Weekend box office -- Japanese remakes rule (Grudge: 40m, Shall We Dance?: 8.6m)

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1. (+) The Grudge - $40m - $40m
2. (1) Shark Tale - $14.3m - $137m
3. (4) Shall We Dance? - $8.6m - $24.4m
4. (2) Friday Night Lights - $7m - $47.3m
5. (3) Team America: World Police - $6.6m - $22.3m
6. (5) Ladder 49 - $5.4m - $61.5m
7. (+) Surviving Christmas - $4.5m - $4.5m
8. (6) Taxi - $4.3m - $29.9m
9. (7) The Forgotten - $3.4m - $62.0m
10. (12) I Heart Huckabees - $3m - $5.9m

The end of Ben perhaps? Doubtful, but not out of the question!
 
Haha FOUR Affleck boxoffice bombs in a row
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The Grudge was an absolutely horrible movie. Did anybody here actually like it? When I saw it with a packed theatre yesterday almost everybody was crackin' up because it was more funny than scary. BLAH.
 
I'm gonna pass on The Grudge, it looks cheap, plus it has Sarah Michelle Gellar and it's PG-13, blah.

SAW is where it's at, I can't wait to see it next week.
 
I saw The Grudge and enjoyed it. Had a fun time with a bunch of friends. Some others here liked it too. It's gotten a pretty mixed, negative-slanted reception here at GAF. Who cares if it's PG-13 anyway? What, are you 12?

SAW is horrible, apparently.
 
Willco said:
I saw The Grudge and enjoyed it. Had a fun time with a bunch of friends. Some others here liked it too. It's gotten a pretty mixed, negative-slanted reception here at GAF. Who cares if it's PG-13 anyway? What, are you 12?

SAW is horrible, apparently.
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Yes, I like my movies with plenty of titties, fucks and gore.
 
evil ways said:
Yes, I like my movies with plenty of titties, fucks and gore.
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Yeah, I'm all for R-rated horror films, but not seeing one because it's PG-13 is retarded. Besides, it pretty much is a R-rated flick. I'm not sure how it got that rating. At all.
 
The Grudge's production budget was a paltry 10 million as well. Even with a massive advertising blitz, this thing will be hugely profitable for Sony.

I guess it pays to get the Japanese director to do the remake to save money on him then have an actress who has been out of the spotlight for a half decade.
 
Meier said:
The Grudge's production budget was a paltry 10 million as well. Even with a massive advertising blitz, this thing will be hugely profitable for Sony.

I guess it pays to get the Japanese director to do the remake to save money on him then have an actress who has been out of the spotlight for a half decade.
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Yeah, this first hit means Raimi's production house is most likely able to pump real money into the projects I'm most anticipating -- 30 Days of Night and Evil Dead 4.
 
I wasn't going to see it anyway, regardless of the rating, until I heard Sam Raimi's new company had something to do with it, but then I heard impressions, saw the trailers and saw Sarah Michelle Gellar, and that was the end of it.

The fact that it's PG-13 only eliminated a possible reason for me to see it.
 
Santo said:
The Grudge was an absolutely horrible movie. Did anybody here actually like it? When I saw it with a packed theatre yesterday almost everybody was crackin' up because it was more funny than scary. BLAH.
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We saw it last night, we didn't think it was scary, but we did enjoy it very much. Then again I can't point to any movie I've seen in my adult life that I would consider scary, and I've seen most of em.
 
DarienA said:
We saw it last night, we didn't think it was scary, but we did enjoy it very much. Then again I can't point to any movie I've seen in my adult life that I would consider scary, and I've seen most of em.
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Bingo.
 
FUCK THE HATERS. The Grudge was awesome.

Though I don't like that this movie earned too much money IMO cause this will only mean that there's gonna be a lot MORE remakes coming...
 
Mugen said:
FUCK THE HATERS. The Grudge was awesome.
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I don't think there are an overwhelming amount of haters, so SIMMA DOWN NAW. That said, you won't find anyone to claim it's the greatest horror flick of the century, including myself.

Though I don't like that this movie earned too much money IMO cause this will only mean that there's gonna be a lot MORE remakes coming...
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I don't know if we'll get more remakes, but we probably will get more Japanese-stylizes horror flicks. Raimi is already working with the crew behind the Eye, they've got the Ring 2 coming out and I'm sure some other stuff will be churned out by the Hollywood machine. Mainstream Americans really haven't seen these kinds of flicks before and it's not their fault, so I can completely understand the fascination. As long as they're as enjoyable as The Ring or The Grudge or The Neck Tie or whatever comes along, who cares?
 
OMFG how did the forgotten even make 62 mil dollars that movie was the biggest pile of reject xfiles story shit . Grudge did good now maybe they'll remake Ichi The Killer....maybe not.
 
Eggo said:
A remake of The Eye would be cool. I can see that doing well.
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Sam Raimi has the guys behind The Eye working on a flick called Scarecrow for Ghost House Pictures! No word on The Eye, though.
 
I saw The Grudge a few hours ago with some friends.

It was pretty good.

I also saw the Japanese version a few weeks ago. It was also pretty good. I prefer the American one, though.
 
DonasaurusRex said:
OMFG how did the forgotten even make 62 mil dollars that movie was the biggest pile of reject xfiles story shit . Grudge did good now maybe they'll remake Ichi The Killer....maybe not.
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I hope not. Ichi had to much potential, but Miike had to go with his typical OMG! LOOK AT HOW OFFENSIVE I CAN BE! OMG AND ITS SO DEEP TOO routine that plagues most of his movies.
 
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Team America has DVD Hit written all over it. I didn't expect it to do too well at the movies. Not really a date movie.
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My flat mate saw it the other night. She came home and said it was the worst movie she can remember seeing. Is "Shall We Dance?" a remake of "Odoru"? I've never even heard of "Shall We Dance?"
 
Not willing to see the remake of Grudge, Japanese version rocked enough as it was.

Shall We Dance is simply Shall We Dance in Japanese, was also a great film and the remake looks ok.. not too great. But if you want to see it, I suggest you track down the original somehow. Just wish they had released that instead of this remake because essentially the story itself is about the relationship between a traditional Japanese family couple as well as the "bad" idea towards men taking up ballroom dancing. Sure enough people consider men to do dancing kinda sissy in Western culture, but it isn't more so relevant than it is in Japan.
 
I thought Juon was pretty crappy (both the original and the Japanese remake), so I'm in no hurry to see The Gurdge.

My friend wants to see Shall We Dance? so maybe I should track down the Japanese one and see it before we go see the remake.
 
The Grudge wasn't scary at all. It, however, was probably this fall's best comedy. That guy
tipping himself over the balcony
in the beginning was hilarious; I started cracking up and half the theater followed suit. Also funny was the when
the ghost kept calling that one girl's phone and make that stupid crackling noise. The first time I guess it could pass as sort of creepy if you're the sort of person who pisses his pants everytime he hears a door shut, but the second and third time it became a running joke. It was like a parody of those "Can you hear me now?" Verizon Wireless commercials.

When the guy from the SMG's job saw Yoko's ambling, jawless corpse moving towards him, I half expected him to say "Yoko, OH-NO!"
 
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