Posted on 07/23/2010 6:21:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
ditto on all of that :)
See the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, it was good!
It came from test pilots pushing their aircraft to it limits.
“Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
What is it about. I am not interested in sci-fi or fantasy such as Harry Potter.
“The Book of Eli”
Saw it for the first time tonight. You will love it.
How much does it cost to go to a movie nowadays?
And maybe you should watch something besides PBS.
I have and Piper has a real chance there as Annie. I personally mostly like her blind sidekick. The guy has real presence.
I don’t watch any PBS. Like I said earlier, some NBC lots of SyFy, plus a bunch of Discovery Channel and a bit of A&E.
This is the demographically researched world. Ads are targeted, if you can’t seem to turn on a TV without seeing a commercial for a particular movie then you know that a good chunk of the other people watching those shows are interested in that movie, or at least the demographic research says they will be. If you find that movie offensive you might want to think about those shows you watch. That’s just the demographic reality.
Basically it’s a modernization/ live actioning of The Sorcerers Apprentice part of Fantasia. Longer of course, but that’s the core of it.
And now in 2010 people talk like that’s still true while the vast majority of the movies out right now are PG-13 or lower.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/
Hollywood still puts out the Rs of course, it’s a big world with many different viewing tastes. But in general if they’re gunning for the big big money (like during summer blockbuster time) they’re avoiding R. Outside of blockbuster time, when goals and budgets are lower, the Rs come back, and of course the indy guys are almost always hitting R because it’s an easy rating to get. But at gravy train time Hollywood knows where the fat checks are.
BTTT
The minions really make the movie.
The place we went was 8.50 each, IIRC. We caught a 5:50pm show on a weeknight and there were less than 10 other people in the theater. That was for 3d.
Yeah, I probably would not be interested in a movie based on a Mickey Mouse cartoon.
You might not like it then. It’s about a kid who has to save the world by defeating some evil sorcerers who’ve lived for centuries. It was cute, though.
You’re right. Does not sound like my kind of flick.
BTTT
WINTER BONE WAS GREAT
Not on many screens/many markets however
5 - G (not counting duplicates: e.g., Toy Story 3, Toy Story 3 3-D, Toy Story 3 IMAX)
20- PG
21 - PG-13
32 - R
90% of the movies in that list are arthouse movies playing in under 100 theaters in the nation not actually made by Hollywood. If you look at the Box Office Mojo chart http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/ you’ll see there are 11 actual Hollywood movies playing in over 1000 theaters right now, and of them 1 is R, 2 are G, 3 are PG and the rest are PG-13. If you throw in Karate Kid which recently dropped below 1000 theaters you get another PG.
Then if you start comparing the budgets you can really see it, most of the PG-13s (which really is the sweat spot for revenue) have close to or over 100 million dollars for the budget. The only R rated movie (Predators) is tied with with Karate Kid for the lowest budget in the group out there. The most expensive movie out right now was G rated Toy Story 3. Hollywood, actual Hollywood big movie makers, not indy joints releasing to arthouses, sink their money into PG-13 and lower because that’s where the money is. They’re not idiots, they can read the same charts everybody else reads.
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