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Shorty22
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Nah, they use ones with witty little references in them. I really like this one;
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GATSU
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D'oh! It only made $9 million. But it beat Pokemon 4ever and Princess Mononoke...It's probably because they didn't advertise it enough until the last few weeks.
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Mou Kaoru
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I agree Jaann-san. 
I took my siblings to go watch the movie and they loved it; mostly my 7yr-old brother who is already a fan of the show and card game. While I had no interest to watch this movie because I knew it was going to be the typical shounen-fare with lame jokes and bad dubbing, I still enjoyed the movie since I'm somewhat of a fan already. To me, it was like watching an extended Yu-gi-oh episode...with lots of yelling and cool monsters. Oh and yelling. This movie was made for an American audience in mind and it's quite obvious when you watch it. The bad reviews were expected given the movie's target audience is children and/or fans of the series. Anyone else will think it sucks and would probably have more fun spotting sexual references and making fun of Pegasus' fruitiness. Like why was he wearing pink bunny slippers???  The story is all about dueling, of course, but the actual bad guy doesn't show up till the end... and even then it's a very short encounter. Afterall, NOONE can defeat Yugi's superpowerful awesome "heart of the cards" technique!! TEH GOD CAWRDS > ALL!! 
The animation wasn't impressive for a movie and the music was ok. All in all, great for children with ADD, bad for 4Kids haters. I honestly liked it, but I'll probably never watch it again.
I sympathize with any parent for having to get dragged to watch this movie lol. |
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Sword of Whedon
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You'll never know because the Franklin would never play it(violation of their charter). The only played Lion King because they managed to tie it in with something else. Your local IMAX is the King of Prussia Stadium 16 They would never issue it in IMAX anyway. It's simply too low-budget to survive the uprezzing.
Did you really think it would do more? Most theaters didn't show it past 7PM, and kiddee films never do the bajillions without major cross-appeal, of which Yu-Gi-Oh has none |
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Tenchi
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Hmm... that would mean that Brandon Gray's estimate would have been only about 60% correct, below his usual accuracy of 80%.
Still a disappointment, I guess that means that the Yu-Gi-Oh! fad has already peaked with kids. |
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Sword of Whedon
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No, it means that there are only so many people/kids willing to see the movie. Most kiddee movies only make around $20-30 million if they're a huge success. Considering that the budget on the "movie" was likely well under $5 million, 4Kids is probably already in the black and looking forward to the sweet sweet video sales. |
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jmays
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Ebert has a few good rebuttals of that line of thinking, most recently in The Princess Diaries 2. His Scooby Doo review is even more incisive:
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Tenchi
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Uhh... while I know 4Kids and Warner weren't expecting this to pull in Shrek or Finding Nemo-like numbers (otherwise they wouldn't have released it in August), this is still nothing like the $31 million opening weekend Pokémon: The First Movie had five years ago.
And the studio only gets a certain percentage of the box office take. I believe the rule of thumb is that it needs to make three times the amount of money spent to be considered a success, and the advertising campaign, as low-key as it was compared to Shrek 2's, likely was over $10 million. For a film on 2411 screens, a $9 million opening weekend is disappointing. And most successful kids movies make, at the very least, in the high eight digits, and the A-list animated films (the ones that get the saturation-level marketing campagins and the Happy Meals and such) are considered disappointments if they make less than about $150 million. |
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Amibite
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Ahh *Lays back on lawn chair* Game King was never a fad in Japan, why did 4-Kids think it would be one in America?
Next they'll try to market Hikaru no Go as the next fad. |
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Joe Mello
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Um, what? How did you come across that idea? |
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Sword of Whedon
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They get 90%+ of the first week take, and over the course of about 6 weeks it slowly goes down to a 50/50 split. You're also forgetting that even though it was on 2400+ screens, it still missed at least the last 2 shows of the day on 75%+ of them(probably closer to 95%), and that it has virtually 0 appeal for those over the age of 13.(sorry, even the hardcore otaku demographic is barely a blip on the radar on the national scale). The formula is actually twice what it cost, and YGO didn't have that big of a campaign at all. The movie probably cost 3-4 million, so it's already in the black. Of that $7-8 million 4Kids took in, Warner probably saw 10% Face it. YGO is not exactly what one would call an intellectually stimulating film, it's there for a kid fanbase as some extra bucks before the far more profitable video release. 4Kids will make piles of money off it and everything will be right with the world. Happy? |
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Haiseikoh 1973
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No, now that blood money is gonna go and get Naruto. *counts the number of fallen Naruto fans that read the comment* |
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GATSU
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Personally, I think after One Piece, it'll be a while before they get any new anime shows.
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ZODDGUTS
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Heh my prediction came true it made 9 mil. Looks like nobody wanted to see that crap.
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R.G.
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I finally watched and managed to enjoy it just fine.Maybe I'll watch it again.
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