Fred ,'Smile Time'
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So I was looking at the $4 DVD bin at the grocery store and found a disk with the 3 Wes Craven Dracula movies. Are they at least amusingly bad?
Wasn't Craven just associated with Dracula 2000? At any rate, that one starts out as a caper flick and is actually entertaining until Dracula shows up.
Plei, thanks for setting my expectations appropriately low for John Carter. I managed to mostly enjoy it as "unintentionally hilarious." I have no history with the books or the characters, which I'm sure helped.
Box Office
1. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax $39.1M
2. John Carter $30.6M
It cost $250M.
It'll do fine overseas, just like Prince of Persia.
It made over twice that overseas, yep.
I enjoyed Prince of Persia. Judge me as you will.
We're at our local performing arts theatre, which used to be an old movie theater seeing The General with Buster Keaton accompanied by a Wulitzer.
Oh, how cool! The Mighty Wurlitzer!
We are at the movies to see The Artist.
I just got back from John Carter and quite liked it. It didn't have benefit of a Queen soundtrack, but otherwise was pretty similar to Flash Gordon in being rollicking Pulp-y fun.
I think they went way overboard on the jumping SFX, but liked the look of most everything else and have no complaints about the performances. In fact Lynn Collins as Deja Thoris (now with added agency!) had a very Claudia Black-ish vibe to me.