Potential Easy Prop Bet on BOL?

[hbonn17]

Was just looking at some lines on BOL tonight and noticed they have a prop under the Entertainment section about whether "Dark Knight Rises" will break the 204 million opening box office record of "The Avengers" or not.

Yes +185
No -225

After doing a bit of research, it seems that a lot of people think it's going to come up rather short. Avengers had 3D and 3D-IMAX which are more expensive tickets than the 2D Dark Knight Rises. Plus, Avengers drew more of a kid-family audience than Dark Knight Rises is expected to get. Lastly, Dark Knight Rises is 20 minutes longer than The Avengers. Not sure if that is a huge deal, but could mean less showtimes across the country that opening weekend than Avengers was able to have.

Just my two cents on this interesting prop, all comments welcome.

[louiemdj]

Might not even come close, but I still wouldn't lay -225 on it.

[SkyBlues42]

Agree with louiemdj. Also, I'm not sure I would ever bet on something like that and not feel like a complete degenerate.

[ChiefZilla]

Interesting. So if you bet "No," you can't go see it on opening weekend, right? And if you bet "Yes" you have to watch it three times.

[louiemdj]

(07-12-2012 03:49 PM)ChiefZilla Wrote:  Interesting. So if you bet "No," you can't go see it on opening weekend, right? And if you bet "Yes" you have to watch it three times.

That's a def lose lose situation.