Posted on 11/15/2004 6:20:46 PM PST by wagglebee
Anyone with any sense knows the makers of the unpleasant children's movie "Polar Express" were foolish to unload it just days after the release of the excellent, can't-miss animated hit "The Incredibles." But some in Tinseltown seem eager to lose money.
The good news about the failure of "Polar Express," already being nicknamed "Polar Distress," is that it's hurting Bush-bashing fat cat Steve Bing, one of those left-wing tycoons who tried to buy the presidential election for John Kerry. Bing put up half the money for "Polar Distress" (the rest came from the Democrat media leviathan Time Warner) and squandered $14 million to try to defeat the president.
The movie cost $170 million to make and $125 million to distribute and market, the Wall Street Journal reported today. It has brought in only $31 million so far, compared with $144 million for the deserving "Incredibles."
More fun facts about ding-a-ling Bing: Fellow Bush-hating leftist Sean Penn is suing him. Penn claims producer Bing blacklisted him after that little photo op in Baghdad to support genocidal maniac Saddam Hussein.
Note to "Polar Distress" star Tom Hanks, reeling from flop No. 3 this year and scheduled to appear in the Catholic-bashing "Da Vinci Code": Audiences prefer you when you speak your lines and do not like you when you shout your lines.
I took my neices and nephew to see it. They were pretty bored. I didn't like it at all.
Thank you...It's hard to not take personally the insults hurled by people on here when they haven't even seen it. Behind every movie is someone who is working 12-14 hours a day on it...making sacrifices and hoping it does well in the theatres.
If someone on here was a mechanic and everyone posted that they thought the mechanic stunk even though they never went to the guy...and others refused to go to the mechanic because they heard that the loan he got from the bank to buy his place was by a bank owner who voted for Kerry....well..that is how ridiculous some of these discussions and opinions get! I mean really!!!
The left spent a hell of a lot more than $305 million attempting to destroy Bush (and anyone who thinks they are done trying is crazy, impeachment is all the DUmmies talk about these days) and look how that "investment" panned out. Once this movie has worldwide distribution and later DVD sales, it will at least break even. Also, a lot of what I've read indicates that Hollywood often claims overly exagerrated costs to get more publicity for their movies. None of these guys is going to suffer any real financial setback due to this.
I saw, and really liked the Incredibles. I have heard Polar Express is good and plan on seeing it. I think its great that you got to work on it.
I agree; we should be happy anytime they produce a "G" film...claim victory and go see it just to get the point across that family friendly films are the way to go.
Au contraire !
My 4-year-old boy, a train fanatic like so many of them, loved it. It has a train, beautifully detailed and the action centers on all parts of it, inside and out. As is all the "terrain" around it. Superbly done.
The action is interesting and often exciting. The story, etc., is soppy as hell, the musical/dance bits are both weird and blah, but for little kids this stuff is of no account. It is not a movie for teenagers. This is a little kids movie really.
Yes indeed, those stunk. Too much movie, too little plot to go on, and too self conscious about appealing to adults and older kids.
Don't take it so personally. We know there are thousands of talented people who worked on this film, but business is business. We are hit in the face constantly by advertising to get us to spend money and we make choices. We can't buy one of everything. The producers of this film apparently are not doing a very good job in marketing the film if so many people are not going to see it. As someone here pointed out, there are many films that are duds at first and then generate a huge following. Perhaps Polar Express is going to wind up in that category and make up the difference in DVD sales.
Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara and Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa's sleigh. When to his surprise, a steam engine's roar and whistle can be heard outside his window. The conductor (voice of Tom Hanks) invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives an extraordinary gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience. Summary written by Lael Kazikiewicz
Its worth seeing on digital screen or Imax - an experience you can't get at home. Its worth it.
Note to self, hey dummy you screwed up the link. I need more practice. The web address is http://www.imdb.com.
Well, thats the book. They had to add an awful lot of padding to make a movie, which doesn't always work as a plot, but for little kids it does no harm.
TS
Ahh, my daily dose of schadenfreude! Thanks for warning me about Polar Express, I won't give any money to help Bing.
Let's not get Hanks tangled in all of this. He's a classy guy.
Hanks is doing "The Da Vinci Code" and that bothers me.
THen don't go see it.
I WON'T! :)
Thank you.
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