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Well you have Avatar 2 that made 2 billion? Even Top Gun. Its just funny how Barbie has become a bench mark. The whole "the box office is dead" thing was never true but every studio now likes to claim they've saved cinema
Top Gun and Barbie made pretty much the same amount. Again, I literally just made that comparison because Barbie was the most recent box office smash.

Barbie was a cultural phenomenon last year, probably even bigger culturally than two of the films that grossed more than it since Covid, and far more of a cultural moment than Inside Out 2 is, right now - which is why this numbers are surprising. Also the fact Barbie opened bigger, but inside out 2’s is already starting to outpace it which is another reason why it was mentioned.
 
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Not the anti-Barbie brigade popping up in here...

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Not the anti-Barbie brigade popping up in here...

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Its not anti barbie. Its anti the whole "movie theatres are dead because of streaming / covid" sentiment from social media. Nearly every studio has had a movie that has "Saved Theatres" now since the pandemic. Sony /Marvel with Spider Man No Way Home, Paramount with Top Gun, Disney with Avatar 2 and now Inside Out 2 and warner with Barbie, Universal with Mario/Oppenheimer. The list goes on.

Im just saying the sentiment people try to spread isnt true and at the same time all the studios are claiming to have save Cinema. It's just funny.
 
I didn't enjoy Inside Out 1 and my feelings continued for number 2. However I am thrilled that Disney have a big hit on their hands as it's been a while.
 
Top Gun had the biggest movie star of all time returning to maybe his most famous role and lets face it, James Cameron movies are in their own league of box office discussion.

Barbie was more of an out of nowhere smash, and Inside Out 2 is closer to that in terms of narrative given the last few years of Pixar struggling and getting their movies shafted onto Disney+.

Also Top Gun and Tom Cruise were (correctly) credited with saving theatres not just because of box office but because of Cruise using his Hollywood star power to prevent a streaming service release, along with ensuring the Mission Impossible crew were paid all through COVID and then being the first big production to film while managing COVID restrictions.

Anyways! Excited to see this at the weekend
 

Mvnl

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I've rewatched the first one and poignant as it might be, it's not a favourite of mine.
The 'BRIGHT. COLORS. EVERYWHERE!!' look is not a world I enjoy spending time in, though I hadn't seen it in almost 10 years I somehow remembered every punchline, making most jokes fall flat too, and not even Bingbong moved me.
Also not the biggest fan on any sort of 'person an sidekick lose their way and spend the rest of the movie finding their way back with hijinx galore!' story which.. well is most of this.
That being said: read a lot of positive responses to part 2 and I know my bit of anxiety so definitely seeing that when it finally arrives here in 2 weeks.
 
As a movie with a major focus on helping tweens, pre-teens, young teens etc... understand some of their feelings, emotions and anxieties, Inside Out is perfect. I think a lot of young people (and perhaps their parents too) will take far more from the movie than just the laughs and enjoyment of an excellently made animated film.
 

Mvnl

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Oh definitely. I appreciated that from the first (which hit me quite hard at the time but watching it again I was a bit 'oh, that was it?') and going by what I've read about the new one it does it again very well
 
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I liked Inside Out 2. I might still prefer the first to it but the emotion world/scenes were all so good and beautiful. I loved the new emotions and felt like they portrayed those feelings so well. I have to say, the Riley scenes were ruined by all the other AI animation out there. Not that Pixar used AI (they didn’t and never would) but the fact that AI animation has scraped every ounce of Pixar/Disney. It has dulled their house style a bit. I am VERY happy to see it doing well at the box office though.
 

Mvnl

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Say you've spent a week griefing, would Inside Out 2 be a fun distraction or the worst movie possible I could pick to watch?
 

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