Have people seen the Hitchhiker's Guide trailer?
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Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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Jars - Nov 15, 2004 8:43:39 am PST #5770 of 10001
evil jimi - Nov 15, 2004 10:00:30 am PST #5771 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Anyone seen Incident at Loch Ness? It sounds fascinating.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 15, 2004 12:12:47 pm PST #5772 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
So very glad to hear that Polar Express was a bomb, with the previews apparently being creeptastic enough to warn parents away before their children could be traumatized by UncannyValley!Hanks.
tommyrot - Nov 15, 2004 12:25:03 pm PST #5773 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I so wanted that movie to bomb. I watched some intervew/making-of thingie and everyone was just full of themselves over the brilliant, beautiful movie they had made....
sumi - Nov 15, 2004 12:26:36 pm PST #5774 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
It bombed?
Good -- I thought it was soooo creepy looking. (However, I was at lunch on Saturday and two of us thought it looked creepy, two of us wanted to see it and one of us hadn't heard of it.)
DavidS - Nov 15, 2004 12:37:01 pm PST #5775 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It bombed?
Not entirely. It's getting freakass mixed reviews which claim it to be either "A New Holiday Classic" or "The Freakiest Thing Since Meet The Feebles." But it cost $120 mil, so it's got to do huge business to make money. And it only pulled $30 mil or so for opening weekend.
tommyrot - Nov 15, 2004 12:41:04 pm PST #5776 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But it cost $120 mil,
MSNBC says it cost "a reported $170 million."
Hee.
eta: Yahoo says "reportedly cost $270 million to make and market."
Double-hee.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 15, 2004 12:45:00 pm PST #5777 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh, they're never going to recoup that. Slow opening weekends can be overcome by a sleeper hit, but I don't think there's ever been a $270 million sleeper hit. Maybe My Big Fat Greek Wedding, once you factor in foreign grosses, but it made its money over more than a year and the word of mouth wasn't of the "it's the eeriest thing you've ever seen!" variety.
Steph L. - Nov 15, 2004 3:14:44 pm PST #5778 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I just saw a commercial for the Uncanny Valley Creeptastic Polar Express -- playing at the IMAX theater. I think they're desperate.
ION, if Sideways and Kinsey don't get their asses here soon, I'm going to shake my fist in a reproving manner in the general direction of Hollywood.
t edit Okay, Hollywood is partially safe from the wrath of my fist-shake. Sideways opens Friday.
Holli - Nov 15, 2004 3:26:21 pm PST #5779 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Steph, you're not getting Kinsey?
We had a disply up for it at the theater here in Lancaster. I was surprised, actually.