see it with me (male and female 18-20 year olds) and only one person wanted to see it. One of my friends even said "I would go with you but that movie looks absolutely terrible". So unfortunately, some people have such a negative impression of it.
 
Cody5242

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One thing I hate about critics is that any movie that goes past 2 hours is considered a bloated runtime. Nothing needed to be cut from the Lone Ranger
 
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khale1970

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Irie said:
My theatre was about that full also. This took at place at 9:30 am on the 4th. I'm not seeing how the numbers can be that bad.
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It clearly isn't that way everywhere or at every showing or the numbers would have to be better. Not having a 3-D version would make some difference in the box office, but it doesn't fully explain the numbers. Maybe the LR is performing better in some places in the US than others?
 
GoofGoof

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Disneyhead'71 said:
Because I'm an editor. It's what we do.

But it was mostly a tongue in cheek comment. But your point is well founded. But I haven't seen many product in my lifetime that couldn't be tightened up considerably.
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You guys are worse than surgeons, all you want to do is cut, cut, cut...
 
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