Anyone seen a good movie lately?

[rjs246]

It appeals to anyone who likes action movies. Period.

[phattymatty]

i still don't know what you guys are talking about.  never heard of 300.

[SunMo]

it's about bowling dude

[phattymatty]

nobody fargs with the jesus.

[MURP]

You're trying really hard to deny that this movie appeals to people and it's pretty laughable.

but it doesnt

it doesnt appeal to women

two women in my office saw it over the weekend and both said they loved it. 

[SunMo]

i'll think we can all agree that a general statement about the tastes of any group is a bit silly

[rjs246]

i'll think we can all agree that a general statement about the tastes of any group is a bit silly

We obviously can't ALL agree. IGY assumes the tastes of groups of people as a matter of course. He bases most of his non-football arguments on that and that alone.

[ice grillin you]

two women in my office saw it over the weekend and both said they loved it.

ha....i stand corrected

[ice grillin you]

'300' also played particularly well on Imax screens, drawing a $54,500 per-screen average off 62 runs. Imax chairman-prexy Greg Foster said "300" played into a campaign aimed at the young fanboy crowd.

"We've been cultivating the techie crowd of 15- to 24-year-olds who play videogames and watch DVDs," Foster said. "It's a (demographic) that's difficult to get (to theaters), but we finally nailed them."

Mark Canton, Gianni Nunnari, Jeff Silver and Bernie Goldmann produced the stylized battle pic.

[Rome]

From what I understand the producers actually had the Queen's role re-written to make her more of a full partner to the King and made more prominent overall in an effort to draw more women to the theaters.

I read that somewhere on one of the movie sites.  Can't remember where, though.

[ice grillin you]

yeah i read that in entertainment...the queen has little to no part in the novel...miller actually objected to it at first but gave in in the end

[rjs246]

She's one a grand total of 2 pages in the novel, but I can't imagine why anyone would care about her having an increased role.

[Rome]

Hordes Drive '300' to Record
by Brandon Gray
March 11, 2007

300 was anything but spartan, reaping an estimated $70 million on around 4,800 screens at 3,103 theaters in its opening weekend. That eclipses all previous ancient battle pictures by a wide margin, including Troy and Gladiator, and ranks fifth among comic book adaptations.

If the estimate stands, the $65 million computer-generated battle picture conquered the March opening record, previously held by Ice Age: The Meltdown's $68 million. It's also the third-highest grossing start for an R-rated movie, behind The Matrix Reloaded and The Passion of the Christ. 300's opening included an estimated $3.4 million from 62 IMAX venues, surpassing Superman Returns as the biggest IMAX debut ever.

"We felt we were going to be between $35 and 40 million," said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros.' president of distribution. Fellman explained that 300 had 68 percent public awareness in tracking surveys going into the weekend and that only one movie in the past, The Fast and the Furious, had opened to $40 million or more with less than 70 percent awareness. Warner's exit polling indicated that 300's audience was 60 percent male and 52 percent under 25 years old, while the grade from moviegoer pollster CinemaScore was an "A-."

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Warner Bros. waged a striking marketing campaign for 300, based on the picture's hyper-stylized, digitally-enhanced look, the mythology of Ancient Greece and the high stakes premise of 300 Spartans fighting a vast army in the Battle of Thermopylae, replete with passing references to freedom to recall past audience favorites like Braveheart and Gladiator.

So, 4 out of 10 audience members were female?   

That's way higher than I ever imagined and goes a long way in explaining the haul it took.

What remains to be seen is if it has legs or not.  I don't see how it can because it's an R-rated movie and that cuts out a huge segment of the movie-going public, but still, it should easily double its opening weekend take eventually and that's a pretty amazing accomplishment.

[Rome]

She's one a grand total of 2 pages in the novel, but I can't imagine why anyone would care about her having an increased role.

Women, dude.  Women.

[ice grillin you]

it will have decent legs because the fanboy set sees this kind of stuff multiple times and the poor reviews its gotten dont influence geeks

ex. new star wars movies