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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

I'm curious, cause the higher it is the more chance of a sequal, plus I hope such a 'kick-ass' movie did well.

I think I'll go see it a third time.

Andrew

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I don't think I know any movie more prepared for a sequel.

I mean, Magneto's last line, say no more. Although he probably won't be the villain then. Hopefully Apocalypse and his horsemen. *Wants to see animated "Holocaust"*

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

BOX OFFICE GROSS
For The Weekend of August 4th - 6th
(This Week/Last Week/Title/Gross/Total Gross/Weeks Open)

6/ 3 X-MEN $6.1/$135.6 (4)

- ZENtertainment #414

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

In millions, I assume?

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

No, in ones Tim. Of course millions.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

It made $6.1 this week? That's one lonely moviegoer.

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Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :

IIRC, X-Men had the highest-grossing opening weekend for any non-sequel movie in the first 6 months of 2000.

In Hollywood terms, that's an attention-getter.

plus, there's the whole merchandising angle: "The Perfect Storm" may have sold some tickets, but no one's going to rush out to Toys R Us and buy the sinking boat playset for the kiddies.

My little suggestion for any possible X-Men sequel: maybe this time Wolverine could actually _kill_ someone? The guy's a walking vegematic and the worst he does is beat-up some truckers, pig-stick a blue babe, and throw some growling git off a building...what a waste of potential.

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

What a way to keep it a low rating as oppose to R, in which parents might not of taken their 10 year old son to go see.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING!!! can compete with the way the splatter-trendsetting "RoboCop" (1987) was castrated by the pathetic dito TV-show. I have never ever seen such nauseatingly pacifistic ways of disposing terrorist-gangs without hurting anyone.

At least Logan almost gutted a small girl.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

almost
and she wasn't that small
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Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :

on the subject of sanitized violence, I saw the original "La Femme Nikita" and considered the funny 'restaurant scene' to be one of the best shoot-outs in movies, helped by that great back-beat.

Years later, along comes the TV series (if I get this right, an Australian actress playing an American assassin in a Canadian-made series based on a French movie.)

The restaurant "hit" involved Nikita just shooting at a steam pipe (!) to incapacitate the bad guys.

I haven't watched another episode, but based on the moody, hipper-than-hip commercials, it doesn't seem to have improved.

No, I don't like ridiculous "John Woo" action scenes (Con Air, Face Off, etc) or some of Quentin Tarantino's splatterfest... but c'mon!!!

He's a wolverine! He has Ginsu knives in his arms! Throw some ninjas at him in the next movie.

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

John Woo acrobatics belong in the original John Woo-movies (The Killer, Hardboiled, Once A Thief).

How ABOUT that Nikita-beat!?
Dum-dum Powah, Dum-Powah, Dum-Dum Powah, Dum-Powah...

*realizes that will make little or no sense to the uninitiated*

Wolvie was cool, now if he could only pitch his growl a little lower...

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Are you talking about the La Femme Nikita series on USA Xen? If so, it's one of my favorite shows. Also it's where I think DS9 got the idea of Section 31 from.

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Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :

yes.

sorry, the movie spoiled me.