Batman fails to Begin
Box Office Report is saying that estimated 5 day total for the B-man is $71.1 million. Let me the first to say how incredibly dissapointing that is. Sure the last Bat-movies were stinkers, but it's been 8 years, and all the reviews have been great. This should have been bigger. Presumably word of mouth will keep next week strong, and I'm sure it will make enough to merit a sequel (if Tomb Raider got one...), but still, I bet the folks at Warners are not happy right now.
Poor Batman.
Poor Batman.
4 Comments:
I swear, the shitty print campaign (poop brown Bat logo, poop brown lighting) is a big reason why people were turned off.
Still, it's the best first five days the Batman films have ever had, so I think there's still hope. And you're right, word of mouth will be improtant for this one.
As I understand it, $71 million is less than three-quarters of the budget of the godawful marketing campaign alone. What were these people thinking?
Toby
I'm wondering if this word of mouth thing is going to help or not. Personally I thought it, while possibly the 'best' Batman in a respectability sense, it may have been the least enjoyable personally. It was so self-serious that you weren't allowed to laugh at the inherent camp of a man in a bat outfit and the awful dialogue ('my anger outweights my fear...' my kingdom for a concrete noun, seriously). Admittedly I saw it really late, drunk and fell asleep during part of it, but what kind of blockbuster action movie demands SOBRIETY for tolerability?
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