Does Watchmen Have Bad B.O?

i thought watchmen would do much better
but my guess it the bad reviews are making people not want to go see it
maybe if Snyder stuck to the book story 100% it would be much better

that sucks to hear! I liked it a lot!

Watchmen will be a slow burner i think...dont for get its not something the mainstream is familiar with like batman or superman,The film is of a high quality and that will be the reasons for my comment aswell...
on a side note the film was exscellent but i really though the soundtrack was inappropriate at times..thats not to say they were not good tunes, but i felt they didnt fit the tone of the film at points

well think of it this way the best movie on the list was Watchmen and on top of that it was a Rated R movie so of course people under 18 that wanted to see it most likely were able to get in. wait till the DVD comes out and watch the money flow. it's gonna sell faster than the dark knight.

Felix and the article are right on with that. I'd be surprised if this made it's money back at the theatre at all.

This movie was made (from a financial standpoint) because the producers knew that between merchandise, and the 15 DVD incarnations this thing will spawn, the money will be made back eventually. If it breaks 100 million in the first three weeks, I think the producers would call it a resounding success. This was made to be a long lasting moneymaker. Just look at the book. It still sells a ton of copies every year. People who like the book, ten years from now, will check out the DVD if they haven't seen it. Which s what would happen with Sandman, if that ever got it's debut on the big screen. The longevity of the book = longevity for the movie, if it was a well made piece.

And like you guys have said - It's not like we're wanting another movie made. So there isn't what's at stake in other franchise comic films.

No one wanted a Ghost World 2, so no one cared if it made money. It was good, and we can enjoy it for as long as we have a couch and a dvd player. Selah.

"it's not particularly "crowd-pleasing," and rather inaccessible to the uninitiated."

I would agree with this statement most of all. If you weren't familiar at all with the book, (blasphemy I know), then I personally think it was hard for some people to follow or hard for them to be sucked in more or less.

I enjoyed the film, but was highly disappointed in many many things.... Adrien Veidt(sp) being the biggest. The guy [frick]ing sucked and they couldn't have picked a worse actor. F'n pencil neck. He's suppose to be peak physical condition, ultimate mind body spirit, all the bs and they pick a guy who looks like a 4th grader could kick his ass. Mind you they did have all the incredibly choreographed ninja move fight scenes that were all pretty much gay....to try and make him look invulnerable, but I hated him. Some of the music queues were a little cheesy, some of the scenes were a little cheesy. Just wish the director would have went more vintage w such an important piece of film. Gay gay gay

when i went to see it opening night it was packed! We got there an hour early and there was a group of people waiting to get in. I think another reason is because of the content, i saw a couple of people get up and leave after the second sex scene started up. All the violence, sex, and language will offend some of the non familiar viewers...atleast where i'm from.

Might be because the shit cinemas have hardly screened it! The ones in Derby have like 4 showings a day, only one screen. It isn't even on the big fancy Directors Hall. Pfft.

@ TheAnswer

"When I went to see it on the day it came out the cinema was only about a third full but it was never made to be the bigget moneymaker i'm just glad it acctully came out and i got to see it on the big screen.

Also Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience?!, It sounds like its a horror or at least that's what i think it would be like for me."

If Watchmen wasn't made to be a big money maker, why were they killing us with ads every commerical break?

This is excatlly what I said would happen. I predicted 40 million open, Ill admit I underestimated. But, it looks like the bad word of mouth is killing this film. It has to be looked at as a failure, because of the money put into it to be made and promoted (over 400 million). And the fact that it could not make more then the Sex and the City movie. LOL! Too much advertising killed this film. I really wanted to see it when I saw the first trailor at TDK. But now, after all the ads Ive seen, I feel like Ive seen all the good stuff, and could really care less.

The Jonas movie was not made for you or me. It was made for all the teenie girls out there. Im sure they did not spend to much to make that piece of shit, so it doesnt have to make all that much. Shit, it looks like they shot it at their concerts, so that keeps the cost of the film down. Ill say 10 million, tops is what they spent making that. So if they can pull in 30 million at the B.O. they will be jumping up and down.

@ grif

" i am sure it will make its money back and more. besides even if it tanks who cares?"

AH, WARNER BROTHERS WILL CARE! Warner Brothers isnt in the the movie business to lose money. Im sure WB would like to make their 400 million back, after prints (3611 theaters & 7500 screens, just in the US, at approx. 30k per screen thats just over 225 million dollars, acctually when you count the international prints and IMAX it gets even higher), ads (tons of primetime ads and the Superbowl arent cheap), and the Ani movie. Lets not forget the legal battle, that was not cheap either. All that has to be made back at the B.O. So, if this movie makes less then 500 million, in the US, its a huge finacial failure, for Warner Brothers and Snyder. Now that I look at the money spent, its gonna be tough for this movie to really MAKE money.

I hope Wolvie, GI Joe and ROTF are taking notes. Please, be easy with the advertising. Dont kill us with ads. Dont give us all the good stuff months before the film acctually hit the theaters.

Sirprize I didnt know your from Oklahoma? I am too!.. :)
Well alot of people dont know what they were wathcing on March 6th, they thought(who dont know who the watchmen are)they were watching a action movie like Ironman, Hulk, X-Men, Dark Knight...some people dont research what they are watching..

Do we factor the state of the economy in all this?

@ SirPrize

"Here's a point.

The Watchemen was almost 3 hours long"

Another point.

Titanic was 3 hours and 14 freaking minutes long. And, it was able to make 1.8 BILLION dollars worldwide. Time does not matter. CONTENT DOES!!

I must say, to this day, I have not seen that movie from start to finish. Seen bits and pieces, but not the whole thing.

Again, CONTENT!

@Pierce_Highmen, actually no...the ads did not truly show or tell what the watchmen was....the most it said was, "you've never seen superheroes like this before!" now, if I was a commonfolk, I'd see that and go, oh cool, another superhero movie with some cool hoopla. The commonfolk would not think, oh my god, here's the movie about the graphic novel of graphic novels! the groundbreaking story that changed the industry!

Guys you are never going to able to tell who will or wont like this movie..its a crowd splitting beast! With 10 heads! And Mailn Akermans ass! I went to see it again with 3 friends, one of whom read the comic and thought it was ok, the other two usually hate any kind of superhero or fantasy movie and they both loved it. I think some people just cant get over things like Dr Ms cock and the nudity and overall strangeness of the movie enough to really concentrate and enjoy it. More fools them i say.

@ Sir Prize

I dont know what I will feel once I view the movie. Im sure I might like it. I like detective stories and superheros. So it has it all, right?

Your point was that the 3 hr run time hurt it. And all I did was point out 2 movies that were close to 3 hrs, that did quite well. I could have used the LOTR movies too, all close to or over 3 hrs, and made ridiculas money.

And, I will agree with you on Big Trouble, I love that film. But, it was not made on a 150 million dollar budget. So the scrutiny was not as bad. One of the best days in my life was when James Hong (Lo Pan), presented me with the trophy when one of my films won the Viewers Choice Award at the Delta Film Festival.

Its ok to bring other movies into the discussion, when you are stating that only run time hurt the film. I was only showing 2 examples of movies that raked in the cash, from day one, even with long run times.

i was looking at the tops movies of the year so far and i have a very bad feeling that paul blart ($133 mil) will make more than watchmen. a sad sad possibility. when i think of the general movie going audience i kinda feel like ozy in that i want to bring about enlightenment through a psychic alien squid attack. i know it doesn't make sense just wanted to make that ozy reference when i think of the general movie-goer.

This is a slow burn movie like was said in a previous comment. I think it will be in theaters for awhile. I'm definitely going to see it at an IMAX and once more in a "regular" theater like I'm sure many others will.

I just want to catch all the little things they put in like "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears on the muzak/background music while Ozymandias/Adrian is talking to Lee Iacocca. Kind of foreshadowed what Ozy was up to. It's those neat little touches that make it worth going to see in the theaters again.

Best line of the movie:

Dr. Manhattan to Ozymandias

"You being the smartest man in the world means little more to me than if you were the smartest termite in the world."

And that, ladies and gents, is why he walks around with his junk all up in your face......... because he can!

Nah best line would be said by the Comedian.

"You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time; now, we finally have the power to finish the job. Ain't nothing gonna matter once those nukes start flying; we'll all be dust. And Ozymandias here will be the smartest man on the cinder."

or maybe

Nite Owl-"But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream?."
The Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it."

Or perhaps "God help us all."

I was SO pleased with this movie. ESPECIALLY with my wife's reaction to it. She had never read the book and she expected it to be "just another super hero movie" going in. When we came out she was AMAZED. She said: "that wasn't just one of the best comic book movies i've seen, that's one of the best MOVIES i've ever seen. Awesome!