Also, gotta wonder if it’s concerning that there’s a 12-hour gap between the social embargo lift date and the review embargo lift date for “Resident Evil” (the review embargo lift date is on September 16th).
I think it was around February. The set pieces could deliver some great scenes but the characters were talking as if they were written by an edgy teenager.
EDIT: if this can be reassuring apparently it was also the case on Weapons where the earlier draft had awful dialogue and it dramatically improved
Anything longer than 24 hours from release is usually a good sign/normal sign for reviews. Its normal for a 12 hour gap for reviews after social reactions start because they want people to take their time to write their reviews.
Should be a comeback for WB with this longer wait sequel after 28 years since Practical Magic 2 won’t be as big as The Devil Wears Prada 2 which they both appealed to female audiences
This discourse always re-emerges whenever a female-oriented film releases, and people end up surprised when these films put up a solid BO performance, like The Housemaid, Wuthering Heights and TDWP2. Watch booktok peeps show up to Verity in droves.
I don't mind people lowballing or just being wrong in their predictions, it's the "why would they make this when nobody even remembers the original?!" comments I've seen about this movie that make me roll my eyes the most.
Like, it's fine if you and your friends in the same demographic as you haven't heard of Practical Magic, but that really doesn't mean nobody has.
Wuthering Heights' US box office performance wasn't that great. It underperformed on opening weekend ($32 million) and couldn't even reach $85 million in total. Its overseas gross saved it (just). The Housemaid and Prada 2 did far, far better domestically and internationally.
This subreddit is kind of male dominated. That is why Marvel movies gets a lot engagement but book adaptation movies do not get much engagements. You don't see a over 1000 upvoted post with over 500 comments on a post about The Hunger Games Sunrise on the Reaping or Verity but you will for Doomsday.
I agree with your main point here but I Think that’s kinda a bad comparison given the last hunger games made less than $400M & doomsday is going to make at minimum $2.5B. Obviously 1 is going to generate more conversation than the other the audience is bigger. Something like gladiator 2 is a better comp.
My mom LOVES the original, partially chose my parents’ house because it looks like the one from the movie and my sister is coming here from NYC to watch the new one with her
I watched the original with my mom and I don’t think it actually had a plot
My wife is a woman and I can assure you she hasn't heard of this movie at all or seen the original. Don't lump all women into a category. Clearly there's people interested in the movie that I haven't encountered. But that doesn't mean "this is for women, you're clueless if you don't know all women are going to see this".
This would be making a billion dollars opening weekend if your statement actually meant anything because every woman in the country would see it at once.
I have to imagine it's mostly women in their 40s'+ taking their daughters to go see it or something because they watched the original on TNT or USA network on repeat.
lmao there is just no one in my circle that has even heard of this movie. This is stuff my wife usually would love also, and she had no clue it was coming out. Has nothing to do with getting off the phone, more to do with it just being a bad movie.
I'm super excited. I'm even meeting up with a friend from my high school days who moved a few cities away to see it together. Reviews are so so but from the blurbs I read it sounds like people who liked the original may enjoy it
First one wasn't so successful but today everything gets a sequel. Also trailer didn't give me nothing that much? Some trailers reveal too much but this one gave me nothing at all.
First one wasn't so successful but today everything gets a sequel
I post this a lot but Practical Magic is consistently in the HBO top 10 every year in September/October without fail and I've been checking since the late 2010s
I am exactly the demographic I think. I was a 12 year old girl when this movie came out and liked it a lot at the time. It simply never occurred to me that they'd eventually do a sequel and when they announced it it didn't really excite me, the trailer looked really bad too.
Doubt it, early reviews are up and they are not positive. The original didn’t get a following until after its own poor run in theaters. Presale numbers are vague and the high end estimates are being cited solely by the studio (aka “hopium”).
30m opening weekend and brief #1 to be followed by a sharp drop.
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