X-Men 3: News and info thread

**Bacon McShig** · 31 May 2006, 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by Sega saturn x

I know I'd see it again, not like there's anything else up.

This is the biggest cause of X3's success. The only other big movie out is DaVinci Code and that's not nearly the action-laden shut-your-brain-off experience that most people are looking for on Memorial Day weekend.

**TobalRox** · 31 May 2006, 12:19 AM

Originally Posted by Thief~Silver

I like how tobal says they don't have taste, in order to know if the movie is good or not, they have to see it.

I am sure the number of people who went to see it again was a lot different than X1 or X2

What I'm getting at is that word of mouth is a powerful way for people to go see movies... when I go see this movie and then tell everyone how much I disliked it, they all stay away... when someone says that it's good, more people may go see it... and some people see it multiple times. So that means that this movie had more people seeing it again and again, and more people with positive word of mouth than the last one.

Originally Posted by Dolemite

Yeah. Hell, Tobal himself would have to have seen it to not like it and say the people who saw it have no taste. Not make sense? You betcha.

While you have some good logic, look at my previous part about why I feel it shows lack of taste.

Originally Posted by Fighter-X

This movie was riding X2's fame.

I guess that's a good point, but what I find interesting is that it did BETTER, and that usually doesn't happen with sequels... maybe enough people caught it on DVD afterwards that it built up even more of a following... or watched FX in the last 6 months

**Cheebs** · 31 May 2006, 09:58 AM

The movie flat-out rocked. They could have cut out 30 min of slow stuff from the middle but no biggie. Wall-to-wall awesome. Anybody who says anything else is wrong.

**Dolemite** · 31 May 2006, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by TobalRox

What I'm getting at is that word of mouth is a powerful way for people to go see movies... when I go see this movie and then tell everyone how much I disliked it, they all stay away... when someone says that it's good, more people may go see it... and some people see it multiple times. So that means that this movie had more people seeing it again and again, and more people with positive word of mouth than the last one.

While you have some good logic, look at my previous part about why I feel it shows lack of taste.

Yeah, but word of mouth usually doesn't affect the business a movie does on its opening weekend. There's no time for the word to get around (besides, just as many people seem like X3 as dislike it), in addition to the fact that a lot of people liked X2 and were excited about a sequel.

The real test will be how X3 does next weekend.

**elfneedsfood** · 31 May 2006, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by boxofficemojo

The first two X-Men movies were far from paradigms of theatrical longevity, grossing 35 percent and 40 percent, respectively, of their final grosses in their first weekends.

I'm sure there will be a huge drop for X3, but there was for the first movies too, so this is nothing new.

**Jetman** · 31 May 2006, 11:43 AM

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**TobalRox** · 31 May 2006, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by Dolemite

Yeah, but word of mouth usually doesn't affect the business a movie does on its opening weekend. There's no time for the word to get around (besides, just as many people seem like X3 as dislike it), in addition to the fact that a lot of people liked X2 and were excited about a sequel.

The real test will be how X3 does next weekend.

While somewhat true, it's a long holiday weekend, so there's some time. As I mentioned, I talked to multiple people at a party and got LOTS of people to not go see it, and I'm sure I'm not an issolated incident. You are right though, the real test is next weekend. The problem is that there isn't any competition opening up this week.

"I'm the Juggernaut, bitch" also really killed it for me.

**Rem** · 31 May 2006, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by TobalRox

"I'm the Juggernaut, bitch" also really killed it for me.

Come on when a line is THAT bad how can you not just laugh?

**Dolemite** · 31 May 2006, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by TobalRox

While somewhat true, it's a long holiday weekend, so there's some time. As I mentioned, I talked to multiple people at a party and got LOTS of people to not go see it, and I'm sure I'm not an issolated incident. You are right though, the real test is next weekend. The problem is that there isn't any competition opening up this week.

I'm a big X-Men fan, have been for years. And while I didn't like some of the storyline decisions in X3, overall I thought it was a solid movie and would like the series to continue. An opening weekend that huge basically guarantees a sequel, so I'm happy.

Originally Posted by Sega saturn x

Come on when a line is THAT bad how can you not just laugh?

I did.