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enurtsol
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:50 pm
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Murder She wrote: |
J.J. Abrams' Super 8 stayed at #1 on Kogyo Tsushinsha's chart for a third weekend in a row, but Rob Marshall's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides returned to the top on Box Office Mojo's chart [sic: missing period] |
Really, I have to wonder about their tastes...........
When's Bayformers and Harry Potter coming out over there?
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vulcanraven01
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:01 pm
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I don't think it's so much about taste but rather a love for Hollywood blockbusters.
Their own cinema offerings can't match the big budgets and special effects of Hollywood so it'a rather easy to lure people in for those.
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ArsenicSteel
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:13 pm
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It just looks like some movies are popular enough to top the charts of many countries while others are not. Yay for pirates but ugh for Thor. Thor was on 436 screens and Fullmetal Alchemist on 90 and FMA out performed it.
Oh well it is not like I track the Japanese Box Office, I am just looking at the index and offering a different interpretation of the data.
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Saturn
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:55 pm
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I can understand wanting to only see big event movies in the theater-- especially in Japan. The last time I saw a movie in a Japanese theater was 3 years ago, and it cost $20 a ticket (no 3d or anything) plus concessions.
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enurtsol
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:39 am
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vulcanraven01 wrote: | I don't think it's so much about taste but rather a love for Hollywood blockbusters.
Their own cinema offerings can't match the big budgets and special effects of Hollywood so it'a rather easy to lure people in for those. |
Super 8 is hardly big-budget blockbuster.
PotC..... eh, it's in the grey area..... it's big budget but released just before the summer blockbusters......
ArsenicSteel wrote: | It just looks like some movies are popular enough to top the charts of many countries while others are not. Yay for pirates but ugh for Thor. Thor was on 436 screens and Fullmetal Alchemist on 90 and FMA out performed it. |
Like I said, I wonder about their tastes.....
(Though it shows they're not always into blockbusters. So that just leaves taste.)
Saturn wrote: | I can understand wanting to only see big event movies in the theater-- especially in Japan. The last time I saw a movie in a Japanese theater was 3 years ago, and it cost $20 a ticket (no 3d or anything) plus concessions. |
With the relative costs of living, that seems to be about on par. Though I hear the rise of multiplexes away from studio-affiliated theaters is helping in keeping the tix prices in check.
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ArsenicSteel
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:55 am
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Quote: | Like I said, I wonder about their tastes..... |
Well my response was not a reply to your taste comment. It was more of a reply to the whole "nothing compares to big budget movies at the box office" thing.
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