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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

1119.0. "Predictions for next summer blockbuster" by GUMSHU::S_COLLINS () Sun Jun 23 1996 08:39

    THIS SUMMER HAS SEEN A FEW BIG FILMS ALREADY. "TWISTER" WAS THE FIRST
    OUT OF THE GATE. THEN CAME "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE". WHAT'S GONNA BE THE
    BIGGEST? IF WE LISTEN TO THE WORD OF MOUTH, I GUESS IT'S GOING TO BE
    "INDEPENDANCE DAY". 
    
    IS IT A PREDICTABLE SUMMER WHEN IT COMES TO BOX OFFICE SCORES?
    OR IS ANYTHING POSSIBLE? MOST OF THE TIME WE HAVE A CLEAR VIEW OF
    WHAT'S GOING TO HIT BIG WITH AUDIENCES. THIS SUMMER IS NO EXCEPTION.
    BUT, WHY ISN'T THERE A FILM TO KEEP PEOPLE HYPED UP ABOUT. "I.D."IS THE
    NEXT SUREST THING TO BEING THE SUMMERS MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE.
    BUT IT'S NOT GETTING THE PRESS LIKE SAY FOR INSTANCE, JURRASIC PARK, OR
    A BATMAN, OR AN INDIANA JONES FILM. 
    THE REASON BEING: 'FOX' THE STUDIO RELEASING THE FILM IS PLAYING IT
    SMART. THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE GUESS. GUESSING SOMETIMES CAN BE
    BETTER FOR A FILMS RELEASE THAN SAY OVERHYPING A FILM. 
    EXAMPLE: BATMAN RETURNS WAS SO OVERHYPED THAT PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT IT
    WOULD OUTDO THE FIRST MOVIE IN THE SERIES. AND WHEN THE FILM OPENED
    PEOPLE FLOCKED TO SEE IT IN ITS FIRST WEEKEND. BUT WHEN WORD OF MOUTH
    GOT OUT ABOUT IT BEING INFERIOR TO THE ORIGINAL, PEOPLE BACKED AWAY,
    CAUSING IT TO HAVE MINOR SUCCES COMPARED TO THE ORIGINAL.   
    
    
   SO I THINK IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE!
    
    
    
                     NEVER KNOW  ---     INDEPENDANCE DAY COULD COME OUT AND
    BREAK ALL RECORDS.      OR  COULD FIZZLE AFTER ITS FIRST WEEKEND. 
    
                             MY BET,  IT'S GONNA ROCK THE BOX!    
                                           (OFFICE, THAT IS)

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1119.1	If you think this years big.......97' =$3b	CHEFS::MONEYV	In DEC no-one can hear you scream !!!	`Sun Jun 23 1996 10:25`	27
	Yeah we know Twister and Mission Impossible are heading $250m +.... Here are my predictions for the rest... Independance Day (ID4) $350m Ransom (Mel Gibson) $200m Eraser (Schwarzenegger $200m The Rock (Connery/Cage/Harris) $150m Chain Reaction (Freeman/Reeves) $200m Last man Standing (willis) $150m The Hunchback Of Notredame $300m Cable Guy (Carrey) $175m Carrey....what's the attraction ??????? Courage under fire (Wasington) $150m The Fan (DeNiro) $150m Striptease (Moore) $150m Tin Cup (Costner) $100m I think a straight battle between the man with the hump and the invasion of the world, with a twist of the impossible close behind. $2.5b.....easy Vince...
1119.2	My prediction	COMICS::MILLSS	Dr Who : He's Back... And Its About Time !	`Mon Jul 01 1996 15:46`	5
	I believe that Independance Day will be BIG, and I mean BIIIIG ! In the wake of the huge success of The X Files, we're just ripe for a paranoia-type "the aliens are coming to get us" sort of movie. War of the Worlds all over again, I feel. Simon.
1119.3		CHEFS::HANDLEY_I	Git Par Excellance	`Mon Jul 01 1996 15:58`	9
	I can see the merchandise now. Little rubber flying saucer keyrings, ray guns. Alien lunchboxes. Oh boy. I.
1119.4		BUSY::SLABOUNTY	Got into a war with reality ...	`Mon Jul 01 1996 16:07`	8
	I was playing pool last night, and on the TV there happened to be what was a very convincing "special report" of alien sight- ings over Europe, and the Air Force being involved and trying to make contact with the spacecrafts, etc., etc. Very conv- incing when tuning in to the middle of it, until the White House blew up, of course. 8^)
1119.5	Did I say ID would be BIIIIIG ?	COMICS::MILLSS	Dr Who : He's Back... And Its About Time !	`Mon Jul 01 1996 16:19`	14
	> I was playing pool last night, and on the TV there happened to > be what was a very convincing "special report" of alien sight- > ings over Europe, and the Air Force being involved and trying > to make contact with the spacecrafts, etc., etc. Very conv- > incing when tuning in to the middle of it, until the White > House blew up, of course. 8^) Remember the story about the radio version of War of the Worlds which had Orson Welles' starring, y'know the fake news report that people actually believed and caused mass panic ? I say again, ID will be BBBIIIIIIGGGG ! Simon
1119.6		BUSY::SLABOUNTY	Got into a war with reality ...	`Mon Jul 01 1996 16:34`	4
	When I 1st heard the "special report", I said to the guy next to me, "Either this is real or it's another 'War of the Worlds'".
1119.7	Invasion in progress at a store near you	DECWIN::RALTO	Jail to the Chief	`Mon Jul 01 1996 19:57`	12
	> I can see the merchandise now. Little rubber flying saucer keyrings, > ray guns. Alien lunchboxes. And if anyone thinks he's kidding... I was in Toys 'R' Us over the weekend, and there was an entire section devoted to all kinds of "ID" toys, action figures, guns, spaceships, and so on. Right across the aisle from the Hunchback Department. :-) I was amazed... I hadn't figured this to be a "kid movie", involving toys, merchandising tie-ins, slap-happy meals, and so on. Chris
1119.8		CHEFS::HANDLEY_I	Whaddya gonna do? fire me?	`Tue Jul 02 1996 09:03`	6
	Anything with ray guns is a "kid movie"........ I$big_kid
1119.9		EDSCLU::JAYAKUMAR		`Wed Jul 03 1996 16:56`	7
	}}I say again, ID will be BBBIIIIIIGGGG ! Bigger than Jurassic Park? I doubt it. /Jk .. but then I am yet to see ID
1119.10	ID will be big !	COMICS::MILLSS	Dr Who : He's Back... And Its About Time !	`Mon Jul 08 1996 09:02`	11
	> }}I say again, ID will be BBBIIIIIIGGGG ! > > Bigger than Jurassic Park? I doubt it. I doubt if it will be that big, as well. But I would go so far as to say one of the biggest grossing movies ever, but not necessarily the biggest. Have I said that it will be big, yet ? Simes. ;^)
1119.11	Can't help stupid people.	POLAR::LYLE	where's the cream filling?!?!?	`Mon Jul 08 1996 09:27`	12
	Well, here's something to make you go 'hmmmmmm'. There are scalper's out there selling tickets to ID4 for $20 per ticket. I heard it on the radio. I didn't catch which country this is happening in, but it's somewhere where ID4 hasn't been released yet, or has just been released. The scary thing is that people are actually buying them!!!! Dave
1119.12		KERNEL::PLANTC	The Truth is out there.....	`Mon Jul 08 1996 09:38`	8
	re -1 now that really is ID4-mania!! Chris :)