Posted on 12/19/2016 7:23:45 PM PST by TigerClaws
"Collateral Beauty" has already had a bit of a hammering from film critics and fans, and things have just gotten worse.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the film has now given star Will Smith the worst wide debut of his career. Ouch.
Despite featuring Smith and a host of other big names, including Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, and Kate Winslet, the movie opened to just $7 million in ticket sales this weekend.
That puts it at fourth place in the US box office, well behind the top-ranking "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," which took an estimated $155 million in its first weekend.
The film features Smith playing an advertising man who writes letters to the concepts of Time, Love, and Death to seek solace and guidance after the death of his child.
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He’s another one of these Hollywood plonkers who plays a historical figure and thinks he has become that figure. The films get gradually worse as they take themselves ever more seriously.
As for morality, it has been a poorly kept secret that Smith and wife Jada Pinkett have the proverbial open marriage which includes both of them taking partners of the same sex.
Will’s no fresh prince now. He’s a fartknocker, isn’t he?
Will Privilege, of course.
Sully was well done, but no surprises in it made it kind of C/C+ movie for me.
Stop the looting, give Will and Jade the damn oscar.
Gotcha
“Wonder why? A few weeks ago Will Smith said that Trump voters should be wiped off the face of the earth. We remembered.”
Well, that and the fact that the movie looks lame.
Those are the movies of his that I like (MIB). All three have their charm. In fact, they are on the list of my coma movies, i.e., movies that Mr. Mercat is supposed to play when I’m in a coma.
skip it!
TV is so much better than going to a movie. I honestly can’t remember the last good experience I had in a movie theater.
My interpretation of the trailer was a secularization of “conversations with God”.
It seems to be a modern retelling of “It’s a Wonderful Life” without the Christianity, wondering why you live, why you lose, what the point is with an ending message “keep living” but without saying WHO to have faith in and nothing more than platitudes.
Why? Because a lot of movies and TV shows greenlighted and in production within the last 18 months were all done with the assumption that Hillary Clinton was going to be elected President. As such, the subject matter could end up being not suitable for moviegoers with the changing political climate, and that could result in poor box office and massive TV ratings drop.
Indeed, the upcoming Warner Brothers/DC Comics Wonder Woman movie, now in post production, may have to reshoot a number of scenes because the current "rough cut" of the movie might not appeal to viewers early 2017 on.
I did not see that. But I DID see the trailer for this movie. That alone was reason enough for me to skip this one.
ping
Daughter gave me a b-day ticket to see `Spirited Away’, a Japanese animated childrens movie we first watched 15 years ago when she was little.
We went to see it a couple or so weeks ago.
Enjoyed the movie. About 20 minutes in I went to get a tub of popcorn and a couple of soft drinks: $21.00!
The snack kid asked me what I wanted, I told him, “Shouldn’t you be wearing a mask?” and did the grouchy old man walk back to my seat.
Spent it on lunch for three at Culvers instead.
https://youtu.be/4YUE7LAFrOM?t=1
Many say Will Smith is looking into going into politics.
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