Tammy's a hit, people. Just because it's not gonna gross nearly as much as The Heat doesn't mean it's not doing well. Some of you really need to stop letting your expectations color everything else.
No kidding: when I was at the movies a while ago I saw one of the marketing displays for Sex Tape and someone had written "Too Old" on Cammy D's legs. That's probably funnier than the movie itself.
I'm not celebrating it (this summer's schedule is blah that I really don't give two shits either way), but I felt from the beginning that this summer might not have a $250M+ grosser and now that it's turned out to be a reality...there ya go!
So now it's officially official with these Apes numbers that there will be no $250M+ grosser this summer (unless Guardians really breaks out but that's unlikely).
Wait a second, is a publicity stunt for The Purge 2 or some act of actual crime unfolding in on the Internet in real time? Geez the Internet has become such a fowl place.
Sex Tape appears to have been a victim of a classic case of everything going wrong: terrible ads, poor reviews, inconsistent/not always reliable stars (plus I can't imagine Segel's almost disturbingly slimed down appearance in this made it look any more appealing), a generally lackluster box office environment, bad...well, pretty much everything.
Whelp, no way around it, Sex Tape is a huge underperformer. I guess it's a good thing it moved off August 1 (since it probably would've done worse opening then)?
I figured it would do well since it seemed to have a lot for going until the weekend came along. But in the end, it had almost everything working against it so, yeah, I can't say I'm too surprised.
I saw one episode of this where the Jonathan Groff character and the person he was hooking up with were about to get it on and Groff said "oh" and that he was "disappointed" when he saw the guy's uncut penis. I screamed "WHUT WHO DOES THAT?!" at my TV.
By the way, it's been a rough summer for family films outside of Maleficent. Dragon 2 and Planes 2 are gonna finish much lower than the originals, and Earth to Echo was a total non-event. Kids and their parents are just finding other things to do this summer.