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| Friday | Screens | % Chg | Cume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Gross | Thtr | % Chgn | Cume |
| Venom | 33 | 4250 | NEW | 33 |
| A Star is Born | 15.7 | 3686 | NEW | 15.7 |
| Smallfoot | 3.5 | 4131 | -46% | 31.3 |
| Night School | 3.5 | 3019 | -63% | 37.9 |
| The House Wirh a Clock in its Walls | 1.8 | 3463 | -43% | 49.5 |
| A Simple Favor | 1 | 2408 | -50% | 46.6 |
| The Nun | 0.75 | 2264 | -52% | 111.5 |
| Hell Fest | 0.6 | 2297 | -70% | 7.4 |
| Crazy Rich Asians | 0.6 | 1466 | -51% | 167.6 |
| The Predator | 0.25 | 1643 | -77% | 49.3 |
| Also Debuting | ||||
| The Hate U Give | 0.17 | 36 | ||
| Shine | 85,600 | 609 | ||
| Exes Baggage | 75,900 | 62 | ||
| NOTA | 71,300 | 138 | ||
| 96 | 61,600 | 62 | ||
| Andhadhun | 55,000 | 54 | ||
| Afsar | 45,400 | 33 | ||
| Project Gutenberg | 36,000 | 17 | ||
| Love Yatri | 22,300 | 41 | ||
| Hello, Mrs. Money | 22,200 | 37 | ||
| Studio 54 | 5,300 | 1 | ||
| Loving Pablo | 4,200 | 15 |
| 3-Day Estimates | Weekend | % Chg | Cume |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Good Dead | 24.4 (11,230) | NEW | 24.4 |
| Dolphin Tale 2 | 16.6 (4,540) | NEW | 16.6 |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | 7.9 (2,550) | -23% | 305.8 |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 4.8 (1,630) | -26% | 181.1 |
| The Drop | 4.4 (5,480) | NEW | 4.4 |
| Let's Be Cops | 4.3 (1,570) | -22% | 73 |
| If I Stay | 4.0 (1,320) | -28% | 44.9 |
| The November Man | 2.8 (1,030) | -36% | 22.5 |
| The Giver | 2.5 (1,120) | -26% | 41.2 |
| The Hundred-Foot Journey | 2.5 (1,270) | -21% | 49.4 |
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I haven’t read the script (although it seems everyone else has) for Inglorious Bastards but apparently it’s littered with easily fixable spelling mistakes. Now I’m usually someone who gives QT the benefit of the doubt, but hasn’t he been working “tirelessly” on this thing for like ten years? And then he hands in something that is littered with spelling mistakes? It’s either incredible hubris or laziness and frankly I don’t understand why he gets a pass on these kinds of things when others don’t. Again, I’m not a QT hater but I find it odd that he makes movies that are bad or poorly researched on purpose and is hailed as a genius for doing a good job of approximating the feel of bad exploitation films.
I know he’s talented because his first three films were striving for something more. But it seems like Kill Bill was a real shift in what he wanted to do and it’s disappointing. But what’s more disappointing is that so many people are willing to give him a free pass because his movies are “fun if you turn your brain off!” Well, I don’t want to turn my brain off to have fun at a Tarantino movie, I want him to turn his brain on.
poorly researched?
Anyway, he could make movies about grass growing ten years apart and I’d still think he was brilliant if for only Jackie Brown.
noah, if it’s a good story, i doubt anyone will care about the spelling. you definitely have a tarentino bug up your ass from the sound of it, i personally think it’s all been downhill for him since ‘j. brown’ but i’m glad he’s still trying
Any of you read or are familiar with these vampire books on the cover of this week’s EW? As I’d never heard of them, the movie adaptation strikes me as another Eragon. Also, what is the point of saying they’re the hottest books since Harry Potter? Harry Potter ended last year. That’s like saying Friday is the hottest day since Wednesday. And if I read the figures in the article correctly, there are ten million of those books in print, total. Deathly Hallows sold that many in a day. A day. Talk about lazy journalism. Let’s get some perspective, people. Anyway, since Dave pointed out that the movies on EW’s cover this summer have been WB properties, are these books published by WB?
I’m a stickler for proper spelling and punctuation in on the printed page. But in Tarantino’s case, this is a script. It’s not meant to be read, it’s meant to be shot.
So when did Tarantino become M. Night Shyamalan?
What’s with the hate? I really wanted to get away with not reading this but I guess now I have to (I’ve had for a couple of days).
roman, maybe it’s me but i didn’t understand those last couple sentences. i’m working heaps so i’m a tad doolally.
here’s something to do if boredom sets in: (this might be lame)
inspired by the ’20 best movie endings ever’ list on mcn, which of your all-time best endings didn’t make the list? (sorry i don’t do links, i’m a technotard) nothing so satisfying as a great ending…
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off the top of my head: ‘no way out’, ‘one flew over the cuckoo’s nest’, ‘don’t look now’, ‘angel heart’… there must be many, many more
Leahnz, I’m glad he’s still trying too, I just wish he’d try a little harder to craft a movie that was aiming a bit harder than a knock-off of an exploitation flick. That sets that bar pretty low for himself, so that if it fails to be a masterpiece he can say that it wasn’t supposed to be, it’s just an exploitation flick. I want to see him shoot for the stars.
I suppose I just feel like if he’s been working so hard on this script for ten years, you’d think he would just spend five seconds of that time googling Joseph Goebbels to check the spelling.
I browsed through BASTARDS and frankly, thought it was mostly shit. DEATHPROOF in QT’s idealized faux-reality of WWII.
Didn’t do it for me — YMMV.
Only nobodies have to be spelling and grammar Nazis. QT’s scripts have always been this way (I assume the printed book versions were cleaned up for publication). I read an early draft of Natural Born Killers, and it was rife with misspellings. I’m not surprised he hasn’t improved in that area; there’s no incentive for him to. I suppose after the success of Reservoir Dogs, he got a pass.
Lots of really smart people can’t spell for crap, but if you’re trying to break in to screenwriting, it’s worth a few bucks to have someone proofread your stuff. Why create more obstacles for yourself?
I thought that the typos (like “Inglourious Basterds” were intentional.
I think there’s a big difference between a ‘turn your brain off’ movie like, say, Transformers and a Tarantino movie like Death Proof or Kill Bill. A huge one.
In other news, I saw Hellboy 2 tonight and thought it was terrific fun. One of the best popcorn movies, for my money, all summer so far.
Blackcloud does not know TWILIGHT? Ha. Some of you really are not with it. Those books are huge. The only way that Twilight movie could be another one of those failed YOUNG ADULT FANTASY novels would be… the fans turning on it. So far the fans are down with what they are doing. Here’s to one of these future fantasy films not letting down the devoted fanbase.
Oh yeah… Hellboy II is fucking awesome. GDT has a lot of heart. He’s like Cameron Crowe. If Cameron Crowe had focus.
Ten million books in print may not be Harry Potter territory, but it’s still a f*&^load.
I’m catching up on Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg’s SPACED and man, what a terrific, great, kick ass show. It’s basically everything I wish some U.S. show had the bawls to do. It’s coming out soon on DVD and I highly recommend you all get it. More movie references that the aforementioned QT would dare try to pay homage to….
A popcorn movie? What a belittling term for such a heart-felt movie. Good lord, that term makes me sick, and those who use it should be reminded they sell popcorn for EVERY FLICK.
Yeah Don, they showed it on BBC America or some channel a few years back. It is pretty damn spiffy. Nice of you to get a promo copy. You devil :D.
“Spaced” is indeed wonderful. Fox did a pilot for an American version, but I don’t think it got picked up. With Pegg’s growing popularity, they should just run the original episodes. After all, America has proven that they’ll accept at least one British-accented guy named Simon on the Fox schedule. Might as well shoot for another.
IOIOI: Excuse the fuck out of me.
IOI, sorry to swear at you, but: I was agreeing with you re: Hellboy. Thee are significantly better ways to make your point, especially when talking to someone who basically agrees with you, than what you did, it’s really like you go around scanning posts looking for ways to start arguments.
And if that’s what it seems like I do to other people, I’m deeply sorry.
Leah, I’ll take a punt at your Q. All That Jazz, Before Sunset and Lost in Translation/In the Mood for Love are probably three of the more notable ending omissions I could think of for me.
Jeff: you are projecting there. I do not go looking for a fight. The fight finds me.
I am sorry Jeffy Pop, but I have a problem with the whole “POPCORN MOVIE” nomenclature. It comes off as condescending to me, as if there are those really serious movies that you drink with wine, then the ones you dare to eat POPCORN WITH WHILE WATCHING! DEAR LORD! THE INDIGNITY OF IT ALL! THE INDIGNITY OF IT ALL!
So you are excuse. Please refrain from the INDIGNITY OF IT ALL in the future. You may also want to denote that I stated it was full of heart. While you state it was a POPCORN MOVIE. Excuse you indeed.
Do not… play.
I am just fucking with you Jeff. Relax, man. Relax.
Yeah, and I stand by what I said. I think that it’s a good movie. Not as good as Pan’s Labyrinth or The Devil’s Backbone, but a solid, fun, entertaining, movie. I could say more about where it falls short but that would just send you into a tizzy and you’d say that I didn’t actually like it.
Please stop this “Do not play” nonsense. It’s…what’s the word…silly.
“I think there’s a big difference between a ‘turn your brain off’ movie like, say, Transformers and a Tarantino movie like Death Proof or Kill Bill. A huge one.”
The difference is one is made for a general audience while the other is made for the cineaste wank-off crowd.
Both require the same brain shut down though. Death Proof was perhaps one of the most braindead movies I have ever seen.
Yes, I put Del Toro in this category too and loath what will become of Tolkien.
You know, I’d normally try and defend Kill Bill and Death Proof here, but the exact same reasons I would use to claim they’re amazing movies would the very reasons why detractors would use to claim they are not good movies, so there’s really no point.
What it comes down to is that some people appreciate what Tarantino was doing with those movies – although I would hazard a guess that if you don’t see anything deeper in Kill Bill than a mere kung fu homage then you’re as biased to the negative as I am to the positive – and others didn’t. Obviously, I was on QT’s wavelength. Nothing wrong with not being on it though. I, however, am glad that I am though because if I weren’t I wouldn’t have experienced two of the most exhilarating and entertaining spectacles of the decade (in my eyes).
Jeff: you are as silly as they come. You really should not play because it will always be silly. You are so silly that Lex may have been laughing at you in between his looking at the new Vanity Fair cover.
Oh yeah, you can go on about the HBII having shortcomings, but they are not the movies shortcomings. Whose shortcomings are they? I wonder, where’s my finger pointing? Where is it pointing? I wonder where my finger is pointing.
Finally, YOU NEVER TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF! Why do people need to qualify films in such a demeaning fucking way? It so ridiculous that grown people have to qualify any movie outside of it’s own merits in this rather ridiculous fucking way.
My boss does this all the time and he breaks the bounds of ridiculousness with his assertions about certain films being a certain way. They are all movies. It’s not like suspension of disbelief occurs once you are a vegetable with the tube down your throat.
So here’s to flipping the bird at “guilty pleasures”, “popcorn movies”, and “turning your brain off movies”. Fuck those terms. Fuck those terms in their figurative asses.
Yes, let’s not pay attention during Transformers, and miss the whole part of Megatron and Optimus being brothers. Solid fucking attention spans, people. Real solid.
This is why this form of fandom is bullshit, and why people who spend time actually paying attention to the shows/films that they watch… rule.
I think the big problem with Death Proof was teaming it up with Planet Terror. After RR shows us how an exploitation flick is made, QT gets to bore us for close to an hour before getting to the point.
“roman, maybe it’s me but i didn’t understand those last couple sentences. i’m working heaps so i’m a tad doolally.”
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Sorry, I missed a word. What I meant to say is that I had tthe script for a couple of days and I should really start reading it. Otherwise, I’d say my post was pretty coherent and doolally-proof.
Found out my wife has never seen The Hidden (1987). None of the other folks on her board have seen it either. Am I just old, or are younger movie geeks just not aware of this great old low budget sci-fi picture?
Even Guillermo calls HB2 a popcorn movie. It’s a really great popcorn movie, with heart, warmth, and amazing characters. I’m glad it’s doing very well.
Inglorious Bastards is going to be a masterpiece.
And Blackcloud, Twilight is shit, but they have a huuuuuuuuge fanbase. The people that follow those books are vocal and psychotic 30 something women that have never been laid. The same people that are championing Moonlight.
I know this will corroborate IO’s assertion that I’m not “with it,” but what is Moonlight? Is that more vampire crap?
TWILIGHT = KRISTEN STEWART = OWNS YOUR ASS = $40 MILLION OPENING WEEKEND.
Five of my fave endings: THE WOMAN I STOLE, THE BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU, THE KILLING, A SHOT IN THE DARK and MARS ATTACKS! The first two are admittedly obscure (though BOOGIE is on DVD), but the other three are pretty mainstream.
And yes, MOONLIGHT is more vampire crap. A series of novels that is big with the GOSSIP GIRL/HILLS crowd.
$40 million opening weekend? If it’s relying on the “GOSSIP GIRL/HILLS crowd” it’ll be lucky to do that much total.
I had pegged the X-Files movie as the biggest flop of the summer, but Meet Dave is looking like a strong contender for that prize.
ROEPER IS GOD
Says The Dark Knight deserves and Oscar for best picture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UELDTKPC-lo
We know it’s true.
No, they have been laid, but not properly. Roeper continues to demonstrate why he got the chair. Fuck any and all comers who are not down with the BAT. If the Academy wants to push it aside for some Fall triffles, then the Academy really are way too serious. It’s they lighten up and accept they lost.
So then I’m guessing you have seen The Dark Knight and therefore agree with the assessment that it should win Best Picture? Before five months of films have yet to be screened at all?
I suppose I don’t understand “rooting” for a film that you have yet to see yourself.
doug, THE HIDDEN is a remarkably under-watched fun movie. I completely agree that it should be enjoyed by many more people. And you don’t have to turn your brain off.
Noah: I hate most of the shit that passes for Oscar films. Most of those films are exploitive in nature, lack any real depth of substance, and come off more like a supposed comic book then almost any comic book movie released in a year.
I mean look at the best picture winner last year. It’s a great film. It truly it is, but there’s nothing more REAL about it then say Spider-Man 3. Sure, one takes place in the supposed REAL WORLD, but motherfuckers like Chirguh are as comic-booky as any Doc Octopus. All the way from his hair down to this polyster pants.
So I will take a movie that deals seriously with Super-heroes — the gods of our time — any day of the week over OSCAR BAIT. I at least know the comic book movies are strieving to have some emotional resonance that’s not fake. Which I appreciate during the warmer months of the year.
You still should not… well.. you know.
I get that you’re a fan of comic book movies in general, but you haven’t seen this one yet. So I guess what I’m saying is that I understand if you’re rooting for it to be a great movie (as I always root for pretty much any movie), but why root for it to win an Oscar if you haven’t seen for yourself that it is indeed great?
It’s not just you, IO, it seems to be a relatively common phenomenon, but what I wonder about it is this: is your mind already made up that The Dark Knight is great before you see the movie?
“The Hidden” IS pretty awesome (Claudia Christian is the yum!) and whenever I’m on Melrose, I see that one record shop and always think of the flick. Sad thing is, between this and “Alone in the Dark,” you’d figure Jack Sholder for a really solid, kick-ass genre director. I’ll never understand how after “Renegades,” he didn’t wander into Andrew Davis territory.
Nicol, guess what: there’s actually a nugget of truth in your last post. But I’m not going to tell you what it is, because you’re so bad at expounding upon and convincing others of your views and ideas – i.e., conversation and discourse – that you don’t deserve it.
IOI: You drain my energy and give me nothing in return.
the hidden! 80’s-style horror with kyle and michael, yum. ah, the olden days of the 80’s…
kam and cadavra, thanks for jumping on the ‘great endings’ train with me, i feel a bit less lame! i like the endings you chose (tho i haven’t seen ‘the woman i stole’, so i’ll take your word on that one, cadavra).
roman, my bad. i was all tuckered out last night, didn’t realise you were talking about the script. duh
Jesus, Noah. TRYING TO IMITATE LEXG APPARENTLY FAILED TO COME ACROSS.
I’m not rooting for The Dark Knight to win best picture. I’m rooting for The Dark Knight, Benjamin Button, Body of Lies, Milk, Frost/Nixon, and more!
But given the reception that Knight is receiving so far, and that there’s always a few fall, prestige films that fall flat( Australia *cough-cough, Revolutionary Road, *cough-cough*), then perhaps for a Chris Nolan Batman fan, it’s exciting to know that a Batman film might, might slide in there at the 5th spot…might.
some thoughts:
re: TWILIGHT, Catherine Hardwicke is lucky to have bluffed her way into a gig directing a pre-sold tween phenomenon, but she is an over-rated, talentless hack who will find a way to fuck it up. Trust me.
re: QT. I’m not quite understanding all the vitriol. For me, DEATHPROOF was a lark, like Four Rooms. It failed — ok, move on. JACKIE BROWN is a perfect film and holds up better than anything he’s done. It amazes me how anyone couldn’t like it. KILL BILL 1 is amazing. Pt. 2 was weighed down by the excision of some of the script’s action scenes (the subplot involving Go-Go’s sister, the gambling parlor) as well as the draggy Michael Parks stuff and, most devastatingly, the black hole at the center of the picture that was David Carradine’s leaden performance. Warren Beatty should have crawled out of his cave and done it, it would have been amazing.
As for “Basterds,” it has a few flaws — the Hitler scene, not enough of the squadron — but it really is a great read, totally compelling and will, no doubt, kick ass on screen. If anything, it should be a little longer, more fleshed out — though still one movie, not, heaven forbid, two. I, for one, would gladly pay $12 to see it. I can’t wait.
1. QT is QT. Can’t spell. Writes better than he directs (no better example than Jackie Brown). Why is anyone obsessing?
2. The Hidden is one of the truly great under appreciated junk food movies of all time. It is well directed, smart, funny, and nasty as hell.
Let
Ginger Bites?
Better get working on that vampire idea. Shit. Those 30 plus virgin women have disposable income.
It’s hard to find time to write when you’ve got drugs to steal, ears to cut off, college boys to take joyriding and leave half-dead at Meadow Lane, flowers to arrange…
Ginger Snaps?
i’m thinking ‘twilight’ could benefit hugely from the september release of the hbo series ‘true blood’….
like ‘twilight’, it’s based on a series of successful novels aimed at the ‘young adult’ market….it’s also funny, scary and features an extremely provocative performance from a very grown-up anna pacquin….
if the first two eps. of ‘true bllod’ are any indication, there’s gonna be a whole lot more vampire buzz between september and december….
Noah: I am rooting for anything that does not fit that pre-sold Oscar mold. That’s why I love all of last years nominees. They all had some sort of resonance that you rarely find in an Oscar film.
So I just want something that actually moves me without manipulating me to be nominated for once. This goes for something like Benjamin Button as well. It looks like a great flick that lacks OSCAR-WHORING. It’s hard to find flicks that are not whoring out for gold at the end of the year, but occasionally we get lucky with flicks worthy of owning that trophy.
You also have to ask when the Academy will wake up from their tiny film nominating hell, and nominate a film the nation can root for on that Sunday night in February.
There are few things more ridiculous to me, then the way the Academy currently treats films that people love right now. They even seemingly go out of their way to give FX awards to films that do not even deserve them. So they are against there own audience. Which means the audience will continue to leave until they do something to bring them back.
So here’s to the BAT being that chance to bring them back. It would be a shame if the Oscars turned into the Tony’s one day.
“I think the big problem with Death Proof was teaming it up with Planet Terror. After RR shows us how an exploitation flick is made, QT gets to bore us for close to an hour before getting to the point.”
Perhaps then the reason I loved it was because it was released here separately.
Dave, didn’t USA Films technically become Focus?
anna paquin rocks! (just had do a little shout out for our hutt valley girl, long may she rule)
leah — she not only rocks but somewhere along the line she became incredibly hot….what the f@%* happened to that little girl i interviewed at ‘the piano’ junket?!?……certainly i haven’t gotten that much older……
IO: With all due respect, if all the Oscars went to movies “people love right now.” a lot of great movies would have gone unrewarded. Or have you never heard of the year Citizen Kane lost to How Green Was My Valley? You are an intelligent fellow. Surely you apreciate the concept of historical perspective.
Joe: I am not stating the Oscar need to represent the public’s taste in totality. I am simply stating that the Academy has members that do not get that it’s cool to throw bones out to the people every once and a while.
Imagine an Oscar night with Downey nominated for Best Actor, Ledger nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and the Dark Knight nominated for a slew of awards including Best Picture. This would possibly be a show that people would watch and endure to see the slimest of possibilities happening: THE ACADEMY AWARDING THE OSCAR TO A PERFORMANCE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SOME FAR-OUT BULLSHIT OSCAR WHORING FILM.
It’s time they mix it up. Heck, they could even show more love to Pixar for Jesus’ Invisible Brother’s sake. It’s not like those people are not cranking out masterpieces time and time again.
So all I ask as a life-long fan of the Oscar, is the Academy throw me a frickin bone every once and a while. They still seem to be stuck in a mold that die the moment they gave Annie Hall an award over A New Hope. It’s a new era. Represent it. Embrace it. Maybe act as if you are not a shame of it.
If not, the Oscars are going to become the Tony’s in a few years, and the movie going public may be better for it. We at least would not have to sit through god awful and pointless montages each year.
IO, you’re forgetting though that most of the people who think a summer blockbuster should win Best Picture also has a large crossover with the sort of people who only see five movies or less a year.
I’m a huge advocate of what you’re debating (from the last few years I’ve placed movies like Spider-Man 2 and The Devil Wears Prada in my respective top fives), but just because a lot of “regular people” liked Transformers, doesn’t mean it should have been a Best Picture nominee. It’s not the films’ fault that No Country for Old Men didn’t make $200mil.
And it’s no longer the ’70s when big blockbusters could snag nominations alongside prestige dramas.
There was no movie called “A New Hope” nominated for Oscars the year Annie Hall won.
THERE WAS NO FUCKING MOVIE CALLED A NEW HOPE!
STOP THE REVISIONIST BULLSHIT!
Thank you for your attention.
I love you, Frankbooth. Man you’re suave.
I’ll second that.
*sigh*…third…ditto the love for frankbooth……
‘a new hope’ is a stupid title anyway. if you have to be revisionist at least do it with some panache
I am touched and moved. You guys are all in my will.
Jeff, you can have the gas mask and the scissors. Use them wisely. Monco, take the charger. Hope you’re rich, because gas is a bitch these days. Scooterz, looks like you get custody of Raymond. He eats a lot for a skinny guy, but he knits a mean granny square.
And leahnz, you are so right. It’s just a clunky title. Not suave, not suave at all.
i thought Ginger Snaps was about a bunch of Ginger kids who snapped and started murdering anyone without alabaster skin and freckles.
That was an episode of South Park, anghus.
“QT is QT. Can’t spell. Writes better than he directs (no better example than Jackie Brown).”
Interesting that to prove your point you chose the one picture he’s made that was based on another writer’s material (in this case, the remarkable Elmore Leonard).
Oh your mofos really want to mess with me when it comes to STAR WARS? Do you really? It’s A NEW HOPE. There’s no such movie as STAR WARS. Oh I know the fucking story you backward hippo faced sow, but it’s called A NEW HOPE FOR A FUCKING REASON.
Now the lot of your best remember this in the future: bring up Star Wars… at your own figurative peril.
You’re incorrect. The original prints in 1977 never said a subtitle.
“Now the lot of your best remember this in the future: bring up Star Wars… at your own figurative peril.”
Because we wouldn’t like you when you’re angry?
Problem is, we alr —
— shit, I can’t do it. Too unsporting.
Carry on telling us we should not play.
Sorry IOIOIOI it was STAR WARS when I was growing up, then SPACEBALLS when I was in high school…then it was a new hope that crept in later Titlewise.
I love Frank Booth too (the REAL Frank Booth) so much so, that I have a much beloved picture of a Pabst Blue Ribbon can on my cell phone wallpaper.
But if you are the REAL Frank Booth in your will leave me some property in Lumberton (make sure it don;t have liens on it sonny).
I wouldn;t challenge too many on Star Wars on this blog IO, there are some real experts on here who would kick your keester to tatooine.
By the way I have been to Tatouine, for real! It’s the most beautiful desert this Earthling has ever seen.
Lota: don’t you have some 22 year-old pool boy to go after? You believing you know anything more about Star Wars then me… makes me chuckle. Hurry up though, a woman of your age only has so long to be a cougar.
Jeff: no shit. It still CHANGES NOTHING. Referring to the IV film in a SAGA as the title of that SAGA is as retarded as the need some people have for Han to shoot straight. Yes, I know that you had a hard time in life, and made Han Solo your defacto father-figure or older brother. This does not change the fact that killing Greedo is like killing an invalid. If you like your defacto father-figures and older brothers killing invalids. Well… aren’t you so gosh dern special?
Frank: you can play, but you are like the rest of them. The same boring ass people that someone like LEX stirs up. Apparently the posters on this blog are the internet equivalent of the black and white people from Pleasantville. Excuse the whole 2 of us for being in colour… you poopiehead.
IO, why stoop to namecalling–why don;t you talk about FILM?
Like Twilight–why don;t you talk in depth about it to explain your belief that it will be big instead of smacking other people who don;t know what it is? Isn;t that a good way to drive away an audience–very elitest of you. Explain don’t smack. Why don;t you build support for a movie.
Twilight book 1 was a very good book. It could be a really good movie but I think it would be better off as a miniseries. Like a Dark shadows.
The audience was/is very young adult and largely female, unless they come out in their maximum numbers (and a marketing campaign on the level of Terebithia) it might end up like Blood and Chocolate. I was very disappointed in B & C…even though his hotness Martinez was in it. That could have been a decent cult film but it didn;t seem to be organized well or get support or something. For a Twilight movie to be big will have to build Hannah Montana like support.
See–talk about a movie, have a meeting of the minds with someone IOIOIOI.
But keep going, David will bar you sooner rather than later, and I hate to say it, I won’t mind.
So now IO is agist, sexist and sizist all in one entry. I’m sure he’s said something homophobic too and I just glanced right over it because it’s just part of the wallpaper.
kam — the homophobic stuff is in the other thread…. but, you’re right, it’s all there…..
Not having commented on IO’s stupidity in a long time, I have to say that his description of why he likes the types of movies he does may be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read from him. Instead of looking at them as summer movies or oscar-whoring movies, why doesn’t he look at them as simply movies?
Then again, IO’s thing is to decide that every summer movie is brilliant before he actually sees them because he’s trying to prove that they’re superior when most of it is actually junk. That’s IO for you. Defender of the trash pile.
No wonder he uses personal insults, racist and homophobic remarks to make his arguments because he can’t make them based on substance. Well, also because he’s a coward hiding behind a web moniker.
HELLBOY II:
I liked it but it’s so set-bound and stagey that it makes TOTAL RECALL look like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA; del Toro’s creatures are awesome to behold, the cinematography is incredible… but in terms of “epic” scope, his action always feels a little backlot and soundstaged.