New To Theatres This Weekend – March 9, 2007
Not many films dare to challenge Zack Snyder and Frank Miller’s 300 for box office supremacy this weekend. The Ultimate Gift is in limited release, while Korean horror flick The Host is in an extremely small number of theatres. The question becomes, just how well will 300 do? Does it have enough mainstream appeal to generate big numbers, or will it fizzle outside of the hardcore fans?
300
The Host (limited)
The Ultimate Gift (limited)
The Last Mimzy (limited sneak peeks)
Comments (14)
What happened to ‘The Namesake’? I thought it was due out today as well, yet none of the theatres (all two of them) have it listed for anytime this weekend. Does anyone know what’s going on?
Posted by Aaron Moore on March 9th, 2007Actually, you’re right, it is opening this weekend, but only in 6 theatres.
Posted by Sean on March 9th, 2007Oh, funny I don’t recall anything in the trailer about it being a selected release before wide, or maybe it’s not going to be wide released which would be disappointing. Seems like very thing is being released in select theatres lately, which makes no sense as far as the theatres and major picture companies trying to stop film piracy. I may be wrong (it’s known to happen) but I would think that limiting the areas people can go to pay to see a film would increase the number of people “pirating” that film because they can’t get to a theatre playing it without jumping on a jet.
Posted by Aaron Moore on March 9th, 2007When I say “seems like very thing is” I mean to say “seems like everything is” sorry.
Posted by Aaron Moore on March 9th, 2007i’m going to see 300 tomorrow. i have no idea what i’ll think. im not as excited as most people as i think it has the potential to be like Sky Captain in the visuals vs story dept. and potentially boring by the end.
what i do find annoying is the number of people making political allegorys about Iraq in regards to it. god fucking damn it it seems everything to do with war or sci fi right now has to be about Iraq to some dipshit.
Posted by Goon on March 10th, 2007300 sucked. more later.
Posted by Goon on March 10th, 2007How surprising.
Posted by Henrik on March 11th, 2007not sure what you mean by that.
anyways, despite some great visuals, they took the idea of reproducing the comic to the level that the visual style actually makes all the violence look very stagey to the point that extreme acts like decapitation even seem dull, lacking the brutality and intensity that was so necessary. because of this most of the action tends to run together and become tiresome/boring.
there are good elements of the movie, however i really felt the visuals and color were put way to high of a priority over everything else.
1.5/4
Posted by Goon on March 11th, 2007I didn’t mean it as a shot at you.
Posted by Henrik on March 11th, 2007That’s kind of what I was afraid of. The trailers made everything seem so fake that I didn’t know if I would really care about what was happening on screen.
We’re seeing it tomorrow.
Posted by Sean on March 11th, 2007well maybe now I might set you up to be pleasantly surprised. we’ll see.
see, the violence in Sin City is also sort of fake and not really necessarily brutal to me either to a certain degree, however the violence in Sin City has much more going on with it, humor, quirkiness, sarcasm, punctuated by one liners or deadpan moments, like the guy with the arrow through him. but here it doesnt really have this going for it and although there are occasionally one liners most of the violence really is meant to be beefed up macho HURR MANLINESS and should probably have felt more extreme and a lot less fake and stagey.
also… you know how some things try to be ’so straight they’re gay’ – you know, like say, Creed, or professional wrestling, or football – you get so macho and tough that you can also open the door for that sort of thing. All the waxed Spartans in their costumes at times look like a convention of Manowar fans.
Posted by Goon on March 11th, 2007Haha, that kind of makes sense. Weren’t the Spartans warriors all pederasts?
Posted by Matt on March 11th, 2007Seems like everything that had me thinking this would be a terrible movie is in the movie. The trailers didn’t lie for once.
I do like Creed alot… Football too. I think baseball is a way gayer sport than football. Pro wrestling is pretty gay though, especially that one pussy world champ with the cowboy hat who they all seemed to hate at one point.
Posted by Henrik on March 11th, 2007matt, i dont recall my history, but i’m pretty sure Greeks didnt care about gay/straight, that it was just ‘people’. dont know pederasts, but as for the actual film, King Leonidas calls the Athenian Greeks boylovers and the Persians seemed to be treated as rather decadent and all either monsters or sort of gay.
i fail to see how football is gayer than baseball. by uniform alone football looks so much more gay. i can look past wrestling’s gay overtones but when certain holds are on its there. certain wrestlers actually play it up on purpose, and yet others can successfully mask the gayness either by humor or actually just looking like a regular competitor with no ego in the ring. funny though i’ve never thought boxing to be gay.
as for Creed, theres no excuse for liking Creed. you should know better
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