This Weekend at the Boxoffice - 07.25.2005

[Hand of Evil]

Well, looks like no one was interested in the Island, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory retained number one, and Wedding Crashers did a drop of only 6.5 million from its opening weekend!

This weekend at the box office:
Estimated ticket sales for July 22-24

1. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," $28.3 million
2. "Wedding Crashers," $26.2 million
3. "Fantastic Four," $12.3 million
4. "The Island," $12.1 million
5. "The Bad News Bears," $11.5 million
6. "War of the Worlds," $8.8 million
7. "Hustle & Flow," $8.1 million
8. "The Devil's Rejects," $7 million
9. "Batman Begins," $4.7 million
10. "March of the Penguins," $4.3 million

See www.boxofficemojo.com for figures.

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I seem to compare movies to the last movie I went, so here is my ranking of the movies I have seen so far THIS YEAR. This is personal taste and this list will change as movies come out.

1. Mr & Mrs Smith
2. Batman Begins - Wedding Crashers (yes, it is just as good but apples and oranges)
3. Star Wars: RotS
4. Sin City - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide
6. The Pacifier
7. Fantastic Four - Sahara
8. Constantine
9. Kingdom of Heaven

 

[JoeGKushner]

1. Sin City
2. Kung Fu Hustle
3. March of the Penguins
4. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

I need to get out more.

 

[Krug]

Initially The Island was at number #5, but guess Dreamworks found enough $ to boost it to #4 to beat The Bad News Bears.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Initially The Island was at number #5, but guess Dreamworks found enough $ to boost it to #4 to beat The Bad News Bears.

This is going to be one of those debates but I wonder if the movie would have done better with an 'R' rating, at a buget of 122 million this could be the biggest flop this year (going to have to look).

 

[takyris]

It's the hand of Clonus, I tell you. They didn't make enough offerings to whatever dread B-movie minion of the unknowable abyss Roger Corman shoots pool with on Fridays...

 

[Desdichado]

This is going to be one of those debates but I wonder if the movie would have done better with an 'R' rating, at a buget of 122 million this could be the biggest flop this year (going to have to look).

That's too bad; the premise looked interesting, and the few reviews of it I read were mostly positive. The only thing they did say was that it was a bit schizophrenic; the first half was like a thought-provoking sci-fi thriller/parable while the second half suddenly became a blockbuster action movie. Roger Ebert said both worked, but whether or not they worked together was debatable.

Still, my wife and I will probably see this in theaters; we're both interested.

 

[WayneLigon]

Still, my wife and I will probably see this in theaters; we're both interested.

I'd like to know what you think of it; I haven't read any reviews since it doesn't sound like my cup of tea. I normally can stretch my disbelief so much it looks like a bungee cord but I can't get over some ideas like 'Why allow them to have lives at all? Why aren't they all kept in pens like cattle and grow up knowing they're just spare parts?' Is an explanation given, or is the rest of the movie just so cool that, like The Matrix, you ignore the flawed premise that allows the rest of the movie to exist?