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Mar. 29th, 2004 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spatchOkay.
I'm only saying this one time.
One time.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a painfully honest, sweet and terrible, rueful, uplifting, adult, contemplative, enigmatic, surreal little film that adroitly addresses so many things about breakups and memory and incompatibility in the face of impulsive fun-having. It's not a perfect film, no, but it's at least one that stays with you afterwards and makes you think, for good or bad.
So why the hell has it only made 16 goddamn million dollars in two weeks of release? Scooby-Doo 2 (admittedly not rated R, and admittedly a kid's film, but still) made nearly double that in its first weekend alone. There's no reason Eternal Sunshine couldn't have done the same.
Come on, people. Go see the movie. Help make it at least break even ($35M budget, according to IMDB.) I know studios often feel safe taking risks with good films by churning out the crappy moneymakers, but this is ridiculous. It deserves a lot more than that. I mean, hell, I know who's reading this. I know y'all are smart people who have the capacity to think, really think, and enjoy a unique film.
NO I DON'T MEAN GO SEE SCOOBY-DOO 2. Oy, I give up.
i lieks teh ice cream
I'm only saying this one time.
One time.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a painfully honest, sweet and terrible, rueful, uplifting, adult, contemplative, enigmatic, surreal little film that adroitly addresses so many things about breakups and memory and incompatibility in the face of impulsive fun-having. It's not a perfect film, no, but it's at least one that stays with you afterwards and makes you think, for good or bad.
So why the hell has it only made 16 goddamn million dollars in two weeks of release? Scooby-Doo 2 (admittedly not rated R, and admittedly a kid's film, but still) made nearly double that in its first weekend alone. There's no reason Eternal Sunshine couldn't have done the same.
Come on, people. Go see the movie. Help make it at least break even ($35M budget, according to IMDB.) I know studios often feel safe taking risks with good films by churning out the crappy moneymakers, but this is ridiculous. It deserves a lot more than that. I mean, hell, I know who's reading this. I know y'all are smart people who have the capacity to think, really think, and enjoy a unique film.
NO I DON'T MEAN GO SEE SCOOBY-DOO 2. Oy, I give up.
i lieks teh ice cream
Keith
Date: 2004-03-30 11:16 am (UTC)I've heard from a couple of people that they HATED it. Most people don't want quirky. After a long week of grinding away at their jobs, they don't want to have to puzzle their way through anything involved. They just want straightforward, light entertainment. This ain't it.
My nephew was all wound up about seeing Scooby Doo 2 when it came out. I imagine he's dragged his grandmother to see it already.