Ocean's Thirteen? Are you ruttin' kidding me?

POSTED BY: Psolaris
UPDATED: Monday, January 9, 2006 20:24
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PSOLARIS

Monday, January 9, 2006 3:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Andre83:
it cost: 110 mill
it made: 360 mill

And thats not counting dvd sales.

Here's the total I found on Rotten Tomatoes

Est budget: $110,000,000

Box office Total: $125,402,117

yes, it did indeed make a profit, but not a very big one.

Psolaris

"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"

CYBERSNARK

Monday, January 9, 2006 3:31 PM

I guess I'm one of those wierdos who liked Ocean's 12.

There's a chemistry there; aside from the plot, the writing and everything, you can tell the actors are havin' a blast doing it. I got no problem watching people have fun, more power to 'em if they're getting paid for it.

And I liked the bit about the alternate plan being dropped 'cause they don't have enough time to train a cat.

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SMAUG

Monday, January 9, 2006 3:34 PM

Hey look.. it's Brad Pitt playing Brad Pitt in another Brad Pitt movie.

Ocean's 12 has to have been one of the worst movies I have ever seen. But like it's been said in this thread.. it has so many so "stars" in it.. they will keep making them as long as people watch it and it makes money. I even rented ocean's 12 on video to watch it based on the fact that I liked Ocean's 11. But I certainly won't be seeing oceans 13... EVER. Ocean's 12 was just an excuse for 12 overpaid hollywood actors to go on vaction for 4 months.

I am kind of torn about our BDH's ever becoming "big". Sure.. I wish them all the best.. but one of the 100 reasons why Firefly works is the chemistry between the cast. They OWN these characters. I would hate to think that suddenly becomming big (much bigger than they currently are) to one or two of them might have a negative effect on our little 'verse. Let's say if suddenly Nathan's name justified $10 million a film.. while the rest of them where only getting $500K or something like that. I know I might feel a little resentment if I poured my heart and soul into it as much as the rest of them but was only making a 1/10 or less than one or two of them was. I would hate to have something like that rip our crew apart before the story is all told. Actually I would like to think that no matter how big any of them become.. that they will forgo their "going rate" that they may typically be getting for other movies.. in order to fly again into the black.

I know Adam Baldwin actually likes flying under the radar.. but I don't know about the rest of the cast. I kind of selfishly hope that Serenity does fly under the radar.. with just enough fans to get us a few more movies or a return of the series.. anything it takes to get the story told.. and then AFTER.. they can all become hugh stars.. if that's what they want..

It's kind of wierd.. I want people to love firely and serenity.. but if it became like Star Wars huge.. I don't know.. it might just loose some of it's appeal..

Smaug..

QUINZBROWNCOAT

Monday, January 9, 2006 3:37 PM

Ta muh duh!

Why don't they just get it over with:

"OCEAN'S ARMY"
"Ocean's Legion"
"Ocean's Posse"
"Oceans' Bro's"

Ching wah tsoa duh liao mung!

Semper Fidelis

PIZMOBEACH

Monday, January 9, 2006 3:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Psolaris:
Quote:
Originally posted by Andre83:
it cost: 110 mill
it made: 360 mill

And thats not counting dvd sales.

Here's the total I found on Rotten Tomatoes

Est budget: $110,000,000

Box office Total: $125,402,117

yes, it did indeed make a profit, but not a very big one.

Psolaris

"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"

I doubted those numbers too so I checked and they are correct:
Domestic: $125,544,280 34.6%
+ Overseas: $237,200,000 65.4%
= Worldwide: $362,744,280

And like Andre83 said that's pre DVD.
With numbers like that they're probably thinking of Ocean's 24 already.
Interesting how much better the movie did "worldwide" than locally, like most of us knew it would be a stinker, and interesting how many of people said it was one of the worst movies they'd ever seen...

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PSOLARIS

Monday, January 9, 2006 4:05 PM

Ahhhh, I did not count the overseas numbers. Which is why I always thought the box office didn't do so well. *sigh*

DOH.

Thanks Pizmo.

Psolaris

"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"

CHRISTHECYNIC

Monday, January 9, 2006 7:58 PM

Please for the love of god let it be like Ocean's 11 and not Ocean's 12.

How do bad movies get sequels anyway? And how is it that so many good movies have crap sequels in spite of having all the same people working on them?

ZEEK

Monday, January 9, 2006 8:14 PM

I'm sorry but Ocean's 12 was terrible. It was one giant inside joke for the actors and the audience is never let in on it.

George Clooney: "Remember the time with the stuff and the thing falling"
Other braindead actors: "HAHAHAHAHA"
Audience: "wtf are they talking about?"

CHRISTHECYNIC

Monday, January 9, 2006 8:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
I'm sorry but Ocean's 12 was terrible. It was one giant inside joke for the actors and the audience is never let in on it.

I have not read every single post, but I think just about everyone agrees with you. So I have to ask:

Why are you sorry?

STORYMARK

Monday, January 9, 2006 8:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by christhecynic:
Please for the love of god let it be like Ocean's 11 and not Ocean's 12.

How do bad movies get sequels anyway? And how is it that so many good movies have crap sequels in spite of having all the same people working on them?

How do they get sequels? Look around, it's been answered a bunch.

$$$$$$$

Plain and simple.

As for why good movies sometimes have bad sequels, even with the same creators... well, movies are a crap-shoot sometimes. It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle once, much less twice. No one sets out to make a bad movie, but it happens to the best of them. Every director who's made more than a few films, no matter how highly-regarded, is going to make a flop, or at least a dissapointment, eventually.

I'm sure that if Joss keeps making movies, he's bound to make one that is a dissapointment, if not suck outright. In some opinions (not mine), he already has.

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