Comments on: Weekend Box Office Options for April 3rd-5th: ‘Adventureland’ & ‘Fast and Furious’, Plus ‘Sugar’ And ‘Gigantic’ In Limited Release

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:36:00 +0000

Eeeeeeyah I dunno about that.

By: caffeine head

caffeine head — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:25:00 +0000

no matter how many times they remake Fast and Furious, Vin Diesel’s best work will always be Chronicles of Riddick

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:47:00 +0000

alrighty, but i tell you what, while you were creating your clever quip, i slinked into said tub. You’ll have wait your turn now.

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:45:00 +0000

Samantha Morton in a bathtub.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:27:00 +0000

I suppose that could happen. What’s the alternative.

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:07:00 +0000

Yes, it can be an acceptable barometer, but its certainly not reliable. It’s worth seeing for smaller films, where a 75% could mean its pretty good but the worst critics didn’t like it’s “smallness”, but when you see a 75% for a big studio tentpole, its usually something like, “I give this movie a good review because it wasn’t THAT bad.”

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:26:00 +0000

@Anon. It's a good point about limited releases, but this is just a basic guide for giving the audience and ourselves some kind of view of what's out there. It's obviously not exact and not a science. One cannot qualify art exactly.

@Gabe, didn't you post a few weeks ago, that the critical consensus is good thing to go by?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:53:00 +0000

I don't really pay attention to an indie's Tomatometer until it's been out seveal weeks or it's about to go wide, and enough critics have weighed in for a stable rating.

A limited/platform release indie will have only a few critics weighing in so SUGAR will go from 9 critics 100% fresh to 30+ 88% fresh in a week and will probably go up again.

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:18:00 +0000

Isn’t “Fast and Furious” the FOURTH entry in the series, not the third…let’s not forget the masterpiece “Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift!”

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:46:00 +0000

Why do we always rely on the Tomatometer? It seems silly that they give equal weight to the best and the worst critics, resulting in some pretty lopsided reviews.