Box office roundup

[DraconianOne]

How Boyle ever managed to make it like a shitty Event Horizons is beyond me - as EH is great as a sort of Cthulhu Mythos homage but total crap as a sci-fi movie (it's not bad if you think of it as pure horror and forget any sort of sci-fi bit). Boyle must've though EH+Solaris = Awesome. I blame drugs.

You blame Boyle yet it is more likely that Alex Garland was more to blame, being the derivative hack that he is.

[Chenghiz]

I actually really enjoyed the movie until the bad-guy part. Until the it gave me a real 2001: A Space Odyssey vibe which gives me nostalgic quivers, but as soon as the guy shows up I just fast-forwarded to the end and then read the summary on wikipedia. Don't put horror in my hard scifi films!

[Ironwood]

Hard sci fi ?  Reigniting the sun ?

 

[Tebonas]

You might argue the "hard" part, but the rest of the statement is absolutely true. I hated that genre jump as well.

[Ironwood]

I don't have a problem with the rest of the statement.


I'm fairly sure I said a couple of posts ago that it was an awful film. 

 

[HaemishM]

I like Sunshine right up until the bad guy showed up. It completely jumped the tracks as that point, as if the writer just didn't have anywhere to go.

[Chenghiz]

Well, not so much hard scifi in the sense that its science made sense. More in the vein of "this is not about aliens and lasers in space, ok?" The theme of man versus himself seems to be a pretty strong one in that sort of film. I just don't have a good label for that sort of thing.

[WindupAtheist]

Anyone wanna guess how Hulk: Part Deux is going to make out at the box office?  I don't sense much buzz for it.  I'm gonna randomly guess it'll open to maybe $65m and finish up between $150 and $200m.  Successful but underwhelming.

[Nevermore]

It would help if the special effects in the previews didn't make the Hulk look like he's made out of jello.

[HaemishM]

I'm predicting massive trainwreck of epic fail proportions for Hulk's opening weekend.

[stu]

I'm guessing it'll top out around $50m before getting bumped off screens.

[Samwise]

I may very well go see Hulk opening weekend.  I found the first movie tolerable, and this one looks like it's going to be much better.  And, well, Ed Norton.

[Velorath]

Anyone wanna guess how Hulk: Part Deux is going to make out at the box office?  I don't sense much buzz for it.  I'm gonna randomly guess it'll open to maybe $65m and finish up between $150 and $200m.  Successful but underwhelming.

Oddly, I've seen nothing but very positive reviews so far from advanced screenings.  I'm shocked because I thought the trailers looked like utter shit.  If word gets out to people as to how this ties into Iron Man and the lead up to the Avengers, I could see people watching it just for that.

The last Hulk movie opened at about $62 million and ended up with $137 million total.  I'm guessing this one will do around $60 million opening as well, but will show better legs on the strength of good reviews and word of mouth.

[Ironwood]

I found the first movie tolerable,

Really ?

 

[Samwise]

A superhero/action movie has to work really hard at being bad for me to find it intolerable.  Hulk didn't hit that mark.

Electra... now that was intolerable.  As was whichever Batman movie had Uma and Arnie.

[K9]

Daredevil was a benchmark in awful too.

The benchmark could well be, don't hire Ben Affleck to do your movies.

[Chimpy]

Daredevil was a benchmark in awful too.

The benchmark could well be, don't hire Ben Affleck to do your movies.

Or Joel Schumacher (regarding the aforementioned Batman debacle). NIPPLES ON THE BATSUIT, YO!

[Nerf]

Saw Don't mess with the Zohan tonight, it was funny, but not Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison funny.  Worth a download at the very least, though.

[stray]

Uh... Almost anything is worth a download, man. 

[Tannhauser]

Hulk has an extra scene at the end ala Iron Man.

Going to see Indy today (yeah I'm behind). 

[murdoc]

Saw Don't mess with the Zohan tonight, it was funny, but not Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison funny.  Worth a download at the very least, though.

Took my 16 year old nephew to that tonight. Haven't been to the movies in a few months and I get stuck seeing Zohan :(

[stu]

Anyone wanna guess how Hulk: Part Deux is going to make out at the box office?  I don't sense much buzz for it.  I'm gonna randomly guess it'll open to maybe $65m and finish up between $150 and $200m.  Successful but underwhelming.

Oddly, I've seen nothing but very positive reviews so far from advanced screenings.  I'm shocked because I thought the trailers looked like utter shit.  If word gets out to people as to how this ties into Iron Man and the lead up to the Avengers, I could see people watching it just for that.

The last Hulk movie opened at about $62 million and ended up with $137 million total.  I'm guessing this one will do around $60 million opening as well, but will show better legs on the strength of good reviews and word of mouth.

The very latest commercials are actually pretty damn cool. Color me surprised. The thing I like most about them is the lack of the anit-Hulk character (I'm guessing that's the Abomination).

[stray]

Huh, I'm not alone then. Thank God.

[Nerf]

Uh... Almost anything is worth a download, man. 

You've never seen "Gang Warz"

[stray]

Can't say that I have. Sounds like porn though. Can't be that bad.

[edit] Dude, it's got Chino XL AND Robert Vaughn?! I bet it's the shit.

No seriously, I have to download this now.

[Abagadro]

Went to Kung Fu Panda today with the kiddie. Was surprising good on a couple of different levels.

[climbjtree]

I just got back from The Happening.

I'm pretty sure M. Night Shyamalan is a nom de plume of Aaron Rayburn's.

[Brogarn]

Saw Hulk today. Has its flaws, but still turned out to be far better than I expected.

[Viin]

Saw Hulk today. Has its flaws, but still turned out to be far better than I expected.

Better than the 2003 version?

[Abagadro]

I enjoyed it.  It's pretty brisk (I'd be interested in seeing Norton's longer cut) but it hits all the right Hulk-ish elements.

[stray]

Lol Norton's got his own cut of this too? I recall a certain debacle with Tony Kaye and American History X about the same thing. Kaye ended up wanting to Smithee it, but couldn't.

[Abagadro]

I don't think he has an official "cut" per se, but it came out that he wasn't happy with the final cut because it was so focused on "action" and was a taught 90 minutes. His concept was more about the psychological toll on Banner and was 2:20 or so. The studio thought it was too close to the 2003 "brooding/moody" version and didn't want anything to do with it.

[stray]

As much as he does it, I want to give him credit. Not that I've seen what a Kaye version of AHX would be, or what rewrites he does to other movies, but all in all, the results are never that bad. And if he wanted more Bruce Banner in this story, I don't blame him. To me, the Hulk is basically the Werewolf story... And just like werewolf stories, there should be a lot of time devoted to the guy being tortured through all of it.


There's that, plus the fact that Marvel execs have been cockmunches not only about Favreau and Iron-Man, but also insisted on Venom instead of Vulture (say what you will about the character of Vulture, but Raimi had Ben Kingsley for the part) in Spidey-3.

[Brogarn]

Better than the 2003 version?

I actually kind of liked the 2003 version, but this one blows it away.

[Ironwood]

There's that, plus the fact that Marvel execs have been cockmunches not only about Favreau and Iron-Man, but also insisted on Venom instead of Vulture (say what you will about the character of Vulture, but Raimi had Ben Kingsley for the part) in Spidey-3.

I hadn't heard this one.

It makes me angry.