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Box Office Guru Wrapup: "Ghost Rides" High Again at #1

by Gitesh Pandya | February 26, 2007

Summary

Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage ruled Oscar weekend with his skull-on-fire motorcycle actioner "Ghost Rider," which held steady at number one in North America for the second straight time. Moviegoers delivered different verdicts to the handful of new releases led by the Jim Carrey thriller "The Number 23," which fared best and debuted in second place. Overall, the top ten was about even with the corresponding weekends from the last two years. Back to Article

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on Feb 26 2007 09:00 AM

I saw Breach which was pretty good(B), Cooper did a good job in it. I also saw The Abandoned which was ok(C) pretty confusing but had some cool moments.

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Snoochieflagship writes:
on Feb 26 2007 12:26 PM

Ghostrider made me hit myself in the crotch for seeing it.

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TomasSPAGHetti writes:
on Feb 26 2007 01:07 PM

BOOOOO

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synergyred writes:
on Feb 26 2007 07:50 PM

Saw Ghost Rider on Sunday. Well... seeing it kinda made me wish that I had gone to see The Number 23 instead.

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highdough writes:
on Feb 26 2007 10:22 PM

Why anyone would pay to see either Ghostrider or Number 23 mystifies me. It really does. If the trailers didn't stop you from seeing them, you'd think the overwhelming critical response to them would have. I can see discounting some critics, but nearly all of them? Even most of the critics who gave Ghostrider a favourable review thought it was so bad it was funny. Personally, I would not want to reward a movie like Ghostrider by giving it my money no matter how unintentionally funny it is. I think it's a travesty that Ghostrider has made more money than, among others, Pan's Labrynth, The Queen, Last King of Scotland, Letters From Iwo Jima, Babel, Children of Men, and Little Miss Sunshine in only two weeks. Until a potential viewer has seen those movies, they should not be allowed to see something like Ghostrider.

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Bigbrother writes:
on Feb 27 2007 08:25 AM

In reply to this comment (#856820)
Yes mein Fuhrer!!! We will not ze anysing that ze akedemy does noot tell uzz is gud. All free opinion will be stooped immidiately. Who cares if it has no artistic value. I haven't seen it personally, but I intend to because a lot of people said it was enjoyable. Not good, not groundbreaking, but enjoyable and sometimes that's all people are looking for in a film.

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Kid_Ikarus writes:
on Feb 27 2007 09:26 AM

In reply to this comment (#856821)
Exactly. Well said, my friend.

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highdough writes:
on Feb 27 2007 10:27 AM

In reply to this comment (#856821)
I saw it (didn't pay for it) and it was horrible. Not entertaining. I'm all for entertaining, but I also want good. The reason Hollywood makes so much crap is because morons continue to lfork over their money for crap like Ghostrider and Number 23. I don't need groundbreaking or Academy Award quality films. I just need quality films, whether they are movies like Casino Royale, Borat, The Departed, hell even Superman Returns was enjoyable.

My point, which you obviously missed in your anticipation to see Nicolas Cage in a bad hairpiece, is that people need to support quality movies of any genre if they want Hollywood to make better films.

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Merlin235 writes:
on Feb 27 2007 01:38 PM

Anyone catch the irony of someone with the screen name 'bigbrother' criticizing big government? ha, I thought that was funny.

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Bigbrother writes:
on Feb 27 2007 02:37 PM

In reply to this comment (#856824)
Where exactly did I criticise the government? I was making light of the Academy Awards and people tendency to fall in line with that Academy's way of thinking. However, you probably should consider that someone who uses the screen name bigbrother might be paying homage to Orwells classic which is one of the most damning indictments of govt control on our lives ever written and is in no way supporting invasion of your privacy and is certainly not going through your trash as we speak...oops I've said too much. Go back to work people nothing more to see here. The beatings will stop as soon as morale improves.

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Merlin235 writes:
on Feb 27 2007 02:59 PM

In reply to this comment (#856825)
Bro (I'm assuming you're a guy), if you can't catch the irony in the situation, I don't think I can help you. But I'll try. It's subtle. I have no idea why you use the screen name you do. Here is the irony: that you, of all people who surf this site, would respond in the manner you did was ironic. That's all. You could have reamed the person for being closed minded, artistically challenged, stupid, whatever. Here, maybe this will help:
Irony:"the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning"
Now, look at your screen name (Bigbrother) and the fact that you were poking fun by pretending to be in a totalitarian system. There ya go. That's as good as I can do. Of course, now that I've explained it, it isn't funny.....

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highdough writes:
on Feb 27 2007 05:06 PM

In reply to this comment (#856826)
It still makes it funny, but just in a different way.

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Bigbrother writes:
on Feb 28 2007 05:09 AM

In reply to this comment (#856826)
Come on, I was just having fun with it, now you've taken it too far and sucked all the fun out of it....Stormtroopers and the morale suppression team will be at your house momentarily.

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synergyred writes:
on Feb 28 2007 04:50 PM

In reply to this comment (#856820)
Gee Mr. Critical perhaps I was just curious? Or perhaps I was seeing it with my boyfriend and I had picked the movie last time (it was Children of Men, if you cared), so it was his time to choose? Please don't be so quick to judge.

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