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Waitress ended up 5th in the weekend's box office tally.
Wow, it's only playing on one screen at the indie theater in Memphis, so I assumed there were about 100 prints nationwide. That's pretty damn impressive in a weekend when the Spider and Pirate sequels are sucking in all available moviegoers.
What's a standard second weekend dropoff for a big release? I mean, how low do you have to go for it to be considered a bad thing?
I think that 55-60% is pretty standard anymore, but if you get down into the high 70s/low 80s, then it starts to get press as being a flop (Hulk had, IIRC, an 83% drop its second week).
I mean, as it was I wanted the big finish something awful, and what we were given wasn't the slightest bit interesting to me. Parkour would have been a huge upgrade.
My feeling exactly. It felt as if the whizzbang opening (seriously, I was the slack-jawed demographic they were pitching to) ended up being something of a bait and switch.
What is this dopey, nonsensical sentimentality? Where did my kickass, richly dark, hugely creative movie go?
I loved Waitress not for its provenance or even because my soopersekritcelebrityboyfriend was in it...but because it joins the pack of little teeny, slice-o-life movies that just make me feel good. Dear Frankie, A Slipping Down Life, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself...and on and on...I love them all.
eta: Oh, and The Girl in the Cafe, Sliding Doors, Dirty Filthy Love, Home Movie.
Beej, have you ever seen Sarah Polley in My Life without Me? It strikes me as being similar to those movies, and something you might like.
It's been in my queue forever. I'll move it up!
Just the name reminds me to My First Mister which nearly broke me. Cliche? You betcha...completely predictable? uh HUH. But still I loved it.
I thought Leelee Sobiyeksi and Albert Brooks were both wornderful in that, Beej, even though it was pretty cliche and predictable.
Albert Brooks in particular seems to be able to do great stuff with pretty average material. See: Defending Your Life.
Complete agreement on both counts.
It's been in my queue forever. I'll move it up!
Just don't watch on a day when you're feeling mopey. They have a picture of the movie poster next to the word "anomie" in the dictionary.
It feels late now, but I had to chime in to say that I saw PoTC3 on Sunday and DH and I both thought it was so funny. And way better than either of the other two (although I was bored by most of the second one). It just seemed funny in lots of ways, like stupid obvious pranks, but also funny lines.