Jumanji has surpassed every superhero movie in 2017 at BO

[Pinsir]

Its a good thing I'm not one of those people who latches on critical acclaim, cultural legacy and even moral righteousness to box office numbers, otherwise this would be a devastating blow to my entire world view.

[Osiris-Rex]

Its a good thing I'm not one of those people who latches on critical acclaim, cultural legacy and even moral righteousness to box office numbers, otherwise this would be a devastating blow to my entire world view.

What is your world view? Jumanji is Certified Fresh, ie critically acclaimed, the audiences love it, and it is making huge box office. Everything a studio could possibly want in a movie.

[RikWriter]

Its a good thing I'm not one of those people who latches on critical acclaim, cultural legacy and even moral righteousness to box office numbers, otherwise this would be a devastating blow to my entire world view.

Why? It's an entertaining movie.

[Pinsir]

What is your world view? Jumanji is Certified Fresh, ie critically acclaimed, the audiences love it, and it is making huge box office. Everything a studio could possibly want in a movie.

Why? It's an entertaining movie.

I'm not saying Jumunji is bad though, just that people should really stop moralizing box office numbers. The fact that Jumunji made more than Wonder Woman doesn't mean feminism is on the decline.

[Jokerz79]

I'm not saying Jumunji is bad though, just that people should really stop moralizing box office numbers. The fact that Jumunji made more than Wonder Woman doesn't mean feminism is on the decline.

Who said it did? That's a jump Evel Knievel couldn't had made.

[Speed Force League Unlimited]

GOOD.
I'd love to see more reason to silence the "COMIC BOOK MOVIES RUIN CINEMA" cries, this success is a step in the right direction.

It outperformed all of them! Great. It was totally unexpected. Sony would be foolish to not greenlit a sequel.

And more foolish if the suits let their ego ruin another project instead of giving it enough breathing space to be properly made.

[Bukdiah]

GOOD.
I'd love to see more reason to silence the "COMIC BOOK MOVIES RUIN CINEMA" cries, this success is a step in the right direction.
And more foolish if the suits let their ego ruin another project instead of giving it enough breathing space to be properly made.

Jumanji is a comic book?

[Speed Force League Unlimited]

Jumanji is a comic book?

No. I didn't say that.

[Soubhagya]

GOOD.
I'd love to see more reason to silence the "COMIC BOOK MOVIES RUIN CINEMA" cries, this success is a step in the right direction.
And more foolish if the suits let their ego ruin another project instead of giving it enough breathing space to be properly made.

Yes that's true. Take time while making the next film even when you strike when the iron is hot. Jumanji was good. That's one of the main reasons it succeeded. Haven't seen it yet to form my own opinion about the film. But everything suggests that its a good fun film.

I'm not saying Jumunji is bad though, just that people should really stop moralizing box office numbers. The fact that Jumunji made more than Wonder Woman doesn't mean feminism is on the decline.

Who said that? It's such a puzzling sentence to make. How is feminism's 'decline' related to Jumanji? It makes no sense at all.

congrats to the movie, a proven fine combat against the comic book fatigue.

But how do you suggest a fatigue is true? All comic book films of this year were respective highs of their mini franchises except Justice League. Thor 3 is the highest grossing Thor film. GoTG 2 outperformed the first one. Homecoming was the highest since the Amazing Spider-man series. Wonder Woman was the highest grossing origin superhero origin film. The trend suggests a rise rather then fall which would indicate fatigue. You might be unhappy with those films. That's completely fine. But all evidence points that there's no fatigue now. Even an R-rated Logan managed 600 million+ worldwide.

[TheInvisibleMan]

its a truly good movie, and its successful

I was legit surprised how much I enjoyed it, everyone did a great job

Jack Black was the highlight for me though

[RikWriter]

its a truly good movie, and its successful

I was legit surprised how much I enjoyed it, everyone did a great job

Jack Black was the highlight for me though

He was excellent. And I really really liked the end where they met up with Colin Hanks. That could have been handled so badly, but I felt like it was just right.

[Bukdiah]

No. I didn't say that.

Then how does this line make sense if one is not implying that Jumanji is a comic book movie?

I'd love to see more reason to silence the "COMIC BOOK MOVIES RUIN CINEMA" cries, this success is a step in the right direction.

[Scott Taylor]

They'll have a sequel that has almost no story but is a big attempt to set up the next four Jumanji movies.

[Pinsir]

Who said it did? That's a jump Evel Knievel couldn't had made.

I obviously made up that example, though such claims really aren't that outlandish from the type of moralizing people do attach to box office numbers.

The Force Awakens is a good example, most people watched that film because they saw it as a return to 'classic' Star Wars, not because the cast was diverse. Yet people still heralded it as the success for diversity. Where as the box office 'failure' of The Last Jedi is more of the by product of people hearing the film was bad, rather than a backlash against the diverse cast of the film. Not to mention there could be numerous other reasons not enumerated here to explain the success and failures of a film.

Or you could look at Jumunji and say, how many people are heralding it as the death of CBMs, something I personally welcome at this point, though, do not think this is the case. I believe a superhero movie hasn't been the highest grossing film of the year since the Avengers. Why does Jumunji beating each of those films matter more when The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, Beauty and the Beast, etc all did the same?

[CliffHanger2]

I obviously made up that example, though such claims really aren't that outlandish from the type of moralizing people do attach to box office numbers.

The Force Awakens is a good example, most people watched that film because they saw it as a return to 'classic' Star Wars, not because the cast was diverse. Yet people still heralded it as the success for diversity. Where as the box office 'failure' of The Last Jedi is more of the by product of people hearing the film was bad, rather than a backlash against the diverse cast of the film. Not to mention there could be numerous other reasons not enumerated here to explain the success and failures of a film.

Or you could look at Jumunji and say, how many people are heralding it as the death of CBMs, something I personally welcome at this point, though, do not think this is the case. I believe a superhero movie hasn't been the highest grossing film of the year since the Avengers. Why does Jumunji beating each of those films matter more when The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, Beauty and the Beast, etc all did the same?

Because no one expected Jumanji to do this well. Jurassic World ect. are really big franchises.