The most interesting thing about this weekend, is that it is the first time in 3 years that a number 1 movie took in less than 10 million.
This Weekend at the Boxoffice: 2006.09.11
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griff_goodbeard
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Don't know if there is any correlation, but there was a lot of great college football games Saturday and Sunday was NFL week 1.
JoeGKushner
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Went and saw the Illusionist.
Pretty good. Wasn't too crazy about the ending as it wrapped things up into too neat a package but otherwise solid.
Which still makes Superman Returns the worst movie I've seen in the theaters this year.
Pretty good. Wasn't too crazy about the ending as it wrapped things up into too neat a package but otherwise solid.
Which still makes Superman Returns the worst movie I've seen in the theaters this year.
Captain Tagon
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Went to see the Illusionist this weekend and really liked it. Didn't realize the Protector was out, need to see that one. And I'm halfway interested in the Covenant. Still can't decide.
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
griff_goodbeard said:
I'll bet you're right. Combine that with the lack of new high-powered kiddie flicks (Barnyard is the closest to this and is a month and a half old). There's some movies on that list that scream "Wait for cable" and nothing that screams "Gotta see it on the big screen" to me at all.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
I'm kinda iffy on the Protector. Saw a review by Ebert & Roper (w/ replacement) and the female replacement whose name escapes me, was high into kung fu action and recommended several films I agreed with and she panned Protector noting that it wasn't as filmed in the same great style as Thai Warrior.
ShinHakkaider
Adventurer
JoeGKushner said:
Aisha Tyler was the co-host.
The two movies that she recommended (Oldboy and Internal Affairs) while good movies werent martial arts films.
Ong Bak was weak on plot but the action and particularly the fighting was top notch. The Protector aka Tom Yum Goong is just worse in every way execpt for the action. I'd almost say though that it was almost worth sitting through the pure awfulness of that movie for the last 20 min or so because the relentless amount of asskicking that last 20min.
Tony Jaa's fight against the Capoeria player is amazing and then the fight against the 30 or so black suited goons is also pretty good and funny for some pretty obvious reasons. Aisha Tyler alluded to a few of those reasons in her review, but the fight is still worth seeing for the sheer bone crunching fun of it.
