Not a black out, it's
virtual reality.
They'll pretend Kong rules . . .
Posted on 12/23/2005 1:45:27 PM PST by Sentis
'King Kong' Mighty But No Monster...
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<< PREVIOUS Stay tuned for daily updates... NEXT >> Rank* Title (Click to view chart) Monday 12/19 Tuesday 12/20 Wednesday 12/21 Thursday 12/22 1 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
3,680 $4,654,664
-52.6% / $1,265 $117,824,308 / 11 $4,915,049
5.6% / $1,336 $122,739,357 / 12 $4,940,386
0.5% / $1,342 $127,679,743 / 13 N/A 2 KING KONG
3,568 $5,638,125
-63.8% / $1,580 $71,819,770 / 6 $5,244,960
-7% / $1,470 $77,064,730 / 7 $4,870,320
-7.1% / $1,365 $81,935,050 / 8 N/A 3 FUN WITH DICK AND JANE
3,056 N/A N/A $3,761,129
-- / $1,231 $3,761,129 / 1 N/A 4 CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2
3,100 N/A N/A $2,549,891
-- / $823 $2,549,891 / 1 N/A 5 THE FAMILY STONE
2,469 $1,719,698
-51.8% / $697 $14,240,725 / 4 $1,731,617
0.7% / $702 $15,972,342 / 5 $1,534,284
-11.4% / $621 $17,506,626 / 6 N/A 6 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
2,750 $884,221
-54.3% / $278 $253,482,480 / 32 $1,003,321
13.5% / $315 $254,485,801 / 33 $1,007,197
0.4% / $366 $255,492,998 / 34 N/A 7 SYRIANA
1,775 $757,334
-54% / $427 $23,219,696 / 27 $803,307
6.1% / $453 $24,023,003 / 28 $745,481
-7.2% / $420 $24,768,484 / 29
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Sorry the cut and paste didn't format very well. It basically says Narnia is the number one film and Kong has dropped to number two.
Bill O'Reilly brought this up recently and the liberal on the show said Narnia was doing so well only because it was a family movie.
The liberal was defending Brokeback Mountain, using the argument that if BM had opened in more theaters it would've done really well. She based this assertion on the fact that BM only showed in about 100 theaters nation wide. Her faulty reasoning assumes that more people would've gone if it had shown in more theaters, and doesn't account for how many people went to the movie and left after it became apparent that it wasn't a cowboy movie.
(And don't knock the people who don't pay attention to movies. A lot of people go to the movies with the intent of watching a movie, any movie, without knowing much about the movies that are playing.)
I saw a lady complain and actually get her money back after she watched most of The Devil's Rejects. She said her husband was still in there watching. I would have thought any sane person would knwo what they were getting from just watching the trailers.
Syriana is dropping faster than John Kerry with a poor wife.
wow sorebutt mountain isn't the best selling movie of all time? clearly your figures are wrong. </gay sarc.>
I believe the press black out on this is a very clear sign of media bias. If say harry potter had surged back up and beaten Narnia the weekend after Narnia came out there would have been hundreds of press monkeys screaming about it.
Some people just don't pay attention.
I don't even know what Devil's Rejects is about.
I'll bet you could guess though and I'm sure youre not interested.
Not a black out, it's
virtual reality.
They'll pretend Kong rules . . .
If you go to the link and check the story about Kong not being a block buster they gloss over the fact that Narnia is beating Kong and at the end of the article even wrote about how Narnia's box office is retreating. I don't even know what world these people live in its not this one or Narnia.
Well, King Kong is a great movie. I haven't seen Narnia yet but I plan to do it. I wish both movies box office success.
It's about a family of sick, sadistic serial killers gettn chased by this cop who ends up going crazy. He catches them at a brotel, shoots most of the prostitutes there, and ends up torturing the killers for awhile. One of the killers kills the cop. The killing family ends up dying in a shoot out with alot of cops.
I was happy that in this case, evil was punished.
It might be bias.
But it might be free market
dynamics at work.
Kong advertisers
spent many millions of bucks
on publicity.
Narnia channeled
their publicity money
toward believer groups.
I think the Kong folk
bought all this publicity
back when the believed
they had a good film.
The media then has to
go through the motions . . .
I had a problem with Kong on so many levels. spoilers so don't read if you havent seen...
1. Fout T-rexs can't possibly live on the top of a mountain with sheer sides.
2. one or two T-rexs would have been a fun fight four is silly and fighting swinging from vines is silly.
3. The stampede scene was cartoonish
4. The handgun the black character used in the movie wasn't actually being made until the 1970s
5. You can't shoot giant bugs off a person with a thompson sub machine gun set on full auto
6. The raptors after the stampede had a valley full of dead dinosaurs and people to eat but they keep chasing the characters
7. The woman successfully teaches Kong sign language. Ok she just teaches him one sign but in reality it takes months of work to do that with a gorilla.
8 There is so much other silly nonsense it just ruined the whole movie and I don't feel like typing it all up. If you want to suspend disbelief don't be silly try to make it conform somewhat to actual physical laws.
That didn't bother me at all (there's more...how did they get Kong on that boat?) because the premise is really just as silly. It's just entertainment. I mean, gorilla's don't fall for pretty girls. So why expect any of it to fit reality very closely. I just thought it was a great piece of fiction.
The original
was no documentary.
But making movies
is a balance act
between suspending belief
and entertainment.
A good filmmaker
has a sense for it. Bad ones,
like Jackson, do not.
Actually Gorillas have been known to fall for humans on occasion. In fact a friend of mine was telling me about a trip he took where a monkey near the villiage he was in kept trying to hump all the local dogs.
Narnia was astounding. Predictable, even for those who haven't read the books, but flawless in every way. I haven't seen Kong yet, but knowing Jackson, it's probably well-executed and almost-too-long. =)
How often to people talk about Box Office other than the weekend? Totals during the week aren't talked about period, the press is on weekend box office, sometimes five day if a big movie opens on Weds. If Narnia outearns King Kong this weekend, we will hear about it just like we hear about the weekend box office returns every weekend.
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