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J. Frank Parnell
11/15/09

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Concerning the end of the world, my family and I moved here knowing that we would suffer the least considering that we would be bombed first.
Honestly, what are we expected to do, move to Iowa? #2012
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Foster Kamer
11/16/09

@J. Frank Parnell: Eh. North Carolina's nice. #2012
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VioletViolet
11/15/09

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Still waiting for Fantastic Mr. Fox to reach non-selected cities next weekend. I know Gawker is all, "waah, hipster appeal! hoodie nation!" about it, but I think it looks like a genuinely good movie. #2012
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SpyMagician
11/15/09

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I’d like to go to the movies, but it gets dark at like 6:00pm now and all movies are about death, dying, when you will die, things dying, living a life that’s crap...

Sorry Hollywood, YouTube wins again. This is the best movie of the past week as far as I am concerned. #2012
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DoctorEcks
11/16/09

@SpyMagician: I absolutely LOVE that clip. #2012
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Helio
11/15/09

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I have a long standing desire to make it to the end of the world just to see it all crash and burn. The grey and dusty and boring parts is more the post-apocalypse which I sure as hell don't want to suffer through. But pre- and actual apocalypse should be a glorious shit show. Something that barely anyone will live to tell. #2012
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Glib and Bitchy
11/15/09

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Compare this weekend's Precious take of $6 million on 174 screens ($35,000 per screen) to last weekend's $1.8 million on 18 screens ($100,000 per -- I guess people were sitting in each others laps) and sure, you get a 200+ percent increase in the gross. But you also see a 65% drop in per screen receipts. [www.variety.com]

Nah, I don't know what it means, either.
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ian spiegelman
11/15/09

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Precious is based on the incredibly awful and embarrassing Push by a hateful presence who calls herself Saffire. She got roughly $500,000 for this holocaust in the early 90's and helped launch the very disastrous trend of first-time authors being paid outsized advances for work that simply was not good.

I don't see why you think the movie version is doing well. Six-million wouldn't cover the production costs of even the lowest crap movie. It's good for writers that "Saffire's" ode to crap writing fails. And I am glad that after getting an outrageous amount of money for the book--which I bet the publisher never earned back--that the movie is failing.

If you want to know why shitty writers are sucking up all the money in publishing--and I don't mean shitty writers who sell best-sellers, but shitty writers who are the darlings of The New Yorker for months--it begins with Saffire.

Stop complimenting the awful movie of her awful book. She's a grotesque, offensive hack. #2012
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Foster Kamer
11/15/09

@ian spiegelman: Ugh. The New Yorker loved it? Of course the fucking New Yorker loved it. Sigh.

Yeah, I could give a shit about Shove or whatever. Its per-screen is, statistically, doing well. I'm not a fan of the movie (and I haven't even seen it). Read the last graf! It's populist hokey heart-tug bullshit marketed well. But I still think Armond White is wrong about Up, and if I ever see him in a bar, I will throw something at him about this.

Also: Ian! Hi!
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Facebones
11/15/09

@Foster Kamer: Of course Armond White thinks Precious is terrible. He's a contrarian who thinks Norbit and Little Man are insightful looks at black culture.

(Really. You go look up the reviews on NY Press. I'm not giving him the page views.) #2012
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MyNameIsChris
11/15/09

@ian spiegelman: For the amount of money it was made for, and for the amount Lionsgate paid for it, it's doing remarkably well considering the subject matter and the fact that it hasn't even opened beyond limited release yet. This is just factual, quality aside... #2012
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ian spiegelman
11/15/09

@Foster Kamer: Dude, I'm not saying you're a fan. But the flick cost $10 million to make. It doesn't matter that it's doing well per screen. It's losing money fast and won't be in theaters next week. Which is what it deserves.

I think Up looks cool. I'll watch it on HBO. #2012
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topsy
11/16/09

@ian spiegelman: So what, she spit on your grandmother? Did you see the movie or were you having your one person hissy fit alone in your living room. Not sure what little personal vendetta you have against the author and, to be frank, I don't give a shit. Your pique at Saffire kept you from a really good movie. Pity. #2012
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topsy
11/16/09

@Foster Kamer: So because a reviewer didn't like your little cartoon, Precious is a an 'awful' movie? An awful movie that you haven't even seen? Why would you want to brag about your complete ignorance? #2012
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Foster Kamer
11/16/09

@topsy: No, Precious is an 'awful' movie because it's emotionally exploitative shame-porn. #2012
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MyNameIsChris
11/16/09

@ian spiegelman: It didn't cost ten to make. Lionsgate paid 5.5 mill for it after it was independently made for less than that. And the marketing has actually been fairly restrained so far although I expect with the success so far they'll put on more of a blitz in hopes of nominations. It literally made the most money ever on an opening weekend for a film in limited release (less than 100 theatres). It ramped up nicely to 175 theatres and still had huge per screens. It's already to nine mill and it hasn't even opened wide. Not only WILL it be in theatres next week, it will be in many more theatres. And the per screen will, of course, drop. It's obviously a financial success, even more so as I would assume it was bought primarily as Oscar bait.

Even if you go with ten million, which I'm assuming you pulled from boxofficemojo and doesn't jive with the public records of Lionsgate, it's STILL a financial success. I'm with you about the quality of the film and it being in the long line of Crash type white guilt offerings... but you're shooting your own argument in the foot trying to act like it's a financial failure. #2012
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MrInBetween
11/15/09

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Mid-November is such a boring, dreadful time of year. Halloween is over, the dread of Thanksgiving lurks on the horizon, SNL is aggressively sucking. What else is there to do but go watch a movie about the world blowing up? Cool! At this time of year, EVERYONE wants the world to blow up! #2012
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RandomLunatic
11/15/09

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I really would read I Hope They Smoke Adderall In Hogwarts. Then I would start a fanboy message board to parse it, and we'd get into long-winded, Adderall-fueled OCD debates about the proper ingestion of Adderall and how it might fit into the overarching Hogwarts cosmogony as well the social constructs established by the same.

Debates about the adverse effects of a Muggle medication mixed with magic potions such as Felix Felicis would then ensue and break off into more microscopic dissections of how each character trait dominant in various Hogwartians might be enhanced by the same (for instance, wouldn't such a thing make Luna Lovegood just fucking lose it and start Avada-Kedavraing the shit out of everyone, a veritable Columbine-meets-Hogwarts situation?).

Eventually a British member of the board would stalk an American member and it would end in tragedy and become a major, International news story and sadly, forever taint the Potter franchise. JK Rowling would go into seclusion and years later the NYT would track her down in a Glaswegian slum, still a billionairess but living in purposeful squalor and doing little but snorting Adderall and watching a DVD of 2012, all day, every day, chanting softly to herself the nonsense word, "fek... fek..." #2012
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Ariadne27
11/15/09

@RandomLunatic: HAHAHAHA

You know Fred and George already do smoke it. They'd probably be the first ones to market Adderall to the students, via some joke shop item.

Ohh the possibilities.... #2012
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