THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS | 09.02.16 | Disney | final domestic gross: $12,545,979

[DAJK]

Well Morgan is getting trashed by critics, stage is set for this to be halfway decent

 

[shayhiri]

Would you believe the Shay, if I told you this is looking at O%!! RT right now....?

[filmlover]

This is getting panned across the board so far.

[MrPink]

Not like this Cianfrance

[That One Girl]

[kowhite]

This will probably fail to even beat that Hillary movie.

 

Yeah.  But hey at least it brought us a celebrity relationship.

[Water Bottle]

"The Light Between Oceans is a tearjerker that plays like an extra long Lifetime TV movie with a Grade A cast."

 

"is beautiful to look at, but this feels like a Lifetime movie given the A-list treatment....in failing to steep us in Isabel's pain and mental state in act two, Cianfrance leaves us with an overly indulgent husband and self-centered wife in act three."

 

"The Light Between Oceans" is lushly shot and exquisitely acted. It's also elegiac bordering on stodgy, a soapy, workmanlike drama reminding of a 1990s-era BBC production at best and a network Movie of the Week at worst."

 

Snobbish film people looking down on TV again as if film doesn't churn out the same kind of crap that Lifetime does all the time.

[EmpireCity]

2 minutes ago, Water Bottle said:

"The Light Between Oceans is a tearjerker that plays like an extra long Lifetime TV movie with a Grade A cast."

 

"is beautiful to look at, but this feels like a Lifetime movie given the A-list treatment....in failing to steep us in Isabel's pain and mental state in act two, Cianfrance leaves us with an overly indulgent husband and self-centered wife in act three."

 

"The Light Between Oceans" is lushly shot and exquisitely acted. It's also elegiac bordering on stodgy, a soapy, workmanlike drama reminding of a 1990s-era BBC production at best and a network Movie of the Week at worst."

 

Snobbish film people looking down on TV again as if film doesn't churn out the same kind of crap that Lifetime does all the time.

 

They are unfortunately spot on.  

[kowhite]

Just now, EmpireCity said:

 

They are unfortunately spot on.  

 

Well, yeah, Lifetime movies suck.

 

I say that, having never watched a Lifetime movie.  I'm still confident in my opinion.

[EmpireCity]

This doesn't even suck, it is simply a well acted bore fest.  

[AniNate]

O/U on the number of reviews that say the word "Lifetime"?

[filmlover]

FYI this was shot well before both Steve Jobs and The Danish Girl. So...

[kowhite]

7 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

This doesn't even suck, it is simply a well acted bore fest.  

 

This wouldn't be opening Labor Day if it wasn't.

 

On the other hand, it's not like Disney has any clue how to do a proper platform release.  It this didn't deserve that so, works out.

[AniNate]

I wonder if the Finding Dory expansion will do more than this

[That One Girl]

Labor Day weekend is just the weekend where studios take some subpar, generic film they're forced to distribute and say "okay just slap it on this release date and let it die a quick death."  It's not really a surprise it turned out this way.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, ThatOneMorgan said:

Labor Day weekend is just the weekend where studios take some subpar, generic film they're forced to distribute and say "okay just slap it on this release date and let it die a quick death."  It's not really a surprise it turned out this way.

Let's name every movie that's opened on Labor Day weekend this past decade:

 

Crank

Crossover

The Wicker Man

Balls of Fury

Death Sentence

Halloween

Babylon A.D.

College

Disaster Movie

Traitor

All About Steve

Extract

Gamer

The Last Exorcism

Takers

Apollo 18

The Debt

Shark Night 3D

Lawless

Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure

The Possession

Closed Circuit

Getaway

One Direction: This Is Us

As Above/So Below

The November Man

The Transporter: Refueled

A Walk in the Woods

 

Woof.

[That One Girl]

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Let's name every movie that's opened on Labor Day weekend this past decade:

 

Crank

Crossover

The Wicker Man

Balls of Fury

Death Sentence

Halloween

Babylon A.D.

College

Disaster Movie

Traitor

All About Steve

Extract

Gamer

The Last Exorcism

Takers

Apollo 18

The Debt

Shark Night 3D

Lawless

Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure

The Possession

Closed Circuit

Getaway

One Direction: This Is Us

As Above/So Below

The November Man

The Transporter: Refueled

A Walk in the Woods

 

Woof.

 

 

 

The Wicker Man, Disaster Movie, Oogieloves, Apollo 18, Shark Knight 3D, Getaway...Jesus fucking Christ.

[EmpireCity]

Lawless and The Debt are about the only things on that list that were better than the release date they got.  

[MCKillswitch123]

7 hours ago, EmpireCity said:

Lawless and The Debt are about the only things on that list that were better than the release date they got.  

 

Would add Crank to such list.

[Alpha]

The first big flop of awards season.