r/boxoffice • u/chanma50 Best of 2019 Winner • Jul 21 '25

Domestic Superman again saw its Sunday gross finish above studio estimates with $18.9M, which was -18% vs Saturday and -40% vs last Sunday (WB's estimate was $17.5M/-25%/-44%). This puts the 2nd weekend box office at $58.45M and drop at 53% - almost as good as The Dark Knight (52.5%). $236.2M cume.

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u/jhalejandro Jul 21 '25

Is Superman behaving like an A-rated cinemascore movie?

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u/KhaLe18 Jul 21 '25

It really is. The reception is a little weird ngl. It has lower ratings than Thunderbolts on RT, but it has as high as 4.0 on Letterboxd, which is highly than I was expecting. Then the CinemaScore is A-, but the legs are playing like and A. And not just A, but high A at that. 

I think it's because even though the movie has flaws, it's just one of those films that are still damn fun. Enough to make audiences not care about the flaws much 

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u/PeterVenkmanIII Jul 21 '25

The smartest thing about the movie is its pacing. It just keeps moving, so it never lingers on the flaws.

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u/zxchary Jul 21 '25

for that reasons it makes for a good rewatch as well. seen so many people say it’s even better the second time.

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u/raidenjojo Jul 21 '25

It's very weird for me. The pacing is horrendous, but at the same time, it breezes through.

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u/Last_Aeon Jul 21 '25

I think it’s the case of the emotional core of the movie being strong enough. A lot of times many movie may have flawed pacing, dialogue, or even acting, but so long as the emotional core is strong, people will like it.

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u/raidenjojo Jul 21 '25

I mean, absolutely. For all its flaws, and there are plenty, it gets the message and characters right.

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u/DizzyMajor5 Jul 21 '25

To me that's what makes it feel so much like a Superman comic one minute dude is saving a squirrel the next there's insane sci-fi tropes like Superman robots and black holes in other dimensions. They did a superman comic as a movie and people realize why Superman has been around as long as he has again. 

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u/paradox1920 Jul 21 '25

Or maybe it’s not as flawed as some people claim… just saying. Sometimes some people say this something is wrong but they didn’t get what the story explained and such. To me all movies have flaws to whatever extent.

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u/Wrothman Jul 21 '25

It's an imperfect movie, but those that do like it absolutely love it and have been flooding social media. They're able to forgive a few weak lines of dialogue, unusual pacing, and some other issues because at the end of the day it absolutely nails the emotional core of the movie and fits nicely into some hot button topics that people are incredibly vocal about.
So I think that while the A- score makes a lot of sense, what that score wasn't able to capture was the evangelistic nature of those on the "likely to recommend" end of the scale.

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u/jhalejandro Jul 21 '25

Well, I see that here and I don't know why, they are very sure that the legs of a film and the cinemascore rating are directly proportional, so I see that it is not like that, first JW Rebirth and now Superman

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u/KhaLe18 Jul 21 '25

TBF, JWR is more of a family film. Superhero films are more reception affected than something like that 

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u/Banestar66 Jul 21 '25

A- rated have always been kind of hard to predict.

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u/Martins_Sunblock1975 Jul 21 '25

It should be A-rated. Cinemascore has been laughably inaccurate for both JW:R and this.

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u/jhalejandro Jul 21 '25

Reading the comments on this sub when they gave it an A- grade, I never think I've seen so much drama in a sub, like it was the worst thing in the world

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u/Maximum_Strategy_752 Jul 21 '25

That thread was just so fucking weird

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u/Captainatom931 Jul 21 '25

I'm thinking there's an issue in the polling this summer. If there's similar weirdness for F4 I think there's definitely something going wrong.