Who is the dumbass that approved 47 ronin's 170+ million dollar budget? :laff:

[Crakface]

keanu does have some jap in him tho, like 1/3rd

Yea but come on. You think people in Japan wanna see him. Whats his last hit. Hes not will smith. shyt if they had put will smith in this role they may have recouped their money. Now, thats impossible because some exec has a hardon for Keanu.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

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[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Yea but come on. You think people in Japan wanna see him. Whats his last hit. Hes not will smith. shyt if they had put will smith in this role they may have recouped their money. Now, thats impossible because some exec has a hardon for Keanu.

The problem w/this movie isn't keanu, it's the fact they got a first time director and shytty writers to pen it.

 

[Crakface]

fixed that for you

Keanu still eating of the matrix credibility. That movie was not a hit because of him so much as the concept. Execs realize that now after this movie goes down in flames.

 

[Crakface]

The problem w/this movie isn't keanu, it's the fact they got a first time director and shytty writers to pen it.

That means you have to compensate by having a better star.

 

[Spaceman Piff]

i can't lie..

looks like my kind of movie

 

[Jigganaut]

170mil!!!!!!.....they should have learned from john carter

LOL I saw that but he edited. I was imagining Christ tucker Jumping across mars in a butter cream crocodile suit .

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

That means you have to compensate by having a better star.

the fact that you have to compensate for shytty directing and writing means it's not going to make money. I don't think it's a wise business plan to think in advance, "yeah, since we hired a shytty director and two shytty writers, I guess we should find some really big star to compensate". It's definitely not going to work on overseas markets. Just look at the past two overseas hits, Pacific Rim and Avatar. You need a good director, everything starts and ends there.

 

[James Carter]

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[Dirty Mcdrawz]

Keanu still eating of the matrix credibility. That movie was not a hit because of him so much as the concept. Execs realize that now after this movie goes down in flames.

i haven't seen the movie yet but visually it looks pretty but bland at the same time, nah mean. too much green screen, action, and way too westernized for them to release this in japan first.

 

[tr2k]

movie looks interesting, I guess people watch movies based on false hope and hype.

 

[Crakface]

the fact that you have to compensate for shytty directing and writing means it's not going to make money. I don't think it's a wise business plan to think in advance, "yeah, since we hired a shytty director and two shytty writers, I guess we should find some really big star to compensate". It's definitely not going to work on overseas markets. Just look at the past two overseas hits, Pacific Rim and Avatar. You need a good director, everything starts and ends there.

Wow you dont know shyt about films. If your writing and directing is shyt then that means your action scenes have to be CLASSIC. If this film had classic fight sequences it wouldnt matter if the writing was trash. All it would need is gore and classic fights. Sadly, i wasnt there to advise them on how to make a film.

 

[detroitwalt]

Examination of this film, which releases nation-wide on Christmas Day, must begin with its first-time director Carl Erik Rinsch. Before “47 Ronin,” he was known for directing a largely plotless 4-minute sci-fi short film called “The Gift,” as well as a few TV commercials for BMW and Heineken (I guess he likes robots?). Some of the higher-ups at Universal were apparently very impressed with these, because they saw fit to hand Rinsch a starting budget of $175 million to direct a period piece epic based on one of Japan’s most famous national legends. You can see why he jumped at the offer. If someone offered our videographer Hugh Sullivan $175 million to do a feature after seeing his short films, I expect he would sign on that dotted line, even if said project did involve Keanu Reeves as a samurai.
And so, Rinsch and Co. went to work, intent on adding another stand-out entry to the “white guy inserted into foreign mythos to save the world” sub-genre. But all was not well, and it was quickly clear that things at the London shoot were amiss. Production costs expanded, ballooning up to an estimated $225 million. Numerous delays halted production, leading to reshoots. Even Reeves, the film’s supposed star, was busy during part of its production with his own directorial debut, “Man of Tai Chi.” He eventually was brought back for reshoots to, I kid you not, add him back in to the film’s final action sequence. Apparently he wasn’t a part of it previously? Does that seem concerning?
To say these issues pushed back the movie’s eventual release is an understatement, as it was initially scheduled for December of 2012. In late 2012, Universal clearly voiced its concern when it pulled Rinsch from further work on the film’s editing, putting studio executives in charge who were almost a full hemisphere away from the London shoot. Go ahead and read the article in that link, and consider that it was posted in September of 2012. You know it’s a bad sign when you can go back 15 months to find an article about all the production problems a movie has been having, and the film still isn’t out.
Of course, none of this would matter if “47 Ronin” was a film that audiences wanted to see, but by now you probably realize where I’m going with this. The movie opened the first week of December in Japan, earning only $1.3 million in its first weekend. It was beaten handily by a film titled “Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan: The Movie,” and I don’t believe I need to make a joke about this. As is, unless it unpredictably becomes a record-breaking smash hit in the United States, “47 Ronin” is likely to end up as an extremely costly bomb for Universal

Yeah, a few people getting fired behind this
http://herald-review.com/blogs/deca...cle_1c51a756-6c1b-11e3-8fb6-001a4bcf887a.html

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Wow you dont know shyt about films. If your writing and directing is shyt then that means your action scenes have to be CLASSIC. If this film had classic fight sequences it wouldnt matter if the writing was trash. All it would need is gore and classic fights. Sadly, i wasnt there to advise them on how to make a film.

that MIGHT work on american audiences. That isn't going to work on overseas audiences which they obviously tried to target with this movie. How the fukk are you gonna have CLASSIC action scenes when you have a shytTY director?!

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

wait......there's a lupin the 3rd and detective conan cross over movie?

Wow you dont know shyt about films. If your writing and directing is shyt then that means your action scenes have to be CLASSIC. If this film had classic fight sequences it wouldnt matter if the writing was trash. All it would need is gore and classic fights. Sadly, i wasnt there to advise them on how to make a film.

that sounds like something the hollywood exec who approved this movie probably said