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Subject: Box Office Prediction: We Liiiiike
Time: 12:44:00 PM EST
Author: summermovieblog
Greetings, people of Earth, and all the rest of you, too. Patricia here on this lovely first Friday of November. Still reeling over the news that Tom Cruise is going to start running United Artists? Well, pick yourself up off the ground -- or couch, or whatever -- because it's time to play ourselves some box office bingo.
'Borat': Apologies, but I have to lead
with a movie that has no chance in hell of winning the box office this weekend,
and that's 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious
Nation of Kazakhstan,' starring comedic genius Sacha Baron Cohen as the sweetly
ignorant Kazakh reporter who criss-crosses the U.S. in search of American
culture and Pamela Anderson. And by "sweetly ignorant," I mean
blatantly misogynist (women should live in cages) and anti-Semitic (his
'Throw the Jew Down the Well' singalong at a country bar has now passed into
legend), but who's counting? Seriously, while there are legions of offended
potential moviegoers who don't realize or care that 'Borat' is a satire -- and
a wildly hilarious, politically daring one at that -- there are legions more
who can't wait to see Baron Cohen pull one over on his clueless victims,
whether they be astonishingly patient dupes or shockingly enthusiastic bigots. 'Borat'
only opens in 837 theaters this week, so its true glory might have to wait
until next week, when it expands to 2,200 screens; but with the deafening buzz
that's preceded its opening, we're rooting for 'Borat' to grab some impressive
box-office bucks this weekend anyway. High-five!
'The Santa Clause 3': There's a battle
royale going on this weekend, and it's not Republicans vs. Democrats or even
Lindsay Lohan vs. Hilary Duff. Nope, it's a knock-down, drag-out fight between two
family-friendly films set to knock 'Open Season' from its seemingly permanent
perch in the top five. One of these is 'The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause,'
a movie that, to be honest, is depressing me a little bit, because it's
reminding me that Christmas shopping season is just around the corner. (We just
had Halloween! It's too soon!) As for the movie itself, it once again stars Tim
Allen as the big guy and Elizabeth Mitchell (the mysterious Juliet on 'Lost') as
his wife; and this time they've got Martin Short around as the dastardly Jack
Frost, who's determined to conquer the North Pole and take over the reindeer-feeding and elf-bossing duties for himself.
Our prediction: This sequel's got an early Christmas present coming, and it's not a lump of coal.
My picks follow. Post your own, be sure check back Monday to see how you did (click here for our scoring system), and in the words of Borat, may your weekend be niiiiice.
POST: What's your weekend top five prediction?
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do you think of these
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Make sure u bring a barf bucket to Saw III, but it "is" good if u don't mind brains & body parts flying around, and oh, the brain surgery w/ out anesthia????????what the ?????
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Borat all the way. I havent seen theaters this jammed packed in awhile.The mighty power of myspace marketing and promotion giant.
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You liiiike because you are racisttttt. Sacha Cohen is the Jewish Mel Gibson. His hatred of Muslims is as shocking as Jewish Hollywood's hypocritical embrace of the jerk and his hateful films. Could someone get a film made pardying Jews? If not, why not? Hypocracy and black-listing is the sign of a sick society.
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Sacha Cohen is the Jewish Mel Gibson. His hatred of Muslims is as shocking as Jewish Hollywood's hypocritical embrace of the jerk and his hateful films. Could someone get a film made pardying Jews? If not, why not? Hypocracy and black-listing is the sign of a sick society.
12/3/06 2:49 PM
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