This was a stupid kid’s movie, I hate kids movies.

I discovered Owen Wilson at about the same time most other mainstream movie watchers discovered him, that was in Shanghai Knights. I loved the way his character behaved, it was funny and fresh. He played in a few others after that (some I’ve not yet seen), Starsky & Hutch wasn’t a good movie, maybe a “pass the time” movie but not one I favored. He did well in Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, its a different type of comedy, but loved it. He was in Meet the Fockers, not a primary role per se, but still did well. I then saw him in Wedding Crashers and that is where he hit a home run in my book. Then there was The Darjeeling Limited, a great movie, again not your average comedy, but it was good for those of us who enjoy the Wes Anderson flavor.

That was his last good movie (according to me).

The point I’m attempting to make is that this “Drillbit Taylor” is just a worthless movie, put any other actor in Owen Wilson’s place, and it would still suck balls.

I still think there is too much emphasis on the suicide, and not on the extreme potential suckage that every trailer showed.

If I accept your point, will you accept the fact that people can sometimes smell a rat, and it also bombed because it was bad?

Really, it looked like a bad after-school special from the 90’s, where kids learn to deal with their problems with the bumbling help of some over the hill bodyguard. I mean, wasn’t that a whole genre of bad films for kids at one point?

It all started with Kindergarten Cop….

What we need to bring back his career is Stiller and Luke and a baby…

The thing is, Batman isn’t a comedy. I guaran-damn-tee you if Ledger’s last movie was a comedy wtih Jack Black it would seriously effect the boxoffice negatively if it was coming out THIS summer.

Had it been something like Drillbit Taylor protects McLovin’ and the cast of Superbad, maybe.

But ooo, pre-teen comedy… Sadly, I think it bombed because it looked horrible, not because of a suicide attempt.

I mean, Batman isn’t going to do well because of Heath Ledger, it was already going to do well because it’s shaping up to be an amazing film.

Wilson is not a big comedic star like Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell, who can open a movie. I also dont think he is able to carry a comedy on his own.

I’m not ruling out that his suicide attempt didn’t have an effect but I’m gonna agree with Jonathan in that it was probably minimal.

Maybe the poor opening had something to do with Wilson’s suicide attempt and maybe it has something to do with Apatow’s produced films being EVERYWHERE at the moment. He might consider slowing down a tad.