As I mentioned in my review of The Day The Earth Stood Still a few days ago, the flick isn’t really any good, but at the same time wasn’t a complete waste either. I’d generally say the movie was a bit disappointing, but not the worst thing I’ve seen this month either.
But get ready to see a new batch of commercials for the movie… because now The Day The Earth Stood Still is the “#1 Movie In America”. Yeah… that sounds impressive doesn’t it? Except for the little fact that it opened again basically nothing. The next opening film, “Nothing Like The Holidays” came in at #7… and that was it for wide releases.
Other films of note on the box office list… Twilight continues to do pretty well passing the $150 million mark (not bad for a film that only spent $37 million making it), and Australia continues to bomb big time. In it’s 3rd week of release its only managed to pull in $38 million… which isn’t too awful until you realize it cost over $150 million to make. OUCH!
I just watched this movie last night as it was just released to DVD. I must say I completely agree with the earlier review posted back in December on this film. This was a complete wasted effort on a remake from a classic campy 50’s sci-fi film I loved as a kid. The script should have been scrapped immediately from the start as the plot and dialog were so detached and just plain suffering. Marketing is what got the limited amount of butts in seats for this one, but the director and actors surely didn’t earn those $$Million paychecks. It appears the director wasn’t quite sure where he wanted to take us in this farce of alien cat and mouse chases, over the top millitary scences and a kinda environmental “save the earth” statement. The script dialog was almost laughable and parent-child relationship scenes with Jennifer Connelly and Jaden Smith (please do not put this kid in another film unless his mom or dad are in it!)were completely unnecessary to the plot (this alone justifed a whole script rewrite). The CG effects where amateur at best. You’d think in a time of recession that Hollywood (20th Century Fox to be more specific) could produce much better quality filmmaking than this! Who is actually buying these crappy screenplays? I could’ve written and directed a much better film. Dissapointing! Hollywood needs a wakeup call like the nations banking system.
i too think that it was wastage of time, i could not understand the whole story, could not conclude at the end, nothing to say more
The advertisements have that same I Am Legend fell going for it.
The movie’s only competition were films opening in ny/la and other films getting limited release. Like Slumdog Millionaire and Forst/Nixon finially opened up in two theaters down where I live. Also, Gran Torino opened this weekend in ny/la. Did you see it yet John? I’m looking forward to reading a review from you on that. Friend of mine was in LA over the weekend and saw it, said it was fantastic.
I will have to watch it before I really give an review!!!
you gotta give it to the marketing geniuses who thought about the release dates. good for them.
this movie was pure garbage, its like 2 hours of hell