I did not appreciate the previews for ANT MAN.. And I did not have an interest in seeing it.
After seeing the Amy Schumer photos this morning I have an interest in TRAINWRECK..
Tag: movies
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THE TERMINATOR SERIES IS OBSOLETE.
Proof in the numbers: The film is not only getting lousy reviews, but it’s tanking at the box office..
I think most people decided not go to see it when the trailer featured The Governator using the line “I’ll be back”.. Tacky tacky tacky.
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Parents and children settled into their seats for a new animated Disney film got a quick jolt when a horror movie came on the southwest Ohio screen instead. The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports that a projectionist accidentally played “Insidious: Chapter 3” instead of “Inside Out.” A mother wrote about the incident on the newspaper’s Facebook page, saying her children were scared and she and other adults scooped up their kids and left.
This happens quite often.
From someone I know who used to work in a theater, sometimes it’s done intentionally ..While I am not implying that was the case this time, it certainly seems to be quite a big accident..
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ROB ZOMBIE promising a NON HORROR flick about Groucho Marx..
I have been a long time critic of Zombie’s style of horror, I think it did more harm than good since HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES became a hit.
But he also struck while the iron was hot, figuring out what the post 9/11 horror crowd would accept and celebrate. Even though I disdain his style, especially his HALLOWEEN remakes,
I think Zombie is one of the most creative and greatest movie makers alive today.
His films may not be my cup of tea, but those cups are enjoyed thoroughly by millions of others. So really, in the end, my criticism is more a matter of opinion than factual based. And a Groucho Marx movie? Now I’ll try that one.
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Forgive me.. I may just be coming off the high of an amazing summer movie experience. Or just too much movie theater popcorn, with extra unhealthy butter. That stuff will kill you.
But JURASSIC WORLD may have been one of the best films I have seen in years.. it reigns high in the action department. The fun department. the laughter.. the homages to the amazing original 1993 film that inspired me as a 13-year-old in a movie theater..
JURASSIC WORLD has every single thing that a summer box office buster should have.
And with it.. a record.JURASSIC WORLD can now boast that it has over $500 million .. in one weekend.. all over the globe.
The AP reports:
“This over-performed in a way that I’ve never seen,” Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian said. “It broke the box office sound barrier.”
So why?
I would suggest that families, parents, people like me, who were stunned in the early 90s with the amazing original film, are in part passing that love of film and action to their own children. A new generation is seeing JURASSIC WORLD, with their parents.. and grandparents. That is how the arm-to-arm theater I was in tonight looked. A mixture of ages, from young to old.. all sitting with fascinated eyes staring at the screen. Amazed at the sights, dreading the plight.. and applauding the might of the secret victor at the end of the film..
This movie had what I expected. And more..
…The movie theater butter is secreting from my scalp.. But my brain is going to be filled with the images of JURASSIC WORLD for years to come–the same effect the original had.A record setting box office opening.
Something that analysts have never seen before.And perhaps won’t again.
Experience the moment in a theater, should you get the chance. It’s a visit to the WORLD you will not regret.. -
FRIDAY’S GROSS FOR JURASSIC WORLD WAS $80 MIL PLUS.
That night alone.
The estimates were revised once..
They will be revised again..There is a bigger chance that JURASSIC is going to take a major run at the AVENGERS’ record..
For those who say box office totals don’t matter. I wrote earlier that I mostly agree. Except in the summer.. that is when all bets are off.
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DINOSAUR RUN! JURASSIC WORLD TAKES $18 MIL ON THURSDAY ALONE, ESTIMATES OF $125 MIL FOR WEEKEND MAY BE SURPASSED..
FILM IS IN 4273 STRONG
CAN IT BEAT THE AGE OF ULTRON?
AGE OF ULTRON opened with $195 mil.. JURASSIC WORLD was set for $125 mil.. but with Thursday rock and sock and Friday ticket sales, ULTRON may face competition.. Finalized numbers may near $155 mil for the return of the mighty mean DINOSAUR to the big screen..
People have often said that the box office totals don’t matter.Maybe.. if you like a movie, you like a movie.
But summer movies are judged by the cash influx they have. AGE OF ULTRON is a respected summer hit, even though it may have been one of the dullest movies I have ever seen, it couldn’t even keep my son’s attention, and he’s a major fan of the AVENGERS.
JURASSIC WORLD has garnered some negative reviews, with people saying the horror dino redo is relying too much on CGI and not enough on a story.
That will not matter, however, when the chips are layed out.. it will also not be a bother to anyway who is sitting in a cooled air conditioned movie theater..
I recall back in 1993 when the original JURASSIC PARK came out. I was 13 and young, amazed with what I was seeing on the screen.. the movie changed my view at that time of what movies could be.. I was still on my summer of 89 high and BATMAN and let down by BATMAN RETURNS. But JURASSIC PARK was true epic box office magic.
I sense that despite the misgivings of the AP and other reviewers, that same ‘magic’ will return for countless kids around age 13 this summer. This weekend. This day.
JURASSIC WORLD looks like it’s set for a promising haul of cash. Staying power? Maybe not..
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JURASSIC REVIEW: AP HITS! “lacking the deft sense of wonderment”
The hype has been hopeful.. the storyline may be hackneyed, but in a summer where earthquakes are destroying California in the box office, there is hope that dinosaurs, back for revenge in JURASSIC WORLD, will dominate and captivate a new generation..
Or it will, as the AP surmises in a review, lack the ‘deft sense of wonderment’ that greeted people in the early 1990s when Stephen Spielberg first released the classic..
I recall that yearly fondly. I was 13, malls were still hip, and movie theaters still ripped on a regular basis. I was excited when I heard my family wanted to see JURASSIC PARK. It was making magazine covers–people bought those relics then. And after the movie concluded, I could not wait 6 months then! until the Christmas release on VHS .. I may be dating myself.
While I may not have had the same level of excitement about this new film, the trailers have jazzed me up more and more each time I saw a new one.. the most recent was more of a horror tale than an action adventure about humans vs dinos..
But the AP seems to be lamenting in a review splashing around its wire service and being picked up by news outlets across the planet. Jake Coyle, a film reviewer for the AP, writes,
“Jurassic World,” the latest incarnation of the franchise, is lacking the deft sense of wonderment, wit and suspense that guided the original. Director Colin Trevorrow, who ended his first and only other feature, “Safety Not Guaranteed,” with a Spielbergian magical twist, has instead made a more biting thriller hung up on the corporate mandates of post-“Jurassic Park” Hollywood.
And this:
The 3-D “Jurassic World” is also an ugly, over-saturated movie; CGI has run amok here as much as dinosaurs. After nods to John Williams’ classic original, Michael Giacchino’s unremarkable new score punctuates the action, as the characters gradually come together from locations across the park. Vincent d’Onofrio’s opportunistic military contractor is also lurking.
Two stars out of four.
While some may question the authority of just one review, I have often believed in the power of what the AP says. It’s the news outlet of choice.. Each local newspaper will run this review.. Other websites will as well. Drudge linked it today on the top of his page. Whether Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB gives this movie rave credentials, this AP snub will take hold as the overall pundit’s non-pick of the summer.
And at the same time, it may not matter.
JURASSIC WORLD may not keep a foothold on the box office after its initial review, but that may not matter. The makers of the film aren’t aiming for a sleeper hit, but instead want the main action and box office boom to be quick..
JURASSIC WORLD took about ten years to create and had a rocky history..
And now, as the AP slams the movie, it seems to be going against the grain and momentum.
This film is slated, some say, to be on course to earn $100 million in a week..While this AP hit may be the fashionable anti-movie wording that some will use, none of it will matter.
The long term effects of bad reviews are often apparent. But in the summer time, when school is out and people are clamoring for fake destruction, mayhem, and blood, JURASSIC WORLD is exactly what the season has ordered. It will be a blowout ..Some may argue that the money a movie makes doesn’t matter. My friend Anghus at FLICKERING MYTH often argues that point. While I agree–the overall film’s worth should never be concluded due to the cash flow it has during its box office period–the money a film makes IN THE SUMMER does matter .. JURASSIC can boast an accomplishment in $100 million worth of tickets are purchased to see the dinosaurs strike back.
The summer of CGI disasters.
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I knew it I knew it I knew it I knew.. Charlie Charlie was a fraud!
Want to know why CHARLIE CHARLIE came out no where?
It was all fake.The GALLOWS is coming.. and that is apparently highly associated with the CHARLIE CHARLIE challenge.
You will have to take my word for this, but a few days ago I actually said that this whole NET phenom was just a Hollywood movie game.. And boom.. E! reports that very thing.
CHARLIE CHARLIE?….your pencils are dull..
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Regal Entertainment Group and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., the nation’s two largest movie theater chains, have received formal inquiries from the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, signaling growing government scrutiny of a tactic large theater operators commonly use to keep movies out of competing locations.
Is this really what Lynch’s Justice Department now has time for?
Here is the basic:
That conduct includes the use of “clearances,” which are agreements that theater chains sometimes strike with studios in order to gain the exclusive right to play a given title in a particular market. The Justice Department is also looking into AMC’s participation into certain joint ventures, the notice said.
Regal, AMC and Cinemark have said it is up to the studios to grant the requests, which are part of a long-established industry practice that affects a small percentage of locations.
MORE..
“We do not believe the Company has violated federal or state antitrust laws and are cooperating with the relevant governmental authorities,” AMC said in the notice. An AMC spokesman declined to comment further. AMC shares closed down 3.2%, or 91 cents, at $28 on Monday. Regal shares closed at $20.90, off six cents; it announced the notice after the market close. ..