Posted on 11/15/2004 6:20:46 PM PST by wagglebee
I for one did not like the choice of Hanks for this either.
There is a lot action in this and Hanks is not an action star.
I would rather see Bruce Willis in this thing.
This would have been a great role for Harrison Ford about 10 or 15 years ago, but he's to old now for this. Although I think Sean Connery might be great in it.
But Hanks would not be my first choice for this.
That's possible, but they way I look at it is thus: I usually go to Edwards theater and only to the Palace screen which is 87 feet across and I think "the Incredibles" is still playing on that one and I will definitely buy it on DVD when it comes out, but "Polar Express" might be on the Giant screen [it was their IMAX]. I always sit in the last row of the theater. They do have more speakers than I do at home, but my system isn't bad.
I bought Mitsubishi's 55 inch HDTV wide-screen diamond brand and I have a very good Polk Audio 7 speaker system. They are so life-like that once while watching a DVD where it was raining and there was thunder, I looked outside because I just knew it was raining. My center channel is 34 inches wide and 8 - 10 inches tall. My surround speakers are close to 20 inches tall and the left and right channel speakers along with the center channel all have powered sub-woofers - I ordered them without fully comprehending just how large they were. You might say the speakers are hugh. I also have a very good progressive scan DVD player. The movies I watch at home are a lot sharper than what I can see at the theater and if you factor in that I am about 8 foot from the screen where I am over 100 feet from the screen in the theater, I feel I have a better experience with home viewing.
On the other hand, I do have three free tickets with two more free tickets on the way, so maybe I will splurge and go see it because the big screen is a nice experience, but I rarely go anymore since I bought my home theater in 2000. The last movie I saw this year was "Resident Evil, the Apocalypse". I got a free ticket for that one by buying "Resident Evil" on DVD. For the past few years, the only movies I went and saw were the three Lord of the Rings movies and maybe one or two in the summer, but usually if I got a free ticket while buying a DVD which is how I saw "The Chronicles of Riddick" in the summer and I am buying the DVD tomorrow.
I'm going to check the reviews on Amazon but can anyone give a hint as to why the movie is not doing well?
Saw the trailer and had the same thoughts. It did not make me want to see it. Dark and a little forbidding, not something you would want to see yourself or bring a kid. My guess is their problem is marketing, not the movie itself, based on comments here. But it could also be that not many know about the book.
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