Yousa meean thissa movie suck?!
Posted on 05/28/2006 11:30:50 PM PDT by dangus
Danged nice essay.
Yousa meean thissa movie suck?!
Browns' Da Vinci Code makes the sledge at the bottom of the Hudson seem pristine.
I understand it made back its money the first weekend. So Follywood will chalk it up as a success. Needless to say it fell far short of the hype.
It got lukewarm (at best) reviews, even in liberal publications. Big career mistake for the actors involved. I know some people who saw it and were quite underwhelmed. This will be landing in $5.99 DVD bargain bins across the nation real soon.
I'm not saying the movie sucks,
but Tom Hanks' career has been hurt so bad, "Wilson" is refusing to make the sequel to "Cast Away" with him.
I like "The New Yorker" magazine review of this scurrility...
You understand incorrectly, then, but it's likely not your fault; you were probably misled badly. Counting international box office receipys, it made more money than it cost to produce. But theater owners get over half of the take; overseas distribution costs a lot more; and there's always marketing costs.
Rule of thumb is if the Domestic take is greater than the production costs plus marketing costs, the movie will have made money. On the one hand, the movie seems like it has done better in the foreign market than most movies grossing the same amount in the domestic market make. On the other hand, that rule of thumb also includes presumptions of VHS and DVD sales and rentals. Usually movies that crash so quickly underperform as VHS and DVDs.
Nonetheless, it probably eventually will make a prophet. The issue is whether it is worth the damage to the principals' careers. Howard and Hanks both rely on a very Mom-and-Apple-Audience which is most likely to think badly of them afterwards... like me.
LOL. Your real name wouldn't be Dennis Miller would it?
>> Your real name wouldn't be Dennis Miller would it? <<
I've been asked that more than a couple times :^) For now, as much as Dennis Miller irritates me, I'll take that as a compliment.
Good read. The great political cartoonist Mike Rodriguez says that the Mona Lisa is smirking because of the number of idiots that believe the stuff in Brown's novel. LOL!
By the way, if you think you'd enjoy reading the Dixie Chicks get bashed, this is my last post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1639144/posts
LOL
"it probably will make a prophet."
Hows that for a Freudian slip, folks?
By the way:
1st weekend: $77 million
2nd weekend: $32 million
It was more popular in the rest of the world than in the US
Who....? Howard and Hanks....? Never heard of them!
Dr. Freud, your slip is showing.
Shalom.
Not here. The advertisement on ITV 3 last night was telling - it said "No matter what you've heard, come and see the Da Vinci Code."
That indicates a film in trouble to me.
Regards, Ivan
Domestic estimate is $133 million, $288 for global with a budget of $125 million.
Quite the flop, they haven't tripled their money in the first 2 weeks.
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