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Geezers Tackle Leatherheads
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[image] There Will Be Blood 2-Disc Collector's Edition (Paramount Home Entertainment, 4.8.2008) As rich, daring, detailed, emotional, complex, and original as any film released in 2007, There Will Be Blood is that rare film that actually earns the label "instant classic." Unlike its gloriously cinematic (but inferior) awards season rival, No Country For Old Men -- which is marred by one-too-many goofy supporting characters, several structural mishaps, and an overall sensibility that feels slight by comparison -- There Will Be Blood is a film that proudly depicts real, flawed, contradictory, and mysterious people living in the real world ...
'Leatherheads' Fumbles During Opening Weekend, Casting Doubt On Clooney's Bankability [Monday Morning Box Office]
Gawker: defamer —
When our cultural faith is shaken to its very core by the passing of Charlton Heston and looming Short Circuit remakes, we know we can always find quiet comfort in the security of numbers. Box-office numbers, to be exact:
1. 21 - $15.1 million
The geeks-take-Vegas opus shocked observers by not only sustaining its top spot for a second consecutive week, but also by outlasting consistently sluggish reviews (thus establishing critics' rumored irrelevancy beyond a doubt and putting in motion a unilateral purge of the eight remaining full-time reviewers working in the United States). 2. ...
Even the Old Folks Hate 'Leatherheads'
RopeofSilicon.com —
There isn't something to love about every movie, and while I still grade films on an A+ to F scale I am drastically considering abandoning that way of reviewing and going straight to a "thumbs up/thumbs down" style. Now that films cost $10 - $30, in some cases, to go see an audience doesn't want to spend their money on a movie that even they may remotely like. You want to spend your money on a film and get your money's worth. If that isn't going to be the case then you should stay home or perhaps do something more with your while. A gave Leatherheads a "D", which is fair and accurate and perhaps generous. However, why did I even leave ...
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