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The premise sounds gloriously entertaining.

Without spoiling me, please: Anyone already has seen this? Did they fuck it up with a usual mainstream love plot à la "love against all odds Titanic style" in the end or did they stay the course of originality?

Really, the premise made me think who those guys are which bring all those crazy documentation of crimes. I guess this will be my next tickets. Sounds great enough.

I'll be back.

Quoted from PrussianMosby No thread about this movie?

Ahh. Post modern irony.

Quoted from PrussianMosby The premise sounds gloriously entertaining.

Indeed.

Quoted from PrussianMosby Without spoiling me, please: Anyone already has seen this?

Probably. But not me.

Quoted from PrussianMosby Did they fuck it up with a usual mainstream love plot à la "love against all odds Titanic style" in the end or did they stay the course of originality?

I'm hoping for the latter. To wish for the former would be too post post ironic.

Quoted from PrussianMosby Really, the premise made me think who those guys are which bring all those crazy documentation of crimes. I guess this will be my next tickets. Sounds great enough.

Well, quite. I guess this will be my next tickets... Are you going to go twice?

Quoted from PrussianMosby I'll be back.

We wait. With bated breath.

R

I read the script a while back. It was OK. It was written in a bit different style.

Watching the trailer obviously there are some small changes from the draft that was online and the finished film. From what I remember it was a pretty straightforward story. Kind of a 80s vibe. Should make a pretty decent film. Don't remember reading anything too original about the story.

This isn't playing in theaters where I live so I'll have to wait until it hits VOD to watch it. But like you, I'm looking forward to it.

I read the start of the script, which was interesting. Huge usage of ellipses... tended to... get on the... nerves. I would have read on but I'd like to wait for the movie. Should be good.

R

Quoted from rendevous Huge usage of ellipses...

Oh, yeah. And huge wacky fonts. If someone posted a script written in that way on simplyscripts, I'm pretty sure he'd get an earful from some members here.

Didn't bother me. At least it was something new.

Just came out of this, thought it was excellent. Yes, the premise is extremely intriguing and it made me wonder why it hasn't been done specifically before...or perhaps it has. Thankfully, it maximizes that intrigue potential by serving up an exciting, nasty, scathingly satirical, pulpy (ok, enough adjectives already) thriller of the nocturnal variety!

I don't want to say much more for fear of spoiling it as there are a few spoiler-ish comments I would make to explain why I really responded to it, something that's so rare in mainstream cinema, which this kind of is in terms of cast, marketing and its wide release.

A special mention to Jake Gyllenhaal who gives a superb performance. His Lou Bloom is a fascinating character. He'll surely be recognized come gong time. Riz Ahmed is great too although I had a slight problem with his character which I won't go into here for spoiler reasons.

On top of that it was only made for 8.5 million which is heartening to see in this era as it looks five times that amount. I hope it makes lots of money and inspires others to make more tight, economical and daring films.

It only made $24 Million WW, which may be god on an $8.5 Million budget, but it did not perform well in terms of expectations.

I've read some of the script...loved the writing in it...the story was 'ok' for me...I do want to see this though on the big screen...maybe today.

Quoted from Dreamscale It only made $24 Million WW, which may be god on an $8.5 Million budget, but it did not perform well in terms of expectations.

- Well it only got released yesterday here in Taiwan and I just checked its IMDb page's release info which says it has a few countries left up until the end of the year so hopefully it will reap in a bit more.

To reiterate, its a credit to the makers that they produced a film which, whatever you might think about it on the whole, looks fantastic for its modest budget. Makes you wonder where all the cash goes on those big budget behemoths, marketing notwithstanding.

Quoted from Colkurtz8 - Well it only got released yesterday here in Taiwan and I just checked its IMDb page's release info which says it has a few countries left up until the end of the year so hopefully it will reap in a bit more.

These types of movies usually do better domestically than internationally. I doubt this will make more than 30 mil in the US. Would guess about 30 mil internationally as well.

It will probably make a profit. But won't be a big success.

$23 Million at the NABO so far, but I highly doubt it gets to $30 Million.

Overseas, only at just under $2 Million.  I highly doubt it even gets to $7 Million.

IMO, a movie can look great for $7 - $10 Million.  Why so many shitty "little" flicks cost $35 Million plus is something I'll never understand, unless it's starpower that is eating up much of that production cost.

The overseas numbers at box office mojo aren't updated. I saw that it has made 3.5 mil in the UK alone so far, it opened in Germany this week, opens in France next week and a bunch of other places till new year. So, we'll see what it makes. Usually, these kinds of movies don't do great business overseas.

It'll put away around 2.5 - 3 mil for this weekend, domestically, most likely end up around 27 mil, maybe a bit more.

Still, it won't be a great financial success. But it'll most likely turn a small profit depending how much they put into marketing.

Yes, it will definitely turn a profit, but based on all the up front hype, I think expectations were much bigger - probably in the $50 Million WWBO range, and as always, you never know when some film will just take of and make a shitload.

But there's more to just making bucks at the box office, as this was well reviewed and Gillenhal got lots of praise for his ballsy role.  That goes a long way, actually.

IMO, the bottom line is that movies make alot more than peeps think when it's all said and done, including rentals, DVD sales, and movie channel revenue.

Hollywood expects way too much and is so damn greedy.  I long for the days when a movie was made for $25 million, grossed $40 Million, and peeps were all thrilled.  Those days are long gone, though.

Quoted from Dreamscale Yes, it will definitely turn a profit, but based on all the up front hype, I think expectations were much bigger

I agree. I would look at this as a disappointment. I'm sure the distributor isn't too thrilled as it did have quite the hype going in.

That's a shame in terms of it not meeting expectation but at least it turned a profit. I doubt DVD/VOD rental/sales are factored in as much as before where an overlooked film at the box office could conceivably make it up through word of mouth in the interim period. Piracy has seriously neutered that market.

Anyway, I've watched Gone Girl, Interstellar and this at the cinema over the past 3 weeks and this is my favourite, people should go see it.

Quoted from Dreamscale Gillenhal

- Oh, come on Jeff, that's a poor attempt to spell his name, I'm disappointed in you! In your defense, its a tough one to get right but that's why copy and paste was invented