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[rafterman]

you're absolutely right about the studios zencat...

[Blue Eyes]

Yes Studio's put strange spins on things.

One of the strangest things I've noticed in recent times, however, was the action of a cinema chain in Australia.

Bend It Like Beckham (a great film starring the absolutely beautiful Keira Knightley) opening as an 'art' film. That is, you could only see it at particular cinemas. Probably about 15 across the state.

BILB opened against MIB II and took number one spot at the Australian box office. All these weeks after its release, it's been put on to General Release and you can now see it all cinemas state wide.

Go the art house film

[zencat]

Originally posted by rafterman
you're absolutely right about the studios zencat...

Oh, I could tell you a few stories...

[Mourning Becomes Electra]

Fridays Numbers:

XXX 7.426 down 57%
Signs 6.197 down 43%
BlueCrush 5.681
SpyKids2 3.560 down 31%
Austin3 2.785 down 33%
GreekWedd 1.601 UP 83%!
BloodWork 1.448 down 38%
Perdition 1.097 down 4%
MasterDisg 1.000 down 41%
PlutoNash 0.750

How much XXX really dives will depend if it falls again on Saturday like it did last weekend, and if it does Signs will go back to #1. XXX will probably make from $18-22 for a 50-60% dive (for an $80-84 cume)

[WarBird]

I think all the movie go'ers realized that BOND IS BETTER then the that **** that Vin Diesel produces. I think that the fast and the furious was an ok movie to go see, but xxx is just to much a wanna be Bond movie without saying "James Bond knock off, right this way". I think Vin Diesel and all the other people underestimate the loyalty of the Bond fans and take us for jokes.

[WarBird]

There was no swearing in my last post. So please, I'm not like that.

[Blofeld's Cat]

All these facts and figures highlights to me my lack of interest in xXx. I don't care how good it does, and I especially don't care how bad it does, because I'm unconcerned about it all either way.

In an attempt at humour, this is my thoughts on it all...

Q: Why did Sony call it xXx?

A: Because poor Vin couldn't spell the word "spy."

[IrishCrown]

Been Diesel does indeed look like the guy on the Mr. Clean bottle.

[Mister Asterix]

They maybe fudging numbers and coming below expectations with Triple-Eggs, but they look like Wunderkind compared to the makers of Pluto Nash.

[zencat]

How in the heck did PLUTO NASH get made? Do you supossed someone pitched it as LEONARD PART VI meets BLANKMAN? I mean, geeze!

[Mourning Becomes Electra]

Pluto Nash is a film that makes Windtalkers look like a blockbuster!

Nash has been sitting in the vault I think for almost 2 years, a $100m bomb and they decided to waste more advertising it and putting it in theaters... why? It's a failure of Ishtar, Cuthroat Island, Town & Country proportions. I wonder who's going to get fired over it?

Actuals on XXX

$22,111,421 (-50.3% ) $83,963,506 (cume)

It's lucky there wasn't another huge film opening and none for another two weeks b/c it's hemorraging. Pity.

['S']

me - I'm looking forward to xXx - I like spy action films.

So it takes the p**s out of Bond, hell I take the p**s out of Bond (have you seen the Roger Moore films? its hard not to take the p**s - but I love 'em), I have the p**s taken out of me for liking Bond, and I take the p**s out of myself for liking Bond. I'm a huge fan. xXx won't mar my enjoyment of the Bond films in anyway. If it copies any of the Bond elements and does them well then it will be a rip off - but it will also be a good film. And I doubt it will go back in time and make the 20 good Bond films be un-made.

I don't care how many people like James Bond - OK so the more people that go see DAD then the bigger the budget for the next one (not always a good thing) - OK the more people who like 007 the less people take the p**s out of me - hey who cares? The more competition Bond has at the cinema the harder Eon have to work to bring me a good film every couple of years or so.

True Lies was so so, Mission Impossible the same - I expect this will be the same again for me - hey I'm a Bond fan - only. I don't own any of the Star Wars films, not interested in them, (yeah sometimes it riles me that this American rubbish is more popular in the UK than the home grown hero) - but I go see 'em when they come out, its entertainment .

I doubt very much the makers of xXx had any genuine mallace against James Bond, they're just trying to get a rise out of him (so to speak - I know he's not real). So remember the highest form of flattery is imitation - and the people who suffer least from heart attacks are those who can laugh at themselves. I reckon there's room in the world for two super spys - and if they had a fight, well we all know who would kick who's ***.

[bonded56]

Due to be released on November 1, 2002 in the USA is the Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson movie version of the USA TV Series "I SPY". Is it the appetizer before the main course, DAD, arrives?

[rafterman]

Pluto Nash? is Eddie intent and further ruining his career....

[Mourning Becomes Electra]

I Spy is just the spy movie of the week that's been this year's trend
Between now and then there's also Jackie Chan in The Tuxedo and Banderes & Liu in Ballistic: Ecks vs Severs (rotten title)

I read Murphy refused to promote Pluto Nash because it was so bad, which is all well and good but he didn't give back his $20m paycheck for it either.

[PaulZ108]

I Spy looks tolerable (except for that line in the trailer..."Oh, like 007! Yeah except I'm gonna be 009 and a half), but the Tuxedo trailer has convinced me not to see the film. Ballistic looks okay (and Liu is gorgeous).

I must admit the very last part of the trailer for Pluto Nash (the Hillarys) had me cracking up, but the rest looks horrific.

[Hardyboy]

I just saw the A & E Biography of my childhood icon Lee Majors, and it was announced that a film version of The Six Million Dollar Man is in the works. Yet another TV show turned into a feature film! And what are they going to call it? In today's terms, I doubt that six million dollars would cover the fiber optic cables in Steve Austin's bionic big toe! (And just to keep this on topic, I don't think a bionic spy will be much competition for whatever Bond film will open against it.)

[rafterman]

Murphy got 20 million for Nash?!!!!??

[JimmyBond]

I myself think Pluto Nash looks decent, but then again, thats just me. I could also say, dont bash it till you've seen it, but what have we been doing with XXX this whole time

[ChandlerBing]

Maybe we're just very perceptive about **** when we sense it.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Originally posted by JimmyBond
I myself think Pluto Nash looks decent, but then again, thats just me.

I agree. I wouldn't mind seeing it with some friends if I had a chance to. I think they just released it at the wrong time. Murphy's other movie, Showtime, was actually quite funny, IMO. Although if you think he isn't doing too well lately, go rent Eddie Murphy: RAW. It's one of his stand up routines from the late 80's, made after his other stand up, Delirious. It'll restore your faith in Mr. Murphy. Don't rent it if you're easily offended, though.

Anyhoo, on to xXx. I just caught the end of an MTV show yesterday (can't remember it's name) that reviews new releases and previews upcoming ones. It had people rate Vin Weasel's film, and most said it had good action sequences. Mostly, they hyped the avalanche scene. Crackers, these people need to watch a Bond film or two. Particularily OHMSS or TSWLM. One (smart) person said that the plot was pretty lame. My friend (who is also a Bond fan) saw it the other day and said that it didn't knock off Bond as much as people thought. Hrmph. Of course, he's a person who goes to films just for the fun of it.

[ThomasCrown76]

After seeing the avalanche scene overhyped in theaters and on TV, why does it look like obvious CGI, instead of the real thing in OHMSS?

[14 20 02]

XxX is just copying everything Bond has done such as when Vin Diesl is just about to get it on with a girl he says "the things i do for my country" and there is another one where they i think about to denate a bomb or something they say "stirred not shaken" I haven't seen the film and nor do i want too. The information is from the trailers.

Vin Diesl has dissed Bond on IMDb check it out just type in Die Another Day and go down to see what it says News Articles and you will find it. He actually means that Bond is outdated! :mad:

[JLMuench]

I just saw in GLOBE or something an article on Vin Diesel. He is gay. HAHA! More manly than Bond! He was caught doing something :eek: with another guy on a video!!!

[mrmoon]

Hardly surprising, everytime he speaks he sounds like Scooby-Doo being rear ended by Shaggy.

[RayBros007]

Hmmmm.... I wonder what HE was doing???

[Roebuck]

Originally posted by JLMuench
. He is gay. HAHA! He was caught doing something :eek:  
with another guy on a video!!!

What's so funny? A lot of people are Gay/Bi.
Do people still have a hang up about this?

[mrmoon]

Originally posted by Roebuck

Do people still have a hang up about this?

Nope. But the way I see it, God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

[Roebuck]

Originally posted by mrmoon
Nope. But the way I see it, God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

And three quarters of the worlds population thinks of the Bible as a fairy story, so how is this relevant?

For pity's sake, who cares who the guy is or isn't having sex with!

[Carver]

Oh no, not another dabate about gays, we've had this before:rolleyes:. Well, my opions on Vin Desil are that he is big-headed, arrogant, stupid, unprofessional, and how can he say Bond is a left over from the Clark Gable era? The man has class! Bond skis, so what? You expect him to snowboard? Geez, Bond is the sort of sofisticated, womanising good-looking b*st*rd that most men want to be. Sorry VD, guess nobody agrees with you on these forums:D