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Post by Mr. Backlund on Dec 10, 2007 20:06:03 GMT -5
So for the weekend box office THE GOLDEN COMPASS barely outsold ERAGON by one or two million. They are screwed. When you are making a obscenely large budgeted family movie for the Christmas season, remember who the demographic is. I feel bad for anything to be grouped together with Eragon. That's such god-awful source material, it may be the ultimate insult. Some teenage jackass gets his parents to float him some money to print the book that rips off every major fantasy story in recent memory and somehow gets a movie deal out of it instead of sued like the rest of us would be. That said, the major issue is they put off a large group with the source material and because the author was obnoxious in antagonizing those in that particular group. They worsened it by puting off fans by bastardizing and steralizing the story to not piss off the people that would've been that way, irregardless of what they did to make ammends. They might as well re-attach the ending, because there'll never be another one in its current state. |
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Post by Jeff on Dec 10, 2007 23:06:35 GMT -5
The commercials make it look horrible. Polar Bears, James Bond, A little girl, a compass, and Mrs. Tom Cruise.
Yes quite appealing.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 11, 2007 4:24:28 GMT -5
The commercials make it look horrible. Polar Bears, James Bond, A little girl, a compass, and Mrs. Tom Cruise. Yes quite appealing. ...yes, actually, it is quite appealing. |
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Post by Matt Rogers on Dec 11, 2007 7:33:16 GMT -5
The commercials make it look horrible. Polar Bears, James Bond, A little girl, a compass, and Mrs. Tom Cruise. Yes quite appealing. Daniel Craig is above such judgement! |
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Post by AriadosMan on Dec 11, 2007 10:10:09 GMT -5
If you try to make a film out of one of the best modern fantasy novels, make sure you make a film that's at least good enough to
GET A HIGHER ROTTENTOMATOES RATING THAN FREAKIN' TRANSFORMERS!!!!
That is all.
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Post by AriadosMan on Dec 11, 2007 12:44:31 GMT -5
So for the weekend box office THE GOLDEN COMPASS barely outsold ERAGON by one or two million. That's a brutal comparison man, I could write a better story than Eragon on a piece of toilet paper in public restroom. |
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