The reviews for
The Rum Diary have been interesting because it seems that the critics either like it or dislike it with no mixed reviews. (I loved that while Ignatiy Vishnevetsky wrapped up the reviews on this past weekend's edition of
Ebert Presents at the Movies, he pointed out that fellow critic Christy Lemire gave TRD a thumbs down "because she doesn't know what she's talking about."
) And so far as its opening box office goes, most predictions that I saw beforehand were only expecting the film to bring in about 7 million. So, TRD was never expected to open large. It fell short of predictions by a couple million, but then I've been noticing that over the past several months a lot of predictions haven't been being met because these prognosticators seem to be failing to take into consideration that, due to the current economy, many people aren't going to as many movies as they once did.
And sort of following in the same vein and getting back on topic, the big showing for
Marvel's The Avengers in ComingSoon.net's most anticipated movie of 2012 poll has me strongly suspecting that the Depp/DS film has little chance to be the top movie its opening weekend because action movies that are highly anticipated like
Marvel's The Avengers quite often repeat at the top their second week (well, unless they turn out to be awful). Not that I actually thought DS had much chance of being the top opener. But there was a slight chance IF the demographic that
Marvel's The Avengers will appeal to might not be as excited by that film and might be willing to give DS a look in large numbers. But now I'm thinking that short of a miracle that's probably not likely to happen. And actually, I'll be happy with whatever it makes its opening weekend so long as the Depp/DS film eventually makes enough of a profit so that if they really do want to make a sequel, they will. Record breaking or even big box office is always nice - but it's certainly not a necessity for a movie to be a hit.
191 days 7 hours 34 minutes 16 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!