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Box Office Flops For Tom Cruise’s ‘Rock Of Ages’
Deadline ^ | 6/15/12 | NIKKI FINKE

Posted on 06/16/2012 8:21:43 AM PDT by jimbo123

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New Line/Warner Bros’ Rock Of Ages (3,470 theaters) is falling to earth with a thud. Which Hollywood expected because the pic had been tracking poorly for weeks (and even went down at one point week to week). The studio felt the 1980s period piece was a hard sell to younger moviegoers. I suspect the problem was casting. Russell Brand has been repellant to moviegoers, while Tom Cruise as iconic rocker proved just too incredulous for audiences.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; hollyweird; hollywood; moviereview; rock; russellbrand; scientology; tomcruise; yeshesgay
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To: Borges

The new WOTW had a stupid plot. You’re allowed some illogic in a thriller, but if it’s too stupid the audience loses their temporary suspension of disbelief, and now you’re no longer making a thriller, you’re making a comedy because the audience is laughing at you. WOTW is a funny movie, but not in a good way.


121 posted on 06/17/2012 3:01:36 PM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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To: Kandy Atz
Another great show that was canceled too soon was Human Target.
122 posted on 06/17/2012 3:02:58 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: southern rock

I have to disagree. Everytime I turned on the radio, all I heard was great music. On one radio station I could hear Stevie Wonder, Chicago, The Carpenters and the Eagles. After AOR and rock stations became the norm, I was listening to Molly Hatchet, Eagles, LedZep, Heart, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynrd, Earth, Wind and Fire, McCartney and Wings and Fleetwood Mac. Not a bad song in the bunch.


123 posted on 06/17/2012 3:09:24 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: rabidralph
Amen! It’s bad enough Dee Snider is singing for Stanley Steemer.

I flipped on the TV early one morning and that commercial was the first thing I saw. I thought perhaps I was still asleep and having some sort of weird dream. Then I thought, Dee must really need the money. LOL!

124 posted on 06/17/2012 3:12:22 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: jimbo123

Poser bands suck and movies about them suck worse


125 posted on 06/17/2012 3:16:05 PM PDT by KingNo155
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To: MD Expat in PA

LOL! I couldn’t believe it when I first saw it, too. What a weird reaction to have. He still has a great voice.


126 posted on 06/17/2012 3:16:48 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: discostu

The one flaw everyone pointed out was keeping Wells’ ending where the aliens are done in by germs...at a time when the Germ Theory of Disease was fairly new this was novel but now it’s a cliche. But I loved it for the great action scenes (that rushing train!) and the entirely unexpected melancholy tone and subtext of how groups of people respond to a calamity. There are logical flaws in Hamlet and Macbeth too. No one cares.


127 posted on 06/17/2012 6:22:12 PM PDT by Borges
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To: KingNo155

The whole thing is very self aware about the kitschy music and culture it’s celebrating/making fun of.


128 posted on 06/17/2012 6:26:48 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

I’ve seen many a flaw listed for the movie and nobody has mention that. The REAL major flaw is the idiocy of having the aliens come from beneath the earth, the whole idea that anything could hide under the soil in America is painfully stupid, laughably ridiculous, and turns the whole movie into a comedy.


129 posted on 06/17/2012 6:30:40 PM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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To: discostu

That’s actually an old SF standby. In any case it allowed Spielberg to film some great action scenes. Again I would grant the film its basic premises to enjoy what it had to offer.


130 posted on 06/17/2012 6:39:09 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

It’s actually a STUPID SF standby used on B movies that people make fun of for their frequently dumb story lines.

“Great” action scenes have no meaning once the story has gotten stupid. For an action scene to be great you have to care if the characters live or die, when the story has gotten dumb and your disbelief has been return you don’t care if they live or die. It had well filmed action scenes, but that’s to be expected, Spielberg always films things well, but like so many of his movies it was a crap script that didn’t deserve his talents.


131 posted on 06/17/2012 6:50:19 PM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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To: rabidralph

‘Human Target’ was the last show I’ve watched on television...a potted plant (or something) now sits in its place.


132 posted on 06/17/2012 6:57:49 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: discostu

It goes back to ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ The script was a clothesline for him to use his talents - which were enough in this case - especially considering the film was much shorter than anything he had done in a long time.


133 posted on 06/17/2012 7:07:44 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

There’s a bit difference between the stuff in JCE and having aliens a couple of hours worth of excavation under New Jersey. He films bad scripts, so he makes them all pretty, but they’re still bad scripts.


134 posted on 06/17/2012 7:14:11 PM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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To: discostu

As a rule? It’s hard to call Jaws, Close Encounters, E.T. and Schindler’s List ‘bad scripts’. But in this case the script is irrelevant. Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ has a script that’s completely implausible - it doesn’t matter.


135 posted on 06/17/2012 7:26:38 PM PDT by Borges
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To: rabidralph

It was futuristic but, based on what I see today, very believable.


136 posted on 06/17/2012 7:38:16 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: jimbo123

For some reason Hollywood thinks that a broadway show because its popular with New Yorkers is going to be a success as a movie on a national or international level.


137 posted on 06/17/2012 7:57:59 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: ColdSteelTalon

The primary audience for Broadway these days is tourists. Many Broadway shows have been made into successful films.


138 posted on 06/17/2012 9:45:52 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

I am trying hard to think of a movie that was a broadway musical that I liked. I keep coming up blank. :)


139 posted on 06/17/2012 11:01:23 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: ColdSteelTalon

Obvously there’s been quite a few..The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof...


140 posted on 06/18/2012 6:59:50 AM PDT by Borges
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