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"Battleship" Avoids U.S. Release and Makes $170 Mil Around the World
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| 4/25/2012 @ 12:17PM |
Posted on 04/29/2012 3:58:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: jiggyboy
The problem for Katy is that too many people will confuse her for Zooey Deschanel.
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:02:01 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: BenLurkin
This is very smart. Disappointed that it's come to this, but in our rate/review obsessed culture, word of mouth has replaced actuality.
Just finished reading a book about the infamous movie Heaven's Gate, the film that destroyed United Artists because of bad word of mouth and a particularly ghastly review from Vincent Canby at the NYT, who called the movie the equivalent of a "forced four-hour walking tour of one's own living room". The whole fiasco was a groupthink hatchet job against a film that is at least worth a look, and is enjoyable to some.
Studios releasing overseas ahead of the US is indicative of a larger problem, and that is peoples' obsession with reviews and ratings, on everything from movies and music to washers and toasters.
What happened to experiencing things for oneself? I can't think of anything more worthless than the opinion of an anonymous stranger.
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:05:35 PM PDT
by
GunRunner
(***Not associated with any criminal actions anonymus by the ATF***)
To: Azeem
Hysterical! Esp. since we’re about to give our 4yo the game. Not sure if my wife will be amused or horrified by that pic...
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:06:43 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
To: GunRunner
What happened to experiencing things for oneself?Uh $10 ticket prices for movies.
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:08:58 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: SunkenCiv
“You sunk my movie studio!”
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:10:00 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: SunkenCiv; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; theothercheek; Arizona Carolyn; Yaelle; hoosiermama; ...
Wow, would the left, especially the NOW crowd, throw a collective hissy fit if that “Battleship” game were released today!!! Look at that cover: Father and son are having fun playing a “war” game, while mother and daughter are in the kitchen washing the dishes. So blatantly sexist. (Sarc.)
To: justiceseeker93
I taught my liberal cousin how to play battleship on paper when were kids.
MUAHAHAHA
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:39:52 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Azeem
LOL!
You’re officially my new hero.
To: Azeem
O
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LOL I had to post that on my Facebook!
To: BenLurkin
"But...but...aren't foreign audiences more 'sophisticated" than the dopey Americans?"
You just won't understand...
To: justiceseeker93
Played that that game with my brother when I was a youngster...
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:54:54 PM PDT
by
Hotlanta Mike
(Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA)...before there is no America!)
To: ari-freedom
Most of the best movies over the past few years have been foreign movies. Hollywood just makes liberal trash, or “Gee Look How Good Our Computer Graphics Are” crap.
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:55:57 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: Big Giant Head
Don’t worry, it’s not a real poster. :)
To: GunRunner
Experiencing things for yourself is fine if it’s free. If I’m gonna lay down $10 I want some level of indication that I’m not better off spending that money in a bar. Some movies I’ll go see no matter what the reviewers say because they’re topically in my wheelhouse, some movies I won’t see regardless of the reviewers because they aren’t. The rest of the pack I look up the rotten tomatoes collective data, maybe read a couple of reviews, just to get a feel.
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posted on
04/29/2012 6:05:19 PM PDT
by
discostu
(I did it 35 minutes ago)
To: justiceseeker93
They’d be okay with it if there were two lesbian mommies, and the daughter had a short haircut.
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posted on
04/29/2012 6:08:08 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/29/2012 6:08:42 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: dfwgator
Best thing about the game was it almost creates its own Abott and Costello routine:
Player one: "I 1"
Player two: "You did not!"
Player one: "D 2"
Player two: "Did not!"
To: SunkenCiv
I don't think the Battleship game cover art is sexist, but the girls seem to be a little too happy to be in that kitchen washing the dishes while the boys are playing Battleship. I think they have some kind of practical joke in the works.
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posted on
04/29/2012 6:32:53 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 20 days away from outliving Phil Hartman)
To: dfwgator
So you would let a review from someone you don't know keep you from seeing a movie you thought looked good?
I can see if maybe you thought the two hours was too much to risk, but $10? I hope I'm never that destitute.
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posted on
04/29/2012 6:41:36 PM PDT
by
GunRunner
(***Not associated with any criminal actions anonymus by the ATF***)
To: SamAdams76
They’re laughing at Dad’s sweater-vest.
“Who knows Cindy, Maybe in about 40 years, sweater-vests will be cool again?”
“Yeah Mom, but only for about two months.”
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posted on
04/29/2012 6:49:48 PM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
(If I had a failed one-term President, he'd look like Obama.)
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