Pirates 4 Baffling Box Office

Originally Posted By cheesybaby

Huge hit worldwide. Outgrossed each of the Iron Man movies in 11 days.

 

Originally Posted By vbdad55

maybe outside the US is actually going to the movie and enjoying it instead of listening to critics who obviosuly haven't gotten enough payola from Disney to gush about it. just a thought

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

What, like the Police Academy films?

 

Originally Posted By brotherdave

Any of the Pirate movies, including OST is much better than ANY of the Police Acadamy movies.

I actually liked OST. Not my favorite movie of all time, and certainly not Oscar worthy, but definitely fun. Much more entertaining than most of the other sequel shlock that studios pump out. It's no Curse of the Black Pearl, but that one was a true gem and one of my all time favorite movies. Dead Man's Chest was ok, but At World's End just dragged. On Stranger Tides is my second favorite of the series. I only wish they would have explained Blackbeard's magic sword. Easiest way to explain it would have been Jack saying something to him like "So, I see you've had dealings with Tia Dalma, too?". Easy, done, on with the movie...

 

Originally Posted By vbdad55

The Polie Academy films were a waste of celluloid IMHO. Someone HAD to be paid off to show those..

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

Like I say, they were huge in Europe, that is what kept the series going (in Germany, there was even a Police Academy stunt show at a theme park)

 

Originally Posted By vbdad55

oh people attended them here too, and they have midnite madness shwoings of them back to back etc....

but a far cry between them and potc -- even if they make a potc 8

 

Originally Posted By Bolna

<<Like I say, they were huge in Europe, that is what kept the series going (in Germany, there was even a Police Academy stunt show at a theme park)>>

The German Wikipedia even has a table about the results for the Police Academy films: <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Academy#Erfolgsbilanz" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...gsbilanz</a>

They did quite well, but PoC 4 has so far already 2.4 million viewers in Germany, more than Police Academy 4 got in total. But then I would guess that PoC was way more expensive to produce. And according to that article the stunt show at Warner Brothers Movie World in Germany was actually a copy from the Australian Warner Brothers Movie World.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

<<Like I say, they were huge in Europe, that is what kept the series going (in Germany, there was even a Police Academy stunt show at a theme park)>>

And you like to think that Europeans are more sophisticated in their entertainment choices than Americans! Fagetaboutit... Between your love of Police Academy, Benny Hill and Jerry Lewis, you take absolutely LAST PLACE!! LOL

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

Lol RT. Be green with envy if you like. But Benny Hill was popular in the 70's and 80's (Brady Bunch anyone in the US???). Police Academy in the 80's. And Jerry Lewis in the 60's.

Now, the US loves Jersey shore and other crap too.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

<<Now, the US loves Jersey shore and other crap too.>>

I guess I really wouldn't know. Except for American Idol, I can't think of the last time our TV was tuned to something other than HGTV! LOL

 

Originally Posted By DDMAN26

While the domestic gross has been a slight disappointment(sorry the first three films made over 300 million) the overseas gross for this has been incredible. It's total overall is at 952 million both domestic and foreign. It's going to likely hit the billion mark sometime next weekend. That means it will be Disney's third film in two years to hit that mark. The second in the Pirates franchise and fourth overall. And that cannot be spun anyway but a positive.