October 17, 2005

"Point out your plot holes elsewhere!"

Posted by pete at October 17, 2005 3:17 PM

I hereby take back everything I said about Sony's (lack of) marketing strategy regarding The Fog. Even with no official reviews and overwhemingly negative word of mouth, moviegoers turned out to the tune of $12.2 million, sending the (one assumes) much superior Wallace & Gromit into second place. Serenity, in its third week of release, dropped to #12.

The two new releases that did get reviewed, Domino and Elizabethtown (reviewed by yours truly here), opened at #3 and #6, respectively.

Just so we're clear on what all this means, American audiences are obviously more likely tp punish a movie because the lead actor threw a phone at a hotel worker than they are a film that's an uninspired, derivative do-over of a horror classic. And one that gives us pretty boy Tom Welling as a seasoned sea fisherman, at that.

Good to know.

This surprises you???

--Posted by Curmudgeon on October 17, 2005 4:18 PM

Pete's not surprised. Occasionally, sarcasm is just a comfy form of writing.

--Posted by Rory L. Aronsky on October 17, 2005 5:41 PM

Well, I'm sorry that a shitty remake has to reap the benefits of America's long-overdue revulsion with Tony Scott and Cameron Crowe, but at least the claymation is still going strong.

--Posted by norbizness on October 17, 2005 6:59 PM

I'm surprised. I didn't even think America knew about Cameron Crowe beyond "Jerry Maguire".

--Posted by Rory L. Aronsky on October 18, 2005 12:35 AM



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