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).
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
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Kathy A - May 29, 2007 7:26:12 am PDT #8780 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
beekaytee - May 29, 2007 7:33:29 am PDT #8781 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 29, 2007 7:36:00 am PDT #8782 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
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.
beekaytee - May 29, 2007 7:38:06 am PDT #8783 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
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.
Sean K - May 29, 2007 7:40:02 am PDT #8784 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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.
beekaytee - May 29, 2007 7:43:15 am PDT #8785 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Complete agreement on both counts.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 29, 2007 7:43:37 am PDT #8786 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
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.
Stephanie - May 29, 2007 8:00:25 am PDT #8787 of 10001
Trust my rage
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.
Aims - May 29, 2007 8:22:16 am PDT #8788 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm watching the HBO series Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
So good.
§ ita § - May 29, 2007 9:05:45 am PDT #8789 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Colour me blind! Tia Dalma (the witchy woman) from PotC2 and 3 was the black chick in 28 Days Later. Never would have gotten that without IMDB. Need to add her to my site, stat.