G.I. Joe doesn't suck?

It's now down to 44%

imdb at 6.3 w/ just over 1,000 votes.

If you check the rating out for Joe, 90% of the ratings are a 1 or a 10.

Sounds like something some of us would do around here If you have it, give it a 10, if you dont, a 1!

Umm... Banks admitted to that last week. LOL

First time I ever got a chance to post numbers:

DHD: http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/early-box-office-g-i-joe-has-real-shot-at-20m-today-and-55m-weekend-julie-julia-looks-7-5m-today-and-20m-weekend/

G.I. Joe: $22 M Friday, $50 M OW
Julie and Julia: $20 M OW

Mason: http://stevemasonsmog.typepad.com/710_espns_smog_steve_maso/

1. GI Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (Paramount) - $22.5M Fri - $60M 3-Day - $60M Cume
2. Julie & Julia (Sony) - $7M Fri - $19M 3-Day - $19M Cume
3. G-Force (Disney) - $2.8M Fri - $8.8M 3-Day - $85.1M Cume
4. Funny People (Universal) - $2.6M Fri - $8.4M 3-Day - $41M Cume
5. Harry Potter 6 (Warner Bros) - $2.5M Fri - $8.3M 3-Day - $273.2M Cume
*A Perfect Getaway (Universal) - $2.1M Fri - $5.7M 3-Day - $5.7M Cume

BTW: GO JOE! If these are right, I've got a leg up on those that missed it.

Buscemi hit that nail right on its head calling Julie and Julia to outgross G.I. Joe

Fuck you, Geez. Let's see you do better.

By the way when I did those predictions, no one expected G.I. Joe to be any good. Now that it is actually good, $150 million could happen and a sequel is now possible. Also, I had G.I. Joe winning the weekend (though with only $15 million more than Julie and Julia).

W wrote:BTW: GO JOE! If these are right, I've got a leg up on those that missed it.

For this week, yes. When it's used up all of its opening weekend 80's-loving male demographic and word spreads that it's really pretty terrible aside from the action, we'll see where it lands. I don't think it'll even sniff $150 million personally, probably much closer to $120.

Hell yes G.I Joe i actually picked a film that did good for once on my slates!

DHD changed their numbers for Joe for the better. It is now at a $60.3 M OW.

Let me answer definitively the question posed by this thread.

NO. G.I. Joe DOESN'T suck.

I just saw it. And I LOVED it.

Here is my review:

http://www.thelatestmoviereviews.com/2009/08/07/gijoetheriseofcobra.html

W wrote:DHD changed their numbers for Joe for the better. It is now at a $60.3 M OW.

I would go higher. If Watchmen got a very similar Friday to GI Joe ($24M to $22M) and that got $55M while being front-loaded as hell and being nowhere as popular. GI Joe could go as high as $70M. But probably not.

Wait, what was the point of this post again?

Weekend estimates from BOM:

1. GI Joe -- 56.2M
2. Julie and Julia -- 20.1M
3. G-Force -- 9.8M
4. Harry Potter -- 8.8M
5. Funny People -- 7.8M
6. Ugly Truth -- 7.0M
7. Perfect Getaway -- 5.7M
8. Aliens in the Attic -- 4.0M
9. Orphan -- 3.8M
10. 500 Days of Summer -- 3.7M (from only 817 locations; pretty good)

Gotta say, I'm surprised by GI Joe, and it did turn out to be a tad frontloaded. Not much though. I put it on my August slates because even if it was shitty, it was going to be bigger than anything else in that time frame.

I am not surprised one bit that Funny People dropped 65% in the second week. Not too many people have liked it.

And I actually expected The Collector to drop 70-80% rather than the 58% that it dropped since small independently made horror tends to drop extremely quickly. Interestingly enough, both theatres that ran it around here dropped it after a week.

ummm, i dont know what the collector is.... but im excited for District 9 next weekend! who else is?

PTA Est -

5. G.I. Joe
4. Cold Souls
3. Julie & Julia
2. Paper Heart
1. Adam

undeadmonkey wrote:ummm, i dont know what the collector is.... but im excited for District 9 next weekend! who else is?

It was that horror movie from the writers of Saw IV and Saw V that looked like a ripoff of The Last House On The Left. The Weinstein Company dropped it and Freestyle ended up releasing it. That probably why you haven't heard of it.

Also, District 9 will be opening on Thursday night at midnight at many theatres. Could this mean a $30-35 million opening weekend?

Buscemi wrote:

undeadmonkey wrote:ummm, i dont know what the collector is.... but im excited for District 9 next weekend! who else is?

It was that horror movie from the writers of Saw IV and Saw V that looked like a ripoff of The Last House On The Left. The Weinstein Company dropped it and Freestyle ended up releasing it. That probably why you haven't heard of it.

Also, District 9 will be opening on Thursday night at midnight at many theatres. Could this mean a $30-35 million opening weekend?

Don't act like the big man on campus on this one, Busc. If I remember right, a few weeks ago you thought The Collector was a fake movie on the BOMOJO schedule. Remember that?

Oh yeah. I blame IMDb for that though (since they listed the film as Midnight Man and as a Weinstein release until a few weeks before it opened). I also realized it was real when I saw posters on the Internet (it which the killer looks like a S&M fanatic).

From what I've seen of it, it's a better movie than any of the Saw sequels after Saw 2. The traps are really extravagant.

Hey guys, is someone fakeing the numbers for Proposal or what?
$15,110 PTA in its 8th weekend...

I just asked that in another thread too, Dantic, but i just checked Box Office Mojo again and seems to be fixed now