Geostorm

Harry Palmr

Another entry in Hollywood's banner year of utter sh'it.

gmisk

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Another entry in Hollywood's banner year of utter sh'it.

There has definitely been some rubbish but also some terrific stuff for me, I loved Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049, Logan, Spiderman, Baby Driver, IT, War for the planet of the apes, wind river, detroit....hmmm actually bar that I am struggling....you might be right....

There have been some brilliant non hollywood ones this year for me, gods own country, the handmaiden, certain women, Elle and the red turtle really stand out.

constitutionus

utter trash.

i loved every minute of it.



weirdly though the soundtrack sounded like it was nicked off "transformers: revenge of the fallen" .

SimonTemplar

constitutionus wrote: »

utter trash.

i loved every minute of it.



weirdly though the soundtrack sounded like it was nicked off "transformers: revenge of the fallen" .

Not weird at all. Lorne Balfe composed Geostorm and Steve Jablonsky did Transformers. Both are members of a film composing company called Remote Control which was founded by Hans Zimmer.

Zimmer mentors these composers and they often ghost write some cues on Zimmer's scores. As a result, a lot of music from Remote Control composers tend to sound similar.

Welp. It lost $60m - and that's including domestic & foreign box office.

Only made $14,760,020 domestically on a $120 million budget.

Yarp.

Agent Coulson

It's now being predicted that it will lose close to $100m.



They started filming it in 2014 and it was to be released in March 2016 then October 2016 then January this year before finally getting its release this month so it seems they knew it would be a box office disaster movie

Agent Coulson

Agent Coulson wrote: »

It's now being predicted that it will lose close to $100m.



They started filming it in 2014 and it was to be released in March 2016 then October 2016 then January this year before finally getting its release this month so it seems they knew it would be a box office disaster movie

SimonTemplar

SimonTemplar wrote: »

Not weird at all. Lorne Balfe composed Geostorm and Steve Jablonsky did Transformers. Both are members of a film composing company called Remote Control which was founded by Hans Zimmer.

Zimmer mentors these composers and they often ghost write some cues on Zimmer's scores. As a result, a lot of music from Remote Control composers tend to sound similar.

Very interesting,
Thanks

pinkypinky

It was terrible. I loved it.

Only flaw: no recognisable American buildings were destroyed. I do like it when the Statue of Liberty is on its side in the bay.

ohnonotgmail

pinkypinky wrote: »

It was terrible. I loved it.

Only flaw: no recognisable American buildings were destroyed. I do like it when the Statue of Liberty is on its side in the bay.

i think it is commendable that they didnt resort to cliche.

constitutionus

yeah. if they kept hitting the same landmarks they'd get flak for it.

cant help thinking too that the countries hit may appeal more to the chinese crowd , so there could be an eye to targeting that market as well.

Hande hoche!

Entertaining watch, benefited from the big screen. Lots of actors you would recognise. Will do till the next blank has fallen is released. As an aside,

I could watch Robert Sheehan get murdered a dozen times and still enjoy it.

judeboy101

Disappointed tbh, not enough butler and he wasn't angry enough. Bring on 'Angel has fallen'.

Harry Palmr

Deleted User wrote: »

Welp. It lost $60m - and that's including domestic & foreign box office.

Only made $14,760,020 domestically on a $120 million budget.

Yarp.

Prompted by this I've just been looking through the averages since 1982. If Hollywoods stupid blockbusters didn't do such good business overseas every studio would be bankrupted by now due to too many films making too little money.

While there is variation year by year (and certainly quarter by quarter) the overall return by film is going down down down when adjusted for ticket inflation. In 1983 it was about 40m dollars per film in 2017 terms, in 2017 the average so far is about 14m dollars per film. The average second weekend drop was 22% now its 50%, the number of films on release was just under 163 so far in 2017 it's 604.

Peak adjusted box office was hit in 2002 with $14 billion turnover in North America, it's been on the slide since then with minor rises now and again and will be about $11 billion in 2017.

More interesting than that is the death of the limited release - they used to be quite big business for the studios - usually a Woody Allen comedy or British drama or comedy that would make 40-50m dollars (adjusted) with just a few hundred copies in circulation. Now the equivalents like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel goes out on 1200 screens for it's opening weekend with the attendant costs of a national release.

silverharp

im surprised it got the go ahead. there was no way it was going to catch the public's attention so unless they can get the cost of these movies down by half then they should keep their powder dry

gmisk

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

i think it is commendable that they didnt resort to cliche.

I think it resorted to cliche constantly....it was utter clichéd predictable rubbish...I enjoyed it

gmisk

constitutionus wrote: »

yeah. if they kept hitting the same landmarks they'd get flak for it.

cant help thinking too that the countries hit may appeal more to the chinese crowd , so there could be an eye to targeting that market as well.

It seems to have worked opened to 33 million dollars in China!

ohnonotgmail

gmisk wrote: »

I think it resorted to cliche constantly....it was utter clichéd predictable rubbish...I enjoyed it

my post was somewhat sarcastic

i'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Robert Sheehan's terrible british accent.

gmisk

gmisk wrote: »

It seems to have worked opened to 33 million dollars in China!

Given China's population, is that not a really poor take? I mean, the most recent Terminator turd took in $113,270,000.

run_Forrest_run

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

i'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Robert Sheehan's terrible british accent.

+1 His accent was so bad it woke me up during the film, awful piece of shíte.