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[los_gobos]

There was talk on one of the forums I visit today about how good movies like Stranger than Fiction and (allegedly) the Fountain are doing awful in theatres. I mentioned that I found it sad that "good" movies were doing badly while at the same time movies like Jackass 2 and "Animated Animal Extravaganze XVII" are doing gangbusters

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[robsoft]

I know what you mean.

Possibly not fitting into the 'thought-provoking' category quite as much as it might, I really wanted to see the 'A Scanenr Darkly' movie this summer. It's from Warners, right? Ought to be around long enough for me to catch.

Nope. I dunno how it did in the States, Canada, Australia and the rest of Europe, but it only ever managed limited release here and never came within 30 miles of my home town (we have several big 'cineplex' type things here, but they all just show the same few films - fairly pointless really).

Oh well. There's a special 25th Anniversary edition of Blade Runner due out next year. I wonder if Warners will give it a limited edition cinematic release? I'd travel all the way down to London to see that baby on the big screen.

By the way - you mentioned 'that girl had a nice rack.' Which film was this? :-)

[square721bt]

I've been thinking about this a lot. Scanner Darkly was in an especially bad position, in that the movie is actually not at all like the book, and it's a book by an author that sees a rather rabid following. For myself, it's one of my favorite books ever, and seeing the massive difference in the movie, I initially dismissed the movie. On a second watch-through, I realized that the movie actually is very good, it's just not the book, and that's okay (though I would have chosen to call it something different, were I making it, and just say it was heavily inspired by the book.) Beyond that, yeah, the movie had some hard times in production, and it was largely abandoned by its company. There wasn't much of a release, the release that we got here was something like 2 months after the initially release, and there was zero marketing. It's too bad, if nothing else it's a very pretty and original-looking movie.

[square721bt]

The better movies almost always win in the end, though, because they end up with the longevity. They don't make as much right away, but if your film is great enough to stand the test of 50 years, it's pretty likely that over time you'll do better than Things Blowing Up 12.

[hella_bunyip]

Santa Clause 3: 12% on rotten tomatoes, 67 million at the box office so far. Deck the Halls looks even worse and still made no 3 on the weekend. Encouraging, eh?