Posted on 06/19/2017 1:34:21 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Last week people were reckoning that the new raunchy comedy Rough Night would revolutionize Hollywood.
After all the movie, which stars Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell and Zoe Kravitz, is the first R-rated comedy in almost 20 years to be directed by a woman (Lucia Aniello, best known for directing Broad City). So its success counted for a good deal.
But that was then. Rough Night has wound up commercially comatose, taking just $8.1 million from over 3,000 movie theaters over the weekend at the U.S. box office. The movie, about a bachelorette party in Miami that spirals out of control when one of their party accidentally kills a male stripper, limped into eighth place in the US top 10 and was even beaten by the Mandy Moore shark movie 47 Meters Down.
Now that it has flopped, Rough Night‘s lasting legacy will be as a cautionary tale. But the inquest into why it has bombed is only just beginning.
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If you like dark comedies with a sick sense of over-the-top humor, I would recommend "Very Bad Things" over this very bad chick flick.
Hollywood seems more interested in putting out darker, politically driven movies that most people aren’t interested in seeing than making money that people want to see.
-PJ
If she becomes homeless, I will offer shelter.
It has been done, aka “Weekend at Bernie’s” which was a lot better.
Yeah but, in that one she was game to monkey around...
BTW, I did see that movie and her drug addict schtick was not believable....
She thinks she is a modern day Geena Davis....
She needs to do romance and drama....
But they’ll hold up Wonder Woman as a shining example of success.
BTW, I did see that movie and her drug addict schtick was not believable....
She thinks she is a modern day Geena Davis....
She needs to do romance and drama....
Movie with 5 two bagger women with the comedic sense of week old cottage cheese and thighs to match crashes and burns. Scientists baffled!
Hollywood believes their own PR.
the only creativity that matters is the accounting books.
They butcher stories (star trek, ghost in the machine, wonder woman, etc) and think we want to see their junk and pay for the privilege.
The movie theater is dying. The same way the drive theater died.
Actors and Actresses are fungible and easily replaced without skipping a beat.
The last chick-flick I saw that was any good was “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion”. Now that was funny...
in the not too far future the actors and actresses will just be cgi (btw remember the movie “looker” about that very subject?)
I call those "chick flicks for guys."
Examples:
October Skies
Simon Birch
The World's Fastest Indian
wonder woman?
the one that essentially copied captain America but stuck it in WW I?
colorful costume? check
oddball crew? check
a significant character dies? check
main character life altered by death? check
Remember when there was some intelligence in comedy? Before they decided that blatant sexual jokes, private bodily functions and bad words were funny.
Yep. I haven’t seen it. Just read where it’s doing well at the box office.
Sadly most “comedy” today is on about a 6th or 7th grade level.
Most women go to the movies on a man’s dime. And if the man doesn’t want to see it . . .
The last Ghostbusters should have warned them off.
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