Comments on: ‘Bad Lieutenant’ Released For NY/LA Only? DVD/BluRay Announced For February

By: bauer24

bauer24 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:29:29 +0000

It's the Greek poster.

ps: I'm from Greece.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:18:28 +0000

it's currently scheduled to open in Minneapolis December 4, and if it's opening wide enough to hit there, I assume it's hitting a decent amount of other big city markets also.

http://www.switchbladecomb.com/news/coming-soon-to-landmark-theatres-45/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:22:09 +0000

Publicists in DC are claiming it opens here in a couple of weeks.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:19:33 +0000

The posters up in a local theater outside of Chicago, too. Though this is the same theater currently showing a Baader Meinhof Complex trailer before Coco Beofore Chanel despite it coming out before that film and having it's Chicago run long over by the time Coco started its own. Selfishly I hope it plays in Chicago, but I'd really love for something so crazy and weird to open wide and enter the cultural zeitgeist.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:04:24 +0000

Can I point out how odd it is for that poster to not transliterate the actor's names?

I understand titles, as well as titles that get changed to local dialects/languages. But universally, people's names, particularly those of public figures, are always presented "as is". In other words, Nicholas Cage is listed as "Nicholas Cage", he's not "Nikoaaz Keitz".

That's just kind of weird.

By: markz

markz — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:19:37 +0000

The poster is definitely not in Russian.

By: filthysize

filthysize — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:09:20 +0000

I can confirm that it's playing in San Francisco.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:37:23 +0000

I live in Chicago and our big downtown multiplex has had posters up for BL:POCNO for a while, which means it'll be playing there. Since your "NY/LA" theory is pure speculation, I'm pretty sure I just shot it down.

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:37:16 +0000

As I understand it, this whole project was pretty much conceived as a cash grab by the financier who owned the rights to the Bad Lieutenant title.

The fact that Herzog and a great cast were brought on board and that the movie might be awesome is entirely secondary so it's not a shock it's getting the bum's rush of a release.

You're right though, if IFC can attempt to make a cult phrase out of Chaos Reigns, surely there is money to be made in "lucky crack pipe" t-shirts.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:26:27 +0000

I think the poster is in Greek.

By: James

James — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:03:39 +0000

Don't be stupid. The company that made Bad Lieutenant owns First Look.