I meant that they probably don't expect it to make quite as much as your standard PG-13 crowd-pleaser. Because a. being Rated-R is going to limit the audience somewhat for obvious reasons, and b. it's a much more somber, gritty, and brutal film than your average blockbuster overall.
So taking said factors into account, yeah it's doing very well.
I've gone 5 times now
Just got back from seeing it. Beautiful. A sad movie about a sad life spent surrounded by violence. Don't know if I ever want to see it again. "Run home to your mother," made me blubber like a tired infant. Tearing up now, just thinking about it.
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."
My record for seeing a movie is 10 for X-Men: Days Of Future Past. I'll be seeing Logan for my 2nd time tomorrow.
My count (including tomorrow's Logan):
-X-Men: Days Of Future Past 10
-X-Men: First Class 8
-X-Men: The Last Stand 7
-X-Men: Apocalypse 5
-X2 4
-X-Men 2
-X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2
-The Wolverine 2
-Logan 2
Outside of X-Men, my multi views are:
Fellowship Of The Rings / The Two Towers / Return Of The King 3x each
Titanic 3x
Rogue One 2x
Alien V. Predator 2x
I guess I haven't seen a lot of X-Men movies multiple times! Although there's probably some more that I can't recall, but I've never seen a non X-Men movie more than 3x in theaters.
I am definitely amongst hardcore X-Men fans. AND I LIKE IT!
Just on Domestic Box Office estimates for this weekend, not only has Logan passed the $200MM domestic market, but also now stands above both Captain America: The Civil War and The Dark Knight for budget-to-revenue ratio (5.6X).
I can't wait to see what the International Box Office total is going to bring. Without it, the film is at $547.3MM worldwide. Only $52.7MM from that $600MM mark. COME ON, LOGAN!
{crosses fingers}
Some of the films currently ahead of Logan in the all-time domestic box office for R-rated films:
Terminator 2: $204M
Wedding Crashers: $209M
300: $210M
Saving Private Ryan: $216M
Passing Saving Private Ryan, which it could very well do by the end of next weekend, would put it in the Top 10 all-time domestic for R-rated films. After which comes:
Ted: $218M
The Exorcist: $232M
Beverly Hills Cop: $234M
The Hangover II: $254M
The Hangover: $277M
I think all of these are reachable by the time it leaves theaters. However after that we get Matrix Reloaded, American Sniper, Deadpool, and Passion of the Christ on the domestic box office. It has an outside chance to get to Matrix Reloaded, but it's going to be very hard-pressed to reach the $350M+ of the last three.
Saw it again tonight. Had to go to a different theater, the first one I wanted to go to was already sold out. So I went to another theater, and admittedly it was on one of their smaller screens, but it was still a packed house.
Movie was just as good the 2nd time around, maybe even better. Picked up on some smaller things I didn't catch the first go round.
But why the hell did they go to a casino in Oklahoma City? Gambling isn't legal in Oklahoma. That was straight up the Reno strip basically. Harrah's, Silver Legacy, El Dorado...
I was thinking that, but it still seems like a rather odd choice to have a casino strip in a city that IRL doesn't have legalized gambling. I mean I know it's fiction and alternate timeline and all, but I don't see Oklahoma City legalizing gambling and turning into a Reno style downtown in a matter of 12 years. Especially since the casino setting didn't add anything to the story that a regular downtown setting couldn't have. Just again, seems like a strange choice.