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Ground Out
Apr. 8th, 2007 08:25 pmWhile I promise to write about something else here soon, I have at least one more bit of GRINDHOUSE news.
So I read this article today that was concerned that GRINDHOUSE bombed at the box office. And then the actual numbers came out, revealing that, holy shit, GRINDHOUSE fucking bombed at the fucking box office.
With the runaway successes of films like NORBIT and WILD HOGS, I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in the American film-goer. I mean, I am honestly shocked that more people didn't flock to see this film. I really thought that this would be a geek film that had mass audience appeal, like 300 on crack. I mean, 300! That was a huge fucking sucess of a geek film, and GRINDHOUSE blows it away on every conceivable level!
This breaks my heart, man. It really does.
Sigh. Ah well. I'm sure Tarantino and Rodriguez will bounce back, even if it's not with the Weinsteins. Will they ever make a film that surpasses this kind of joyful geekstravaganza again? I surely hope so. In the meantime, I'm absolutely going to see GRINDHOUSE at least once more in the theatre while it lasts. Actually, I have an even better idea, inspired by Harry Knowles' review at aintitcool.com:
If I have a single complaint about GRINDHOUSE – it is that Robert and Quentin cut their films short to make a tight 3 hour package. Had these films been 40 minutes longer each – had 5 times the trailers and had added HOT FUZZ as a third film – it’d be closer to perfect. However, what we did get was two wildly different films, perfectly in keeping with the GRINDHOUSE theme.
So here's what I going to do in a week or two. I'm going to find a theatre that's playing GRINDHOUSE and HOT FUZZ, with comparable enough showtimes that I'll be able to see the former first, and walk right over to see the latter for the first time.
Who's up for it?
So I read this article today that was concerned that GRINDHOUSE bombed at the box office. And then the actual numbers came out, revealing that, holy shit, GRINDHOUSE fucking bombed at the fucking box office.
With the runaway successes of films like NORBIT and WILD HOGS, I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in the American film-goer. I mean, I am honestly shocked that more people didn't flock to see this film. I really thought that this would be a geek film that had mass audience appeal, like 300 on crack. I mean, 300! That was a huge fucking sucess of a geek film, and GRINDHOUSE blows it away on every conceivable level!
This breaks my heart, man. It really does.
Sigh. Ah well. I'm sure Tarantino and Rodriguez will bounce back, even if it's not with the Weinsteins. Will they ever make a film that surpasses this kind of joyful geekstravaganza again? I surely hope so. In the meantime, I'm absolutely going to see GRINDHOUSE at least once more in the theatre while it lasts. Actually, I have an even better idea, inspired by Harry Knowles' review at aintitcool.com:
If I have a single complaint about GRINDHOUSE – it is that Robert and Quentin cut their films short to make a tight 3 hour package. Had these films been 40 minutes longer each – had 5 times the trailers and had added HOT FUZZ as a third film – it’d be closer to perfect. However, what we did get was two wildly different films, perfectly in keeping with the GRINDHOUSE theme.
So here's what I going to do in a week or two. I'm going to find a theatre that's playing GRINDHOUSE and HOT FUZZ, with comparable enough showtimes that I'll be able to see the former first, and walk right over to see the latter for the first time.
Who's up for it?
