Comments on: Worst Box Office Weekend In Years

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:31:49 +0000

Well it come down to this, why the hell would you spend 45 million to make a movie,when you could just read the script and say “wow my 5 year old could right one with a better plot, more involved characters and hell even make it more violent.” I saw this movie, but thank god i didn’t pay for it, bonus of working at a movie theater, although it still ended up being one of the WORST movies I have ever seen, that goes up there with Blood Reign. Not only did I throw my shoe at Nicholas’ Cage big grease ball head half way through the movie, I CHEERED when he shot himself at the end. All in all I am swearing off nick cage, hell I already hated the guy, but Face off was his only good movie, well 60 seconds was Alright and so was matchstick men, but even thoes movies can’t make up for the load of crap he signed up for this time around, he prolly laughed his head off when he got paid 30 mil upfront for this movie…. although funny enough The Producers did prove that you could make more money off a flop, conspiracy….? although how this movie could Possibly be number one for this week, it makes me shiver to think these a-holes in hollywood make money even when they don’t try.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:54:19 +0000

“But it will make its money back on DVD”.

Executive gets a pass. Especially when he passes the buck on to his own underlings and peons, kicking them out of the door before his boss takes notice and says

“But it won’t make a dime in foreign; everyone else has seen the Pangs original and won’t spend a cent on the redo…

Haha

Actually, it could have been worse. The film could have actually MADE money. Count our blessings. Hmmm…I KNEW there was a reason Cage wants a Ghost Rider 2 so bad.

And the Pangs? They done better too.
(not the ORIGINIAL Bangkok, which I thought was an uneven film…but some of the suspense-horror offerings)

By: Sahil

Sahil — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:17:51 +0000

$8M on opening weekend from a $45M budget makes it the worst weekend in 5 years? I say Hollywood is doing pretty good.

With news coming out early last week that the unemployment rate at 6.1%, the highest in 4.5 years, I am not suprised that this weekend wasnt great.

Plus whose idea was it to make Bankcock Dangerous R-Rated anyways? No self respecting adult is going to go see that movie. Only teens who have nothing to do and have the extra $10-15 to blow will go see it and if the movie is R-Rated they then will sneak and making the $10-15 go elsewhere.

By: PADTHAI

PADTHAI — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:12:22 +0000

I suppose that is how the movie/entertainment industry is different from most traditional businesses. In a traditional business, the executives and CEO will make and have the most money. In the film biz, actors and directors get paid a ton more than a lot of the executives. When you get paid 20-30 million bucks to act in a movie, that is nearly the paid day for a years work for many top CEOs.

By: PADTHAI

PADTHAI — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:57:10 +0000

“Surely the President will want to reward your keen leadership of this project by giving you a 7 figure raise, 3 new cars and a bus full of 19 year old virgins right?”

Post Labor Day weekend is dumping ground for movies like Bangkok Dangerous. They already expected the movie to perform low.

You have to realize that in the film business, the studio executives and bosses oftentimes make far less than the movie’s directors, actors, and producers. Even if a movie succeeds, the movie’s directors, actors, and producers will demand a bigger paycheck for the sequel. So, they are the ones that will be celebrating the most.

By: moviereign

moviereign — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:38:32 +0000

I still thing Nicholas Coppola should do Face/Off 2: The soich for more faces

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:22:17 +0000

Actually a few films have done worse on their opening weekends (according to boxofficemojo.com/alltime/lowest1.htm)
Bangkok Dangerous – 7.8 million
He Got Game – 7.6
Dickie Roberts – 6.6
Fire Down Below – 6
Eye of the Beholder – 5.9 million
What’s interesting is how many movies on that list are released in January and September.

By: Karni

Karni — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:07:41 +0000

With College Football on Saturday and NFL opening weekend on Sunday, all those box office dollars were spent on fantasy leagues and bud light.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:59:18 +0000

word not world

By: Mikey

Mikey — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:58:28 +0000

yeah but 88 looked like crap from the world go. RK actually looks good and the trailers arent terrible looking. Not to mention DeNiro is the superior actor.

By: Kokushi

Kokushi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:58:12 +0000

Come on chuck, have more faith, LOL, The Score (IMO) was very good and cant wait to see RK (huge fan of De Niro & Pacino) but im not expecting a great movie maybe good or pushing it a very good one.

By: Reed

Reed — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:55:07 +0000

Is this beacuse of the start of both the NFL and college football seasons? (Granted, there were few compelling college games this past weekend.) Bangkok Dangerous is more of a “dude’s” film, right? Maybe they should have put it out a few weeks ago…