THE WORLD ended up becoming this year’s Battleship: An oversized dumb mash-up of stupidity. Pacific Rim ($72 million) - Guillermo Del Toro’s BIG ROBOT ALIENS VS. Along with That’s My Boy, that is two box-office duds in a row for the once invincible Adam Sandler, who has to be thinking about a Wedding Singer sequel now. Moviegoers may be dumb, but they’re not that dumb. Grown Ups 2 ($52 million) - After the massive (and inexcusable) success of the first Grown Ups ($162 million), Adam Sandler finally figured out what would happen if he attempted to make his first sequel: People who saw the first would opt against the second one BECAUSE THEY’D SEEN THE FIRST ONE.
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The whole exercise, which was mildy amusing, felt indulgent and full of itself. This Is The End ($26 million) - What happens when you piece together a HUGE ensemble of comedic talent that includes Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Kevin Hart, Jay Baruchel, Mindy Kaling, and more - all playing themselves - for an end-of-the-world comedy directed by Rogen and Evan Goldberg? People flock to see Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, which opened on the same weekend, of course.
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Although the movie made nearly $100 million, it was still considered a failure for a film that cost more than twice that to make. It wasn’t a total loss ( Oblivion did decent numbers overseas), but the world is ready to cast Cruise aside for a younger generation of leading men.Įpic ($87 million) - Kudos to Fox for attempting to put an original property into the animated marketplace, but this is what happens, especially when you substitute recognizable voice talent (Beyonce, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, Amanda Seyfried) for an actual script, even if the animation was beautifully rendered. Oblivion - ($53 million) Is it too early to say that Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion was the death knell to Tom Cruise’s career? After the middling box-office returns from Jack Reacher, Cruise is once again on the decline, as his personal life has alienated too many moviegoers, not to mention the fact that it was difficult to see Cruise in a sci-fi action movie.
Horror movies have become a parody of themselves, and when the Evil Dead remake opened on the same weekend, filmgoers decided to see the real, bloody goddamn thing. But, as A Haunted House ($33 million) demonstrated, moviegoers don’t care about horror-movie parodies anymore. Scary Movie 5 ($34 million) - The four Scary Movie movies have averaged over $100 million apiece at the box office, including the $90 million tally of the last sequel, in 2006. It felt like a big-budget excuse for Will Smith to hang out with his kid, Jaden, and moviegoers were disappointed by another predictably dumb “twist” ending.
Night Shyamalan, and the reviews didn’t help. After Earth ($61 million) - The writing was on the wall when they combined the waning box-office clout of Will Smith with the poisonous M.
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