The Break Up - 38 Million
 

38 million for the weekend. Let Jennifer Anniston mania begin.

Ugh.

The ads make it look horrible.

The public has declared this is no Gigli.

I thought some of the things in the trailer were kind of funny, but it was mainly the Vince Vaughn things. But I had heard that overall it was pretty uneven.

I thought this thread was gonna be about Paul McCartney's divorce settlement...

I've heard this movie was terrible ... and not just from stuffy critics.

Six people I know have seen this movie and they all give it the same review. Funny movie/terrible ending.

I was so glad to see this movie was coming out so the ad blitz would die down. The Iraqi Insurgency doesn't get this much media coverage. I just hope it doesn't have a My Big Fat Greek Wedding longevity that causes the ads to run through August.

Now if that insipid Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock lakehouse/time travelling movie would come out and get those ads off TV, I'll be fine for a while. Everytime I see those ads I keep thinking it would be better if the lakehouse would explode if it's speed dropped below 50 mph. Or maybe if it just exploded regardless.

I love TIVO because I have no idea of what Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock movie you're talking about....

that shouldn't be allowed

speed?

Are we talking about Wedding Crashers or The Breakup? :)

I haven't seen the ads on guy television (what shows is he watching anyways), but I think he means the Lake House.

The Lake House
Tagline: How do you hold on to someone you've never met?

Plot Outline: A lonely doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect (Keanu Reeves). When they discover that they're actually living two years apart, they must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late

I got to see this with a group of friends and while it had it's funny moments, 2 of the people I was with fell asleep, there was a lot of boring moments and the ending sucked.

The funny movie/terrible ending description would only be appropriate for the Wedding Crashers if you considered everything but the first 15 mintues to be the ending.

Why did the ending suck?

Spoil it for me... I don't care.

No oliegirl post yet? It's a chick-flick, so I was expecting to see her at the top of the thread.

Ditto.

I saw it as well. Same review from me, exactly.

I think Vince Vaughn hooks up with Jon Favreau

It was a really funny movie for the most part, bust the last 20(or so) minutes the movie turned from a comedy to a drama.

Here's a summary of the movie, Spoilers:
























1. Get together
2. Breakup
3. Jennifer Aniston trys to play mind games with Vince Vaughn by dating other men, etc. But she really wants to be with Vaughn.
4. After strip poker with other chicks, etc, Vaughn decides that what he really wants is to be with Aniston.
5. Vaughn asks Aniston to get back together.
6. Aniston says no.
7. Aniston travels the world instead.
8. Then a year or so later, Vaughn and Aniston meet up again in Chicago, they say they should catch up sometime, then they walk their seperate ways.
9. End of movie.

sounds good to me

I refuse to believe either one of them is funny.

they tacked on the "ending" like a month ago as a reshoot. i'm assuming the normal ending didn't tie it up neatly for all the americans who hate it when a movie ends without a sweet resolution.

saw it sunday afternoon with the fiancee. it was a decently funny movie, but it was rougher than i anticipated. some of the parts were difficult to watch, but not in a bad acting kind of way, but in a damn, this is what i don't want to see in my life kind of way. it wasn't an awesome movie, but it was ok. probably a 6.3 or so. it was good to see a "romantic comedy" that wasn't just stupid laughs, but actually tried to tell some kind of story. its more the kind of romantic comedy i'd rather watch than say just married or some shit like that.

most of the times, it person A cheats, person B gets mad, they forgive eachother for no logical reason (and/or person b cheats), they live happily ever after. i hate those movies. why the fuck would they get back together? it's not even remotely reality. i actually enjoyed seeing a movie that theoretically didn't have a happy ending (i ignore the last sequence). that's real life. i think most people just don't want to see that in a movie, or at the very least they don't want to see it involving pretty people like jennifer aniston. if it's some indie film, that's fine, it's not supposed to end happily, but not when it involves hollywood stars. we want to escape reality in these movies, think that people can overcome their faults. in this movie, they just couldn't (ignoring the added on ending). fucking suits and their testing of endings.

what i'm trying to say is, based on vince vaughn's filmography, it's around here:

1. swingers
2. Anchorman
3. Old School
4. Wedding Crashers
5. dodgeball
6. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
7. The Break-up


Way down
clay pigeons
psycho
the cell

As for Anniston, aside from Office Space and perhaps the Leprechaun, this was the best movie she was in.

dola, favreau and vaughn have gotten fuckin fat

You mean that Favreau has returned to being fuckin fat.

IF this movie becomes a Hit

I can see a sequel called The Make-Up

LOL! :D

I put Vince Vaughn in the same category as Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller: supposedly comedic actors that are terribly unfunny. After seeing several of their movies (esp. those with more than one them in the same movie), I had never understood how anyone could stand watching them or consider them to be funny? Go figure.

I love you Buc, but you get more predictable by the day. :)

i feel the same about abbott and costello. i guess we just relate closer to those from around our generation.

I put Vince Vaughn in the makes shitty movies category.

agreed 100%

I saw this movie before with Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour.

Keith Olbermann states that the breakdown-per-screen is something like $12,000. Detroit News rates it 1 star. Should dissappear shortly.

Jennifer Anniston has become the new Meg Ryan, repeatly making the same romantic comedy over and over again with some slight new twist. Good work if you can find it.

what is a good per screen average?

You must be old too.

Schmidty: So are you, my friend. At least a few others here can have a critical perspective of comedic value. :) <--- see, I remembered the smiley thing this time.

Gore's movie has a higher one.

I am definitely not old

I'm very critical of "comedic value"....when it comes to what I like and don't like.

You just seem to make everything that you don't like sound like pure slop, and that anyone who disagrees with you to be either immature or stupid. In your critiques on issues, you always seem to include some comment along the line of "I just can't believe that some people are so ignorant that they don't see things from my perspective."

It doesn't make me upset at all: It actually makes me feel at home. I miss my dad, and it's great to have the feeling that he's on FOFC. I think I'll actually give him a call right now. :)

No, I think it was called "The House That Couldn't Slow Down."

Are you really sure you want to be the guy waging the per-screen average war? Remember a little movie called Brokeback Mountain?

That one went over your head. Man, I'm batting 0 for 2 tonight.

Schmidty: Like you said, you are just as grumpy and cantankerous as I am. And no, I won't join RWBL. I read your message board this weekend and the amount of bitching and name-calling that have gone on makes me feel like an amatuer. :)

You said the key word: little

Terrible comparison. Gore's movie is only being played on 77 screens, so of course it's bound to have a higher per screen take.

EDIT: It did worse than X-Men 3 and The Da Vinci Code on per screen income, but better than Mission Impossible 3 and Over The Hedge. (Comparing opening weekend per screen gross)

Damn, I feel old because I'm mostly with you. Sandler has some redeeming value, I think, but that's it of the ones mentioned above.

SI

Yeah, I heard Al Gore's movie was funnier than The Break Up.

truth

oh yeah. 83 million US and another 95 million worldwide (on a movie with a 14 mill budget) is small potatoes.

I somehow consider Vince Vaughn to be in a wholly different league from the rest of those you mention. He seems to have me fooled into believing he is actually talented. Those other guys...Not so much.

I saw the Break-up.. and i do agree the ending was terrible... but the scene with him playing madden with one of her dates.. was priceless