Wrestler-turned-movie star Dwayne Johnson leads RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN to a $24.25M opening, while WATCHMEN plummets 71%!
by Steve MasonAs Watchmen (Warner Bros) falls, “The Rock” appears to be racing to a weekend win. Disney’s Race To Witch Mountain, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is off to a solid start with $6.8M or so on opening day, and, with its expected surge in family matinee audiences on Saturday and Sunday, it will likely triumph with a possible $24.25M.
Meanwhile last weekend’s winner Watchmen staggered to a second Friday of only $5.4M or so, and I am projecting only $15.75M for the 3-day. That marks a 71% drop. Anything over $20M would have been acceptable, but the bottom has fallen out of this movie, and it will now struggle to reach $100M domestic. When the foreign and DVD are added, it may make a small profit, but it will likely be negligible. The superstitious might suggest that Watchmen writer Alan Moore’s alleged curse may be to blame, but the reality is that word-of-mouth has been more negative than for any movie in recent memory.
For Johnson, Race To Witch Mountain marks his all-time #3 opening and his second-best as a lead (trailing The Scorpion King).
ALL-TIME TOP 5 DWAYNE JOHNSON OPENINGS
- not counting his cameo in The Mummy Returns –
1. Get Smart – $38.6M opening
2. The Scorpion King – $36M opening
3. Race To Witch Mountain – $24.25M opening (projected)
4. Be Cool – $23.4M opening
5. The Game Plan – $22.95M opening
Lenny Montana as Luca Brasi in THE GODFATHER (he sleeps with the fishes)
The movie industry has a great tradition when it comes to professional wrestlers in feature films. Lenny Montana played the small but pivotal role of Luca Brasi in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 Best Picture winner The Godfather and Andre the Giant had a memorable turn in the classic The Princess Bride in 1987, but Johnson is easily the most bankable wrestler-turned-actor of all time.
ALL-TIME TOP 30 GROSSING MOVIES THAT FEATURE A PRO WRESTLER
- ranked by total domestic box office -
1. The Mummy Returns – Dwayne Johnson – $68.1M opening – $202M cume
2. The Longest Yard – Steve Austin, Goldberg, Kevin Nash, The Great Khali – $47.6M opening – $158.1M cume
3. X-Men – Tyler Mayne – $54.4M opening – $157.3M cume
4. The Godfather – Lenny Montana – $300K opening – $135M cume
5. Troy – Tyler Mayne – $46.8M opening – $133.4M cume
6. Get Smart – $38.6M opening – Dwayne Johnson – $130.3M cume
7. Rocky III – Hulk Hogan – $12.4M opening – $125M cume
8. The Scorpion King – Dwayne Johnson – $36M opening – $91M cume
9. The Game Plan – $22.95M opening – Dwayne Johnson – $90.6M cume
10. Predator – Jesse Ventura – $12M opening – $59.7M cume
11. Halloween (2007) – Tyler Mayne – $26.3M opening – $58.2M cume
12. Be Cool – $23.4M – Dwayne Johnson – opening – $56M cume
13. Blade: Trinity – Triple H – $16M opening – $52.4M cume
14. The Rundown – Dwayne Johnson – $18.5M opening – $47.7M cume
15. Walking Tall – Dwayne Johnson – $15.5M opening – $46.4M cume
16. Gridiron Gang – Dwayne Johnson – $14.4M opening – $38.4M cume
17. The Running Man – Jesse Ventura – $8.1M opening – $38.1M cume
18. The Punisher – Kevin Nash – $13.8M opening – $33.8M cume
19. The Princess Bride - Andre the Giant – $4.4M opening – $30.8M cume
20. Doom – Dwayne Johnson – $35.5M opening – $28.2M cume
21. Spy Hard – Hulk Hogan – $10.4M opening – $27M cume
22. Grindhouse – Vladimir Kozlov – $11.6M opening – $25M cume
23. The Marine – John Cena – $7.1M opening – $18.8M cume
24. No Holds Barred – Hulk Hogan – $5M opening – $16.1M cume
25. Over the Top – Terry Funk – $5.1M opening – $16M cume
26. See No Evil – Kane – $4.5M opening – $15M cume
27. The Comebacks – Stacey Keibler – $5.5M opening – $13.4M cume
28. They Live – Roddy Piper – $4.8M opening – $13M cume
29. The Condemned – Steve Austin – $3.8M opening – $7.3M cume
30. Ed Wood – George Steele – $1.9M opening – $5.9M cume
Andre the Giant in THE PRINCESS BRIDE
If Witch Mountain plays out like The Rock’s last family movie The Game Plan, the picture could reach $95M in the US.
Wes Craven’s The Last House On the Left (Universal), a remake of his own 1972 seminal classic, has met industry expectations with an opening day of $5.3M or so (actually ahead of Watchmen). The tightly-budgeted, R-rated genre pic will wrap up the weekend at #3 with a likely $14.3M or so.
Luc Besson’s mega-hit Taken (Fox) is headed for a dip of only 17% for an impressive $6.5M, good for fourth-place and a new cume of $126.68M. Tyler Perry’s biggest hit ever, Madea Goes To Jail (Lionsgate), will round out the weekend top five with about $5M pushing its domestic gross to $83M.
Don't worry if you miss MISS MARCH - It's coming to DVD very soon
The other wide release is Miss March (Fox Searchlight), which had straight-to-video written all over it. The movie managed only $750K from 1,742 playdates Friday, and it will crawl to a meager $2M 3-day, barely cracking the weekend top ten.
EXCLUSIVE STEVE MASON EARLY FRIDAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW – Race to Witch Mountain (Disney) – $6.8M, $2,134 PTA, $6.8M cume
2. NEW – The Last House on the Left (Universal) – $5.5.M, $2,291 PTA, $5.5M cume
3. Watchmen (Warner Bros) – $5.4M, $1,495 PTA, $73.33M cume
4. Taken (Fox) – $2M, $700 PTA, $122.18M cume
5. Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes To Jail (Lionsgate) – $1.45M, $658 PTA, $79.52M cume
6. Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight) – $1.4M, $543 PTA, $129M cume
7. He’s Just Not That Into You (Warner Bros) – $900,000, $476 PTA, $87M cume
8. NEW – Miss March (Fox Searchlight) – $890,000, $511 PTA, $890,000 cume
9. Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Sony) – $860,000, $377 PTA, $135.52M cume
10. Coraline (Focus) – $600,000, $339 PTA, $67.12M cume
EXCLUSIVE STEVE MASON EARLY 3-DAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW – Race to Witch Mountain (Disney) – $24.25M, $7,609 PTA, $24.25M cume
2. Watchmen (Warner Bros) – $15.75M, $4,362 PTA, $83.68M cume
3. NEW – The Last House on the Left (Universal) – $14.3M, $5,956 PTA, $14.3M cume
4. Taken (Fox) – $6.5M, $2,274 PTA, $126.68M cume
5. Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes To Jail (Lionsgate) – $5M, $2,271 PTA, $83.08M cume
6. Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight) – $4.83M, $1,874 PTA, $132.43M cume
7. Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Sony) – $3.18M, $1,395PTA, $137.84M cume
8. He’s Just Not That Into You (Warner Bros) – $2.88M, $1,524 PTA, $89M cume
9. Coraline (Focus) – $2.5M, $1,408 PTA, $69M cume
10. NEW – Miss March (Fox Searchlight) – $2.4M, $1,379 PTA, $2.4M cume
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I've been amazed at how these really bad actors on the mat frequently turn out to be really good actors in movies. But Dwayne Johnson has turned out to be the most successful and the most versatile. Provided he doesn't try to do Shakespeare, I'll probably continue to watch each of his movies as they come out. Besides, I was a big fan of the original "Escape to Witch Mountain." The sequel wasn't all that good, but this one looks clever and funny, with some decent special effects. It's probably formulaic, but so what? Great movies are rarely formulaic, entertaining movies frequently are.
There is a simple reason why attendance for the Watchmen has dropped so much. The people who most wanted to see it are 40-something comics book geeks. And we all, uh, I mean, they all saw it last weekend.
I like Dwayne Johnson. He is a very personable actor. He's definitely the hirt to Arnold and Sly, though the kinds of movies they made are no longer in vogue, but I think Dwayne can adapt.
As for Watchmen, it was too artsy for the public at large. And the R rating hurts it with a potential kid audience. They did not have to be an R movie. They did not have to show Dr Manhattan's peen. I supposed the attempted rape would have made it an R anyway, but there was a lot of gratuitous violence they added that could have been removed,. And it could have been 1/2 hour shorter at least. A lot of filler was in there IIMO, like the McLaughlin group bit at the beginning. It needed tightening up. It felt to lackadaisical to me.
Oops. I meant heir apparent to Arnold and Sly
[...] “Last weekend’s winner Watchmen staggered to a second Friday of only $5.2M or so, and I am projecting only $15.75M for the 3-day. That marks a 71% drop. Anything over $20M would have been acceptable, but the bottom has fallen out of this movie, and it will now struggle to reach $100M domestic.” Link [...]
Absolute tragedy, i.e. "Watchmen," for anyone who gives a damn about the state of American film. If there's one studio that doesn't need to be any further scared-off of making intelligent, uncompromising genre films it's Warner Bros.
Won't be bad for the film in the long run – by August the film-geek/cinephile tastemakers will have successfully annointed it one of the year's automatic top-tens, it'll clean up (and then maintain solid sales) on DVD/Cable and by this time next year it'll be sitting with Fight Club, Big Lebowski and Fear & Loathing in the realm of perenial late-bloomer "modern classics." But in the short-term? Ugh. Like I said back when "The Mist" was met with such indifference: We get the movies we deserve.
Watchmen was a Piss Poor film that is getting awful WOM. That is why it is dropping like a rock. Point Black
I have heard mostly positive WOM. I don't know anyone who hated the film. A few were indifferent, but most liked it.
If you think the movie was lackadaisical, you should read the graphic novel.
I did. Many times. I also know Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons well. I wrote an article on here last week about the graphic novel.
The pacing of the comic is fine. The film needed to flow a little better. But I generally liked it. I can see why it did not catch fire, though.
I mentioned this before under one of Mase's articles, but the reason why WOM is bad is because WB pulled the old "bait-and-switch" with the trailers. To those who don't know (or don't care) who Rorschach, Nite Owl or Ozymandias are, when they saw the trailers, they saw "Hey, this is gonna be like an R-Rated 'Batman' movie, that'll be awesome!", but when people who didnt read the novel go in, they're all like "What the hell- there's like 2 and a half hours of blue dick, talking and more talking with maybe two good action scenes". then they tell their friends, who tell their friends that "Watchmen" was stupid and boring. I know people who just dont get the movie, and its ok. But that's honestly why the film is disappointing all around (box office wise- as a film its pretty good, and I think 10 years from now, this might me remembered more fondly than the X-Men series, Iron Man and other superhero films).
Just my two cents, though I liked the movie and its a shame that it's not doing as well as it could've.
Oh and "Miss March"- damn, thats what they get for making a derivative, shallow sex comedy instead of letting the Whitest Kids just do what they do best= Hitler Rap: the movie.
[...] “Last weekend’s winner Watchmen staggered to a second Friday of only $5.2M or so, and I am projecting only $15.75M for the 3-day. That marks a 71% drop. Anything over $20M would have been acceptable, but the bottom has fallen out of this movie, and it will now struggle to reach $100M domestic.” Link [...]
I couldn't recommend the film because the average person will not get it, plain and simple. Factor in the gratuitous sex, violence and nudity and you pretty much sealed your own fate. Giving this movie an R was being very kind, it should have been NC-17.
I think it will be considered a classic. Most classics do poor initially. The Wizard of Oz, Sunset Blvd, there's a long list of them. But the audience warms to them in time and they become part of the culture. Watchmen is so different from anything else that it's hard for many people to absorb it all. But I suspect it will grow on a lot of people who may have initially dissed it.
Rorschach is destined to be an iconic character Don't miss this parody:
<a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3VSw1XBOo” target=”_blank”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3VSw1XBOo
Do you wonder if J. J. Abrams, Paramount, et. al. involved in "Star Trek", are nervously watching "Watchmen" while they gnaw their fingernails down to their wrists?
Shoulda got Manny Coto, guys…
Star Trek has a gigantic worldwide fan base with numerous iconic characters.
Watchmen is a small but vocal cult phenomenon with no well known characters.
Why would they be nervous?
You are aware you're being wishful, aren't you? I mean, that's fine. That's what fans are for. I just want to make sure you realize it.
Well you hit that exactly on the head I believe. If you look at the top grossing movies throughout history, rarely are they the ones that have a "R" rating. The R rating at the very least is a sentence that guarantees mediocrity in box office receipts. If this movie were produced to end up with a PG rating, even if it was an awful end product, it STILL would have out grossed this product (even if this was considered universally excellent ).
We'll see who's right, won't we?
Like I said, the film itself will be fine – so long as no one in the principal cast gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy, it's on it's way to DVD/Cable immortality. The guys who'll take the hit are anyone trying to get a similar genre-film off the ground next. You think trying to get a studio to take a chance on a smart, R-rated, breathing-room-length scifi/fantasy film was hard BEFORE?
Don't know if you forgot this one, or the role was too small to count, but the biggest grossing movie with a wrestler was SpiderMan, with Randy "Macho Man" Savage as Bonesaw
You mean "intelligent, uncompromising genre films" like The Dark Knight? I somehow doubt that the commercial failure of Watchmen will stop them wanting to make any more of those.
What I want to know is how they could have thought that an R-rated, almost three-hour adaptation of a property with limited mainstream appeal could have a budget of around $130M and still make money?
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Watchmen's performance doesn't shock me at all. It isn't a name-brand comic book property like Superman or Batman. It's a very different story that is definitely adult and niche really only to hardcore comic fans. Movies like that, along with most horror films, have huge weekends and then drop considerably. Look at the second weekend for Friday the 13th. HUGE drop. And why is Get Smart considered the highest grossing opening weekend Dwayne Johnson film when he really has just a cameo in that too? He's hardly the star of it.
71%!!! I expected a big drop but that is an incredible amount. If this doesn't gross $100 million or more domestically that would be a disaster.
And anyone in the principal cast being caught with a dead girl or a live boy will hurt it´s DVD/cable chances how?
"Miss March" is the result of the studio coming to them with a script already frigging finished and promising them a deal if they can rework it into a more Whitest Kids-esque sort of thing. The guys didn't really get to make their own movie the way they should've.
Indeed. However the 'yay Watchmen' crowd has been proved wrong once so far. Its not such a stretch to think their prophecies will continue to be off. There will be people like the lady I met at a con who'd watched V for Vendetta fourteen times, but I backed away from her with a smile and have not yet gone to see V.
Most writers can't get away with a book of philosophizing. Starship Troopers, Rising Sun, and Last Centurion all did it, but Heinlein, Crichton, and Ringo are not just any authors either, and most of what each writer wrote in their other books is not philosophizing, to boot.
There is a limited market for 'standing around talking' and I suspect the market is even more limited in the big money Hollywood movie. When its philosophy that a lot of folks disagree with….
I think Watchmen benefited from Iron Man and Dark Knight and Spiderman. Many of the public thought thats what they were getting. If you'd told them straight up….Two Hours of Talking….chances are it would have done even worse. On the plus side, there would have been less negative WOM.
That much negative WOM might send Watchmen toward Golden Turkey territory, although to be honest, it has such enthused fans, that that probably won't happen.
No. That´s a commercial, marketable movie – attractive young actors, lots of action, a universe that hardly needs explaining. It may suck, it may be forgotten within 2 years, but it´s failure is hardly preordained.
Witch Mountain was fantastic
If only Warners had done a better job marketing "Watchmen" to kids…
Big source of bad WOM here. If I'd had a clue that I would be spending 2 1/2 hours staring at a bunch of annoying, gutless, spineless, and unprincipled whiners, I would have saved my $11, stayed home and watched Keith Olbermann for 2 1/2 hours. Worse, I paid an extra $3 to watch the IMAX "Watchmen Experience" and that is ticking me off even more.
Nor is its success insured, my young padawan learner.
I remember hearing similar things about "Enterprise". Just before it went into the wall in turn #3.
More than just a cameo, either. He was an integral star. And came very close to running away with it.
I focused on that because I agreed on the other points and had nothing to say about them.
Yes, of course. I just cannot see why the performance of Watchmen should make Abrams nervous. What´s the connection?
Paramount is fishing around for a reboot of a franchise, one that has to make it or it goes to the literary wing forever.
Lots of money involved; fans that are very, er, "non-canon intolerant", and both a series and movies with high hype and low delivery; similarities with "Watchmen" abound.
As above.
The running time is not a problem by itself. The Dark Knight was almost as long. If people enjoy themselves, they´ll watch a Gone with the Wind, The Sound of Music, Ben Hur, Titanic, Lord of the Rings… I once calculated the average time for all the highest grossing movies in history and it was something like 154 minutes.
Watchmen is simply not as audience-friendly. Then again, even the lousy Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man´s Chest made a lot of money at 151 minutes and it gave me a headache! I didn´t love Watchmen but it was very impressive in many ways. I don´t think it could be better or make significantly more money at 120 minutes.
I will definitely go see Watchmen in the near future, before they yank it form local theaters. How about a cinematic Infinity Gauntlet? I bet that would be tight with today's CGI.
"And anyone in the principal cast being caught with a dead girl or a live boy will hurt it´s DVD/cable chances how?"
Scandal of sufficient scope sufficiently recent to the film often overwhelms the conversation of the movie-proper. See: "Twilight Zone: The Movie," anything with Michael Jackson, etc.
I love "The Dark Knight" and still believe it ought've been nominated-for and awarded-with a Best Picture Oscar, but in terms of "intelligent" there's no comparison here: "Watchmen" is deeper, richer, smarter and more complex in a 3 minute narrated-flashback by Dr. Manhattan than "Knight" (or any other studio film I've seen in years) is in it's ENTIRE running time.
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It's also much less compromised: Consciously or not, Nolan's Bat-films "purchase" a lot of their critical accolades and mainstream appeal at the cost of tossing huge chunks of the source material's color and otherworldliness out with the bathwater – like it's afraid of it's own four-color shadow: Can't have his costume look TOO MUCH like a costume, can't let Ras Al Ghul ACTUALLY be immortal, etc. "Watchmen" isn't nearly as willing to bargain away it's awesomeness, instead it's right up front proudly shouting: "HELL YEAH! ONE OF OUR MAIN GUYS IS 30 FEET TALL, NAKED AND NEON-BLUE… AND WE'RE NOT EVEN GONNA TELL YOU WHY FOR ANOTHER HOUR!"
"There is a limited market for 'standing around talking' and I suspect the market is even more limited in the big money Hollywood movie. When its philosophy that a lot of folks disagree with…."
If you can't even get the American filmgoing audience to sit still for dialogue-driven scenes EVEN WHEN the dialogue is between a gorgeous woman in a latex fetish-doll costume and a naked blue energy-being AND their conversation is taking place ON THE SURFACE OF MARS – intercut with a "24"-style interrogation, a spaceship crash and a brutal two-on-one martial-arts duel, no less! – then what passes for our "culture" is in even bigger trouble than anyone suspected.
We get the movies we deserve.
I never said that it was just or mainly the running time, so I don't know why you focused on that. In fact, I gave three reasons – rating (as a proxy for content), running time, and lack of mass-appeal. A movie can survive one or even two of those (as long as one of them isn't lack of mass-appeal); but combine all three with a $130M budget, and you've got a flop. If the studio really understood their audience, they would have seen that coming. No way should they have let it get made if they couldn't carry it off with a budget of under $80M.
You basically summed up my point anyway: "Watchmen is simply not [...] audience-friendly."
[Spolier] He's the bad guy. Bad guys aren't cameos.
True, but I think the danger is greater before the release. Afterwards… it´s a bit weird to watch OJ in the Naked Gun movies now. But does it stop anyone from laughing?
Granted, though none of that has changed in the last week and the fans haven´t rejected Watchmen either. But I guess they should be nervous.
Ah, we have a language difficulty here. I read "uncompromising" to mean 'the movie doesn't compromise its artistic vision', while you meant "uncompromising" to mean 'the movie panders to fanboys at the expense of mainstream success'. Fine, but don't expect to be able to spend $130M on a movie like that and make a profit. That's not "absolute tragedy [...] for anyone who gives a damn about the state of American film", it's a fact of life.
[...] Everything else played out about the way I reported in my Friday Early Estimates story. [...]
I think we need to spend 130 million dollars on a Champions super-team story. The Seeker could battle Foxbat who is a crazed villain who thinks he lives in a comic book–deconstructive genius!!
WHAAAAATTTT? None of you have heard of this, you think its stupid, and that I should stop being such a total uber-fanboy? That just proves how brilliant and uncompromising this idea of mine is.
More seriously, for those not in the know, Champions is probably the most important tabletop roleplaying superhero game. And I'm sure that ICE or Hero Systems or whoever currently owns the franchise would be hysterically laughing as they accept a few million.
I think I ought to get a hundred thousand for the idea and a chance to option my script for the film…
Lon,
Before 2008, Iron Man was a comic book superhero who was largely unknown by the general public. Yet, the character's self-titled movie raked in over $300 million in the USA alone. This is an achievement the eluded Superman Returns and the Hulk movies, which starred more mainstream superheroes.
Iron Man exceeded for the following reasons:
*Cool trailers that perfectly conveyed the movie's redemption story and high-tech action. These qualities are also found in the original comic book series.
*Robert Downey, Jr. made Tony Stark very compelling as the character matures from self-absorbed playboy to selfless superhero.
*The movie is chock full of traditional American values: pro-capitalism, pro-military, anti-terrorist, etc.
*The special effects are amazing and often groundbreaking. The various tricks and weapons deployed by Iron Man's armor look utterly realistic. (It helps that armored superhero movies are REALLY rare.)
Thus, it's no surprise Iron Man got very strong word-of-mouth from critics and moviegoers alike, thereby ensuring its record-breaking box office take.
Iron Man is yet another reminder that a comic book movie can be a blockbuster even if many moviegoers are unfamiliar with the source material. So, Watchmen underwhelming office cannot be blamed on the characters' obscurity.
I suppose my point is better defined as to what degree the expectation/reality ratio is from pre-release to post-release. Watchmen had a real high pre-release expectation; and so far, the post-release reality is not-so okay, with a predicted $110 million US for a movie that cost $150 million. This with hardly any competition in the theater.
Paramount is gambling on the May 2009 release date to get to a wider audience. They're not too sure, either. Not too good a sign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(film)
That is what I used to tell people (many years ago) who complained about how boring 2001 is: You didn´t like that sequence? As if you had ever seen anything like it before!
Watchmen isn´t boring, but I understand why many people will find it unpleasant and bleak. Almost everybody watches movies, but few are interested in the art. And frankly, it´s not quite as deep as it thinks it is. The book also left me cold. More a case of respect than love in my case. (Come to think of it, that´s how I feel about Kubrick these days) I´ll buy the DVD, but I´ll watch it only twice
[...] Everything else played out about the way I reported in my Friday Early Estimates story. [...]
Great link. Promotional partners on the film include (…) various companies specializing in home decorating, apparel, jewelry, gift items and "Tiberius," "Pon Farr" and "Red Shirt" fragrances.
Who wants to wear Red Shirt fragrance? Anybody? It´s a sure way to get oneself killed!
"the reality is that word-of-mouth has been more negative than for any movie in recent memory."
What about Hulk?
Marketed like crazy, heavily promoted. Made good takings on opening day – then word of mouth got out that the film was a load ot unwatchable garbage. The studio even admitted this at the time, attributing the rapid decline in part to the rising rate of mobile phone ownership that allowed people to spread their disapointment within minutes of leaving the cinema.
I thought Watchmen was very good, but a film with such a complicated plotline is going to leave a lot of viewers confused.
That would have ruined it completly. The story of Watchmen demands violence – lots of it, graphically shown. Cut the violence to anything less than the 18 certificate it has, and it would have to mean losing part of the message. The way the characters deal with the violence around them – the violence of others, and the violance that they commit themselves for the percieved greater good – is essential. No violence, no conflict.
The reason the WOM is so bad is because the movie was awfull. I saw it with my husband and sister in law when it first came out, and each off us thought that this was the worst film we had seen in a long, long time. It was worse then Solaris and came real close to being as bad as Water World. (Although we actually sat through all of the Watchman movie, the same cannot be said of Water World)
Last week Monday, when I got back to work , everyone who had sean it ,or had friends or family that had seen it,said the same thing, the movie was a waste of time and money!
That was a sarcastic reference to an earlier discussion.
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