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  1. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    Considering the story is basically slightly altered LOTR names transposed into the Star Wars plot practically beat-for-beat I think we've got quite a long heritage of movies like that. :)
  2. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    For further information, here's a list of various names from Eragon - and the names it liberally rips off: Arya - Arwen, Arda Ardwen - Arwen Isenstar - Isengard Mithrim - Mithrim or mithril Eragon - Aragorn Angrenost - Angrenost, the Sindarin name for Isengard Morgothal - Morgoth...
  3. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    Hopefully no one goes to see the film adaption of that poster-child for outright theft and plagarism "Eragon," but I know that won't happen - seems to have very little buzz though.
  4. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    I don't know if I'd call Episode 3 crap, but it certainly isn't in POTC2's league.
  5. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    Muah . . . but . . . well . . . uhh . . . umm . . . what . . . I'm a bit lost.
  6. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    We just don't have the 3D glasses or the effects. There may actually be two seperate prints that were made, one for 2D and one for 3D, as I see no blinks or signals on the actual print that would be used to alert people to put on the 3D glasses for certain scenes. I'm not sure how that...
  7. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    Well, as I said, this is an institutional IMAX (though I think it may hold true for more commercial IMAX theaters as well), and we tend to book shows for months at a time in the schedule. Sometimes they coincide with a visiting exhibit, sometimes not. Fantasia 2000 had an even longer...
  8. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    What I'm interested in knowing is how the whole IMAX plan plays out in the face of possible disasterous BO and a lack of legs. Maybe the fact that it's IMAX can help keep audiences coming to that version. However, I know the theater I work at is supposed to show it through September, four times...
  9. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    Nathan, are you Cruise's publicist or something? Seriously? While I don't see this has the huge, career-ending disaster that some do, I still can't see it as anything but reaction to his behavior the past year in combination with the staleness of the franchise itself. You speak of "what if...
  10. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    Never underestimate the drawing power of a trailer featuring that damn squirrel thing and its acorn.
  11. Sean Laughter

    2006 at the Box Office

    What's Brokeback's theater count now?
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