Steve_Tk
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Originally Posted by TravisR
It might bomb because it's a bad movie, not because it's the green lantern.
I think quality is meaningless to the opening weekend of a summer movie though. If Green Lantern bombs, it'll be because the marketing campaign couldn't convince people to see it. People will pay to see anything if they have the right marketing campaign. For example, the new Transformers movie will probably be as bad or worse than the other two but it'll make at least $300 million this summer.[/QUOTE]
I hate to admit this, but a movie doesn't make $300m at the box office unless some people like it. Marketing alone doesn't get you $300m domestic. I don't understand how Pirates keeps doing it, but I guess it has fans. Transformers doesn't only make money because of their marketing, it's because people enjoy the films. I hate the 2nd one and kinda enjoyed the first. Same with Pirates. If Green lantern bombs it will be because the marketing was terrible (is terrible) and it has terrible word of mouth after release. I know we trash transformers here, but most of the time when I hear about it outside a forum like this it gets average votes, usually something like "it was fun to watch, not a great movie but I enjoy them anyway". If every critic trashes a movie, and it has terrible word of mouth, no way marketing gets you $300m.