Fearless, Flawless Box Office Predictions
Thoughts:
1.) Some NFL guys are predicting games in Haiku form. I am now going to have to enlist my brother-in-law to sue them.
2.) People will apparently see movies whether or not I write poems about what is coming out that week. I just hope they enjoyed them less.
3.) September is reserved for football to the degree that they may as well not release ANYTHING in the theaters. It's scary out there.
4.) I can't believe how much Roger Ebert liked/is defending The American. He is actually insisting that people who don't like it (A) are idiots not used to seeing intelligent films and (B) are disparaging it because it was slow. I'll give him B, but A is just wrong. I think that Ebert got duped by the film, which was made to emulate something more compelling. A wafer-thin character with stereotypical "assassin baggage" of "I feel bad about the bad things I done" who falls for a hooker with a heart of gold while slowly putting together a rifle is not compelling. You don't have to have compelling plot twists (it doesn't), but you DO have to make me care about something in the film. I could go on and on, but the point is this: If I were to review it again, I'd actually give it a LOWER score, and not because it's slow, but because it's not very good.
5.) I'm ready to make my predictions.
Here is how I see the box office, Haiku style:
1.) Resident Evil: Afterlife - $25 million
Zombie heads go boom.
Now in all three dimensions!
So, you know, there's that.
2.) The American - $6.5 million
No, Roger Ebert,
this is not a good movie.
I love you, but no.
3.) Takers - $5.5 million
This is still out there?
I can't still talk about this!
PLEASE! It stars Chris Brown!!!
4.) Machete - $5 million
Lindsay Lohan's boobs
and copious violence
still can't save this one.
5.) The Expendables - $4.5 million
Stallone is back, folks.
Whether we like it or not.
I am thinking not.
WILDCARD - Going the Distance - $3.5 million
It's not the distance
I'd worry about going,
it's the direction.
Okay, that's it. Have a great weekend! See you Monday!
GO BEARS!!!!
Follow me on Twitter!
1.) Some NFL guys are predicting games in Haiku form. I am now going to have to enlist my brother-in-law to sue them.
2.) People will apparently see movies whether or not I write poems about what is coming out that week. I just hope they enjoyed them less.
3.) September is reserved for football to the degree that they may as well not release ANYTHING in the theaters. It's scary out there.
4.) I can't believe how much Roger Ebert liked/is defending The American. He is actually insisting that people who don't like it (A) are idiots not used to seeing intelligent films and (B) are disparaging it because it was slow. I'll give him B, but A is just wrong. I think that Ebert got duped by the film, which was made to emulate something more compelling. A wafer-thin character with stereotypical "assassin baggage" of "I feel bad about the bad things I done" who falls for a hooker with a heart of gold while slowly putting together a rifle is not compelling. You don't have to have compelling plot twists (it doesn't), but you DO have to make me care about something in the film. I could go on and on, but the point is this: If I were to review it again, I'd actually give it a LOWER score, and not because it's slow, but because it's not very good.
5.) I'm ready to make my predictions.
Here is how I see the box office, Haiku style:
1.) Resident Evil: Afterlife - $25 million
Zombie heads go boom.
Now in all three dimensions!
So, you know, there's that.
2.) The American - $6.5 million
No, Roger Ebert,
this is not a good movie.
I love you, but no.
3.) Takers - $5.5 million
This is still out there?
I can't still talk about this!
PLEASE! It stars Chris Brown!!!
4.) Machete - $5 million
Lindsay Lohan's boobs
and copious violence
still can't save this one.
5.) The Expendables - $4.5 million
Stallone is back, folks.
Whether we like it or not.
I am thinking not.
WILDCARD - Going the Distance - $3.5 million
It's not the distance
I'd worry about going,
it's the direction.
Okay, that's it. Have a great weekend! See you Monday!
GO BEARS!!!!
Follow me on Twitter!
Labels: Box office predictions, going the distance, Machete, resident evil afterlife, takers, the american movie, The expendables
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