I Was Wrong

Posted 24 September, 2007 in Film |

Boy, was I ever.

At the end of last week, I predicted that the Brad Pitt western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford would knock The Brave One out of top spot at this weekend’s box office.

I should have known better.

The combination of a title that most people won’t be able to remember and the three-hour running time should have clued me in.

The Brave One was indeed kicked out of the top spot, by Resident Evil: Extinction. Number two went to the Dane Cook comedy Good Luck Chuck. Both films received dismal reviews. Resident Evil: Extinction, which as of this morning scored 28% fresh on the Web site Rotten Tomatoes, made $24 million at the box office, according to the tracking site Box Office Mojo. Good Luck Chuck, which scored a disasterous 3% fresh, raked in $14 million.

By contrast, In the Valley of Elah, Paul Haggis’s Iraq-themed drama, which scored 68% fresh, finished in seventeenth place with a total haul of $1,257,000, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which also scored 68% fresh, made a disasterous $144,000, failing even to break the top twenty-five in its first weekend. The only potential bright spot here is that David Cronenberg’s masterful thriller Eastern Promises (89% fresh) had a strong second-week showing with $5,747,000 in fifth place.

But the one-two punch of Resident Evil: Extinction and Good Luck Chuck displays the wisdom of crowds, and it sucks.

1 comment to “I Was Wrong”

jpz, September 24th, 2007 at 1:15 pm:

• I reckon it will ever be thus. Based on this weekend’s glorification of merde, perhaps the honchos ought to re-release the Scott Baio/Jon Voigt opus, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, to play on a few thousand screens. That franchise never got its due.

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