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‘Furiosa,’ ‘Garfield’ lead slowest Memorial Day box office in decades

tl;dr Furiosa's $25 million opening was lower than the expected $40 million that its predecessor Fury Road opened with. Could lose money on its $168 million budget.

Lower budgeted family friendly Garfield well on its way to profit on its reported $60 million budget.

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” $25.6 million.
“The Garfield Movie,” $24.8 million.
“IF,” $16.1 million.
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” $13.4 million.
“The Fall Guy,” $5.9 million.
“The Strangers: Chapter 1,” $5.6 million.
“Sight,” $2.7 million.”
“Challengers,” $1.4 million.
“Babes,” $1.1 million.
“Back to Black,” $1.1 million.

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was pretty good. The CGI was hard to watch though. 35 minutes of ads, made me regret going to the movies and paying $65 for two people. That includes 2 "IMAX" tickets, a water, and some shit pretzel bits. Love some AMC.
- So in the era of assigned seats, i wonder if maybe there somewhere I could go to find out each theater’s expected time from nominal start to actual start.
  I only see a couple of movies in cinemas per year, but I still have that instinct that I need to be there on time, even though logically I know I have a ton of wiggle room. I think if I knew more going in, I’d be more sanguine about strolling in late like some sort of savvy YOLO Zoomer.
  
  It would be great to know in advance. However, ours was delayed due to the tight run times. The movie let out 5 mins before ours started. They still had to clean the room. At this point I say, watch them at home.
  
  Be in your seat 15 minutes after the published start and you will be fine.
- Why did you pay $65 instead of 20?
  
  $17.98 for Imax tickets x2 $20 Water and Pretzel bits Convience fee $6
Good.
Let them burn money on nonsense projects. Maybe if they loose enough money they will finally learn to stop it with the franchise milking and remakes.
- I'm not sure you can call Furiosa franchise milking.
  Apart from sharing a name the 2015 film came out 30 years after the previous film and has little to actually connect them apart from the main characters name and the general theme. If it wasn't the same director it would be just a love letter to those films instead of a reboot.
  Furiosa is a prequel that came out 9 years later.
  Making a film and then a follow up 9 years later is FAR from milking a franchise.
  Additionally both stories are completely new and not remakes.
  
  So why didn’t they name it something new instead?
  Go on come up with an original name for your story about new characters that aren’t a part of an existing franchise.
  Oh wait.. they revived a 9 year old brand that’s been dead for 30 years prior to milk some more nostalgia from the fans wallets.
- The 2 top grossing movies on that list are milking franchises, though.
  
  The milked franchise is the one burning money and won’t make its 168 million budget.
  If you judge quality purely by sales then you must be the reason we’re getting another fast and furious movie.
- Furiosa was great though. George Miller is actually making original scripts and doing a great job of it. You should support this if you don't want more Marvel and Star Wars focus group fluff.
Who keeps ordering god damn Garfield Movies!
I want names damn it!
Band of Brothers marathon on AMC right now.
I should get some popcorn!
Saw it Thursday night, and there were less than 10 people in the theater. The movie itself was pretty lackluster, but I thought Hemsworth was great.
- Lackluster compared to FR is not a surprise. It would have been hard to match.
- I saw it Saturday and there were maybe 8 others in the theater at a 6pm showing.
  Movie was mediocre at best. I hated that so much green screen and CGI was used for the car battles. Story was lacking as well. Characters went nowhere.
  
  mediocre!
  my favorite part was how they showed scenes from Fury Road at the end to remind you about how this is related to an outstanding film.
- There is a nonzero chance that the last thing I will see on my deathbed is Chris Hemsworth's bloody nipples.
  I thought it was great though. Not lackluster at all

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