Movie Review!

If Obama can make up his ethnicity, I can make up holidays. So yesterday I was celebrating Turduckengiving, the holiday where everybody must eat and finish they're own Turducken. Being the tiny girl that I am, it took me the entire day to finish. So that brings me to today:


1) High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Prediction = $35.8 million. Result = $42.0 million.
2) Pride and Glory. Prediction = $9.4 million. Result = $6.3 million.
3) Saw V. Prediction = $16.8 million. Result = $30.1 million.
4) Changeling. Prediction = $14.7 million. Result = $489,015.
5) Passengers. Prediction = $5.8 million. Result = $172,544.


Again, like many weekends prior, predictions/results horibly messed up beyond repair by whacky-tabacky staggered release schedules. Changeling was in 15 theatres, Passengers was in 125. Do the math for a sad face = :(. On the upside, the entire weekend was crazily successful. Definietly one of the best weekends this fall.


Rediculously successful weekend of HSM3. Will be interesting to see how it follows up in following weeks. This movie only cost $11 million to make.


Pride and Glory was a glorious flop. Cost $30 million to make, some executive at Warner Bros is already packing their Gucci bags.


Saw V had an incredibly rediculous weekend. What'll be interesting is how well it'll do on Halloween weekend. If it does BETTER than it's opening weekend, that'll be a sight to tell your grandkids about. Cheap horror flicks are easy money. How easy? This cost $10.8 million to make.






Saw W. and Religioulous over the weekend.


W. is surprisingly excellent, extremely caught off guard at how great a flick this is. That being said, I saw it with one guy who wasn't really into politics, he said it was boring. But another friend who was into politics loved it. This film is a very beautiful humanization of who George W. Bush is, breaks down alot of false-personas that the media has created. Huge kudos to Oliver Stone. However the 'representations' of the token black people (Colin Powell and Condominium Rice) are extremely questionable. They are presented more as caricatures of who they really are, with all their unique quirks greatly exaggerated. Colin Powell especially is rediculous. The movie totally makes him out to be this earnest, Joe the Plumber, hero kind of guy. How interesting that the weekend that this movie released is the same weekend that Powell endorses Obama. Though we knew back in Janurary of 2008 that Powell would endorse Obama, he waits until that time to make it public. And they say he isn't crooked as the rest of 'em? Hmm......

Religulous is rediculous. An entertaining movie for sure, it really does fit the scathing reviews that he's picking on easy people. He does provide alot of compelling arguments against religion, but the moments of him being utterly rude and disrespectful to his interview subjects really look bad on him and drag the movie down.