Weekend Box Office: 'It' Scaring Up Massive $59M, 'mother!' Slapped With F CinemaScore

hollywoodreporter.com ^ | 9/15/2017 | Pamela McClintock

[BenLurkin]

Aronofsky and Paramount's mother! is coming in behind expectations after becoming one of a dozen or so films to ever get slapped with an F CinemaScore from audiences. The prestige title grossed an estimated $3 million from 2,368 theaters on Friday for a projected $8 million debut (mother! had been tracking to open in the low teens).

Also featuring Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer, mother! made its world premiere earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival before screening at the Toronto International Film Festival to generally strong reviews, even if it has divided some critics.

[catnipman]

it takes three pages of utter gibberish to “explain” mother!, and the “explanation” actually needs a few other “explanations” to “explain” it.

http://screenrant.com/mother-movie-ending-explained-spoilers-time-loop/

[Kozy]

People are staying home getting ready for Sunday Football. Their ratings should be right through the roof. How about “Ruff, ruff”?

[Kozy]

People are staying home getting ready for Sunday Football. Their ratings should be right through the roof. How about “Ruff, ruff”?

[dp0622]

Most don’t know that in the book, the GIRL, cause she was a girl, had to have sex with the 5 (think it was 5) BOYS in order to overcome the evil.

Hope that’s not in the movie.

King is a vile sick ####.

[pepsi_junkie]

That scene with the clown in the sewer, which essentially opens the movie, is the only creepy / dreadful / truly frightening thing in it. Why? Because the clown was creepy yet seductive, it coaxed the child to trust it and lured him in before it struck.

After that scene the clown just appears all malevolent and evil and that factor where you fear the kid will fall for it is gone. After that, it might as well just be Jason Voorhees. Except Jason would catch and hurt people, Pennywise just pops up out of nowhere looking evil with a loud startling noise and the kids get scared and run away, safe and sound. Cut, next scene (same basic scene, different kid, same result). Wash, rinse, repeat.

[Tanniker Smith]

My FB and Twitter feed have been full of It references for weeks. This is the first I’ve heard of “mother”

(I generally zap commercials, and lately haven’t watched much except my DVR and Netflix. And The Last Ship)

[Rastus]

In the Green Mile, an orderly at a nursing home takes great pleasure in abusing the elderly patients. When he drives off, King makes note of his Newt Gingrich bumper stickers. (people loved the movie; the book was an extremely muddled, hypocritical anti-death penalty screed)

Much more recently than It, King wrote a truly terrible book called Cell that featured a gay whom he portrayed as virtually a saint. First of all, we’re supposed to cheer when a scared Christian woman is ranting and raving and this gay punches her and knocks her down. Then, in King’s ultimate virtue signaling, the heroes are gathering water from the toilet tanks in the gay guy’s house. King says that the main character only took water from the tank, but as clean and conscientious as the gay guy was, he knew the water in the bowl would be perfectly great drinking water, too. Oh, brother.

[mowowie]

Thanks for the tip I’ll watch it tonight

[newfreep]

Natalie Wood and Michelle Pfeiffer are the two most beautiful actresses that came out of Hollywood...in that order.

[hawkaw]

Wow. I agree.

[chris37]

Awesome! let me know what you think.

I can’t get over how amazing the main character’s performance was. It was quite possibly the best performance I have ever seen in a horror movie.

[simpson96]

Would not argue with those choices.