Spring Break
Box office boredom
Evin Fritschle
Issue date: 9/17/07 Section: Life & Style
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Much to my own disappointment, nothing worth seeing came out this week in Fayetteville's two theaters.
"The Brave One" grossed the most Friday, bringing in an estimated four and a half million. "Mr. Woodcock" was close to three million, as was "3:10 to Yuma," with "Superbad" and "Dragon Wars" rounding out the top five with about a million and a half a piece.
These are just estimates for Friday, which is typically the busiest day of the week for theaters. For some reason, Boxofficemojo.com, a Web site that even the big theater companies use to pull data from, didn't have estimates for "The Kingdom," which actually looked rather interesting.
I'm sure plenty of people went to see it too, but I wasn't one of them. I can anticipate the angry facebook messages now, but I don't really feel like seeing yet another movie about U.S. government troops getting entangled in the Middle East. Let me put that in perspective for all the potential haters. Whether people would like to admit it, we're in the middle of a war. I don't think many people will deny that.
In the 1940s and 1950s the United States was also in wars, I doubt any of us who are in college now were around for those ones, but World War II and the Korean War were two events that affected the lives of people at the time as much as the events on Sept. 11, 2001 will this generation's.
With the exception of one film, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, there was not a movie made about a war the country had just fought in that broke into the top 100 grossing films domestically of all time.
Yet now filmmakers seem to find the idea of terrorism to be an exhilarating topic for current films. "Bridge" was made in 1957, based on a novel, and came out over a decade after World War II was over.
I did, however, see "Shoot 'Em Up," because generic action films are the kind of mind numbing entertainment that a single guy who can't get a date on a Saturday night needs after spending six hours in Mullins doing senior thesis research.
"The Brave One" grossed the most Friday, bringing in an estimated four and a half million. "Mr. Woodcock" was close to three million, as was "3:10 to Yuma," with "Superbad" and "Dragon Wars" rounding out the top five with about a million and a half a piece.
These are just estimates for Friday, which is typically the busiest day of the week for theaters. For some reason, Boxofficemojo.com, a Web site that even the big theater companies use to pull data from, didn't have estimates for "The Kingdom," which actually looked rather interesting.
I'm sure plenty of people went to see it too, but I wasn't one of them. I can anticipate the angry facebook messages now, but I don't really feel like seeing yet another movie about U.S. government troops getting entangled in the Middle East. Let me put that in perspective for all the potential haters. Whether people would like to admit it, we're in the middle of a war. I don't think many people will deny that.
In the 1940s and 1950s the United States was also in wars, I doubt any of us who are in college now were around for those ones, but World War II and the Korean War were two events that affected the lives of people at the time as much as the events on Sept. 11, 2001 will this generation's.
With the exception of one film, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, there was not a movie made about a war the country had just fought in that broke into the top 100 grossing films domestically of all time.
Yet now filmmakers seem to find the idea of terrorism to be an exhilarating topic for current films. "Bridge" was made in 1957, based on a novel, and came out over a decade after World War II was over.
I did, however, see "Shoot 'Em Up," because generic action films are the kind of mind numbing entertainment that a single guy who can't get a date on a Saturday night needs after spending six hours in Mullins doing senior thesis research.
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Adam
posted 9/17/07 @ 1:16 AM CST
"...there was not a movie made about a war the country had just fought in that broke into the top 100 grossing films domestically of all time."
Does The Best Years of Our Lives count?
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