I'll know a bit more tomorrow morning, but I'm projecting right now that Poseidon's opening weekend take may be possibly as low as $15 million but will probably not be higher than $20 million, even with winds favoring. I mean, it looks that way now. Undeservedly, I would add, but them's the breaks.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 11, 2006 at 10:59 AM
comment #1
Roy "Griff" Griffis says ...
Jeff, do you think that 9/11 has, for a while at least, put a stake in the heart of old-school disaster movies? Since we've seen real disaster, lived with its fallout, watched the people falling to their death...maybe a film like "Posedion" just seems to far removed from a reality that was made all too real.
Posted by Roy "Griff" Griffis at May 11, 2006 2:44 PM
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Daniel says ...
I ran out of space in my review before I could bring up that point, Griff, but part of my problem with Poseidon was that, having just seen United 93 a few days earlier, Poseidon seemed to have even less gravity and the piles of dead bodies seemed even less real and even more hollow. There just didn't seem to be a point in any of it. I didn't care about any of the people who died in Poseidon. While Peter Greengrass didn't bother with any exposition or character development, he had the advantage of built-in power and built-in sympathy, of course. But he also just made a better movie. Yes, Wolfgang Petersen made Das Boot and I even give him credit for In the Line of Fire. But at his VERY best, he's just a journeyman these days and he's well on his way to pure hackdom.
Posted by Daniel at May 11, 2006 5:17 PM
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Bart Smith says ...
"Jeff, do you think that 9/11 has, for a while at least, put a stake in the heart of old-school disaster movies?"
9/11 surely didn't have any negative effect on THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW's box office performance.
Posted by Bart Smith at May 11, 2006 7:40 PM
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Jeffrey Wells says ...
Daniel and Roy have both made very perceptive points about 9/11 and Poseidon....right on.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells at May 11, 2006 7:41 PM
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Max Seo
says ...
That should hurt, considering it is a bit of big budget film OUCH
Posted by Max Seo
at April 10, 2008 9:48 AM