Posted on 03/30/2014 12:13:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Noah has topped the box office, but the opening weekend is about marketing dollars. At a production budget of over $125 million and poor audience responses, Paramount had to put some serious money into promotion.
Reportedly that may be something in the $50 – $75 million range on marketing to get people to see Noah. That’s short of its weekend box office total which is likely to be under $50 million.
But while you can get audiences to show up for the opening weekend, you can’t make them like it.
Cinemascore’s rating for Noah is a C. That’s the worst movie they have ranked in current release. Worse than Sabotage, the Schwarzenegger movie which just bombed, which still only pulled in a B.
That means audiences hated Noah more than Sabotage. They hated it more than the Legend of Hercules. They just plain hated it.
At Rotten Tomatoes, the audience score is at 50 percent and falling. The user score at Metacritic is 5.4.
The critic numbers tend to be much higher only because director Darren Aronofsky is an indie favorite who could film wallpaper for two hours and still get high scores and because the movie’s anti-human environmental message caters to their prejudices.
Noah was dumped on international audiences in countries like Mexico and Korea early on where it did well enough and if Paramount scrapes some money out of audiences before it gets crushed by the new Captain America movie, it may accept that as the best it can get.
I work in television. But we’re like the military — even if you’re in the Army, you have an idea about how the Air Force works!
TV show budgets are closely head secrets, too.
I decided to see it after a cute lady asked. So, I put all accounts aside and saw it as a movie on its own.
It’s kind of hokey, like a star trek-ish disaster movie where the script writers kept looking for emotional angles to support the boring plot.
Seriously, how can anybody do an interesting story about a boat and a flood? You can’t do a remake of Gilligan’s Island, there’s no island. All you can do is develop some excuse for the building of a giant ark by a crew of rock creatures, let the rains fall and then say “Boy, glad that’s over; the end!”
The writers got in a few cheap shots at biblical verses, such as man having dominion over all the animals as the villain eats a lizard. The writers should have put him in as slaughtering a Unicorn instead.
I see a sequel coming up. The rock creatures build the pyramids in Egypt and prove the jews should not be in Israel.
“closely head secrets, too.”
Oops. Closely HELD secrets...
I’m sure they are, but whoever provides the funding knows, don’t they?
As an aside, I’m not a fan of racial diversity, or gender diversity, or lifestyle diversity, but I am a big fan of the professional diversity at Free Republic!
RE: The writers should have put him in as slaughtering a Unicorn instead.
I don’t mind spoilers, so, is it true that Unicorns were in the ark in the movie?
Perhaps there was, but I didn’t see any.
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