Scott Weinberg
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And it looks great!
http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/featu...tosmoochy.html
http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/featu...tosmoochy.html
I am definitely going to skip this one and I am losing respect for Edward Norton because of it.
I can certainly understand that you have been turned off by the trailer / ads but how can you lose respect for an actor without seeing the film? Seems silly to me.
The one review I've read so far seems to think that the film is a case of wasted talent.
RottenTomatoes Review
Saying that to kids, "this movie is Sept. 11," the producer of the Canadian-produced PBS show Ricky's Room has announced that he will join in a planned protest by family groups of the upcoming Warner Bros. movie Death to Smoochy. Jeff Deverett also told today's (Wednesday) Toronto Globe & Mail that he plans to take legal action against the studio because of the similarities between Smoochy and Ricky the Rhino, the leading character on his show. Deverett said that he particularly objects to billboards and other ads showing Smoochy, a purple rhinoceros, lying dead on a slab. "I guarantee you that if you take any three-year-old who knows Ricky and show them the Smoochy poster, they'll say, 'That's Ricky.' And that's grounds for a lawsuit," Deverett told the newspaper. Warner Bros. has not responded.
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I'm not at all familiar with who "Ricky" is, but it seems he's not above trying to make a fast buck off of WB. :rolleyes
I'm not all that certain that this film is going to do that well, especially going head to head with Panic Room.
I agree with you completely, Mark. I'll be very interested to see how DTS (ha!) does at the box-office. We all know how well the dark comedies generally do at the B.O.
Several of my OFCS colleagues are bashing it up and down. Ah well, more for me.