Box Office Guru Wrapup: "13" Hits #1 But With Worst "Ocean"'s Opening

Hostel II is a thriller movie, stop calling it "horror".

Jun 11 - 02:33 PM

37 38 and 39 are all pretty close. 37 may not be as high, but don't use the word Worst. It's decieving. It performed quite well considering Oceans Twelve and all those bullshit sequels we've already had. Spidey was milding entertaining. Almost worth the ticket price. Almost. Shrek 3 had some laughs but it took too much from it Shrek and Shrek 2. And Pirates 3? Well i fell asleep. Nothing can make up for 2 hours of talking. Nothing. I'm putting all hope of Transformers.

Jun 11 - 02:42 PM

juan carlos petruchi

I think hostel 2 is good movie but it's not scary at all

that takes real talent, so roth knows he doesn't have it to he tries to replace scares with gore, at least he knows his limitations and doesn't aim too high (I'm looking at you RR)

Jun 11 - 05:27 PM

jeremy d

I don't know why, but I generally find myself hating, or just feeling nothing towards horror films. They seem like training grounds for aspiring filmakers, who simply use these low-budget films to perfect their techniques, then ultimately move onto bigger and better things.

Horror films of recent years have been especially terrible:

"The Descent" is nothing amazing in my opinion. It's just combination of things we've seen a thousands times before. Films like Alien and Pitch Black for example. You can change the setting all you want (i.e. a jungle, cave, spaceship, cruiseliner, spooky house), and you can change the creature design all you want too.. but essentially it's the same damn movie with the exact same premise. Horror movies like this are increasingly predictable, and I found myself guessing what would happen next throughout the film, 99% of the time I was right.

"Hostel" was two movies in one, the first being a porno, but therefore a disappointing and short one - you might as well hire the real friggen' thing if that's what you're after. I actually think the reason the movie did well was due to all those horny kids out there who find it easier to convince their parents to let them hire a horror movie, rather than a movie obviously about sex. The second half of the film, the "horror" part, again, is too short to really tell any story and it basically relies on the shock value of people we know or care little about, being tortured. The movie ends and you fit into one of two categories: those saying what the hell was that all about... and those saying "Wow, how cool was that sex/tortue scene". The latter group will probably buy the dvd and simply fast forward to these graphic scenes, then hit slow motion, and watch then over and over again.

Jun 12 - 08:24 AM

malissa johnson

[b]Oceans 13 performed well[/b]
The guy who wrote this is an idiot, oceans 13 performed solidly and within expectations and you make it seem like to bombed. The film was good, and c'mon Oceans 11 had a 38 mil opening, oceans 12 had a 39 million dollar opening-it was only off by 1 or 2 million. The movie did well and it is a forth week in a row in which a new movie debuted with at 30 million or more.

Jun 12 - 10:27 PM

Ken Tsoi

[b]rationale behind 13's disappointing opening[/b]
I agree that some of the media, including boxofficeguru himself, jump into the conclusion way prematurely. With this kind of bias, these analyst seems to be having the mission of killing any chance of this franchise redeeming effort. I finally saw the movie yesterday, and it was solid entertainment, almost as good as the first movie OCEAN's 11. It remains to be seen whether the sophormore weekend decline will be significant enough to blow 13's chance of at least eclipsing 12's total box office, so fans of the OCEAN franchise now need to try very hard to push this movie to all your friends, in order for OCEAN's 14 to be alive!!

Jun 13 - 09:24 AM

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