Posted on 12/15/2007 9:45:26 AM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
SATURDAY AM: Some amazing numbers were posted Friday for this weekend's movie releases. Warner Bros' I Am Legend opens closer to $80 million than the studio's hoped-for $50 million from Friday through Sunday after making a whopping $29.6 million Friday in 3,606 theaters....
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And the bottom fell out of costly domestic flop The Golden Compass from New Line, which forked out $200+ million to make it, in its second weekend in release. I know, I know, the pic is doing OK overseas. But the fantasy pic is so lost domestically it earned only an anemic $2.6 million Friday from 3,528 nearly empty runs.
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Yikes
Looks like Golden Compass may be one of the biggest disasters in theatrical history.”
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As well it should be. And the movie going public is rejecting it big time.
I’m saving my movie bucks for “National Treasure, Book of Secrets.”
Is that like Omega Man, Charlton Heston and is
everything just a copy of a copy of a copy... ?
I have not seen any of the National Treasure movies. Should I see them, are they good?
I want to see Legend just because of the SR71.
I am too. I'm going to see "Legend" in about a half hour, too. :)
*ahem* Please post plane porn...
There has only been 1 of them. It was released 3 years ago. Yes it's good.
Omega Man, like all movies from the 70s, had the main character die in the end. The 70s was a real downer man... Very defeatist, “we’re all going to die”, food is scarce, mankind too many... The liberals must have seriously owned Hollywood back then too.
I would be interested to know if they did “I Am Legend” justice. Richard Matheson is one of the overlooked giants in the SciFi/Horror genre...
Nat’l Treasure is one of the few movies I’ve watched over and over. It’s just plain ‘ol fun, and the bad guys really get it good in the end.
“I Am Legend” is based on a book published in 1954 & the main character dies at the end of the book.
So to be fair, it was the author’s vision that the character die at the end long before the 1970’s rolled around.
If anyone is interested, the first scene of “I Am Legend” is available at yahoo.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809768369/video/5453908
Hollywood has not had an original idea since 3-D. Maybe they can somehow resurrect Vincent Price for the new generation.
The first one absolutely ROCKED! Rent it on DVD, NOW!
Yes and no. The Omega Man was based on the book "I am Legend" and , not surprisingly, so is this new movie. There are considerable differences, however.
The origin of the virus was different in both movies, but that doesn't make a dime's bit of difference to the plot. The major difference between the two movies is in the portrayal of the infected.
In The Omega Man, the infected build a new society which is very cult-like and they have what I could only describe as a religious hatred for all things technological. They have a charismatic leader (played by Anthony Zerb) who is a powerful nemesis to Charlton Heston's character.
In the new movie, the infected have lost all of their humanity and are more like animals. They are unrealistically fast and strong, and also sport unrealistically wide opening mouths. They are just mean and nasty like packs of vicious animals.
I don't know which is more like the book, since I never read it, but I think that The Omega Man was more engaging. That is not to say that I Am Legend is bad. It's still pretty good, but The Omega Man rules.
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