Weekend Box Office (8/13-8/15): Testosterone fever edition
08-15-10, 03:47 PM
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I agree with the first part of your comment, but not the second (part about Inception).
Seems that Wright made another cult movie to add to his list behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Problem is, he used a lot bigger budget. I don't think we will see him directing studio flicks again any time soon. They don't seem to like investing large sums for a cult hit.
08-15-10, 06:04 PM
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Me too!
08-15-10, 06:52 PM
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Okay, I read this (though, maybe not from that source; I forget where exactly.):
I posted that on Facebook and a friend of mine called me on it, regarding which movie of his opened at #1 during 2000-2009. I know it wasn't Rambo and I don't think it was Rocky Balboa. So would that be Spy Kids 3-D (and did he truly "anchor" that one? I never saw it.)? Or is the above wrong?
Stallone became the first movie star to anchor number one openings in each of the past five decades thanks to The Expendables which bowed on top with an estimated $35M.
08-15-10, 07:00 PM
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Driven opened at #1 in 2001.
08-15-10, 07:03 PM
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Ah, okay. I've never seen it. I noticed it on his IMDB page, but I thought that movie bombed so I didn't even consider it. Kudos to Stallone!
08-15-10, 07:07 PM
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Spy Kids 3D was #1 at the box office when it opened, and Stallone was the villain, so...
08-16-10, 12:01 AM
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Re: Weekend Box Office (8/13-8/15): Testosterone fever edition
Still haven't seen Scott Pilgrim. I had lunch with a friend who is a HUGE video gamer. A few years younger than I am. Was big into Nintendo. And he had no desire to see the film.He thought it looked really stupid.
It's really crazy how this can't find an audience. I am going to try and see it tomorrow. Looks fun as hell to me.
It's really crazy how this can't find an audience. I am going to try and see it tomorrow. Looks fun as hell to me.
08-16-10, 12:15 AM
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08-16-10, 08:19 AM
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I saw it at the earliest showing on Saturday (12:25 PM) and there were only 17 people in the theater, including me and my friend. Also, it was in the small theater instead of one of the larger ones.
08-16-10, 08:21 AM
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Re: Weekend Box Office (8/13-8/15): Testosterone fever edition
Yeah. I'm in your neck of the woods too, and at the 5:45 (or whatever it was) showing at the Great Escape on Friday, there were literally 5 people besides myself and a friend I'd dragged with me. Three were in there when we walked in, and two came in after the movie had started. The girl at the ticket counter didn't even know what I was talking about when I said "one for Scott Pilgrim".
08-16-10, 08:40 AM
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Well, until you go to see it, you only have the advertising to go on, right? Michael Cera and his mopey personality and haircut and his ironic ringer tees...hipster. The girlfriend with her cool dyed hair, tights and oh-so-non-conformist style...hipster. Like Patman said, it's aimed at a narrow segment of the young adult audience, and that's not enough to carry the film. It's doing exactly the kind of business I expected it to do. Whether it's an awesome film or not is irrelevant to the discussion.
08-16-10, 08:48 AM
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We saw a 5:30 show Saturday at City Place in West Palm Beach, FL. HUGE entertainment complex. Tons of people, families, all sorts out. Our showing was in the smallest theater in the megaplex, and besides my wife and myself there were probably 8-10 people there. Shame, really. 
08-16-10, 09:13 AM
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I'm not that sad that Scott Pilgrim bombed. I enjoyed it, but it's not like it had franchise potential or anything, unliked Expendables.
08-16-10, 09:20 AM
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A friend of mine summed it up best, when I told him Scott bombed: "I'm just glad it exist"
08-16-10, 09:44 AM
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From another forum:
"LOL at 10 mil at the box office. Looks like emo/hipster doesn't appeal to the masses. Weird."
Not hard to understand why the movie bombed.
"LOL at 10 mil at the box office. Looks like emo/hipster doesn't appeal to the masses. Weird."
Not hard to understand why the movie bombed.
08-16-10, 09:46 AM
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I am mildly amused at how Scott Pilgrim is getting slumped up as "hipster" with a ton of people over the web. I consider these people lucky for never having met actual hipsters.
It also isn't emo. No hair cut itself for the duration and no dwelling on how much life sucks occured.
It's squarely aimed at the videogame slacker group, which is pretty limited to begin with. But I guess all 3 labels are pretty negavtive -- Hipster, Emo or Geek.
It also isn't emo. No hair cut itself for the duration and no dwelling on how much life sucks occured.
It's squarely aimed at the videogame slacker group, which is pretty limited to begin with. But I guess all 3 labels are pretty negavtive -- Hipster, Emo or Geek.
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08-16-10, 09:49 AM
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Hipster is just the new EMO, in that it started out with a fairly specific meaning but eventually just became a mostly generic insult.
08-16-10, 10:52 AM
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The problem is that NOW studios will be extremely hesitant to take chances with offbeat, innovative filmmakers and storytelling. Why drop $60 million on something as insanely different, offbeat, and awesome as "Scott Pilrgrim" when you can do 2 or 3 generic rom-coms at the same price? Or a few more remakes of 80s horror movies?
People were bitching all year about remakes and sequels aplenty, and how Hollywood had "run out of ideas". Along comes something creative, different, and exciting and it pretty much gets ignored by the masses. That's the sad part.
I'm still flabbergasted than INCEPTION has made $250 million in this environment.
08-16-10, 11:10 AM
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I'm very happy that Eric Roberts beat out his sister at the boxoffice. Gotta be the first time THAT's happened!
08-16-10, 11:42 AM
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08-16-10, 11:52 AM
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I can see why though. If I was 40+ years old and saw the trailers, I would probably think the exact same thing and have little interest in the movie.