Ladykillers, costing an estimated $60 million to produce and market; and earning just under $40 million domestic and $37 million foreign, wasn't exactly a hit.
Posted on 05/23/2006 9:42:06 AM PDT by Caleb1411
Russell Crowe is vastly overrated!
But, yeah, I guess he's a little Opi-esque. I like Rob Reiner and some others more. I'm not sure if I'd even recognize Opi's stuff.
What's Unix?
I'm betting Over the Hedge, whose cuteness and wit give it kid and parent appeal, will start to make serious inroads in Da Vinci Drone box office dominance.
And the hero Dan Brown created is an idiot. For instance, this "expert" was surprised to learn that Leonardo used mirror writing in his notebooks. This is something any junior-high kid assigned a bio of LdV knows.
I agree. I don't buy a novel
to raise my image in someone
else's view.
I enjoyed both Da Vinci Code
and Angels and Demons as
sleuth type novels. I especially
like following the maps and clues.
Great lit? Hardly, NTL still
good reads. But then...color
me oddball...I reread all the
J.K.Rowling Potter books, twice!
Hey, you don't have to be a genius to write a bestseller. The idiot market is as vast and profitable now as it ever was. The trick is writing a book that makes the idiots feel smart.
I read the book and loved it. I saw the movie and it was disappointing. The book is a fantastic read, an execellent page turner. I think the problem with the movie is Ron Howard. The movie lacked any sense of passion, mystery or excitement. It failed miserably to capture what Dan Brown wrote.
Forgetting the huge fan base that the book has, which is because it plays to the gnosticism of so many millions of American "Christians" and Jews. Not to mention the "New Agers" for whom the Catholic Church is their bete noir. The intelligensia knows that it is slock, but even for them it serves the purpose of making Christianity seem ridiculous and feeds their delusion that radical Islam cannot possibly be a real threat.
In Minnesota it is half of an Uff Da!
In Minnesota it is half of an Uff Da!
The Terminal was a Spielberg flick.
Now that's just scary.
Still, you won't find this novel anywhere but the 'fiction' section. Except maybe on the sale table later on down the road...
I found the book to be an enjoyable, if somewhat predictable, read. Will have to get back to you regarding my opinion of the movie. Haven't seen it yet, but I will most likely do so this weekend. There are very few movies that are better than the books on which they are based, IMHO, so I go in with properly adjusted expectations.
Ladykillers, costing an estimated $60 million to produce and market; and earning just under $40 million domestic and $37 million foreign, wasn't exactly a hit.
"The Da Vinci Code" is Hollywood's response to "TPOTC". Hollywood always has to have the last Word.
BUMP
What you call the idiot market might also be known as the entertainment market. But you can please feel free to look down your nose at the 45 million of us who bought/read the book and feel superior if you like. Opinions are like [you know what fills this space]. We all have them.
Like Star Wars this thing has a huge fan base. The difference is that the fans are much older and will not be repeat viewers.
Are all opinions "equals"? Mein Kampf sold a lot of copies.
Gad! Your name is certainly apt...I bought that stinker of a movie.
How did Hanks and Travolta each have a two-three punch of hits, only to have that kind of vaporize?
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