comment #1

siowafc says ...

Wait, "Walk Hard" is performing at 3rd week "Golden Compass" levels? Unbelieveable. Has Apatow finally run his own name into the ground? Or maybe it was just bad marketing. I never really could figure out what exactly this movie was about.

comment #2

siowafc says ...

And now I read the post before this...nice.

comment #3

nemo says ...

Jeff Wells may actually *pay* to see National Treasure 2? Oh god, Jeff, please! Don't do it!

comment #4

p.Vice says ...

Money aside, why would you want to see National Treasure at all?

comment #5

Rothchild says ...

I'm on my way. The first film was dumb but surprisingly entertaining. The sequel looks about as plausible as The Black Hole but I'm sure it will be fun, too. I've got my money's worth from every Bruckheimer movie since Bad Boys (except Bad Company, Coyote Ugly, and I never saw Kangaroo Jack).

comment #6

BurmaShave says ...

Dear Wells,

Please stop running projections on Saturday morning. They're depressing and pointless, regardless of accuracy. It's what the business is about, sure, but we don't have to celebrate it.

Thanks.

comment #7

actionman says ...

I am Legend for me today.

I am a big Bruckheimer fan, but not too sure on National Treasure 2...

comment #8

Walter Sobchak says ...

"I am a big Bruckheimer fan..."

I weep for the future.

comment #9

Aguirre says ...

national treasure 2 was about as plausible as jeff writing an intelligent and even-minded piece on sofia coppola, but i'll be damned if it wasn't consistently fun and rife with the incredulous wonder that a treasure-hunting film relies on.

comment #10

TheJeff says ...

Did the new Goofy short, "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater" play in front of National Treasure? I'm considering buying a ticket just for that.

comment #11

D.Z. says ...

sio: No one knows who John C. Reilly is, and music spoofs rarely make money.

comment #12

Aguirre says ...

i had no idea that goofy short was gonna precede the movie... and god damn do i wish it hadn't.

comment #13

p.Vice says ...

You should be weeping for the present, Sobchak. The future is indeed upon us.

comment #14

BurmaShave says ...

"No one knows who John C. Reilly is"

D.Z.

All right, seriously, that's enough. I've had enough of your shit. Already today I've had to stomach your ridiculous pronouncement that SWEENEY TODD is a parody of musicals, which you apparently got from your music teacher because you don't know what the fuck sardonic means. Now one of the more recognizable character actors in America is an unknown? He's the ugly guy with the huge brow. Everyone can place his face. Grow up, shut the fuck up.

Stop acting like you know shit. Or start your own trade. You can call it Dumb Cocksucker. When you die we're going to bury you under Nixon.

comment #15

JaySmire says ...

I guess folks only like their Bake when it comes with Shake.

comment #16

D.Z. says ...

Burma: You're just pissed that I'm right.

comment #17

D.Z. says ...

Anyway, I like how Box Office Prophets was stupid enough to believe that Charlie would beat Sweeney, because the young people really wanna see a movie about the political scene from 20 years ago during the holiday season. And in 2,500 theaters, no less. Good job on another half-baked idea, Universal!

comment #18

D.Z. says ...

Oh, and whoever runs that theater chain which gave Wilson that many theaters, but claimed Todd wouldn't be profitable, should be chased out of their job by shareholders, too.

comment #19

WJ says ...

I saw I Am Legend last night with two friends. I really enjoyed it until Neville gets rescued by the woman and kid. I'm guessing that's the point in the script where Akiva took over...

There were a couple moments where I thought the film might follow Richard Matheson's big theme, namely that the mutants were humans of a different order and were capable of human feelings. Alas, the movie never took this idea to its logical conclusion. It went for an abrupt heartwarming ending instead of a provocative, heartbreaking one.

All in all, for being a Will Smith action flick, it was pretty good. The CGI mutants weren't as awful as everyone seemed to be saying. The skyline and art direction of the vacant city were pretty impressive.

I finally saw National Treasure on cable last week and hated it. I won't ever be seeing the sequel.

comment #20

berg says ...

If you need TWO reasons to see NT BOS how about the GOOFY cartoon before the movie, and Bruce Greenwood as the President - no, Nat Treasure 2 is not half-baked, it is fully baked

comment #21

Terry McCarty says ...

And NT2 has the scene of Diane Kruger wearing a tight, revealing dress in the Oval Office.

comment #22

Silverscreenvideos says ...

I saw Walk Hard in the smallest theater at the local multiplex. The 7:30 Friday night show was about half full (in a theater that probably has about 100 seats).

People who like Judd Apatow comedies will be turned off by the country music theme, and people who like country music generally don't appreciate anyone making fun of it (and also won't appreciate the gratuitous male full frontal nudity).

However, take heart. This movie will probably wind up like Office Space, a theatrical bomb that thrives on DVD.

comment #23

Gaydos says ...

Ok, ok, ok.

I'm always reading here in Wellsboro that the plebes are dragging down our film arts, that we shouldn't give in to what the mindless sheep at the multiplexes are gobbing up. With that in mind, sharing the outrage at dismal American tastes and the tragedy of film art being ripped to pieces by tasteless Red State neanderthals, may I be the first to start the petition here to defy the boring, gray buying habits of the American public, to urge Sony Pictures, Judd Apatow, Jake Kasdan and John C. Reilly to show some defiant artistic courage and announce they are starting production on WALK HARDER: THE SECRET LIFE OF DEWEY COX.

THE WRONG MOVIE DIED!!!!!!