Posted on 05/28/2006 11:30:50 PM PDT by dangus
ROFLMAO! Good one!
And, of course, the movie has not made NEARLY that much money. Domestic take: $136 million. Although certain to go into the black, it is still in the red. I'm guessing an ultimate profit margin of about 15%.
Yeah, somebody dropped a large hammer there a while back.....
You must live in a high-priced neighborhood. I've never paid $10 to see a movie.
It's fascinating to watch the denial of reality on these threads. People want the movie to fail, so they pretend that it is.
Looks like Jesus survived the DiVinci Fad, again!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I like HBHG, in spite of its having been thoroughly debunked and Pierre Plantard being a low-rent forger.
Thanks. The New Yorker's film reviews are, at times, sheer brilliance. I still remember the brutally hysterical bashing of "Star Wars ROTS"
>> the sole beneficiaries of the entire fiasco will be members of Opus Dei, some of whom practice mortification of the flesh. From now on, such penance will be simple—no lashings, no spiked cuff around the thigh. Just the price of a movie ticket, and two and a half hours of pain. <<
Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum are the two greatest confusion-writers of our time.
Clancy can't write a paragraph without military or scientific jargon, and Ludlum is addicted to new characters.
Trying to teach "The Bourne Identity" was one of the hardest tasks I've ever had. The class said, "Where did THAT guy come from?" so often, we started keeping a Bourne Identity Cast List.
With about 80% of America calling them selves Christian, and with only about 20% of the Christians then I would say the audience will dry up rather fast. Yes, they would get a major opening weekend but there is no sustaining audience.
I think you mean Dustin Hoffman. Richard Gere was nowhere near this particular stinker.
SoddomWood knew they had a profit from the readers alone. It didn't bring out any new people or generate the Passion they had hoped. Jesus survives another attack.
As for it's only fiction, he claimed it was true until he was called out a year or two ago.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Not the movie so much but the Saturday Night Live mockery, Hanks and Howard have lost a fan and for good. I used to be a Woody Allen fan until he proved himself a pervert. Have refused to see anything since.
Commercial success; professional failure.
>> Weird. Most people would think that a movie that has grossed $320 million in a little over a week is not sucking badly. <<
It's amazing how the movie's promoters always mindlessly parrot their daily talking points, no matter how well the issue has already been addressed.
>>>> I don't think anyone figured on preventing the movie from being profitable. At least in the U.S., the point of all the anti-DVC information was simply to counter the movies' lies. <<<<
I mean, I think it'd also be pretty obvious that I don't equate suckage with lack of an initial BO take, since the VERY FIRST LINE IN MY REVIEW is about how Dan Brown ought to thank Fandango for helping him sell so many tickets, and the second line uses the ENORMOUS BLOCKBUSTER, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace as the standard of a movie which sucks.
bump
YEah, OK... Hey, I fired my editor, whaddaya want? (Ref post #7, or thereabouts,)
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