Weekly Box Office and Film Discussion Thread

[Drtooth]

Joking aside, a real good reason movies are different than books is because we all read the same thing differently and interpret things in our own way. So usually, we don't technically get a movie of the book, we get a movie of someone's interpretation of a book. And sometimes that leads to drastic changes.

Not to mention the other obvious problems with unfilmable sequences and movie run times. You hear people complain about how some book based films are condensed and leave big things out. Those are films that want to get the meat of the story. Then you turn around and there's stuff like the Hobbit where everyone complains about how long and padded the film is, when it's trying to tell the entire story. Even the parts that shouldn't be filmed.

Though I still suspect they want to catch cheating kids red handed as well.

 

[Muppet fan 123]

I'm one of those complainers for The Hobbit.
It's such a short book, split into three movies with the first one being over three hours. I saw the movie, and yes, it was extremely stretched out. It feels longer than all those talking scenes from Lincoln.

I think two movies would've been perfect. But three movies is just pure evil.

 

[Scooterforever]

I'm one of those complainers for The Hobbit.
It's such a short book, split into three movies with the first one being over three hours. I saw the movie, and yes, it was extremely stretched out. It feels longer than all those talking scenes from Lincoln.

I think two movies would've been perfect. But three movies is just pure evil.

Yeah, the whole 3-movie thing is ridiculous. I saw the original LotR trilogy, but had no interest in "The Hobbit," because from what I heard it really dragged and wasn't nearly as good as the other films.

Anyway, when it comes to book to film translation, sometimes drastic changes need to be made. If "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" was true to Gary Wolf's original novella, it would be called "Roger Rabbit is a Psychotic Murderer," and surely wouldn't be the same hit we all know and love. In the book, there was no Judge Doom character, and Roger Rabbit kills someone and manipulates Eddie Valiant to convince everyone he was framed . So, yeah, not so loveable as he was in the movie.

 

[Drtooth]

I wanna see a shortened cut come out of this. Something tells me the three movies combined, minus the filler stuff (book relevant or not), edited down to 4 and a half hours would make a good movie. Of course, the other take is if he made a 90 minute kid's movie, someone would be seething that it's too short.

And I totally heard a version of the story that didn't even take 20 minutes to tell.

 

[Muppet fan 123]

I wanna see a shortened cut come out of this. Something tells me the three movies combined, minus the filler stuff (book relevant or not), edited down to 4 and a half hours would make a good movie. Of course, the other take is if he made a 90 minute kid's movie, someone would be seething that it's too short.

And I totally heard a version of the story that didn't even take 20 minutes to tell.

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They can do 2- three hour movies, and they can easily fit the whole story into two movies.
If you watch The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, you'll see how streched out it is, and why a lot of people hated this one. It gets very good at the end though.

 

[jvcarroll]

Television counts numbers of viewers, yet most people overlook is how the box office translates into number of tickets sold. This can be roughly calculated by average ticket prices. Right now it's $8.05. This factors in 3D, but I'd probably increase the average ticket price a dollar or two for films like Marvel's Avengers.

By now Oz has met it's $215M domestic budget. That's nearly 27 million in tickets. It's made an additional $241 in foreign sales. That's about 456M and growing. So, it's official. Oz is a hit and they'll make more. I just hope they're better. Personally, I was more impressed with the Sam Raimi produced reboot of Evil Dead. It's actually good if you like that sort of thing. It's also returned the modest budget over the weekend.

 

[Oscarfan]

Oh yeah, I saw "Admission" the other week.

Meh.

 

[KremlingWhatnot]

Hey guys, I guess Disney is making there own adaption of Labyrinth
http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/disney-acquires-labyrinth-pitch/

 

[Slackbot]

We don't know that it's an adaptation. For all we know it could be a completely original story, despite sounding like a straight-up ripoff of the Henson film with the brother replaced by the father.

 

[Drtooth]

http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/walt-disney-pictures-labyrinth-movie.54519/#post-1035592

No, it's not Labyrinth. It's a movie with a labyrinth in it. Remember... it's basically a 10 dollar word for maze.