The Two Towers breaks US$300 million!

[Krug]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/

WOOPEE!

 

[Ranger REG]

Still, what were the American movie audience thinking when they chose romantic comedy Just Married as the #1 movie that killed TTT winning streak?

And the Golden Globe Award, are the Hollywood Foreign Press legitimate? I can never understand why Hollywood goes goo-goo over that than the People's Choice Award. I mean we are bankrolling their income by going to see their movies.

 

[Nightfall]

I missed the globes. I gather Peter didn't win best director or TTT best picture.

 

[Chun-tzu]

Lord of the Rings was nominated for:

Best Dramatic Film - Winner: The Hours
Best Director - Winner Martin Scorsese (Gangs of NY)

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

I am hoping that The Two Towers breaks $400 million.
There would be nothing quite so satisfying as The Two Towers beating out Spider-Man.

(After all, let's see Spider-Man go and try to take on Sauron. Spiders make nice, messy black goo when they are squashed ... I suppose you already knew that, thought, right?)

I saw something very hopeful today in the theater, and rather than start a new LOTR thread I will place my thoughts here.
It is a Tuesday afternoon, and still large numbers of people are coming to see the film.
The vast majority of them are OLDER people. Older than 40, and mostly older than 50.
Not teen-agers, not those in their twenties, not people like me in their thirties. I saw people in their seventies and eighties in that theater.

Which means the film has broken out of it's core group of fans, and has obtained what most would call mainstream appeal.
Perhaps that won't make TTT be able to beat out Star Wars, or Titanic, or even Spider-Man, but ... it WILL make a difference when ROTK comes out.
It will make a difference, in that these films will be remembered, and cherished, when I am an old man. What is truly good, is not forgotten (I can't even remember the names of most Oscar films, and neither can anyone else, but we all remember Gone With The Wind, Fantasia, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.)

 

[Chun-tzu]

I am hoping that The Two Towers breaks $400 million.
There would be nothing quite so satisfying as The Two Towers beating out Spider-Man.

(After all, let's see Spider-Man go and try to take on Sauron. Spiders make nice, messy black goo when they are squashed ... I suppose you already knew that, thought, right?)

But what if Spider-Man 2 breaks $500 million?


Btw, Spidey's faced Sauron at least once, I'm sure. It was in the Savage Land, with the X-Men's help. What? Yes, Sauron. Pterodactyl guy with hypnotic eyes, leeches bio-energy from mutants... pretty stupid concept for a super-villain, but the name isn't bad.

 

[KnowTheToe]

Still, what were the American movie audience thinking when they chose romantic comedy Just Married as the #1 movie that killed TTT winning streak?

And the Golden Globe Award, are the Hollywood Foreign Press legitimate? I can never understand why Hollywood goes goo-goo over that than the People's Choice Award. I mean we are bankrolling their income by going to see their movies.

That is not as bad as Kangaroo Jack being the number 1 movie last weekend.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Heh.

Although I fear Sauron would take the X-Men, and make them into Nazgul Numbers 10, 11, 12, and 13.

It would be interesting, to see the X-Men try to force their way into Mordor and get the Ring to Mount Doom.

Talk about mixing apples and oranges though ... obviously the two concepts do not mix. I am merely being humorous.

 

[Mark]

Wasn't it the TTT trailer that helped put FotR over the top? For my part, I was planning to go see TTT again when they added the RotK trailer, just as last year I waited for the TT trailer for my second viewing of FotR. I'll bet that will cause a big boost in the numbers.

 

[WizarDru]

I am hoping that The Two Towers breaks $400 million.
There would be nothing quite so satisfying as The Two Towers beating out Spider-Man.

Why Spiderman, specifically? Some of us were thrilled that someone finally made a Spiderman film, and like Jackson's Lord of the Rings, GOT IT RIGHT. Precious few good "geek" films are made, to begin with...let's not pit them against each other, for goodness' sake.

Originally posted by Edena_of_Neith
It will make a difference, in that these films will be remembered, and cherished, when I am an old man. What is truly good, is not forgotten (I can't even remember the names of most Oscar films, and neither can anyone else, but we all remember Gone With The Wind, Fantasia, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.)

I have to tell you, if you can't remember the names of previous Oscar winners of the past, then you're in the minority. Especially since those three films you just mentioned are ALL Oscar winners (GWTW= 10 oscars, Fantasia=Honorary Achievement, Raiders=Won 4/9 nominated). If films like "Forrest Gump", "Braveheart", "Silence of the Lambs", "Gandhi", "Chariots of Fire", "Rocky" "The Godfather", "My Fair Lady", "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Bridge over the River Kwai", "An American in Paris", "Casablanca", and "All Quiet on the Western Front" don't sound familiar to you, then I think you owe it to yourself to go see what you're missing. And these are just a sampling of the WINNERS of the Best Picture nod.

Just because a film didn't win an oscar doesn't mean it wasn't worth seeing....but a film that DID win an oscar almost always IS.