Comments on: The Movie Blog: Uncut – June 9th 2008

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:09:35 +0000

Hey FinalJoe,

You clearly don’t understand how I’m using the word. There is a mythology to the Transformers history. Millions of years old. It is what it is.

By: finaljoe

finaljoe — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:05:35 +0000

Stop using the word “mythology” in reference to Transformers Campea. The Greeks have a mythology based on stories thousands of years old. Transformers is a movie based on a fucking toyline. There is nothing mythological about it.

By: Monty

Monty — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:22:57 +0000

@WADE and PHIL GEE

Treasure Planet may not be included due to whether or not the 140 million also includes the marketing and print budgets, if so then the actual production budget would be 100 mil vs 92 mil worldwide boxoffice, but if not, then Treasure Planet definately should be on the list.

The list of top 20 movie money losers and winners can be found at:

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/budgets.php

Incidentally, Prince Caspien is currently listed at #7 not #1. it still slowly making money.

By: John

John — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:41:26 +0000

Hey Joey,

Actually Apatow didn’t write it. He came up with the concept for it with Sandler and thus got an additional credit, but the script itself was written by Adam Sandler and Robert Smigel

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:38:04 +0000

I did find it kind of funny that you guys mentioned that Adam Sandler is trying to outdo the Apatow clan when Judd Apatow actually wrote “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan”.

By: calviin

calviin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:23:20 +0000

How terrible will Darren feel when his friend gets arrested?

By: calviin

calviin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:40:28 +0000

Two thing:
First, you didn’t really read Rodney’s article…
The Fallen was only one transformer. Not a race of transformers.

Second, The Fallen will not be in the movie. The title is not referencing the transformer. You’re being lead astray of facts.

By: Phil Gee

Phil Gee — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:13:45 +0000

Hearing you four guys together again is pure joy in an mp3 capsule. I’m shocked by a few omissions on that flop list though, Surely Cutthroat Island and Treasure Planet should qualify (or did i miss you say them?).

Thanks for the show and please do another movie commentary, please.

By: PADTHAI

PADTHAI — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:14:03 +0000

i don’t get why Prince Caspian can be #1 when they still haven’t taken in DVD sales/rentals, TV sales, and all the other peripheral revenues whether it be Itunes sales, toys, games, etc.. It still hasn’t finished its run yet theatically, it’s still in the top 10 right now. It hasn’t been distributed in Japan yet (one of the biggest markets for American movies btw). When the difference between the top spot of biggest bombs of all time only has a difference of a few hundred thousand, that spot could easily switch place. They shouldn’t even put Prince Caspian or Speed Racer on this list, because until all the revenues are brought in, they don’t know how profitable or unprofitable this will be in the long run. This makes me question the validity of this list to begin with, I mean how did they find out all this information about the revenues and losses.

By: DON

DON — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:07:35 +0000

John I am sorry to say but that Hulk 26 minute action scene was exagerrated. The director himself said that.

It is around 15-16 minutes of actual hulk vs. abomination.