Gellar's 'Grudge' Grabs Box Office (Affleck's Career in Tail Spin)

Fox News ^ | 10-24-04 | AP

[flashbunny]

I did a brief analysis of his most recent films a few months ago. When you count in production, marketing and distribution costs, nearly everything in recent memory has been a money loser. The only thing that came close was daredevil, but that had the built in comic book market.

[JasonC]

I love SMG so I went to see this, though normally I don't much like the genre. (Though I also like Japanese films). I was unimpressed. SMG did OK but her talents were not really used for much. There are scads of single Buffy episodes with greater depth and artistry in every respect. I won't spoil anything by saying more, for those who will see it regardless.

[struggle]

I watched the Japanese version of "Grudge" 2 years ago and it sucked. The ending simply made me go Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh? This crappy movie rode on the coattails of "The Ring" and the same director was used (Shimizu). Someone should have told him he could have made his movie more interesting.

[TankerKC]

Paycheck sucked, too.

[tbeatty]

Ummm, I hate to break it to you, but Open Range sucked.

[smith288]

spend less time campaigning for Kerry and more time considering choice of movie scripts. A few more like that and I'll be the next Ed Begley Jr.

Ed Begley and his car powered by his own satisfaction. Has nothing to do with this article topic, but I LOVE that Simpson episode of do-good whimps.

[Nachum]

Ben Affleck's career is doing just fine. He is working as much as he wants to. In he did make a number of bombs, but he also made Paycheck and DareDevil. Both made money.

He has reprised his role of Matt Murdock in the upcoming "Electra" and seems to work as much as he wants to. Like it or not, he is still huge box office.

[Duke Nukum]

I heard its been sitting on the shelf for over a year

[Cicero]

Buffy is available on CDs. I'm sorry to hear the movie isn't up to her talents.

[baseballfanjm]

I thought Open Range was a good film. Not a great one, but pretty damn good.

[Navy Patriot]

I feel bad for Christina Applegate (one of his co-stars).

Don't. She has taken many voice parts and invested her earnings wisely, while giving several excellent performances in otherwise mediocre movies. She's got it made.

[GallopingGhost]

Matt Damon

[Misschuck]

Since Affleck teamed with "the Blob" Kennedy and Damon said he would spend a million to defeat Bush, I hope both their careers are finished.

[AmishDude]

Do you know who Sarah Michelle Gellar is voting for?

Neither do I. She isn't paid to think. Neither is Ben. If he were, he'd be homeless.

[shawngf]

I actually enjoyed The Grudge. It wasn't scary but it was un-nerving and Sarah did just fine in it. Was it the quality of her performances in early BUFFY(S1-3). no, hardly...but the material itself was no where near as strong. It was however the best acting she's done since S5 of BUFFY and before that show found a hole and fell into it(S6-7 were two of the worst seasons of any TV show that I ever seen). Gellar is an acting waiting to show her talents again and break out...a strong performance by this film should hopefully allow her that opportunity.

[Kirkwood]

Christina Applegate has been rather disparaging of afflack. She didn't have anything nice to say about him and indicated she was happy to have that experience (doing a film with afflack) behind her. I have the sense that she isn't a typical Hollywood liberal.

[AmishDude]

Daredevil was terrible. The only good character was Joe Pantoliano.

Even Jennifer Garner was uninteresting. Ben was as wooden as ever, more even than Matt Damon in Team America.

[Nachum]

We were talking about profit.

As far as Daredevil is concerned, for a long time Marvel fan like me, it was fun.

[Kirkwood]

I never even heard of Paycheck and DareDevil was a box office bomb in that it never lived up to expectations.

[Nachum]

Daredevil made over $102 million. Sounds like a profitable picture to me.