Posted on 12/29/2005 3:47:07 PM PST by dangus
Hey, make a Coen brothers movie with Bruce Campbell on a no name label and I bet it makes money. TCB baby.
>>“The Great Raid,” which cost $80 million to produce, made less than $9 million.<<
What a shame. While 95 percent of what comes out of Hollywood today is crap, this is one movie that should be seen by everybody, especially the backward-hat wearing idiots who listen to Kanye West and Fifty Cent.
We will see what DVD sales have to say. I know my family is all buying rather than going to a theater.
Was the Great Raid the movie about the first Army Rangers who went in to the rescue the POWs held in Battan?
>> It has nothing to do with whether any quality indie films were made. This is only about the $$ <<
Perhaps. Or does it also say something about the failure of independent films to cross over like they used to. I would argue that the success of movies such as not only "the Passion of the Christ," (which admittedly had huge buzz), but also "My Big, Fat Greek Wedding," "Veggie Tales' Jonah," "Pi," "The Blair Witch," and others suggest that well-liked indie films can become commercial successes... but there were precious few this year.
Yes it was. A great flick.
We just rented The Great Raid - fabulous movie - a real "period piece". A must see.
POWs held in the Phillipines at the end of WWII.
Bruce Campbell bump.
Yes, I think the movie would have done much better if it had been promoted at all... it was truly a victim of the demise of Miramax. However, war movies in general don't do very well. Even movies perceived of as hits like "Once We Were Soldiers" lost money.
BTW, the lack of any successful foreign-language movie is noteworthy. The wire-fu slapstick, "Kung Fu Hustle" was the closest thing to an American success. This is quite an interesting development, after years of successes such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Life is Beautiful," "Amelie," "The Passion of the Christ," "City of God, "Hero," and "Monsoon Wedding."
The top foreign-language films of 2005 (besides Kung Fu Hustle), listed by their rank among all-time foreign language films:
39. Downfall (German)
63. High Tension
64. The Chorus
79. Walk On Water
116. Look at Me
Compare this to last year:
1. The Passion of the Christ
4. Hero
10. The Motorcycle Diaries
17. House of Flying Daggers
29. Maria Full of Grace
(Unless you consider Wallace and Gromit to be a foreign-language film :^D)
Wiser heads in the Motion Pictures Academy may think twice about making this the Buttcrack Mountin Academy Awards.
I just don't understand why Hollywood don't come up with fresh new ideas. With today's underground, digital filmmakers, surely they can't buy a script from them?
There are few wiser heads when they're thinking with their xxx's, which a huge proportion of Ho-wood does. Pushing the gay agenda means more to them than making money. I predict a Brokebutt Acadamy Award sweep.
The "free publicity" isn't all complimentary either...the late-night talkshow hosts have been absolutely brutal to it. Especially Craig Ferguson, the funniest/brightest of the lot, who has been scathing not only to Brokebutt but to King Kong of which he says "wait until the second hour of the movie to take your seat."
"Free publicity" isn't all complimentary either...the late-night talkshow hosts have been absolutely brutal to it. Especially Craig Ferguson, the funniest/brightest of the lot, who has been scathing not only to Brokebutt but to King Kong of which he says "wait until the second hour of the movie to take your seat."
Wouldn't it be a scream if the result of Buttcrack Mountin is that men feel more comfortable saying openly that they find sodomites disgusting ?
Bruce Campbell is awesome!
(How he missed out on being a big Hollywood star, I'll never understand. Handsome, great sense of humor, and terrific at physical comedy. What more could you want...)
Had they not waited so long (he's too old now) , he would've been PERFECT for the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man. They did give him a cameo in the one movie, but I wish they'd let him do a lot more in the upcoming sequels.
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