Sad to say because this is one of the greatest movies that I have seen all summer. I thought about writing a review of this movie, but I opted out and here's why. When I went into the theater I didn't really care how many people where there because I just wanted to see the movie, but something was odd...
There REALLY weren't a lot of people watching the movie especially on an opening night. It didn't take long for it to hit me though as to why this movie is going to be a flop.
The Expendables.
They had to have three different theaters open just so everyone can watch this movie. That's how big the anticipation was. They really hyped the fuck out of this movie all year too. It has all the action stars that anyone who is a hardcore action junkie would want to see in ONE MOVIE. Explosions, fist and gun fights and snappy one liners harken all the way back to 80's action flicks. You have Stallone, Steve Austin, Jet Li, Jason Statham and many other action stars in just this one movie.
In Scott Pilgram vs the World you have Michael Cera...uh...yeah.
Which is sad because he is REALLY good in this movie.
To make matters worse is HOW on Earth can you promote a movie that is like this one. It's kind of hard to understand for the average movie goer. It's a popculter, video game heavy, rock music love story. How do you try to promote that as such that you want to make your average movie goer go see it? Yeah, Kick-Ass had the same problem and despite being good it ended up being a flop.
So by this weekend's end you are going to see The Expendables at the #1 spot despite really not being anything more than a cheap action movie. Eat, Pray, Love at #2. The Other Guys at #3 and Scott Pilgram vs the World at #4.
It's all about timing and advertisement. When the audience doesn't know what you are selling then they are going to go for something that they are familiar with.
I saw it today and the theater was full. Therefore your logic fails.
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The only problem I have with the movie was that Michael Cera was the man person. Other than that, everyone thought it was an epic movie of epic proportions.
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Scott Pilram sounds like a porno version of the movie
Personally, I don't feel like watching it because of the pre-movie adverts I saw about it in the cinema. It made itself look like a total load of prepubescent horseshit that rides on the back of irrelevant internet / video game jokes from years ago for most of its humour.
I suppose you're right in a sense: it IS hard to market it when it seems to be all over the place with regards to what kind of teen love story it wanted to be. But at the end of the day, that's all it seems to be; a teen love story.
I'm about as eager to watch it as I am the Twilight saga. Actually, I'm LESS inclined to watch it than the Twilight saga. If it happens to find its way onto ordinary movie channels that I don't have to go out of my way to watch, then matbe I'll sit down and test my assumptions about it, but I'm not paying fuck-knows-how-much to test them at the cinema right now.
At 8/13/10 11:23 PM, HighWay wrote: The only problem I have with the movie was that Michael Cera was the man person. Other than that, everyone thought it was an epic movie of epic proportions.
Well in the Graphic Novel he was...well...Michael Cera.
At 8/13/10 11:27 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: Personally, I don't feel like watching it because of the pre-movie adverts I saw about it in the cinema. It made itself look like a total load of prepubescent horseshit that rides on the back of irrelevant internet / video game jokes from years ago for most of its humour.
I suppose you're right in a sense: it IS hard to market it when it seems to be all over the place with regards to what kind of teen love story it wanted to be. But at the end of the day, that's all it seems to be; a teen love story.
I'm about as eager to watch it as I am the Twilight saga. Actually, I'm LESS inclined to watch it than the Twilight saga. If it happens to find its way onto ordinary movie channels that I don't have to go out of my way to watch, then matbe I'll sit down and test my assumptions about it, but I'm not paying fuck-knows-how-much to test them at the cinema right now.
See, you kind of proved my point. You don't know what it is and yet you've made an assumption and decided that you don't want to see it. I mean...it's actually REALLY good for what it's worth, but that's your choice.
You just won't ever find a movie like it out there in Hollywood.
At 8/13/10 11:29 PM, Stoicish wrote: See, you kind of proved my point. You don't know what it is and yet you've made an assumption and decided that you don't want to see it. I mean...it's actually REALLY good for what it's worth, but that's your choice.
And should my choice be proven wrong when it comes out onto normal TV screens, then by all means I'd buy the DVD and take all that back. However, the cinema ads I saw were comprised mostly of clips from the movie itself (as most of them usually are). I shit you not, I never so much as smirked at any of the "jokes" in it. Either they did a really bad job of picking what to use in those particular adverts for it, or (much more likely) it's just not a movie I'm going to enjoy, regardless of what everyone else thinks of it.
You just won't ever find a movie like it out there in Hollywood.
That has meant good things in the past, but then again, it's also meant some very, VERY bad things too. As such, I'm gonna give this one a miss instead of finding out the expensive way.
At 8/13/10 11:21 PM, PhyroDragon wrote: I saw it today and the theater was full. Therefore your logic fails.
I haven't gone to see it, but I still concur with that last part.
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I agree with Scott Pilgrim being overshadowed by other movies and not making as much as it should but it is definitely not going to flop.
And that's perception.
There's so many reasons why The Expendables in the gayest movie ever, but one of the funniest is that in the trailer, they tell you you're "gonna have a MANGASM!!"
I'd definitely see scott pilgrim over that piece of piece of garbage.
since when is getting the number 4 spot considered a flop? that's still pretty high up there considering how much other crap gets released in the same week.
At 8/13/10 11:27 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: It made itself look like a total load of prepubescent horseshit that rides on the back of irrelevant internet / video game jokes from years ago for most of its humour.
...To begin with, Scott is twenty-somethingish, and the Big Bad Gideon is a good 30. The youngest of the characters, Knives is 17.
Having read the comic, it doesn't only relies on vidyagaem references.
Yeah...everyone is an adult in this film from their early 20's to the 30's.
At least read what it's about, ya know.
At 8/14/10 12:35 AM, Stoicish wrote: Yeah...everyone is an adult in this film from their early 20's to the 30's.
At least read what it's about, ya know.
Except for Knives, teenager.
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The Expendables is the gayest movie ever. All those gay-ass old men jerking off all over each other, cumming explosions out of their cocks. Anyone who sees it is more of a homosexual than a Twilight fan, and those guys are the bad kind.
Also, it sucks. Makes Dragonball Evolution look like a epic action-adventure masterpiece. But it's only a minor problem; it'd probably have been better if M. Night Shymalan had directed it.
What's that? More careers to ruin?
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At 8/13/10 11:38 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote:
. However, the cinema ads I saw were comprised mostly of clips from the movie itself (as most of them usually are). I shit you not, I never so much as smirked at any of the "jokes" in it. Either they did a really bad job of picking what to use in those particular adverts for it, or (much more likely) it's just not a movie I'm going to enjoy, regardless of what everyone else thinks of it.
I thought the ads were super gay too yet I heard it was pretty good.
Soooo...I'm bringing this back.
I was right....kinda. Scott Pilgrim, despite being a better movie than The Expendables and Eat Pray Love made it to the number 3 spot this weekend? Why? Like all of the reasons I said before.
Just looking at the trailers for the average movie goer they wouldn't know what the fuck they are about to watch and it could be retarded.
Sorry...my bad...it finished at number 5 this weekend...
That's right. My predictions actually outweighed themselves.
I think its marketed correctly, the slogan itself shows how silly the movie is, and appear to mirror the silliness of the comic its based off of
I think based on the trailers and adverts you get a good sense of it being a movie you'd enjoy or not. It seems to be doing fine. I think the one thing SP has that maybe the expendibles doesnt is that its able to appeal to nerd girls and nerd guys. Whereas expendibles its mostly just a dude movie.
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Who gives a shit if anything flops, the only things it should indicate is if there is going to be a sequel which will inevitably fail judging from the fact that you don't have anymore story after it unless they surprise us.
This is like worrying if a music album or video game flops or not, its fucking retarded and pointless.
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I don´t wanna watch it because the main character looks like a wimpy loser.
I am honest.
At 8/15/10 07:37 PM, Warforger wrote: Who gives a shit if anything flops, the only things it should indicate is if there is going to be a sequel which will inevitably fail judging from the fact that you don't have anymore story after it unless they surprise us.
This is like worrying if a music album or video game flops or not, its fucking retarded and pointless.
Yeah, but if you enjoy something don't you want to see it do well? I guess that's not the point because its fine if you enjoyed it.
But being a complete douche about your opinion just makes you...well...a douche.
Oh and in case you weren't getting it I was calling you a douchebag.
Can't wait to go see it, but I'm afraid that it won't live up to the comics.
I totally hear ya! However, I'm excited to see Michael Cera go down in flames, and I'd much prefer to see Expendables before Scott Pilgrim.
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Okay, I just have to say this.
The Expendables really really fucking sucked. I'm talking about on a B movie scale on how fucking horrible this movie was. I know you don't go into a movie like this expecting a lot and yeah maybe I should have turned my brain off all the way to enjoy this, but I couldn't.
It was bad in every sense.
Maybe people will like it if all they want is dumb action and that's fine, but don't expect anything more than that and trust me...there really isn't anything to the movie. It has no substance.
Scott Pilgrim will be the same as all of the other movies that dumbass made.
So the movie made about 10.5 million dollars its opening week, and the film's budget estimated somewhere in between 60 and 90 million dollars.
..I think that's a box office bomb; you are definitely right.
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Uh... 80% of the Rotten Tomatoes community says it didn't. I'm sure that's a pretty reliable site to base the general opinion on.
At 8/15/10 07:56 PM, TheNewYorkTimes wrote: Scott Pilgrim will be the same as all of the other movies that dumbass made.
"Its speedy, funny, happy-sad spirit is so infectious that the movie makes you feel at home in its world even if the landscape is, at first glance, unfamiliar."
- A.O. Scott
The New York Times
it's a shame people are more interested in familiarity than originality..oh well.
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