Groucho

I'm not sure why people keep harping on Hellboy as a bomb? Again, why keep singling that movie out when there are actual bombs also on the list? Do folks have something against that movie?

Jackskeleton

Because that is the situation, people do have issues with Hellboy. I dunno why. It doesn't seem like anything out of the blue other then another comic film that will turn a nice profit in the long haul.

fumanstan

Hopefully. I've enjoyed The Scorpion King and The Rundown, and i'll probably catch Walking Tall on DVD. It's just a shame that despite good word on both his last two movies, they haven't been very big successes. Maybe he needs to co-star with one big named actor to get the general public interested rather then scoffing at the idea of a wrestler turned actor.

As for Hellboy, i think people are simply thinking comic book movie = 100+ million in the box office. Even if they aren't familiar with the character.

Geofferson

I knew that The Whole 10 Yards would bomb, but I feel kind of bad for The Alamo. Though I haven't seen it and am aware of its mixed reviews. It should have pulled in more than it did.

mrpayroll

But I think that very few people were actually interested in the story of The Alamo. I know I wasn't.

Chris

Get Me Coffee

The story of the Alamo is amazing. It's pure AMERICAN ideals! With saying that...no I haven't seen the movie yet. Planning on seeing it soon.

antennaball

I think the story is fascinating, but that's probably just because I've spent my entire life in the area and I've heard all the different legends. That's what makes me want to see the movie to see how accurately they portrayed it.

Geofferson

I don't know - Easter week must be a slow week historically (I don't have previous year's numbers handy). I'm sure that that The Passion... stole a lot of the competition's thunder too since it came in at #1 again.

scott shelton

Last year, this time...


1 Anger Management $42,220,847

2 Phone Booth $7,618,519

3 What a Girl Wants $6,287,478

4 Bringing Down the House $4,502,225

5 A Man Apart $4,457,668

6 Head of State $3,982,035

7 House of 1,000 Corpses $3,460,666

8 The Core $3,306,820

9 Chicago $3,207,797

10 Basic $2,103,440

movielib

I agree with all of you who think the Alamo is a fascinating story. I'm going to see it right now in fact, reviews and crap box office be damned!

Scot1458

This film was pumped and pimped for months on AICN and all over the net. Let's face it, it only brought the fanboys/comic geeks in and not the general public.

The drop off as indicated in this post also shows it's lack of blockbuster quality.

If it didn't bomb, it sure as hell performed below expatations.

al_bundy

what about the thing that i heard that they showed billy bob thorton executed on his knees?

Groucho

Not at my showing.You do realize that there's a middle ground between bomb and blockbuster? If the studio was anticipating a huge hit, they would have waited until Summer to release it.

You don't have to have the numbers of Titanic or Passion to be a hit.

Jackskeleton

It was Pumped and pimped for months on AICN because Del Toro is good friends with Henry, owner of AICN. They help each other out.

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The drop off as indicated in this post also shows it's lack of blockbuster quality.

If it didn't bomb, it sure as hell performed below expatations.

Shut up already. There is obvious bombs like The Alamo and you take a typical second week drop (on a weekend where all titles were lower then expected) and claim Hellboy is a bomb? It's already 2/3 it's way to making back it's budget in it's second week. For a sony released title, that's amazing. It's an obscure comic book. You ask your typical fan boy comic book reader and 9 times out of 10, they will not know a thing about hellboy prior to this film. It's not an X-men or a Spiderman. this was never suppose to be a Summer blockbuster. It was just a small budget Revolutions film distributed by sony. It's take in so far is above what was expected from it.

It amazes me that every film has to do 50+ in it's first weekend in order to not be considered a bomb.

movielib

I just saw it and I can't be all that positive in my opinion of it. The last part was quite good from the climactic battle at the Alamo through Houston's ultimate defeat of Santa Anna but getting there was long and tedious. I liked the music and most of the acting was very good but with the exception of a few interesting scenes like Crockett's playing the violin to accompany the enemy's drumming and Travis's speech, there was little energy or forward impetus in the way things were portrayed. The ending half hour wasn't enough to save the preceding hour and three quarters.

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