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This was excellent. I loved it.
The creative team behind these Spider-Verse movies is nailing it.
The creative team behind these Spider-Verse movies is nailing it.
Possibly in gross dollars, but Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me had a nearly 5.8x multiplier over the opening of the first Austin Powers movie ($55 million vs. $9.5 million).$120.5m opening weekend. That’s about $85m higher than (and almost 3.5 times) the original’s opening weekend! Has to be close to a record increase between the original and a sequel?
Possibly in gross dollars, but Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me had a nearly 5.8x multiplier over the opening of the first Austin Powers movie ($55 million vs. $9.5 million).
In fact, the opening weekend of The Spy Who Shagged Me was bigger than the entire domestic run of the first film ($53.8 million).
That seems to be just the opening Friday number, for some reason. They have a higher first weekend total, but BOM also likes to double-count the preview totals so I think that explains the difference.But Box office Mojo is saying Austin Powers 2 only had a 17m opening weekend, which does seem off.
Has to be close to a record increase between the original and a sequel?
That seems to be just the opening Friday number, for some reason. They have a higher first weekend total, but BOM also likes to double-count the preview totals so I think that explains the difference.
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I think Sony would have been wise to make this a bigger part of its marketing campaign and calibrate audience's expectations accordingly. I found the cliffhanger ending and the "To Be Continued..." infuriating, and by the grumbling from the rest of the audience I was far from the only one.There is not. I think that the film ends in such a way that any scene after the end would have to pick up right from there, and they obviously wanted to leave the cliffhanger exactly where it is and not expand on that more.
And yes - Sony announced that the film was being split in half all the way back on December 4, 2021 when they released a trailer calling this "Across the Spider-Verse Part One."
The main thing that worried me about the trailers was that they would throw so much spectacle into this one that there wouldn't be much room for the story, and I was glad to be proven wrong here.It takes the foundations established in the original and amps up the story complexity, the emotional depth, the spectacular animation and artwork, and the incredibly kinetic action, while managing to throw in a bunch of surprising yet logical twists that add even more layers and intrigue. Does it all work? Is it cohesive? Does it stick the landing? Oh, yes! By a factor of 10, and then some!
Yes. We got a terrific beginning and a really compelling start to the middle. The rest is TBD.I'm going to disagree with this part of your post only because there is no landing to stick at the end of this film. I really thought this was great, but the nature of open-ended cliffhanger storytelling means that we'll have to wait until next year to see if it sticks the landing. It depends on how this ends, and we just don't know that right now.
And yet, it all feels like an organic evolution. I never felt that anything in this one was flashier just to be flashier. Miles's world looks much like we remember it. It's just, now we get a whole bunch of other worlds with their own styles.I watched the first film again yesterday afternoon prior to my evening screening of the sequel. It held up as it always does, which was not a surprise. But coming out of the sequel and texting friends who haven't seen it yet, I was struggling to find the appropriate words because what they have done here really makes the original look quaint.
It helps that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are the driving creative force behind both movies. I would imagine the job requirements for being a director on one of these movies is different than being the director of a live action movie, or even a Pixar movie. It's less about being the singular creative vision and more about bringing a particular type of expertise to the table.This is especially impressive considering that the directors of the first film did not return.
It definitely passes George Lucas's test of being a worthwhile experience even if you turn the sound off.Okay, so I know every movie is art. 2001 is art. Jurassic Park is art. That movie you made with your friends in high school using your parents camcorder is art. It's all art.
But Across the Spider-Verse is art.
The core animation style is the same, but every universe has a different style: Gwen's universe is all pastel and water colors, Spider-Man 2099's universe is all Syd Mead-style futurism, Spider-Man India's universe is reminiscent of the look of the comics Amar Chitra Katha published in the seventies, Spider-Punk's universe is all collage and frantic marker lines, and the Spot feels like an abstract oil painting covered in ink blots.If you don't like the animation style the I doubt this one is going to change your mind, since the style is pretty well the same as the first one just from looking at the trailers and.clips that have been released.
I saw it in on a smallish screen at my local arthouse, and it still blew me away. It might have been better in IMAX, but it also might have been overwhelming in IMAX. I felt like the smaller screen helped me to take in the entire frame and process the explosion of visual information coming at me in a more efficient way.Is this an IMAX movie or can any large screen theater with Dolby Atmos be good enough?
The original came in under the radar and blew everybody away. This one's box office performance is benefiting from the enormous goodwill that the first movie generated. Whether it sustains that will depend on how much the cliffhanger ending alienates audiences who went in expecting a story with a complete beginning, middle, and end.$120.5m opening weekend. That’s about $85m higher than (and almost 3.5 times) the original’s opening weekend! Has to be close to a record increase between the original and a sequel?
I will say the trailer for Beyond the Spiderverse will be quite anticipated as we get closer and closer to March 29, 2024. A close example would be for Avengers: Endgame.
Do we know if these directors are back for Beyond the Spider-Verse?
If I'd known going into it that it was only half the story, I still would have been irked but I wouldn't have felt as extorted as I did this afternoon.
The way I see it, they can take one of two approaches:Honestly, this is kind of a problem to me. Especially on my second viewing, I realized how through the cliffhanger is. I know there will be a trailer and I know I will see it because I will be going to other films that will have it attached. It won't be possible for me to avoid it. But I'm not sure how the trailer can avoid spoiling the resolution to the cliffhanger.
That's good news. Even though I didn't like that this was Part 1 of 2, instead of the second complete story in a trilogy of three interconnected stories, the content itself was terrific.Yes, they are. From what I understand, they were hired to make one sequel and then realized they had too much story to cover in one film. So the decision was made to cut it in half.
I disagree with you here a bit. While the characters definitely grow and change over the course of the movie, and in pretty radical ways when it comes to Gwen and Miles, the movie cuts off at the moment of apotheosis: Miles and Gwen have each come to a realization regarding the things that had left them conflicted, and armed with that new perspective are ready to face what comes next with newfound resolve.In my second viewing this afternoon, I was struck by how complete the character arcs feel.
The way I see it, they can take one of two approaches
There's still quite a bit of the hero's journey left to go for both of them.
A 14-year-old kid Preston, who goes by LegoMe_TheOG, recreated the trailers online for this as Lego characters. So they hired him to animate the brief Lego sequence in the movie itself.
It helps that Lord and Miller wrote and directed The Lego Movie, wrote the sequel, and produced all of the spinoffs. It's in everybody's interest to throw them a small bone to keep them happy.I was surprised that they were able to do that legally. Universal now owns the rights to make future Lego movies after the Lego brand's contract with Warner Bros. ended.
Jake do you like this film?