I hate to say it, but the movie does suck.
Why do you say that?
I enjoyed it though and luckily it was only about 6 miles from my house (I went to first showing of first day). Some drove hundreds of miles to see it.
It may not go to 1,000 theatres right away after all but the producer did say that maybe there will be some money poured into TV ads and maybe it can snowball into bigger distribution. If anything I would hope that a worst case scenario would be that part 2 and 3 could be made-for-TV and then all 3 would be on DVD (I know I’m buying the DVDs when they come out).
I liked the movie.
Palin fans: ORGANIZE your group activies (2011 and 2012) with the first and second movies.
is it anything like the book???
On the other hand, I'll bet you were a big fan of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. All the critics swooned over it. Yowser, that was a terrible movie.