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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
Hate to say it, but this had all the markings of a 'one bad review' disaster.
I allowed the possibility of it being a wonderful mess, like The Fifth Element, but all it takes for me is a little scuttlebutt like this to dismiss it completely.
Wouldn't be surprised to see it struggle to break $10M, . . . but then with Mila and CGI, wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of teen sheep eat it up.
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No way it makes that little. It'll make that much on its opening weekend. And I bet it finishes between $65M-75M. Which is still a failure in today's sci-fi blockbuster world.
The Wachowskis are like Lucas: one good idea (the original "Matrix", much like the original "Star Wars") and that's it. Like Lucas, they started believing their own press clippings and not listening to anyone (Neo as Jesus, Jar-Jar Binks). Another guy who's headed in this direction is Kubrick, and I expect this film to be a too-serious laughable "epic" in the same manner that his recent "Exodus" was.
And I feel bad for Magic Mike. He's actually not a bad actor for a guy who is usually cast because "chicks think he's hot". He was overlooked in "Foxcatcher". But in this film I'm sure his character, and the lines he's forced to deliver, go over about as much as a steaming turd in a cardboard box would as a Christmas present. Likewise for Mila, who excels at playing the fun, tomboy-sexy man-buddy, but in this film looks like she has to play it about the same as Kristen Stewart in "Snow White and the Huntsman" (waiflike starry-eyed innocent).