Comments on: New Moon Topples The Dark Knight’s Opening Day Record

By: Rohith

Rohith — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:02:18 +0000

I am just glad that it didnt end up beating the Dark Knight overall weekend record which was close to $160 million.

I can't believe Twilight made so much ($140 million). I thought even $100 million estimation was too high but I guess I am wrong. I wonder if it will continue to have a good run in its second week.

New Moon distributor Summit Entertainment's exit polling indicated that 80 percent of the audience was female and 50 percent was under 21 years old. I don't see what the girls like in this movie.

btw...IMDB gave New moon a rating of 4.5/10 :-)

By: N.

N. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:09:15 +0000

Lord of the Rings isn't male-dominated, and come to that, neither is Transformers. I'm a female, & having read all four Twilight books (regrettably) & watched the first movie.. well, it's nowhere near in the same league as LOTR, which is definitely the best movie series out there & very close to being the best books as well. Twilight/New Moon is only slammed because is deserves it – and besides, 90 % of people who watch it are only watching it because of Robert Pattinson (who was better looking in Harry Potter anyway) or to see Taylor Lautner take his shirt off. Go figure.

By: N.

N. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:09:15 +0000

By: Zeus

Zeus — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:13:00 +0000

No, it’s actually a collection of still images, there’s no movement whatsoever.

By: Dizzledorf

Dizzledorf — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:53:00 +0000

It’s its.

By: Ryan Biddulph

Ryan Biddulph — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:41:00 +0000

I’ve heard mix reviews, have to see it for myself. Either way I am looking forward to it.

By: Winnie_T

Winnie_T — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:33:00 +0000

I agree. As a young adult myself, I just don’t get the hype that most girls my age have about the whole Twilight, Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, etc = the tween/teen craze. Sure, they’re good fun, but it’s bewildering to see these movies outperforming movies with substance that deserve to be out there. When a less-than-capable creative team is slapping together some storyline that just wants to capitalise on the popularity of a franchise/teen icon is getting the kudos from the general moviegoing population instead of the hardworking folks who have to bust their asses to get their movie out there, you know something isn’t quite right. I fear for the future of cinema.

By: ladyofthelake

ladyofthelake — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:32:00 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but didn’t HP beat the Transformers midnight showing? I’m not surprised at all, something else will come and beat out New Moon’s friday opening sooner than later. Probably another bad movie. I just don’t understand teenage/tween girls today or twi moms for that matter. When I was that age, I never obsessed with films/books like girls do toaday. Nobody I knew either, times have changed. I’ve read these books, saw the last movie, what is everybody so crazy about? Vampires? Go read Anne Rice then. Maybe girls should start reading books by people who can actually write. I’m not that old, but I just don’t see the appeal. I know a ten year old girl who does though. At the end of the day, bad movies make money.

By: ladyofthelake

ladyofthelake — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:35:34 +0000

Nobody with taste, male or female, would ever trash the Lord of the Rings movies. Which by the way had a very big female following, myself included.

By: PHiL

PHiL — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:58:34 +0000

It wont beat The Dark Knight in the long run. I doubt any movie will that comes out will.

By: Reebee7

Reebee7 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:29:05 +0000

Transformers got ravaged by most bloggers. Lord of the Rings is a fantastic movie series, as are two of the Spider-Man movies. Spider-man 3 is hated by most bloggers. Don't act like we're being unfair to females here.

These are terrible movies making money. To act like Lord of the Rings is bad and Twilight is good demonstrates a gigantic problem: that people consider Twilight on the same level of quality.

By: Beef2taco

Beef2taco — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:47:10 +0000

HAHAHA that is soooo true

By: Beefkiller

Beefkiller — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:46:30 +0000

does this actually count as a real movie though???

By: kennethe

kennethe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:44:48 +0000

How come when there is a hit movie with a large % being female, there is a huge outcry? Does everything in this country have to be male-dominated? I wish bloggers would slam those Transformers/Lord of the Rings/Spiderman movies more often.

By: deltavoyage

deltavoyage — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:20:20 +0000

Please excuse me while I vomit in disgust.

By: Reebee7

Reebee7 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:03:14 +0000

When the highest grossing movies of the year are Twilight and Transformers, I will be convinced that the average IQ of a modern moviegoer is roughly on par to that of a carrot.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:39:36 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Strings_Attache...)

If N Sync can sell 2.4 million albums in a week, than anything is possible because teenage girls have terrible taste in everything.

By: Zeus

Zeus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:18:25 +0000

Girl Power!

Twilight fans are making hardcore Star Wars fans look downright casual.

By: jojo man

jojo man — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:44:23 +0000

holy ballsack that's a lot of money…looks like your 70 mil prediction for the entire weekend was a bit off.