Comments on: Monday Morning Box Office Report – Dec. 24, 2007

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:42:19 +0000

i was shocked by the failure of dewey cox, i watched the first 10 minutes of it on rotten tomatoes and it looked pretty good

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:09:34 +0000

Interesting. I still prefer money and sex over history. I guess I haven’t gotten enough money and sex over the years to be able to enjoy reminiscing about the past.

I must admit that I am surprised at the success of the National Treasure sequel. And I too doubt that Nic Cage has anything to do with its success. Hasn’t every other recent movie he’s done not do so well? Ghost Rider and Next were failures, weren’t they?

Anybody out there want to explain the appeal of National Treasure? (And I really doubt history is the answer.)

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:20:19 +0000

History is well known to spark interest in later years of life. Up untill you turn 40 all people are interested in is money and sex.

By: Rian

Rian — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:12:58 +0000

Do the National Treasure movies really sell so well because of Nicolas Cage? My bet is hell no. Put any averagely famous middle-aged guy (Brad Pitt, Rafe Fiennes, Colin Farrell, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, etc.) in that role and it’s still gonna sell. My father, for example, loves National Treasure and can’t wait to see Book of Secrets, but I’m not sure if he could name another movie Cage has been in. All he knows is that the films are about pseudo-realistic American history and as a middle-aged (and beyond) male, he’ll be able to understand what’s going on in the action scenes more easily than with a movie about robots from outer space beating each other up or diseased sorta-vampires in a post-apocalyptic future. Speaking of which, I may be way off with this assumption, but are only older people interested in this movie? All of my relatives over 40 can’t wait to see Book of Secrets, but neither myself, any of my twenty-something friends, or any of the few younger kids that I know are interested at all.

By: Goon

Goon — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:00:07 +0000

Walk Hard plays along the lines of Anchorman and Talladega Nights and less like a parody.

but fear and distrust of parody and general unsuccess of music movies (remember, Tenacious D also bombed horribly), as well as many other new releases out there, AND an R rating, certainly didnt help.