Re: Thor

I've never understood that kind of schadenfreude.

Johne Cook
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:59 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> >Really? The biggest (or most-hyped) movie going into the weekend was
> Bridesmaids, and I don't think many people thought it had all *that* much of
> a chance against the second week of >Thor. As it is, both films did a lot
> better over the weekend than their Friday grosses would have indicated.
> (Thor dropped something like 65% between its first and second Fridays, but
> only 50% >when you compare the weekends as a whole. And a lot of people
> expected Bridesmaids to >stay well under $20 million, not over.)
>
> Oh yeah... I saw some real gloating when the news about the 65% drop came
> in.  Devin from Chud was positively estatic.  And on Sunday he was all
> gripes.  It was not enough that Bridesmaids beat it's own expectations (and
> has gotten a lot of praise)... it really seemed to bug him that in spite of
> the 65% drop for Friday, Thor continued to have success.
>
> He seemed quite bitter that Bridesmaid did not take the number one spot.
>
> Thom
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