DISQUS

BethanyP · 7 months ago

i agree. i miss the good stuff of disney. i'm willing to give a movie aimed at any age a chance, but what you say about your inner 12 year old is spot on.

also, i do have a thought. maybe i'm totally off, but i think O&R may honestly have something to do with the economy. this is completely and totally way off for me, but ALL of my comedy-loving friends that didn't go see I Love You, Man on opening weekend went to see O&R this weekend. and NONE of my friends (or myself) that went to see I Love You, Man when it opened went to see O&R this weekend. and almost all want to see both. so it could be a "not near enough to the 1st or the 15th of the month" kind of movies.

plus, even though i will go see this in theaters...O&R looks like one of those lonely Saturday nights in a hotel before it's appropriate to watch porno kind of flicks. but maybe that's just me.

Kevin_Carr · 7 months ago

I don't think the economy had anything to do with it. No when F&F made a rediculous $71 million on its opening weekend and the box office is up almost %15 year to date from 2008.

Also, the bulk of the audience for I Love You, Man saw it on opening weekend, which is the case with most films. Heck, even if every ticket bought for I Love You, Man this weekend, O&R would have still made less than $20 million. And that's if *everyone* from the ILYM audience saw it.

BethanyP · 7 months ago

i think you're right. but you STILL didn't answer the real question: who gave billy ray cyrus the right? WHO?! (of course here i am referring to the soul patch.)

Kevin_Carr · 7 months ago

I don't think it's really a traditional soul patch. I think it's a part of his mullet from his country music heyday that concentrated itself and found a new home on his face.

Kevin_Carr · 7 months ago

John, I think you're looking at the past with rose-colored glasses. Around the time that Disney was making The Lion King, it was also making the live-action versions for 101 Dalmatians and George of the Junlge. If you say what some might, that WALL-E doesn't count because it's Pixar, what about Bolt, which was nominated for an Oscaar?

So, like any studio, what you consider to be its crap has been dolled out for years along with some good movies. Also, the Disney studio has produced some fine movies like WALL-E and the Narnia movies, so not everything Disney is Hannah Montana and HSM. This stuff has been going on for decades with both old and new versions of The Parent Trap and The Shaggy Dog being made as cash cows.

Kevin_Carr · 7 months ago

Also, at the end, you say that people discounted O&R because it was a rip-off on Paul Blart, which they didn't like. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but no matter how you slice it, Paul Blart was a bona fide his. You can't discount the numbers. The movie grossed $143 million for a low-budget January release. It was #1 for two weeks in a row and stayed in the top 10 for 10 weeks. Regardless of whether you liked it or not, America did.

I think that crowd stayed away from O&R because all the reviews and stories talked about how it was NOT like Paul Blart, that it was R rated and that it was extremely dark (all of which is true). It may not jibe with your tastes, but way more people in this country wanted to see Paul Blart than wanted to see O&R.

790 · 7 months ago

Lol,,,, thanks Hannah for kicking Seth in the balls !!!!! I love it !

DragonBall Wow that has to be the biggest bomb this year !!!!

Paul Blart was a hit because Kevin James is a likable guy. Seth Rogen comes off like an apathetic serial killer. If he wasn't acting this guy could be drawing clowns and butchering young kids under his moms house.

Also after watching SNL last night I have to say if Zach Efron leaves his Disney roots he could become a great actor.... Kids got talent!!!

HempKnight 757 · 7 months ago

More people would wanna see it because it was open to a wider rang of ages & it was the first mall cop movie...its a no brainer. Either way I wouldn't see Blart if it was only movie showing for the rest of time. Talk about a huge chunk of shit. O&R was alright