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Tag: Movies
We’ve all seen films that, for various reasons, we thought kinda stunk.
Still, many of these so-called bad films still did fairly well at the box office – and in Hollywood, doing well at the box office tends to erase any memories of a film’s actual quality.
But what about the films that did poorly at the box office? By now, you’ve probably heard about the film ZYZZYX ROAD that infamously only made $30 total at the box office.
As you’ll see by this list of THE TOP 15 BIGGEST BOX OFFICE BOMBS, making just $30 is sometimes all you need to be considered a hit – click the link for the financial details:
It’s a completely legitimate question, especially as Pixar continues its stellar run of high-quality animated entertainment.
There’s a reason why TOY STORY 3 is nominated for Best Picture this year. There’s a reason why UP was nominated for Best Picture last year. There’s a reason why WALL-E‘s lack of a Best Picture nomination forced the Academy to increase the number of eligible Best Picture nominees from five to 10, thus ensuring that there would be 5 more chances for an animated film to lose any chance of ever winning a Best Picture award of its own outside of the animation categories.
Pufnstuf & Other Stuff: The Weird and Wonderful World of Sid & Marty Krofft
Web Watch is a huge Sid & Marty Krofft fan.
From Sigmund and the Sea Monsters to H.R. Pufnstuf, to even their later efforts like D.C. Follies, Sid & Marty Krofft were always ahead of the curve in coming up with things that will appeal to kids (yet still have a little subversiveness to help draw in the parents).
We highly recommend the PUFNSTUF & OTHER STUFF book for a history of what the Kroffts have done, although more intellectual minds may want to take a gander at Sid and Marty Krofft: A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Childrens Television.
By now, Web Watch hopes that you’ve seen Disney/Pixar’s UP.
Hopefully, you’ve shown it to your parents. If you haven’t, and have had difficulty explaining to your parents why they should want to watch an animated film, perhaps you should show them this PREMAKE, a movie trailer using old video clips done in a style as if the new film had been made decades ago.
Perhaps it’s a bit hard to explain. It’s what the trailers would look like if these films had been made in the 1950’s. Does that make sense?
Why don’t you watch this clip and you’ll see what we mean:
According to Tom Wilson, who played BIFF in the Back to the Future films, Michael J. Fox is a nice guy.
But why take Web Watch’s word for it? Here he is to tell you himself:
Obscene, Indecent, Immoral and Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned, and Controversial Films
Not everyone is a fan of censorship.
But sometimes, movie studios release different versions of films to meet different audience needs. For example, a version of a film shown on an cross-country airplane flight (“this film has been edited for content”) may be cropped differently or have a different audio track than the same film seen on HBO, on DVD, or when downloaded from Netflix.
Sometimes, the studios even release different versions of the films based on actual ratings received from the MPAA — they may sell an R-rated version at Wal-Mart, but an unrated version via Amazon. Or a PG-version in the United States, and an NC-17 version in Europe.
So the question that Web Watch readers should be asking is “how do we go about to find out the differences between all these different versions of films, to be sure that the version we’re watching isn’t censored… or if it is censored, what are we missing?”
A Christmas Story Leg Lamp (Fragile)
A recent survey of over 2000 adults asked what the respondents’ FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS WERE. Here is what they found: