Weekly Box Office and Film Discussion Thread

[D'Snowth]

That Miss Peregrine movie that seemingly came out of nowhere

The only thing I've ever even seen about it was a commercial/interview thing with the costume designer, going into details about the wardrobe she created for Eva Green to wear in the movie. That played on TV a few times.

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

Well, they advertised a lot on the kids networks. I saw the trailer quite a bit on Cartoon Network.

 

[Drtooth]

Miss Peregine's School for for the Gifted was a pretty hyped up film considering it was another Tim Burtony Tim Burton film. I have no desire for it, but it looks like the second best X-Men movie of the year (waaaaaaaay after Deadpool). Storks is all about poor timing. I don't think they care how the film does until it hits streaming/home video. There's not exactly a merchandising push for it. I saw a Storks Pop Tarts thing online, but it looks like a mock up.

 

[D'Snowth]

So even though the new GHOSTBUSTERS movie got ripped to shreds and everybody hated it, it appears it's paved the way for future gender-flipped movie adaptations, because now they're planning on doing a female version of OCEAN'S ELEVEN. The cast is said to include Helena Bonham Carter, Sandra Bullock, and Cate Blanchett, which is all well and good . . . but, Rihanna and Anne Hathaway are said to be part of the cast as well, so that automatically lost me.

 

[Oscarfan]

So even though the new GHOSTBUSTERS movie got ripped to shreds and everybody hated it

Um, hardly. People ripped it to shreds before it came out because nerds complain about everything. When it did come out, it got a wide consensus of "eh."

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

So even though the new GHOSTBUSTERS movie got ripped to shreds and everybody hated it, it appears it's paved the way for future gender-flipped movie adaptations, because now they're planning on doing a female version of OCEAN'S ELEVEN. The cast is said to include Helena Bonham Carter, Sandra Bullock, and Cate Blanchett, which is all well and good . . . but, Rihanna and Anne Hathaway are said to be part of the cast as well, so that automatically lost me.

Okay Rihanna's not a great actress, but I don't get all the hate Anne Hathaway gets. She's incredibly talented in my book.

But yeah, Helena Bonham Carter, Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett are three of my favorite actresses, so I may go see it just for them.

And speaking of gender-flipped movies, did anyone hear that Disney is rebooting "The Rocketeer" and it's going to be about a woman? I greatly enjoyed the original and think it's quite underrated, so i'm pretty excited.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/rocketeer-disney-movie-reboot-works-915037

 

[D'Snowth]

but I don't get all the hate Anne Hathaway gets.

I don't know why other people hate her, but for me, I'd say she's considered talented for one of the same reasons Kim Krapdashian is considered famous.

 

[Drtooth]

Um, hardly. People ripped it to shreds before it came out because nerds complain about everything. When it did come out, it got a wide consensus of "eh."

I don't think they could have made another Ghostbusters movie that wasn't "ehhh," genderflipped or otherwise. Especially if we had that third one. Mainly because they couldn't even make a decent second film with everyone originally involved. Just...why the heck did Janine turn into a love crazed dork?

That said...is the Ocean's Eight movie disconnected from the others, or is it actually going to be a reboot?

 

[mr3urious]

The remake of The Birth of a Nation and Middle School opened at a pathetic 6th and 7th place respectively. The former will forever be marred by the fact that it re-invigorated interest in the Ku Klux Klan, while the latter would have been better off as a TV movie.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2016&wknd=41&p=.htm

 

[Drtooth]

The remake of The Birth of a Nation and Middle School opened at a pathetic 6th and 7th place respectively.

Well....

Birth of a Nation isn't so much a remake of the original so much that it's not anything like the original outside of the name. And that's by design, taking the name and power away from the pro-KKK propaganda piece by making a movie against the subject. Which I can respect and admire. Problem is, from what I've garnered outside the controversy, it's basically a film that 12 Years a Slave did better. And paring this with Free State of Jones, we're bound to get a similar boom of WWII/Holocaust movies like in the 90's. One good movie that does its job and a bunch of similar films, and a bunch of lesser quality films made on various levels of quality merits vs emotional manipulation. Free state of Jones especially, as it's that movie about Slavery that focused on the white main character that oh so happened to be played by a certain obnoxious, egotistical celebrity. The consensus with The Birth of a Nation is it's meh, but we've seen a lot of anti-slavery films lately, so it doesn't stand out the way 12 Years or even Django (for being historical revenge fiction) did.

And the Middle School movie is just garbage. I thought Walden Media went under after the dozenth unremarkable adaption of a forgettable book. Seems to have lived on.