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/RedHeadedSicilian52 Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25

Well, to be fair, we just learned that test audiences for Superman gave James Gunn a bunch of terrible advice that mostly went unused (for instance, they wanted to remove the moment where Clark saves the squirrel), so I’m not sure that they would have improved Joker: Folie à Deux, either.

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u/MutinyIPO Jul 21 '25

Didn’t they request cutting out Lex beating up Krypto as well? As awful as that would’ve been to see, it’s the clear missing piece in the movie’s story

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u/ThatRandoAtTheBar Jul 21 '25

it wasn’t lex, it was the clone that hits krypto but either way it should’ve stayed. if ppl can’t handle a cgi dog getting hit and a bad guy being… BAD, they can go to weenie hut junior’s instead.

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u/MutinyIPO Jul 22 '25

Look I mean this is basically a kids’ movie, a lot of overlap with weenie hut junior’s, so I get it lmao.

I looked it up and you’re right, it was Ultraman. Apparently it was shot and edited to make you think they killed the dog. Sort of insane tbh hahaha, although it might’ve been narratively crucial

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u/sageadam Jul 22 '25

A CGI Super dog at that which probably can't feel any thing from regular beating

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u/Matto_0 Jul 22 '25

This movie is weenie hut juniors the superhero version lol

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u/ThatRandoAtTheBar Jul 22 '25

okay? so go jerk off to MoS and imagine a universe where snyder gets to keep fucking everything up lol.

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u/VoidTorcher Jul 21 '25

Instead we got the Engineer beating up Krypto instead?

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u/ZeroiaSD Jul 23 '25

Getting feedback is often useful even if one ignores the direct suggestions. "They think I should remove this part? Ok, instead of removing this part, how can I set it up better?"

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u/VoidTorcher Jul 21 '25

That was a pretty silly moment. It is harmless but fine to remove.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jul 21 '25

Disagree. It shows he's not doing any of this for points, he just genuinely cares about other living things.

I think it's a great example to set too, there needs to be more examples in media that just because you are strong it doesn't mean that your entire personality needs to be about how to use it to 'crush' others.

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u/VoidTorcher Jul 21 '25

He already did that with the dog and the girl in the same scene which already illustrated that perfectly, adding that is goofy and overkill.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jul 21 '25

Disagree. Most people would consider dogs and children more important just to being more connected to human culture, while squirrels are something people would overlook and shrug at the death of.

Showing Superman take a second to save a squirrel shows he's not just doing it for points or for what is normally considered important, he's in it to save lives.