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BOOM! That's the sound of Luc Besson's "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets." US Weekend total is $17 million, not even a multiple of Friday's $6 million. Costing at least $225 million, "Valerian" is a domestic dud.
The only hope for STX Films on the most expensive indie film ever made is people in non English speaking countries not caring about the story or dialogue. This often the case, and dud films– see "The Mummy" — can find audiences who just want the visual flash.
"Valerian" will have to count on China, Russia, South Korea, and other out of the way locales to bail them out.
The previews looked visually amazing. Was the movie really that bad?
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$225 Million “Valerian” Crashes With $17Mil Weekend, Biggest Loss for Most Expensive Indie Film
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 24 2017, @05:05PM (9 children)
See, now I'm torn. The only indie movie I ever thought wasn't pretentious bullshit was The Boondock Saints but I also dug The Fifth Element...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @05:33PM (3 children)
Shocker! TMB operates on stereotypes instead of rational thinking. Whodathunk?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 24 2017, @05:49PM (2 children)
Your inference was incorrect; I was speaking of my experiences rather than suppositions.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @06:02PM
And the loverly AC was referring to "operating", not cogitating. Look to what people do, not at what they say. (Confucius)
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @07:00PM
Ok then, what were the pretentious indie films you did not like?
As an aside, if you want your comments to be considered within the confines of your personal experience then you should add such a qualifier instead of
Your wording makes it sound like you've seen many indie films and they were all "pretentious bullshit" and you expect the majority of indie films to be such. Stop getting upset when your shitty stereotyping wordplay is turned back on you.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @06:04PM (2 children)
that's funny. i like a lot of indie films but thought boondock saints was highly pretentious and sucky in general.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Monday July 24 2017, @06:36PM (1 child)
In the pretentious vein, "Birdman" was the worst I've seen in a while: Every single second of that movie screamed "Please, I deserve an oscar" to a disturbing point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @08:40PM
Yeah that doesn't sound like a psychopath's rape defense or anything.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday July 26 2017, @02:53AM (1 child)
Why was this modded flamebait? I loved Boondock Saints, I mean, Billy Connolly as the insane killer father and Willen Dafoe as the classic-music-listening gay FBI agent, it's brilliant. Thank God they never ruined it with some crappy sequel, having to endure something called "Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day" would be dire.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 26 2017, @03:31AM
Some folks just gotta get their hate on regularly to keep it from building up and sending them on a shooting spree. It don't bug me, we got plenty of people who don't see the mod system as their own personal spite button, so it balances out on average.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.