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The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- #1: The tyranny of the opening weekend box office
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Siths_Revenge
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Jul '04
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Date Posted:
1/3/07 12:33pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- 50: The Matrix Reloaded's Club Zion
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It was funny. I remember the audience just looking at each other when that scene started. It just dragged on.
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KissMeImARebel
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Date Posted:
1/3/07 12:39pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- 50: The Matrix Reloaded's Club Zion
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What should have been a cool sexy scene...was a boring, long, unsexy scene.  (Though I think Eyes Wide Shut failed moreso in that regard - now that was a boring party).
The2ndQuest posted:
It's certainly not a top-50 mistake, though, IMO. It'd have to be something really mind-blowingly awful like "the zoom-chase and foot cutting scene in Saw" that takes an ok/decent/good movie and just takes an unbelievably spectacular divebomb into craptown (thankfully the subsequent Tobin Bell scene managed to barely salvage Saw).
You didn't like the foot-scene?! That was the saving grace of the film imho. It was so unabashedly over-the-top. 
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dudalb
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Date Posted:
1/4/07 12:26pm
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- 50: The Matrix Reloaded's Club Zion
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THe Zion Rave scene is what happens when a director tries too hard to be "cool and hip".
But than the emphasis on style and hipness over actual substance was the fatal flaw for both the Matrix sequels. All the fun of the original film got lost in the mess.
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The2ndQuest
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1/4/07 4:46pm
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KissMeImARebel posted:
You didn't like the foot-scene?! That was the saving grace of the film imho. It was so unabashedly over-the-top.
The acting failed at that point, IMO- generally more forgivable, but that mind blowing awfulness of the Danny Glover zoom-chase sequence made the acting all the more apparent. Thankfully, Tobin Bell saved the film.
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NYCitygurl
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1/6/07 5:45am
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- 50: The Matrix Reloaded's Club Zion
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#49: Commercials in movie theaters
The ad industry's big-screen invasion leaves us wondering (a) why are we paying more than $10 for a ticket and (b) when's the ***damn movie going to start?
I have to agree. The commercials are pretty annoying. Not something I would call a Hollywood disaster, though.
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Zaz
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1/6/07 6:59am
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I disagree. Only #49 on the list?
I hate commercials, and I especially hate them at the movies.
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NYCitygurl
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1/6/07 7:03am
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Oh, I hate them very much, but I wouldn't call them a 'Hollywood disaster.'
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Chancellor_Ewok
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1/6/07 8:38am
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RE: The 50 Biggest Hollywood Disasters -- 49: Commercials in movie theaters
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I'm of two minds about ads at movie theatres. On the one hand, sometimes you do see a good one like the Hieronomous Bosch Coke Ad, but on the other hand most of the ads that I see are for things I don't care about and they go on for WAY too long and between that and the trailers for comming features, there are like 20 mins of ads before the movie starts.
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DarthBoba
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1/6/07 1:12pm
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That's why you show up 15 minutes or so after the official start time. 
I hate those stupid commercials they have. Not so much because they're wretched commercials, but it's not like you can just change the channel to avoid them.
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StarscreamPrime
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1/6/07 4:22pm
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All I ask is that someone gives me five minutes, and a box of matches, so I can head down to the Fandango headquarters, and burn those friggin' paper-bag puppets to ashes, as a symbolic message of my irritation. Granted, yeah, they'd make more in about five minutes afterwards, but my ire is raised every time I have to sit through those idiotic ads. (And yes, I know I could show up later to a movie, but my family raised me to be punctual, so it's practically in my blood.)
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NYCitygurl
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I hate being late; it freaks me out (also because I don't want to miss the previews for upcoming movies, which in my book are different than the regular commercials).
I think the Fandango paper bags are cute 
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dizfactor
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1/6/07 5:15pm
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NYCitygurl posted:
I think the Fandango paper bags are cute
I like them, too. And the most recent Stella Artois commercial (the one with the prisoners on the ship) is pretty clever.
But, so help me, if I ever see another winner of the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Award, I will not be held responsible for my actions.
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DarthBoba
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1/6/07 5:48pm
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dizfactor posted:
NYCitygurl posted:
I think the Fandango paper bags are cute
I like them, too. And the most recent Stella Artois commercial (the one with the prisoners on the ship) is pretty clever.
But, so help me, if I ever see another winner of the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Award, I will not be held responsible for my actions.
lol
My fave ad is that one where the guy's date got her ticket online for a different movie
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Darth Dark Helmet
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1/6/07 6:56pm
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The Fandango bags have made me more likely to never use their service ever, I hate them that much.
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Siths_Revenge
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1/6/07 7:11pm
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What I hate are those lame movie trivia slides they show before films. It's always the same three slides just played over and over.
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