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Tomatometer Watch: One Missed Call Gets Billed a Zero Percent

by Alex Vo | January 07, 2008

Summary

Ever since The Ring made $128 million and a few careers in 2002, J-Horror remake fever has gripped the studios (whilst giving critics a gnarly case of J-Jaundice). The latest remake, One Missed Call, opened to a strong $12.5 million over the weekend and an equally strong zero percent Tomatometer. Back to Article

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tabascoman77 writes:
on Jan 07 2008 04:59 PM

How did that movie even make $12.5 mil?

I mean, unless it was a charity screening for rich people and admission was like half a million per person...

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Cowboyninja writes:
on Jan 07 2008 05:06 PM

Does another rank-*** American re-make of an Asian horror, bombing really surprise anyone anymore?

Why bother?

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rowdyfoudy writes:
on Jan 07 2008 05:12 PM

Well as long as these horrible movies sell, then they will keep on making them. I'm starting to wonder if the public will learn the basics in marketing.

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tabascoman77 writes:
on Jan 07 2008 06:11 PM

In reply to this comment (#1442009)
So am I...

It's like "Date Movie" and "Not Another Teen Movie" and "Scary Movie" and "Epic Movie"...and then they tried to do "The Comebacks" and "Meet the Spartans"...they just keep on makin' 'em because the majority of the viewers are teenagers without a brain in their heads.

These movies are so bad they make "Norbit" look great in comparison.

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Spiderbash writes:
on Jan 07 2008 06:29 PM

Well no suprise here. Totally saw this coming.

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Bonogamy writes:
on Jan 07 2008 07:14 PM

It's surprising that any movie has 0% anymore. Usually you can count on one or two self-serving internet hacks with low expectations to give it a "so bad it's good" or "is better than it has any right to be" kind of review. You know, just to see their name on the Tomatometer.

BTW, most RT critics must have photos of somebody at RT doing something incriminating, or must be doing somebody at RT some -ahem- favours. I can write better reviews if I tape the idle conversation of teens at the multiplex, write them up and send them in as official "reviews."

If the standards of RT are any indication, anyone who can articulate an opinion of a movie and arrogantly call himself a "critic" should qualify. By widening the net to include what are essentially marginal internet bloggers, RT ratings are slowly losing their sway. The Tomatometer needs to ditch at least half of it's critics in order to represent those who have experience, intelligence, perspective and originality.

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VibTDog writes:
on Jan 07 2008 08:01 PM

I dont think the problem is the critics, the problem is really that there are endless bad movies being made left and right.

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voytec2k writes:
on Jan 07 2008 08:12 PM

owned.

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jpbresnihan writes:
on Jan 07 2008 09:14 PM

most good horror films and comedies these days are rated r. all of the crap pg13 comedy spoofs and all the pg13 j-horror allows all the teens and tweens to have something to watch on friday night date nights, so of course these will keep making enough money to be considered "successes".

prom night looks worse than this but since its pg13 and is being released during prom season...itll probably bring in some buck.

sad face.

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PlanBFromOuterSpace writes:
on Jan 07 2008 09:37 PM

The guy that does CHUD.com's weekend overview, when talking about this weekend's box office, made the comment that One Missed Call was still sitting at 0% on RT, but that it was possible that that could change, as Maxim had yet to post THEIR review, which was pretty funny, since Maxim is one of those places where *****ty movies can get a good word based on whatever hot, useless actress makes an appearance.

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Frown88 writes:
on Jan 07 2008 09:40 PM

......you guys are being way to harsh. i went and saw this movie and i really liked it, in fact the people around me liked it too, this fat guy behid me was scared he stabbed his eyes out and raped the man who had already fallen asleep behind him. one of my friends committed suicide five minutes into the film becuase he was that scared...then i woke up from the dream and realized i didn't go see it....
and one wonders if any actually will

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N720MF writes:
on Jan 07 2008 10:12 PM

"BTW, most RT critics must have photos of somebody at RT doing something incriminating, or must be doing somebody at RT some -ahem- favours. I can write better reviews if I tape the idle conversation of teens at the multiplex, write them up and send them in as official "reviews."

If the standards of RT are any indication, anyone who can articulate an opinion of a movie and arrogantly call himself a "critic" should qualify. By widening the net to include what are essentially marginal internet bloggers, RT ratings are slowly losing their sway. The Tomatometer needs to ditch at least half of it's critics in order to represent those who have experience, intelligence, perspective and originality. "

Completely agree. Some of these damn critics are scrubs, with websites that are basically "myname.com" or some **** like that. They really need to purge them.

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Skates forJersey Dude writes:
on Jan 08 2008 12:49 AM

I went to go see this movie with a friend and this movie sucke GIANT BALLS! The leading actress isnt actually that bad but the plot and dialogue is just stupid. Luckily I got a gift card for christmas to the theater so I didnt spend any real money (close one). But seriously they need to stop making these stupid remakes of asian horror films, they are absolutely stupid and unentertaining. Tap some new resources or something, I'm sure most people on here have some original ideas we should all just write a damn good horror movie.

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tabascoman77 writes:
on Jan 08 2008 03:29 AM

In reply to this comment (#1442664)
N720MF:

I think when even the no-name critics are slicing and dicing OMC, something's up. :)

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Gimy writes:
on Jan 08 2008 05:24 AM

ZERO percent? now i'm going to see this...i hope its as bad as they say. and seriously, can we make it a law not to use "...OF THE YEAR!" until March at the earliest. EVERYTHING is going to be "...of the year!" right now, its barely the second week of January. "best reviewed movie of the year!"? wow...really, it competed with 3 other ones and its the best...PHEW, i'm sold!

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TombstoneLawDog writes:
on Jan 08 2008 05:47 AM

The real tragedy here is the once impressive talent of Ed Burns. I saw him in the commercial and I did a double-take, saying 'naah, that can't be Ed Burns, who wrote, produced, directed and starred in an independent, highly-acclaimed and entirely dude-friendly film like 'The Brothers McMullen' in the 90's. That's gotta be somebody else...

Wow. How the potentially mighty have fallen.

Other than that, I agree with most posters here; it should surprise EXACTLY NO ONE that another re-tread of a schlocky Japanese movie is a) worthy of suck and b) doing some kind of business among the retarded masses.

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dahluzz writes:
on Jan 08 2008 06:54 AM

i guess audio science sossamon isn't getting that home recording set-up he wanted. sorry, mommy made another flop. if that crazy skank's career hadn't already been over for six years, I'd say this movie just killed it. edward burns, i don't even want to hear your excuses. this is worse than 'five towns'

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D-9 writes:
on Jan 08 2008 08:22 AM

Why did this movie make $12.5 million? The only theories I can come up with...

1) It was the only major new movie to open last Friday, so some people will always show up for that. Yet it still came in 5th or 6th?

2) There were a lot of films that opened during the holiday weeks, and a lot of people went to those films? I saw about 4 or 5 during that period myself. So while waiting for some of these limited release films to come out (There Will Be Blood), some find themselves starved for entertainment.

Personally, I will not be seeing OMC. I'll find something else to do.

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Racer Z writes:
on Jan 08 2008 09:01 AM

I'm happy to say that I am not on of the chumps who forked out cash for this disaster. I instead took my wife to see JUNO and thoroughly enjoyed it myself.

I had seen the original Takashi Miike film and wasn't impressed enough to want to see a watered down rehash of the same material. I think the well has run dry. Time to move on Hollywood.

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PlanBFromOuterSpace writes:
on Jan 08 2008 10:39 AM

I work at a movie theater, and while I don't understand why someone would come back and see "I Am Legend" for a fourth time, I AM happy that they're coming back to see something they liked, rather than just see something that looks like crap, just because it's new.

Some folks don't understand that it's actually OK to see movies that are over a week old, that your choices aren't limited to just the 2 movies that came out this week. It's nice to see a movie like "One Missed Call" underperform, as most of the money that those PG-13 horror flicks make is completely undeserved. On opening weekend, particularly Friday nights, the audience is usually made up of mostly teenagers that aren't old enough to drive, that get dropped off by mom or dad for 2 hours, that are there to just hang out with their friends, which typically means that they're in and out of the theater a good half a dozen times or so.

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mtgilchrist writes:
on Jan 08 2008 10:42 AM

"I can write better reviews if I tape the idle conversation of teens at the multiplex, write them up and send them in as official "reviews."

If the standards of RT are any indication, anyone who can articulate an opinion of a movie and arrogantly call himself a "critic" should qualify. By widening the net to include what are essentially marginal internet bloggers, RT ratings are slowly losing their sway. The Tomatometer needs to ditch at least half of it's critics in order to represent those who have experience, intelligence, perspective and originality."

A typical response from someone who does not actually report or review movies on the internet, and yet feels their opinion is important enough to share on forums like this. The fact is that the internet is no longer a "marginal" venue for criticism, film reporting or anything else, so this kind of value judgment about the merit of certain writers over another based upon the volume of their readership is shortsighted at best. There are plenty of great reviewers who write for smaller sites and plenty of crappy ones that write for big ones, but Rotten Tomatoes is a repository and database for all online film criticism, not just the ones that you - or even they - consider "good." Not to mention the fact that there are plenty of people who think that even the best critics in the country are terrible writers or idiots exclusively because they don't agree with a perceived "mainstream" or even just their individual opinion. As such RT is providing a cross section of different writing styles and approaches in order to help normal folks find critics and writers whose opinions relate to their own.

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Jen Yamato writes:
on Jan 08 2008 10:52 AM

I'll politely ignore your inane suggestion that RT employs some sort of favoritism in our Tomatometer criteria (you might take a look at our critic submission guidelines here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/pages/critics).

And I can't deny that there may indeed be incriminating photos of RT editors floating around somewhere. We do like to party.

But I will staunchly defend the ranks of critics who get a bad rap as "essentially marginal internet bloggers" just because they publish online and not in print. God knows there are bad print critics out there. And terrible tv/radio critics. Web folk are no better or worse.

And while we will gather and post hundreds of review links and quotes for our readers, not all of those count toward the official Tomatometer rating. Every Tomatometer critic is approved based on the aforementioned criteria -- standards that we continue to revise.

If you have any actual constructive criticism to add on the subject, you are welcome to pm me. And once you get bonogamyreviewsmovies.com up and running, let me know -- I'm sure we can work something out :)

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Dayyve writes:
on Jan 08 2008 07:51 PM

0%? Wooowwwwww...what I want to know is if this movie belongs in the unintentionally funny category or is just flat out boring. Shame, after reading some reviews it sounds like it is just flat out coma-inducing. The cover actually looks freakishly good.

"I can write better reviews if I tape the idle conversation of teens at the multiplex, write them up and send them in as official "reviews."

If the standards of RT are any indication, anyone who can articulate an opinion of a movie and arrogantly call himself a "critic" should qualify. By widening the net to include what are essentially marginal internet bloggers, RT ratings are slowly losing their sway. The Tomatometer needs to ditch at least half of it's critics in order to represent those who have experience, intelligence, perspective and originality."

I read your comment and give it a review of one big, fat, pretentious dork-face.

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NeuroticNate writes:
on Jan 19 2008 09:55 AM

i'm sick of these remakes already. doesn't anybody have any new ideas anymore???? when Hatchet came out that was like one of the best horror movies i've ever seen but there were more people lining up to see that incredibly **** Saw IV instead. and now they're making The Grudge 3???? great, just another excuse for my movie experience to ruined due to screaming teenagers that won't shut the hell up.

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