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afterlife	May 11 2008, 11:39 PM
Kung-Fu Starfish Posts: 2,311 Group: Members Member #1 Joined: April 9, 2006	Well, it seems that this movie is going to have a lot of trouble getting back its budget money. Projected ticket sales for the weekend are at $20.2 million. That's even worse than the harshest analysts were expecting. Now, haters of this film are almost celebrating this movie's flop which is pretty ridiculous. I have never seen another movie that got so much hate from people before they even saw it. But what I really do hate is that since this seems to be bombing that we might not get a sequel. I mean, hell, I don't remember such a big flop from a good movie since Kingdom of Heaven opened to like $19 million a few years ago. I think there is more than one reason for this movie to have flopped: 1. The first and most important reason is that it came one week after Iron Man which got excellent reviews and excellent word-of-mouth praise and is based on a character from one of the two most powerful comic book companies. 2. It came out one week before The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and even though the first one sucked, it made A LOT of money and the second installment is expected to do just as well. 3. Coming out on Mother's Day weekend. Who in the world is going to take their mother to see Speed Racer? 4. People who were giving it a rating of "1" on IMDB before they even saw it. 5. Rottentomatoes. 6. The Wachowski brothers knew that they were making something very visually atypical. It's almost like they said to each other "to hell with the studio's money, let's make the movie the way its supposed to be and not the way it'll make money" 7. Many people had lost faith on the Wachowski brothers after the last two Matrix films. Regardless of how much money it makes, this film was great IMO. I hate it when people think that good box office performance means good movie. I just hope that it can at least make enough for the studio to keep faith in a sequel. As for crowd reports, I'd like to know how packed was the theater where others have seen it and how people seemed to react. In my theater, there were probably about 30-40 people total (it was a small one, less than half-full) but they all seemed to be enjoying it a lot. A big dude who seemed to be in his 50's sat right next to me by himself and he laughed a lot.


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