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  1. Mon, 05-13-2013, 09:57 PM #1
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    Yep, always the suave billionaire philanthropist, reminds me of the whole black Lex Luthor thing. Anyway I don't think this topic is interesting, Hollywood has ridiculous ideas and perpetuates them, nice conundrum by the way.
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    It looks like they were both equally successful, though not on Iron Man levels:
    Both opened at #1 for their weekends earning ~$57 million. Surfer didn't do as well globally, earning ~$298m during its run, while FF4 earned ~$330m.
    I just wanted to point out that it is hilarious that you're deciding whether a movie is successful or not based on how much money it made when you were complaining about them essentially selling out in order to make more money. Both the Fantastic Four movies were really bad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abdula View Post
    Yep, always the suave billionaire philanthropist, reminds me of the whole black Lex Luthor thing. Anyway I don't think this topic is interesting, Hollywood has ridiculous ideas and perpetuates them, nice conundrum by the way.

    I just wanted to point out that it is hilarious that you're deciding whether a movie is successful or not based on how much money it made when you were complaining about them essentially selling out in order to make more money. Both the Fantastic Four movies were really bad.
    There are plans for a black Lex Luthor? Blasphemy!

    Success is often equated with how much money is made. It's not my personal definition of success. Regardless, an opening weekend of $57 million is a successful movie, whether it is good or not.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    There are plans for a black Lex Luthor? Blasphemy!
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    Speak to your audience. Though it's not my measure of success, it generally is seen as the measure of success, particularly when talking about a superhero movie. Obviously these won't stand the test of time like some of the great movies (Blade Runner, Aliens, etc) so really we can only rate them by how much money they made.
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