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| Ghulam |
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Colin Firth in The King's Speech is as good as advertised. The dramatization is very good. George VI was the Emperor of India till 1947. We used to listen to his Christmas radio address anticipating him to stammer. He never did.
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:39 pm |
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| Also coming up is Cowboys & Aliens, like Jonah Hex it is based on a graphic novel. Though a lot of these graphic novels and comic books are cool, I find that they often result in movies that are ultimately unsatisfying, the cinematic equivalent of empty calories. I now sigh (audibly) when a trailer confronts me with the phrase, “Based on the Marvel comic,” or “…DC…” or “…graphic novel…” Hopefully, featuring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell, Cowboys & Aliens will be a cut above the rest, though I’m not sure that the Western, which is fairly reliant on well-established rituals and conventions can withstand too much meddling or having its moral backbone replaced with something more ironic or playful. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:13 pm |
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| I’m slightly ashamed to say that I was actually pleased by the critical bile pan dished out to the wrong-headed Gulliver’s Travels (Metacrtioc score of 34) Yogi Bear (35) and Little Fockers (27). However, my satisfaction was cut short upon learning that Little Fockers rules at the box-office. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:46 pm |
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jeremy wrote: I’m slightly ashamed to say that I was actually pleased by the critical bile pan dished out to the wrong-headed Gulliver’s Travels (Metacrtioc score of 34) Yogi Bear (35) and Little Fockers (27). However, my satisfaction was cut short upon learning that Little Fockers rules at the box-office.
It doesn't rule. It was #1 by default. It's considered a woeful disappointment.
From Box Office Mojo:
When is passing $100 million in just 12 days not so hot? When the preceding movie did it in eight days and had nearly double the attendance. Such was the case with Little Fockers, which dipped 16 percent to $25.8 million over the weekend for a $102.6 million tally in 12 days. Predecessor Meet the Fockers, which played on the same days and dates six years ago, generated $41.7 million over New Year's weekend, held better and had collected $162.5 million in total (the equivalent of over $200 million adjusted for ticket price inflation). |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:08 pm |
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I take your point Billy, but $100,000,000 in less time than it takes me to paint a room doesn't sound too shabby to me. Somewhat below expectations is much better than the film deserves. I would have been still been unhappy if more than 12 people had gone to see the film and anyone associated with the project managed to find work again.
I think Robert De Niro is a good comic actor, but what is someone of his stature doing making a second sequel in an already poor series? Surely he doesn't need the money. Maybe I should direct the same question at Johnny Depp with regards to his next excursion on the Black Pearl. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:13 pm |
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| As much as I hate the idea of Little Fockers being Number 1, I hate even more the idea of a movie's success being determined by immediate box office results. Is the fact that it took four more days to make what it's predecessor made really a sign of failure? That audiences don't like it? Big opening weekend takes are a bad measure of a movie's success. (Though that's what insures lousy movies like Scooby Doo get sequels.) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:14 pm |
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jeremy wrote:
I think Robert De Niro is a good comic actor.
Here's our first point of disagreement.
And yes, yes, yes, I agree he was aces in Midnight Run, but that was an action movie with laughs, not Meet the Fockers or Analyze That. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:21 pm |
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| Watch Greetings sometime. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:37 pm |
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| The only thing I liked about Meet the Parents was the part with Owen Wilson. Everything else was pretty well crap, literally and figuratively. I guess I'm not a good barometer when it comes to box office success, |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:32 pm |
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| The idea that there is a third Meet the Fockers movie fills me with sadness for humanity. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:24 pm |
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| I hadn't realized how many films Natalie Portman is in or will be in around now. In addition to "Black Swan" and "No Strings Attached," she's going be in "The Other Woman," "Your Highness," "Thor" and "Hersher." All this in a six month period. She's also about to have a baby. Busy woman. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:04 am |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:03 am |
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Quote: The critically vilified Jonah Hex. I haven't seen it, but I couldn't resist the picture of Megan Fox. Still she's no patch on Salma Hayek in a corset in the equally risible, Wild Wild West .
Or a young and lovely J-Lo in the utterly ridiculous and OTT, "U-Turn," a film apparently made by Oliver Stone while he was hanging out in New Mexico getting extremely wasted. In terms of deconstructing the Western, this film just tosses it into a blender to see what happens. Check it out for the bizarre Billy Bob Thornton performance, if nothing else. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:09 pm |
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Nothing justifies U-Turn. As for True Grit--even though I didn't like it very much, it would be less ridiculous than The English Patient, A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator, or The Greatest Show on Earth.
That The English Patient beat out Fargo just added insult to injury.
Saw The King's Speech for the second time yesterday. Of the perceived favorites, it's definitely ahead of The Social Network and (now a favorite, I guess) True Grit, and in a dead heat with The Fighter.
I still prefer Another Year to all of 'em.
If Inception wins I'm moving to Canada. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:45 pm |
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Or just take a nap and go down to Dream Level Six, where you can spend years whacking Academy members.
(get Randy Quaid first, and put him out of his misery)
Will see The King's Peach today or tomorrow. |
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