Posted on 10/30/2017 5:37:42 AM PDT by C19fan
George Clooney's "Suburbicon" notched one of the most dismal wide-release debuts in recent years on a sluggish pre-Halloween weekend where the horror sequel "Jigsaw" topped all releases despite an underperforming debut.
The eighth "Saw" film landed at No. 1 with $16.3 million in North American ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. That came in below industry expectations and suggested the revived "Saw" franchise isn't connecting with audiences the way other recent horror entries have.
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wow i didnt even know there was a saw seq...
Comments after the Suburbicon articles are terrific.
Hey George, you’re a terrible actor and a worse director.
Keep making preachy movies that nobody watches, I love watching you and your leftard friends lose money.
For some reason, I am no longer all that interested in what Harveywood has to say about mainstream America.
I am not the target market, however. If somebody wanted to make a two hour feature about jigsaws and ornamental woodworking, I would go to see that... It would probably do better than Suburbicon.
DO NOT CLICK ON LINK!!!
RANOM AD SHOWN ON WEBSITE HAS A VIRUS.
Clooney AND Damon. Couldn’t be any more doomed if it was released by Weinstein.
The M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW, is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace and quick change barrel feature.
The M249 engages point targets out to 800 meters, firing the improved NATO standard 5.56mm cartridge. The SAW forms the basis of firepower for the fire team.
The gunner has the option of using 30-round M16 magazines or linked ammunition from pre-loaded 200-round plastic magazines.
The gunner's basic load is 600 rounds of linked ammunition.
Could have been a great film with various episodes showing Mr SAW chewing up enemies foreign and domestic.
(Note: I have not seen any of the SAW movies)
One is a movie made for psychotics, and the other is “Jigsaw”.
Oh movie goers, where art thee?
“’Saw’ sequel No. 1 with $16.3M”
and a $16 million take being No. 1 is truly pathetic ...
YEA!!!!!
We’re winning!!!
I know nothing about the movie, but the title and creators make me think that this is just another example of Penneys/Target/NFL marketing-gone-bad 101: `It’s a bad idea to mock your audience’.
In 1959, the peaceful, all-white neighborhood of Suburbicon is shaken up by the arrival of an African-American family.
One night, the home of the Lodge family is broken into by two robbers. The robbers tie the entire family up and kill the matriarch, Rose, with an overdose of chloroform. Her twin sister, Margaret, moves in to help take care of Nicky, the child of the family. Soon after her arrival, she begins to transform herself into Rose, dying her hair and having sex with Gardner.
As tensions mount between the residents of Suburbicon and their new African-American neighbors, charismatic insurance agent Bud Cooper arrives one day when Gardner isn’t home and begins asking Margaret questions, looking to clear up red flags in a life insurance claim made on Rose by Gardner shortly after her death. The conversation starts out innocuous enough, but Cooper grows suspicious when Margaret refers to herself and Gardner as a couple, after which Margaret kicks him out of the house.
Meanwhile, the two robbers who killed Rose are angry at Gardner after Nicky sneaks into the viewing room for a police lineup, where Gardner and Margaret denied that the two robbers were the ones who broke into their home. They are also mad that Gardner has not paid them a sum of money they were promised for killing Rose, and grow impatient when they are unable to reach him by phone. They make a plan to return to Gardner’s house and kill Nicky and Margaret.
That night, as a prolonged protest at the home of the new African-American residents turns into a small-scale riot, Cooper returns to talk directly to Gardner. He tells Gardner that he knows the nature of his and Margaret’s insurance fraud plan and attempts to blackmail them into giving him their entire payout in exchange for his silence. Margaret poisons his coffee with lye, and Gardner stabs him with a fireplace poker to finish him off. Gardner leaves to go hide his body, trailed by one of the two robbers.
Margaret attempts to poison Nicky with a sandwich after he eavesdropped on her conversation with Cooper and contacted her brother Mitch for help. The increasingly-suspicious Nicky doesn’t eat the sandwich, and as Margaret is admitting defeat, one of the robbers strangles her to death before heading upstairs to deal with Nicky, who is saved by the arrival of Mitch. Mitch gives Nicky a gun and hides him in the closet before succumbing to a stab wound given to him by the now-dead robber.
On the way home from disposing of Cooper’s body, Gardner is taunted by the other robber, who is suddenly killed by a fire truck. Arriving home, he finds the bodies of Margaret, Mitch, and the robber, and gets Nicky out of the closet. He offers Nicky a choice: go along with his plan to cash out an insurance claim and use the money to run away to Aruba, or be killed by Gardner.
The next morning, Gardner is dead, having eaten Margaret’s poisoned sandwich during his conversation with Nicky. Nicky calmly goes outside to play ball with the African-American family’s son as they clean up the remnants of the previous night’s riot.
It sounds like a hot mess. Even after reading the summary, I can’t make heads or tails out of what this is supposed to be about.
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