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The Great Wall grossed $45.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $289.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $334.9 million, against a production budget of $150 million. In China, The Great Wall opened on December 16, 2016, and made $24.3 million on its first day and $67.4 million in its opening weekend. In the second weekend, it grossed $26.1 million. The film went on to gross $170.9 million at the Chinese box office, which is considered a disappointment. In the United States and Canada, the film opened alongside A Cure for Wellness and Fist Fight, and was projected to gross $17–19 million from about 3,200 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $970,000…
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60 of 135 · most liked firstApparently! The Wikipedia article says so, and also includes this: In 2021 Matt Damon said his daughter had mocked him for the movie. She made a point of calling it "The Wall", and when Damon corrected her with "The Great Wall", she remarked that there was nothing great about it.
neutral · AI labelView post →My Mother in Law just said... The Mandolorian is her favorite, but she was so surprised when Pedro Pascal took off the helmet. Hahaha "I was so surprised to see him, he was the Guy from that Matt Damon movie...the Great Wall?!" Hahah yeah, that's where he's from haha
neutral · AI labelView post →One last thing: During the editing process, I discovered "Tezuka Osamu Story", an animated biopic about Tezuka's life. Co-directed by Tezuka, the film dramatized his meeting with Wan Laiming as taking place on the Great Wall. Hilariously, Wan looks like he got isekai'd from a different movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched THE GREAT WALL, which wasn't great (ha ha clever snark), but was a pretty solid monster movie. Sci-fi historical fiction? In a way, it reminded me of BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, where the movie's focused on *this* character, but the truth is he's just the real hero's sidekick.
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching The Great Wall (2016) Okay, this one is a guilty pleasure of mine. Historical fantasy is fun, and the movie looks good forna mid budget action flick. You could do worse.
positive · AI labelView post →I managed to infuriate both of my kids by sending the younger off on a trip with a camera inadvertently still loaded with film from the older one's Prom. Every print was a double exposure - teens in glam outfits juxtaposed with the Great Wall of China
neutral · AI labelView post →🎉 THE GREAT WALL turns 8-years old today Matt Damon shares a funny story about what his daughter calls the movie – youtube.com/shorts/sl78Z...
neutral · AI labelView post →I keep forgetting this one existed. "What if Temu Skullcrawlers threw themselves at the Great Wall of China like Attack on Titan, and also Matt Damon and is there" is such a bizarre premise for a movie and it had no right being as lame as it was. ...still better than Age of Extinction though.
negative · AI labelView post →In the original draft, the film opened with a motorbike chase scene along the Great Wall of China. It was scrapped when the Chinese government refused to grant permission to film there. Similarly, an airplane chase was cut from the script due to budget limitations. 19/50
neutral · AI labelView post →lol I just learned that Tony Gilroy had a hand in “The Great Wall,” you know that turd of a monster movie directed by Zhang Yimou that starred Matt Damon and Pedro Pascal?
negative · AI labelView post →Also it’s an incredibly minor issue relative to the whole mess that is Temple of Doom but it still peeves me when the film shows Indy’s plane flying over the Great Wall of China while the superimposed map depicts that they’re flying over *southern* China.
neutral · AI labelView post →In the original draft, the film opened with a motorbike chase scene along the Great Wall of China. It was scrapped when the Chinese government refused to grant permission to film there. Similarly, an airplane chase was cut from the script due to budget limitations. 19/50
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨 The Great Wall (2016) 🚨 This week, the Dafoe Daddies are joined by @90minfilmfest.bsky.social to discuss why The Great Wall is a glorified Doctor Who episode, how this film was really made by accountants, and Dafoe being wasted.
neutral · AI labelView post →True story: I was on the Great Wall of China and there was a film crew there. I asked them what they were working on. "America Unearthed," they said. On the Great Wall. Of China. It ran on the History Channel.
neutral · AI labelView post →釈迦 Buddha (Misumi Kenji, 1961) and 秦 始皇帝 The Great Wall (Tanaka Shigeo, 1962) are currently being screened at Gifu Royal Gekijō on film (35mm). Produced by Daiei, Buddha 釈迦 is the first Japanese movie projected/produced in 70mm, using the Super Technirama 70 technology. As far as I know... /1
neutral · AI labelView post →Good luck making another historically accurate film about the Great Wall of China without Matt Damon!
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the 2016 film The Great Wall, which features Chinese actor Andy Lau from 2002’s Infernal Affairs, and American actor Matt Damon, who plays (essentially) the same character in 2006’s Hollywood adaptation of 2002’s Infernal Affairs, 2006’s The Departed (2006)
neutral · AI labelView post →I need to run through my potentially years old backlog but also there's anime to catch up on but also my movie list is getting longer than the Great Wall but also I really wanna watch Kamen Rider Revice but als
neutral · AI labelView post →This is why I stay on my sofa during the Chinese National Day and Golden Week Autumn Festival holidays - The Movie The Great Wall, Shanghai and a Mountain. Even going to the Mall yesterday was HELL. #China
neutral · AI labelView post →Wait, I just remembered the seen in the first movie where he's running across The Great Wall. So that's two to go
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally decided to try on my deer army armor from the movie “The Great Wall.” I’ve lost a bunch of weight, so it actually fits now.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm so glad you said The Great Wall because that was literally the first one I could think of but couldn't remember any of the Proper Nouns in that movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Great Wall (2016) counts, I think, as a movie about bringing Matt Damon home
neutral · AI labelView post →In 1960, AromaRama was installed at the Towne Cinema, turning “Behind the Great Wall” into Toronto’s first “see-and-smell” movie. thedowntowntheatre.substack.com/p/aromarama-...
neutral · AI labelView post →DKU's 10th Annual Holiday Film Festival begins tomorrow morning with the first 7 films. GODZILLA (2014) starts everything off at 10 am ET, followed by KONG: SKULL ISLAND (2017) at 12 pm, THE GREAT WALL (2016) at 2:10 pm, PACIFIC RIM (2012) at 3:50 pm,
neutral · AI labelView post →Gonna watch that movie with Matt Damon and the Great Wall of China.
neutral · AI labelView post →Brad Pitt still owes me a written apology for that travesty of a film. It'd be so fucking good as a TV series. Especially if it ties in some of the cut stories from it like the Great Wall of China one and the "Closure, Inc." one
neutral · AI labelView post →Here are a few more great movie monsters I discovered over the past few years & documented in the movie section my junk movie journal - from Tao Tei & Grievers (in The Great Wall/Maze Runner) to Calvin & the Postehki demon (Life/The Old Ways). I wonder what creatures await discovery this year? 🥰
neutral · AI labelView post →I planned to sit & watch a movie without my phone, without laundry to fold, just paying attention to one thing... But the movie we picked is The Great Wall and it just sucks so badly 😅
negative · AI labelView post →watching The Great Wall on hotel cable and like...i have so many questions about how this movie got made
neutral · AI labelView post →The Great Wall is a fantastic garbage movie! One of my favorite "getting plastered with the gang" flicks.
unlabelledView post →Wow. Wait til you hear about this movie called "The Great Wall" with Matt Damon....
unlabelledView post →Same brother. - Hollywood casting David Carradine as a Chinese man in “King Fu” when Bruce Lee proposed the show. - Disney making a film about the Great Wall of China and not casting an Asian man as the lead. - George Clooney in “The Descendants” (How about The Rock?) - Whites as Hispanics.
unlabelledView post →Ichikawa Raizō, Katsu Shintarō, Hongō Kōjirō, Kyō Machiko, but also Tonō Eijirō and Filipino actress Charito Solis. The only missing one is Wakao Ayako, but she will be in The Great Wall, the second Japanese movie in 70mm, again in Super Technirama 70... /4
unlabelledView post →Need some film recommendations around the Monster Fantasy genre. Asian inspired even better. Epic fight scenes vibes. Having ADHD i struggle to pay attention to films but i randomly put on The Great Wall last night to doom scroll too but ended up being hooked to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=avF6...
unlabelledView post →Phase 12 cont. Nothing like the power and the majesty of spieling in the preshow and in the main Circle•Vision 360 theater. “From the heights of Tibet to the lengths of the Great Wall, you’ll be surrounded by 360 degrees of movie magic.”
unlabelledView post →I deeply cared that it mentioned THE GREAT WALL, a Matt Damon movie released in Asia before it made its US debut that @monagle.bsky.social and I watched on our honeymoon in Bangkok. (It did.)
unlabelledView post →The 2nd Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider film, The Cradle Of Life... supposed to be the Great Wall Of China, but filmed in a quarry in North Wales and in some areas in the mountains just above Barmouth. It looks it, too!
unlabelledView post →I love the work of Zhang Yimou and I was very excited to see him tackle a different kind of fantasy story with The Great Wall. Sadly the film is not my favourite, but I think about this incredible funeral scene often. youtu.be/u1warfdPpsE?...
unlabelledView post →7 Man Army (1976) Chang Cheh (director) Final movie in the Ti Lung and David Chiang box set. Another classic. It's a dramatized telling of the 1933 Defense of the Great Wall. It's got- Ti Lung David Chiang Fu Sheng Chen Kuan-tai 📽 #SaturdayActionMovie #ShawBrothers #ChangCheh
unlabelledView post →So I decided to watch THE GREAT WALL (2016)... and that is definitely a lot of money going to a trio of Western actors. The over-the-top Chinese designs/actions make it feel like a very expensive Bollywood film set in a world where the Silk Routes were never invented.
unlabelledView post →My last 4 films watched. As I stated in my review for The Great Wall, Why was this movie made? Godawful! #Letterboxd
unlabelledView post →Watching 'The Great Wall' and 'Chinese movie made to appeal to westerners' is such a vibe
unlabelledView post →Last night I watched Matt Damon's movie The Great Wall on Netflix, and actually enjoyed it enough that I wish it were a film franchise. I liked how all the weapons and violence were directed at dangerous green monsters instead of other people.
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching The Great Wall (2017). Interesting movie. Not much on story, but it's certainly pretty to look at. #movies
unlabelledView post →I'm not here to play the "this movie is good, actually" game because THE GREAT WALL is legit great, and I'm not sorry I said it
unlabelledView post →So, while another "foreign" film gets a thick layer of white-wash, I can't help but think of a decade back when, in the middle of being scolded for making THE GREAT WALL with Western leads, Zhang Yimou quietly pointed out the increasingly scant distribution of his films in English-speaking markets.
unlabelledView post →I don't think it's a bad movie, but it's not my favorite Zhang Yimou film. That's going to have to be Shadow which is the movie he did AFTER The Great Wall.
unlabelledView post →Hot take. I enjoyed the movie The Great Wall with Matt Damon 🙂
unlabelledView post →Name your fav film shot in China. HARD BOILED (1992) when I’ve had some beers: THE GREAT WALL
unlabelledView post →I saw an interview with Damon once where he joked about his daughter keeping him humble and she kept saying "My dad was in The Wall" and he was like "Honey it's called The Great Wall" and she just stared him down and said "Dad, nothing was great about that movie" lol He seems a chill guy
unlabelledView post →Damon has a nice story about how his oldest daughter always referred to this movie as The Wall and when he finally corrected her that it was called The Great Wall she dropped "dad there is nothing great about that movie" kid roasts burn the hottest
unlabelledView post →As for The Great Wall, [Graham Chapman voice] it is a silly movie. (Also starring: Willem Dafoe, Pedro Pascal!)
unlabelledView post →I like the movie he starred in called: The Great Wall. Really great movie....... A MUST Watch. 🥰 .
unlabelledView post →Watching the 2016 movie – starring Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, and Willam Defoe – The Great Wall, and woof. It's very not good.
unlabelledView post →It’s worth watching The Great Wall for Matt Damon’s accent alone. He worked with a dialogue coach to invent something novel and internally consistent from scratch and I was impressed that someone would do something so interesting and creative for such a terrible movie.
unlabelledView post →Maybe he would've beat Nuclear Man more easily if he had FOUR FISTS... And I still curse this movie out(#4) when they did that shitty effect with the Great Wall restack
unlabelledView post →Once again thinking about how The Great Wall got screwed by its marketing, which made it look like serious white savior epic shit instead of a fun monster movie that just happened to have Matt Damon in it
unlabelledView post →Some better recent movies by Zhang include: SHADOW (which I don't think I wrote about...); FULL RIVER RED (reviewed here: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/full...); CLIFF WALKERS (www.rogerebert.com/reviews/clif...); and yes, even THE GREAT WALL: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
unlabelledView post →He looks like his character from that 2015 (or so) Chinese film THE GREAT WALL. But oh so much older plus bushy face.
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