Niska ,'War Stories'
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Has anyone seen that Witherspoon Heaven movie?
No, but I have to confess that your whitefont makes me way more likely to rent it eventually. I'm still annoyed at City of Angels, because I was looking for a jackass Hollywood happy ending, and instead I got Meg Ryan hit by a goddamned truck! Sometimes I like the bullshit happy ending.
I'd also add that, no matter how many surveys they have stating the opposite, everybody (generalization ahoy!) hates the goddamn commercials (as opposed to trailers) before the movie. As in "I can get that shit at home if I want it".
I'm still annoyed at City of Angels
Heh, your whitefont is the ONLY thing that could have made me watch that movie. I'd have laughed and laughed and thought all my Xmases had come.
signed,
Huge WINGS OF DESIRE fan
2005 box office to date (from boxofficemojo.com):
RankMovie TitleStudioTotal Gross / TheatersOpening / TheatersOpenClose 1Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the SithFox$380,115,6523,663$108,435,8413,6615/19- 2War of the WorldsPar.$233,144,3893,910$64,878,7253,9086/29- 3Batman BeginsWB$204,694,1473,858$48,745,4403,8586/15- 4Wedding CrashersNL$204,006,0003,131$33,900,7202,9257/15- 5Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryWB$203,644,5293,790$56,178,4503,7707/15- 6MadagascarDW$192,381,4294,142$47,224,5944,1315/27- 7Mr. and Mrs. SmithFox$185,380,9683,451$50,342,8783,4246/10- 8HitchSony$179,495,5553,575$43,142,2143,5752/117/21 9The Longest YardPar.$158,032,6613,654$47,606,4803,6345/27- 10Fantastic FourFox$153,524,7223,619$56,061,5043,6027/8- 11RobotsFox$128,200,0123,776$36,045,3013,7763/119/5 12The PacifierBV$113,086,8683,181$30,552,6943,1313/47/14 13The 40-Year-Old VirginUni.$91,686,9733,006$21,422,8152,8458/19- 14Monster-in-LawNL$82,931,3013,424$23,105,1333,4245/139/5 15Are We There Yet?Sony$82,531,1602,810$18,575,2142,7091/216/16
FF might have been more boring than HHGTTG, but it's done better (also relative to the posted production budgets).
We might want good writing and interesting characters. But many of us wanted Firefly and Wonderfalls too. Doesn't make them viable.
It was just not what I was expecting.
See, I'd have watched the Heaven movie to see how the conundrum resolves. Learning that there's no conundrum? FUCK NO.
I don't care about the conundrum, really. Assuming I'm in a mental place where that movie is appealing to me, I just want cute Mark Ruffalo to be happy!!
Jesse, but CoA's was a pointless not-happy ending, rather than a natural conclusion to the events of the movie.
Yes! Phew.
Now all I'm wondering is how one gets permission to rent out an apartment if the leaseholder is in a coma.