I don't think the negative initial reaction will hurt the film. Look at wolverine. Maybe the second and third weeks see a major drop after the initial crowds see it but that's expected.

This movie will drop off a cliff after the first weekend. This movie sucked HorseBalls.

It also made so much on midnight showings because they fucking spiked the price of a WEEKDAY midnight showing to 10 dollars at AMC, and I'm assuming so at other theater chains. So techincally, it probably only made 1.5 million.

were do you live that tickets used to be 5$

Umm where I live tickets go for $12.50. That's probably the newly regular price. They never announce price hikes.

Jacksonville, FL. AMC is $8. Shows before 12pm are $5. Matinee is $7. After 10pm is $6. IMAX is $9. Been like this for years now. I can't imagine paying $12.50 for a ticket that isn't going to be pure IMAX. Here those are only $13.

I was mightily disappointed in this flick, and to be honest, if its shame is that Night at the Museum 2 beats it, I'm happy. *goes to see NatM2 at midnight*

I've read a lot of reviews saying basically that it's not as good as terminator 2.

saying a movie isn't as good as terminator 2 is like saying "the sun comes out during the daytime"

yeah Reechard where do you like that weekday tickets cose that much less...

the only discount of tickets by me are either before 6pm showings at some theaters other chains only discount for the first showing of the day, and even the the cheapest 8.50 or 10 or 10.50... most of the time it is something like 12.50

At AMC Theaters in the midwest (or maybe just Kansas City) all movies, monday-thursday at any time of the day tickets are only 5 dollars. And until last night all Midnight Showings were just 5 dollars too.

I doubt Night At The Museum 2 will make more than Terminator Salvation...I just got back and it wasn't any worse plot/storywise than Transformers...it should do very very well this weekend...Mason has been wrong before his lowballing of Star Trek by almost 20 million opening weekend

Saying that it wasn't any worse plot/storywise than Transformers is like saying it wasn't any worse than absolute shit.

It's all about ripping people off...

Why are people making a big deal about a terminator movie with ahhnold? i know he makes the brief cgi cameo but that dosnt count. what im getting at is....it makes absolutly no sense what so ever to have him in all 3 first terminator movies. think about it, in the first one, i belive the terminator arnold is (t-100?) is the best terminator at the time, they send a terminator back to kill sarah...yada yada story story. dosnt kyle say in the first movie that the terminators look human so the resistance can't tell them apart? so what im saying is, all of the terminators in the series of terminators cant look like arnold or else everyone would know who the terminators were.

So in T2 when arnold shows up isnt it odd that they would have the same exact terminator sent back that tried to kill sarah in the first one, given that it was crushed in the factory or whatever? then again in T3, should it not have been a different terminator? how is it possible they have the same exact terminator sent back in all 3 movies?

They were the same model (the t-800 model was based on an army general before Judgment Day occurred) but not the same cyborg.

lol @ night at the museum2 beating t4.
how embarrassing.
t4 will rake in the $ this weekend. sink like a brick next.
i bet the studio knows that.
thats why they put the internet hype in overdrive the past 2 weeks with all those clips.
the smash opening is all that counts.

Yeah Terminator is one of the weirdest movies I have seen when it comes to Critics/Audience

My midnight screening had most leaving pretty positive.
I really disagree with the critics (Rarely listen to them anyway sorry /film)

salvation seemed more like a big homage to the first two films than anything else. tons of call backs to the originals and nothing really here to separate it and make it seem important or classic like in t1 and t2.

Using the Dance Flick slam you slipped in, there at the end as inspiration... I would argue that Terminator making $70M would be about $70M more than it "should" make.

I'm still psyched for this movie. After seeing Fox and their dumbasses drop the Sarah Connor Chronicles, I'll do my part in supporting this movie and perhaps see it picked up by another network (SciFi/SyFy should surely have their eyes on it after the series finale of their top show).

And I hate how it keeps getting compared to T2. T2 is one of the greatest Sci-fi flicks of all time. Very few films even come close. TS topping T2 was unlikely from the getgo. But again, as a longtime Terminator fan (one who begged his dad to rent T3 when it came out), I plan to see this as soon as I can (well, that's a lie. Rather, as soon as my friend can go. lol)