Heh. The Indiewire weekend box office list amuses me:
1. Talking Animals 3D - (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $60.4 million
2. Prometheus 3D - (Fox) - $50 million
3. All Fairy Tales Should Apparently Look Like Lord Of The Rings (Universal) - $23.1 million ($98.5 mil.)
4. Men In Black 3D (Sony) - $13.5 million ($135.5 mil.)
5. Those Who Would Avenge Us (Disney) - $10.8 million ($571.9 mil.)
6. The Best Exotic Third World Hotel For White People (Fox Searchlight) - $3.3 million ($31 mil.)
7. What To Detect When You’re Detecting (Lionsgate) - $2.8 million ($36 mil.)
8. You Should Have Adapted Risk Instead (Universal) - $2.4 million ($60 mil.)
9. The Dictator (Paramount) - $2.3 million ($55 mil.)
10. Quirks Abound (Focus Features) - $1.6 million ($9.2 mil.)
Prometheus got beat by Madagascar 3. Wow.
The instant I saw the singing, dancing zebra in the rainbow wig I thought "that's possibly the most annoying character to listen to on earth. Toddlers will LOVE it!"
Yeah, it was going to be hard for an R movie to beat the kids movie.
That Indiewire list is a bit of an admission of not-as-clever-as-we'd-have-liked, since they didn't manage to be cute ten times in a row.
What's a normal really good opening weekend for an R rated movie?
When we went to see Prometheus I reached into the normal bin for the 3D glasses in the baggies, and the ticket puncher gave me a different pair of specs--this one said IMAX
and
3D. Is that advertising, or is there a technical difference?
My god, I promised myself I'd rewatch Children of Men today, but was
seriously
feeling too lazy to load the disc player and change the inputs on the TV.
YES.
That lazy.
Oh, look! It's on Syfy! Right now! So I appear to be settling for at best, ads, at worst bowlderisation. I don't even...
Saw Prometheus last night. Beautifully art-directed and cast, loved watching it. The script made me roll my eyes forever. How did
this rich guy manage to hire the world's stupidest scientists? Geologist who gets lost in a cave area MADE OF ROCKS. Biologist who doesn't know better than to make kissy faces at an unknown life form? Archeologist who discovers a wild theory he devoted his life to is true and then immediately sulks by a pool table because he didn't get to talk to the dudes he imagined?
Scrappy,
are you sure the area
where he got lost was made of rocks? I thought that was part of the space vehicle and thus I was not certain what material it was made from.
Not for nothing,
I completely agree with you at the levels of stupidity. It burned. real bad.
I really enjoyed this Bruce Banner vid:
[link]
I'm not sure why a geologist
couldn't get lost if they were in rocks,
but I agree with LeN--that was the
spaceship, wasn't it?
But, yeah--these were some resounding stupid people. Decision after decision was barely even a decision. And some of the obstacles were kind of random. When Shaw went into
Inara's shuttle
(that's totes what it looked like to me) in order to have the
abortion, the gender discrimination of the machinery
seemed really random. And, if it's designed for
men (no foreshadowing there), how can you just
talk
it through an abortion? And why would it leave your womb? It thinks you're a guy, remember?
And once all that was done, why don't you
kill the fucking alien baby?
Oh, and why did that bit even happen? What orders was
David under that told him to infect one of the crew members with black oil/purgatory monsters? Did it have to be him specifically? Because he was obviously going to sleep with someone right away and get her pregnant?
What was supposed to happen as a result of that? How did it further
Weyland's agenda?
Or was it just random experimentation?
I enjoyed Prometheus very much, despite the
persistent dumbassery of many of the characters.
The worst example, IMO was when
Shaw and Vickers were running away from the crashing space ship. Why the hell didn't they just RUN TO THE SIDE instead of resolutely keeping within squishing range?
