The Golden Compass Turns to Lead
By Jim Willis on Dec 16, 2007 in Movies, Reviews, Society & Culture | Printable Version
Talk about adding insult to injury. I’ve just had a look at box office revenue figures for this weekend. The Golden Compass (see my previous thoughts on this movie) earned a paltry $9M in revenue, for a total take of $41M since opening two weeks ago.
By comparison, Alvin and the Chipmunks earned $45M–in its first weekend! More than The Golden Compass has earned in two full weeks.
I Am Legend, starring Wil Smith, burned up the charts by earning $75.5M this weekend–it’s first in theaters. That’s the highest opening weekend release for a movie released in December–ever. The previous record was Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003, which opened at $72.6M.
Methinks The Golden Compass might be better named The Lead Compass as New Line Cinema’s $180M investment is quickly transmuting from gold into lead. The lesson for New Line and Hollywood? Those that take pot shots at God may find it to be an expensive indulgence.
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Roger Thornhill | Dec 16, 2007 | Reply
It seems to me that the moviegoing public has changed a great deal. There’s no way I’ll see “Compass” after reading reviews and apparently the public is voting with it’s feet.
Greg Kelley, Fox News Sunday AM though liked the Will Smith flic, and I’ll be going today at the matinee to see it and I’ll review it on my blog tomorrow evening.
Last week, on basis of it’s reviews, we viewed
“No Country for Old Men”, and, while Tommy Lee Jones is a superb actor, the plot dragged, the movie was overly long, the villain unbelievable, and abruptly ended as if the production company had suddenly ran out of film with no resolution of the plot.
It was not of the quality I had come to expect of the Coen Brothers (Fargo, Blood Simple). I’d give it a mixed review. There is no music track, but it’s shot and edited superbly. Two stars.
Roger “Two Upraised Digits of Either Hand” Thornhill
Jim Willis | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for that Roger. I’ll be watching for your “I Am Legend” review!
- Jim