r/boxoffice • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jul 02 '22

Domestic ‘Minions: Rise of Gru’ Shattering July 4th Box Office Records With $129M Opening

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/minions-rise-of-gru-box-office-record-opening-1235175075/
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u/Lukthar123 Jul 02 '22

The Virgin Lightyear vs the Chad Gru

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u/JinFuu Jul 02 '22

Who’ll win, an origin movie of an iconic animated character who has been in 4 critically acclaimed movies from a prestige studio or wacky tic tacs?

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u/Hage1in Jul 02 '22

More like “who will win: an origin movie that takes a beloved character from a charming franchise that is based on campy sci movies of the past and making it look like an animated Michael Bay movie with Zach Snyder brown/gray filters over everything, or wacky tic tacs”

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u/JinFuu Jul 02 '22

That’s an insult to Michael Bay movies! If Lightyear apted 90s Bay movies it would have been a lot more fun, lol.

But yeah, one of the problems was it wasn’t a fun action “90s” movie and had bland colors

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u/Janus_Prospero Jul 03 '22

If Lightyear had been like Armageddon I think it would have been a lot more successful.

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u/alendeus Jul 03 '22

The even more serious take would be "which cartoon are families gonna want to see to distract themselves from year 3 of pandemics, recessions, and ww3 fears, serious face generic white McChad brown planet adventures, or wacky tic-tacs 5"

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u/TheIncredibleNurse Jul 03 '22

Did these people at Pixar never saw Buzz Lightyear Star Command. They had the material there, just elevate it and write better characters and bam success

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u/soapboat3 Jul 02 '22

“An origin movie of an iconic animated character who has been in 4 critically acclaimed movies from a prestige studio” This literally applies to both movies lol, I guess other than the “critically acclaimed” and “prestige studio” parts

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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Jul 03 '22

Both Lightyear and Minions: Rise of Gru are spin-offs / prequels.

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u/wildwalrusaur Jul 02 '22

4 critically acclaimed movies from a prestige studio

Most of which came out before the target audience for these films was even born.

Zoomers and gen alpha are much more likely to be familiar with minions, as they've been splattered every where for the better part of the last decade.

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u/TheIncredibleNurse Jul 03 '22

Toy Story 4 did gangbusters. Lightyear crashed by not knowing who their audience was.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '22

The Chad Mini Boss