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Reviews
Are Brutal
"I expected
that this would be revealing and I'd come away
impressed. Unfortunately I couldn't give my
ticket away. Even my American-hating friends turned me
down."
Rex
Reed
"I
wore my "down with America" sweatshirt and was all
prepared to get down on it during the movie. This
thing is so bad that you almost begged to see two hours of George
Bush speaking."
Ariana
Huffington Puffington
"I
tried to get Moochie and the brood to go see this so I could play
with my "Bash Boner" doll and snack on a few
cheeseburgers. Unfortunately Moochie was too busy
directing the now non-furloughed government workers on how to
correctly pull weeds and to look like a farmer in a sleeveless,
designer gown."
Barack
Hussein Obama via teleprompter
"I
blame this movie on Benjy's blog. He is always saying
mean things and he is just not honest. Now let's
talk about our founder's list which is down to five."
Got
Wood For Benjy
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(Deadline.com)
- Placing #6 is DreamWorks Studios’ The Fifth Estate flopping worse than forecast with only $700K for Friday and just a $2M weekend even factoring its low 1,769 theatre count. The per screen average looks to be $1,102 meaning each location is playing nearly empty.
This hyperbolic melodrama earned only a ‘B-’ CinemaScore from audiences which won’t help word of mouth. Its multiple trailers and high-spend TV ads were as misguided as WikiLeaker Julian Assange played by Benedict Cumberbatch who deserved way better than director Bill Condon. (He helmed among the worst reviewed installments of the Twilight series - Breaking Dawn 1 and 2.)
With the exception of The Help and Steven Spielberg’s Oscar bait Lincoln, DreamWorks CEO Stacey Snider just keeps presiding over disappointing theatrical openings like I Am Number Four, Cowboys & Aliens, Fright Night, Real Steel, Spielberg’s own War Horse, and now this.
Given how small the studio’s annual output is, you’d think Snider could stop whining about financing long enough to oversee better product.
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