In view of those numbers being huge for those things ita posted, are we just looking at a mildly sluggish season and studio execs being used to leading us like hogs to a trough on Memorial Day?
Strong like an Amazon.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
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erikaj - Sep 22, 2005 8:43:29 am PDT #7500 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2005 8:43:51 am PDT #7501 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Go see it, Jessica, and come back and tell us. I can't ask my friend any more questions about it. I think she's at risk of an aneurysm on the whole movie subject.
DavidS - Sep 22, 2005 8:46:17 am PDT #7502 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I didn't realize War of the Worlds made so much. I thought it was a box office disapointment. Apparently Spielberg plus Cruise equals print your own money.
Jessica - Sep 22, 2005 8:49:00 am PDT #7503 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Go see it, Jessica, and come back and tell us.
Yeah...no.
I thought it was a disapointment.
I think it cost so much to make that any box office returns were going to be disappointing.
erikaj - Sep 22, 2005 8:50:41 am PDT #7504 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah...did this season really tank, or are we underperforming from their lemming expectations of "Here's our money. Ooh, shiny."
Fred Pete - Sep 22, 2005 8:50:48 am PDT #7505 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'd add TiVo to the list. With TiVo + a decent scheduling guide + a little time and initiative to review the scheduling guide, there's always something good on TV.
erikaj - Sep 22, 2005 8:53:00 am PDT #7506 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, right. Tivo. I am Tivo-less. It wasn't Tivo, it was me. I just couldn't turn him on properly.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 22, 2005 8:56:04 am PDT #7507 of 10002
"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
FF had none of that, and was boring as a result.
Frankly, there were parts of HHGTTG that I found slower and more boring than anything in Fantastic Four. I think it was a better film, and my Douglas Adams love made me want it to do better, but while FF was a guilty pleasure movie I wouldn't describe it as boring.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2005 8:57:25 am PDT #7508 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
while FF was a guilty pleasure movie I wouldn't describe it as boring.
Which is why there's no formula for success.
I found FF excruciatingly boring. And the bits that weren't boring weren't even that fun. Mostly ... not as boring as the rest. And invariably involved that Torch guy. More points if he was nekkid, but still.
P.M. Marc - Sep 22, 2005 9:06:21 am PDT #7509 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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!!
Why is this? Seriously. I've been thinking about this for the last two days, as the result of watching the Mark Ruffalo episode of Due South, and I *really* wanted the Mark Ruffalo character to be happy, but I should have been rooting for the bad guys, because the Mark Ruffalo character really sucked, and was a bad daddy, and I should have hated him, except he was played by Mark Ruffalo.
Umm. When I've had coffee, I might be able to translate that into English beyond, "DAMN YOU MARK RUFFALO! DAMN YOUR SAD EYES!"
Because it's really getting on my nerves that Mark Ruffalo has this effect on me.