Mason Barge wrote:
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> "Taylor" <lukebenward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Only the 'Oceans' franchise, which has a star-studded cast, is the
>> exception.
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>> Clooney's latest fumbles at box office
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>> Wed, April 9, 2008
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>> The period football offering Leatherheads didn't draw the fans.
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> I don't think it's Clooney as an actor. The guy is basically an idiot
> who is a good and very popular actor. The overpromoted movie
> "Leatherheads" may have been his fault, but it was the lack of talent
> behind the camera, not in front of it, that made it such a bomb.
Actually, almost all movies that don't involve science fiction or
fantasy or CGI or some other eye-popping element open poorly.
LEATHERHEADS was a good movie, in the way an old-fa****oned movie is
good. As for over-promotion, I never noticed it promoted any more than
any other movie. And it was good. I mean, I can see why people
didn't flock to theaters to see it, because it's the kind of movie you
can wait to see on DVD. It's not a BIG film so it doesn't require that
kind of screening. It'll do better on DVD, and that's where they'll
make their money.
> He needs to stop trying to think and get an agent who puts him into good
> movies. I read "The Good German" after I saw the movie, and I was
> flabbergasted at what a fantastic spy/mystery novel it was. Really,
> close to John Le Carre quality. The movie was an absolute disaster. It
> reminded me of "Bonfire of the Vanities".
I never read the book, but I liked the movie.
> He can act and can open a good movie, I think. Nobody can open the crap
> he's been taking (or in this case, making).
It wasn't crap. It's just not in the fantasy-sci-fi-animated-CGI mold
that so popular these days. It's a movie that has a historical
appearance, in that the costumes are period clothing and the cars are
old, and the opening-weekend target audience just isn't interested in
that sort of thing. The only reason I went to see it is because a
friend of mine asked me to go at the last minute, and it seemed like a
fun movie. It was.
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