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You guys realize that some of Tyler Perry's loudest critics are also black, right? Larry the Cable Guy and Duck Dynasty have fans, too, but a lot of Southerners aren't thrilled with the images they trade in. It's the same sort of thing with Tyler Perry; people aren't jealous or haters, they just think his material is loaded with outdated, regrettable stereotypes. He's good in Gone Girl, though... maybe being around Fincher will rub off on him, or he'll let himself be directed by other filmmakers more often.

Yeah, that was the idea, but... Witherspoon is a producer on the film and obtained rights to the book in order to play the role of Amy (the part that now belongs to Pike). But director David Fincher had other ideas. “I think it would be awkward to have somebody who is starring in a movie and producing it,” he told EW. The Oscar-winning actress complied, saying, “He told me a vision for what the characters were, and it was very clear that I was not right for his vision.” FIncher didn't want her and Reese didn't put up a fight about it and find another director who would've gone along with it being a star vehicle. I hadn't read the book but figured out the twist had to be ahead of time which didn't have an impact on my enjoyment of the movie (which had more humor than I'd expected). Amy's story seems like it would have a thousand holes in it, especially the Desi part, and how was she allowed to go to leave the hospital coated in blood?

But if his rom-coms kept underwhelming, eventually he wouldn't get those jobs and paychecks anymore...if not for the McConaisssance, maybe he would've had to go the "dad in a family movie" route, a trip to Sandlerville or being the lead guy on the latest CBS procedural. All that would've paid the bills but without the respectability he's won now. Going the indie route was a gamble because there was no guarantee it was going to work out like it did...a lot of indie movies come and go without making any sort of impression.

This show's been hit hard up against Scorpion and probably just being caught up in the overall Fox ratings malaise.

Direct competition for the "older actor being a badass" audience. If Denzel and Neeson ever teamed up as co-stars...

The plot was so biting off Legally Blonde, but if the pace keeps up it will be a good way to spend an hour every week. The people nitpicking the law school/courtroom storyline are ridiculous: were they really expecting anything approaching realism from a show called How to Get Away With Murder on the Shonda Rhimes drama block? You should have known the writers here probably got their legal knowledge by watching Law & Order marathons. Annalise is such a badass and Viola is killing it in the role. So far, the law students aren't standing out except for Dean Thomas, I mean, Wes. The Scooby Gang are super dumb if they think burning a body out in the woods with some lighter fluid will destroy its DNA. I wonder if they found the body at Professor Keating's house, figure she did it and took it upon themselves to cover for her.

Katrina continues to be the worst thing about this show. She couldn't conjure up the tiniest flame to burn those ropes? Is she a witch or not? Also, a shirtless headless horseman: only on Sleepy Hollow!

I read some professional reviews, but they only scratch of just how absolutely bonkers this movie sounds.

Oh, okay, misread that, a little less of an achievement, then. Still a very good producing track record!

The same director having three #1 movies in one year...very impressive. How often has that ever happened? LOL at the Marvel discussion. Of course.

Watch the "twist" be that he's really 30 with a long rap sheet, which keeps JLo from being hit with a statch charge. Good to see new blood at the top and kudos to BOF for not completely sleeping on it.

Nah they'll be rushing home to watch the NFL like millions of other Americans...faith-based movies do have a history of good Sunday holds, though.

I know, right? The reviews for The Identical are amazing to read; the critics are so baffled about its weirdness and how it got made. Of course, the movie about Fake Elvis and his twin has a soundtrack of Fake Elvis music. It only cost $16 million apparently but an opening outside of the Top 10, ouch.

But the plot does have a sci-fi bent, in a way...for copyright reasons they have to use a different name and soundalike rockabilly music, but The Identical is a "what if" story about what would've happened if Elvis' twin brother had lived and been adopted by a traveling preacher and his wife, only to grow up rejecting the ministry for a life of becoming...an Elvis impersonator (played by a real-life former Elvis impersonator).

LOL, Forrest Gump was on ABC Family tonight. It's on TV all the time, all these years later. People like the movie, but it's not a huge visual spectacle that demands being seen on the big screen let alone IMAX.

The bane of her existence is Dancing with the Stars? Really, Nikki? It's so...easily ignored.

Someone in the movie's thread in the box office section suggested Die to Live, short and to the point but catchy and sounding like a title, not a tagline.

There have always been franchises and movies considered "trash" that were among the most popular movies, as long as there's been a Hollywood. It may ebb and flow in terms of what sorts of easy money go-to categories happen to hit big in any given time, but the lament that Hollywood is more about commerce than art is nothing new. People watch TCM or look up the Scorcese/Coppola canon or whatever and think all movies were that good once upon a time, when the truth is that the quality stuff is remembered and 95% of the rest of it was popular in its time and faded from memory. I would say the only difference is that TV has stepped its game up a lot, and a lot of dramas that would have been condensed into 2-3 hour movies in the 1970s or whenever, are being told in long form on cable or Netflix. So it's not that no one cares about drama anymore but the audience for it isn't necessarily getting its fix the same way they did 20, 30, 40 years ago.

Yeah it's just when the female character is there to be hot and nothing else (or is some trumped up unbelievable "expert" a la Christmas Jones) that women find it eye rolling.

Yeah, a bad multiplier shows that either: a. everyone up for seeing it in a movie theater did so very early on, or that b. people liked the idea of Godzilla, but once they saw it, they warned others away. If too many people didn't like the first one, the studio should be concerned that they might stay away entirely the next time, so it will make less money (suppose international collapses or slows) yet the budget will most likely increase. It's really not the same thing as a Fault In Our Stars, where all the fans rushed to see it the first few days and it only cost $12 million, so the studio is laughing all the way to the bank. Godzilla 2 will cost 15, 16 times than that just to make, it won't be good for the studio if it tanks domestically.

ABC Family has had some okay shows through the years, I really liked Kyle XY but they canceled it around the time they wanted to go in a more soap opera direction. One of their bigger hits, Secret Life of the American Teenager, was gawd awful, I'm really impressed Shailene survived it to become a sought-after movie actress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJEQC9ynnXI

Bet On It Get'cha Head in the Game and What Time Is It. Fabulous was a lot of fun.

Yeah I loved her sense of humor about it. But knowing that All About Steve was filmed before The Proposal even, maybe it was like professional rock bottom for her and it made her reassess what she wanted to do with her career. If that's what it took, maybe that's why she was such a good sport about the Razzie.

LOL, All About Steve had its release date moved from March to September 2009, Labor Day Weekend (worst weekend ever for new releases). IIRC it actually filmed before The Proposal but got shelved until later because of it being...not good. Honestly, some movies exist and they are so awful and unappealing at the pitch stage that you don't understand how they were ever greenlit.