Avengers Finally Falls To Number 2
It took the return of Will Smith to the screen for the first time in three years and the first sequel to MIB in almost a decade, but Avengers finally got kicked out of first place and moved all the way down to second. I have been watching so many movies lately, but I have yet to see MIB3. I'm going to try to go today and heard Josh Brolin is really good in it. I can't believe how strong Avengers still is almost a month after it opened. Movies would kill to have the kind of weekend Avengers did this weekend for their opening weekend, let alone their third or fourth.
I refuse to see Chernobyl Diaries which finished fifth. Not because it is a horror movie and will probably scare me into a heart attack, but because I think it's wrong to exploit a group of people that died and turn it into a horror movie. What if someone made the same movie about going through the grounds of the World Trade Center or something like that. People would be really angry. I think you should have some respect for the people who died at Chernobyl. Just my opinion.
ITA re Chernobyl. If this was an American disaster it never would have been made.
ReplyDeleteWhy would I want to pay money to see flesh eating zombies when I live just North of Dade county ?
ReplyDeleteThis was Slate's review.Slams it.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2012/05/chernobyl_diaries_reviewed.html
I heard MIB3 is shit. It'll prolly be #2 next week.
ReplyDeleteI can't stomach Josh Brolin so I'm not seeing anything with him in it.
ReplyDelete..comment was re Chernobyl Diaries . I need a holiday Bloody Mary.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with the Chernobyl comment. In fact I said the same thing to someone yesterday almost verbatem
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with your Chernobyl comment
ReplyDeleteAgent**It don't forget the double tap
ReplyDelete"Double Tap" I love it.
ReplyDeleteThe local papers here have way too many graphic pix out there about the Miami .. ah.. incident?
Here's the NY take ..
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-fights-live-face-eaten-naked-attacker-miami-article-1.1085553
@Agent**it - ALWAYS double tap zombies in the head. We're keeping an eye on I95 in case they start moving into Palm Beach County.
ReplyDelete@Susan, we think they will come up Federal Highway ....
ReplyDeleteagree wholeheartedly w/the Chernobyl comment. that director is a tool just looking for a buck.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, I'm kinda torn on the Chernobyl Diaries. Personally, I'd never see it for the same reason Enty said. But on the other hand, Russia did turn Chernobyl into an amusement park... so I guess I can see why someone wouldn't feel bad about making/seeing a movie about it.
ReplyDeleteChernobyl is not in Russia. So it's Ukraine, which allows tourists to visit Chenobyl
DeleteAh I actually do know that! Brain fart, I guess, sorry if I offended.
DeleteThank you, Enty! I was born in Ukraine, like 400km from Chernobyl, and I'm definitely offended by the fact that someone thought it was okay to make a movie about it. I wind up raging at the television whenever the trailer comes on. The fact that it was a nuclear disaster means it's still affecting people's lives. Making that into a horror film is just...all sorts of tacky and tasteless.
ReplyDelete"ITA re Chernobyl. If this was an American disaster it never would have been made."
ReplyDeleteI guess that's why we've never seen Bhopal Diaries (yet).
This is not only tacky and disrespectful, it's lazy writing. Make up a nuclear meltdown almost anywhere else in the world.
I like the description for the tour lunch:
ReplyDelete"Return to Chernobyl. Lunch*. (Food is delivered from outside of the Chernobyl zone.)"
That's comforting.
I remember seeing video taken by someone riding a motorcycle through Chernobyl while it was closed to the public. It was freaky scary and there were no zombies or vampires or werewolves.
ReplyDelete@seaward "Russia did turn Chernobyl into an amusement park... so I guess I can see why someone wouldn't feel bad about making/seeing a movie about it."
ReplyDeleteWTC was always a tourist trap, and after 9/11 even more so. You think Americans won't get upset if someone makes a horror movie about?
From Wiki:
ReplyDeleteThe Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that, among the hundreds of millions of people living in broader geographical areas, there will be 50,000 excess cancer cases resulting in 25,000 excess cancer deaths.[15] For this broader group, the 2006 TORCH report predicts 30,000 to 60,000 excess cancer deaths,[16] and a Greenpeace report puts the figure at 200,000 or more. The Russian publication Chernobyl, which has received criticism for its methodology and sourcing, concludes that among the billions of people worldwide who were exposed to radioactive contamination from the disaster, nearly a million premature cancer deaths occurred between 1986 and 2004.
HOLYYYY SHIT! Creating a HOllywood blockbuster out of this unbelievable tragedy is tasteless and fucking inhumane. I also will be silently protesting this movie by not seeing it. How sick.
They did make a horror movie about 9/11, it was called "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" starring Tom Hanks and the incredibly overrated Julia Roberts:)
ReplyDeleteBBC's David Stern April 2012
Twenty-six years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Ukraine is launching the construction of a new protective layer to cover the section of the reactor that exploded.The current protective covering is leaking radiation.
Can you believe that?
Is it leaking radiaion or radioactive contamination?
ReplyDeleteI think it was Sandra Bullock who was in "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." I believe there was some oscar buzz, but it never panned out for her.
ReplyDeleteI plan on seeing it. I would see a horror movie based on anything, anywhere, however. Love 'em.
ReplyDeleteI love ghost stories, but when a publication I worked at ran a story (that I didn't write) about possible ghosts at a famous local building, we got letters from family members of people who died there expressing their resentment. Up to then, I never thought about it. I thought about how I would feel if someone came to me and said they saw one of my deceased family members as a ghost. I guess it would depend upon the context.
ReplyDeleteI will say I've heard from credible people who aren't prone to exaggeration or hysterics that they have experienced objects moving, doors opening/closing, and sounds in that very building.