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Group: rec.arts.animation · Group Profile
Author: Derek JanssenDerek Janssen Date: Nov 29, 2007 17:57
Juan F. Lara wrote:
> "Enchanted" led the boxoffice with a $34M take from Friday to Sunday.
> That's smaller than the $38M first weekend of "Bee Movie". But it's five day
> Thanksgiving weekend boxoffice of $49,060,281 is the second largest for that
> holiday period ( not factoring in inflation ). Further, "Enchanted" wound up a
> huge hit with critics, with a 93%% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.:
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> http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enchanted/
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> Let's see how all this strong word of mouth propels this movie.
Haven't seen the movie yet, so I'd need some serious convincing that the
whole push for "Gee, what a cuddly, sugar-coated tribute for Disney to
pay to itself!" isn't one of the biggest wishful-thinking Disney-fan
mass-hysteria con-jobs since Beauty&Beast got an Oscar nomination.
Some of us have longer memories, and can remember how this project
started back during the days of "Rapunzel Unbraided", when Eisner fell
so far into post-Atlantis/Treasure panic, even *he* was starting to
believe the "It's all Disney's fault!" fairytale-bash-borscht of CGI
Shrek-mania, and was only too happy to sell the studio down-river to it.
The first scripts, um...WEREN'T exactly "cuddly" about their Shrek3
"Un-PC princesses unfit to survive in our modern cynical society" gags.
I'll spare you the horror stories.
We can enjoy the irony that an originally anti-Disney movie is now being
pushed to an audience that *WANTS* to see more "old-fashioned" Disney,
and fans who're now hypnotized into believing they ARE seeing it.
Well...guess that settles that question, right, Mike
--Now bring on them
Princesses and Frogs! :-D
Derek Janssen
ejanss1@ verizon.net
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