Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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Ha, I didn't catch that part in the entry. Although the movie seems to be playing up a romance between Tony and Pepper, which is the traditional Hollywood route.
Dude. Go, rent it. Now. I'll wait.
Heh. I think I've seen the beginning, but I was really tired and fell asleep. I'm not actively avoiding it, I swear! I love Go.
Swingers also has an awesometastic soundtrack. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy FTW!
I only know the one song.
See, when I hear his name, I always think of Favreau getting increasingly freaked-out by Christopher Moltisanti.
I think of him as Pete, Monica's boyfriend who tried to become a UFC fighter on Friends.
You know, I think I probably know him best as Foggy Nelson in the Daredevil movie. Which is weird because I thought I knew him for other reasons. Because...he's Jon Favreau. Maybe I know him from his trailers.
The 100 mil opening basically puts to bed the idea GTA would harm the opening.
I kept expecting Stark to build a Whiskey cup holder into his Iron Man suit.
The 100 mil opening basically puts to bed the idea GTA would harm the opening.
Oh come on, you know that if there were no GTA, it would have made $137 million!
I totally don't get the idea that a video game would cut into a movie's opening weekend.
But the last time I played a video game was pre-1990s, so take that as a sign of my total moronic unawareness of the importance of video games.
I don't think anyone was really taking the idea seriously - it was just moronic news filler.
(Because, really, if you want to see the movie opening weekend AND buy GTA IV....you can do that. Sometimes there are even stores that sell video games and movie theatres right in the same mall!!!)
Sometimes there are even stores that sell video games and movie theatres right in the same mall!!!
Truly, these are wonderous times.
The idea was the cost of the video game - in the UK, £40 - would prevent the target audience (which overlaps between the game and the movie) being able to afford to go to the cinema.
It was the biggest video game launch ever, taking (well over) 4 times as much as Iron Man.
I think what it's proved is that people with the income levels to afford a brand new next-gen console game release can also afford a few bucks for the cinema. It probably had *some* impact, but not enough for Hollywood to care.