‘Ninja Turtles’ May Shell-Shock ‘Guardians’ at Box Office (The Wrap Article)

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Originally Posted by MajorViolence

I'm going to be completely honest here. You guys can choose not to believe me, and if so, whatever, **** you. But anyway, my only interest in this box office race was to see if GotG could really do that well. As someone who just looked into GotG to research this weird new movie Marvel was making, and then suddenly found himself becoming a massive fan as I started reading the comics, I've been terrified that GotG would fail at the box office. Does anyone remember League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, aka LXG? Yeah, I was picturing that, except this time with a property I actually cared about. I've even been buying up GotG merch like mad, spending $120 just to assemble that Groot figure. Why? Because part of my brain was telling me this property was going to bomb, either from being terrible or for being so weird audiences would reject it. And if that happens? There goes the last time you'll ever seen Rocket Raccoon on a lunch box. Anyway, I've been incredibly pleased to see that GotG was not only a fantastic movie, but was well received by both critics and audiences. The idea that this weird little property could not only be a success, but even beat TMNT's opening weekend was something I never even thought possible until the tracking numbers started leaning that way. It's just been incredibly relieving to see my worries that GotG will fade into obscurity melt away. But let's be honest, TMNT beating GotG's second week is as amazing as one race track runner's first lap in a foot race being faster than another runner's third lap. Heck, I'd even say it's not fully fair to compare totals from each film's opening weekend, because TMNT has GotG stealing ticket sales while GotG had no such competition. (Though it's a hell of a lot more fair than comparing GotG's second week to TMNT's opening.) To me, this was never about seeing how poorly TMNT would do, but whether GotG could actually do that well. Yeah sure, I'm not a fan of this new movie and I would have loved to see it bomb and the sequels get cancelled, but I never expected that to happen so I can't say I'm all that upset that it's doing well. I'm just incredibly pleased to see that GotG outdoing TMNT is even up for discussion, even if it's not actually going to happen.

nicely worded bro. Respect.......

[MajorViolence]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

If you love GotG so much why discuss it here, go somewhere else. You're just a broken record blabbing offtopic subject nobody cares. This is TMNT's box office were discussing.

You don't even read posts before you try to start fights, do you?

[Purse Grabbin Puke]

Originally Posted by Bry

GotG made $30m more in its opening weekend than TMNT's and did rather good numbers this weekend despite the (surprisingly strong) competition. Why do you assume it would have "lost" that fight if they came out on the same week? More likely Guardians would have won by a similar percentage, but they both would have opened lower than they did with the direct competition cannibalizing each others' audiences.

I don't assume, I'm saying you cannot say TMNT would have lost in a straight up opening weekend battle. We don't know how it would have performed last week. You can't just say oh well GotG made $90 million therefore TMNT would have lost. For instance, last week, I went to see GotG because 1. I was bored, and 2. I had no other options really. But if you are given the option of TMNT vs GotG, I think a lot of people would have picked TMNT.

[Zulithe]

The fact that it knocked GotG from the top spot this weekend was a pretty impressive feat to me after the quite negative reaction to the turtle designs and early promotional stuff coupled with the VERY strong reactions and word of mouth from GotG's opening weekend.

Wish I could be excited that we are getting a TMNT sequel... it pains me that I can't love this film the same way I love all the stuff coming out of DC and Marvel these days. I even strongly liked Man of Steel so, I don't think I'm difficult to please.

Maybe the sequel will be an improvement... but even if it is they can't fix the way they FUBARed so many things in the first film which are inevitably going to be carrying over.

[TMNT is cooler than MOTU]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

The fact that it knocked GotG from the top spot this weekend was a pretty impressive feat to me after the quite negative reaction to the turtle designs and early promotional stuff coupled with the VERY strong reactions and word of mouth from GotG's opening weekend.

Wish I could be excited that we are getting a TMNT sequel... it pains me that I can't love this film the same way I love all the stuff coming out of DC and Marvel these days. I even strongly liked Man of Steel so, I don't think I'm difficult to please.

Maybe the sequel will be an improvement... but even if it is they can't fix the way they FUBARed so many things in the first film which are inevitably going to be carrying over.

But why raise the bar when they can make a ton of $$$ doing the bare minimum?

[THGhost]

Originally Posted by Galactus

You act as if TMNT beat Gaurdians to the top instead of knocking it off in it's second week. Bare in mind that if the movie had been out a week earlier it wouldn't have beat GOTG.

Wait, what? It actually beat GOTG?