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Space Chimps 19 Jul 2008 13:24 #19208

ttroidl OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 350 Thank you received: 2 Karma: 1	We opened with it to the lowest opening we have every had... Anyone else have it? How did you fair with it? Tony.
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Re: Space Chimps 19 Jul 2008 14:46 #19209

rufusjack OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 1353 Thank you received: 26 Karma: -6	Far from our lowest opening (Superhero Movie). Within the range that I was expecting. Nothing great was not expecting much. With nothing kid oriented coming anytime soon, it should have some legs. I expect we will do decent with it.
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Re: Space Chimps 19 Jul 2008 15:15 #19210

ttroidl OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 350 Thank you received: 2 Karma: 1	we only had maybe 15% of our seats full opening day, and less tonight! I would have expected more like 80%! I'm sure the lack of any TV ads untill the past week may have hurt it...
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Re: Space Chimps 19 Jul 2008 19:58 #19211

elvislvr OFFLINE Senior Boarder Posts: 64 Karma: 1	I wish someone would have advised me to pass on this one and take Mamma Mia instead!
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Re: Space Chimps 20 Jul 2008 02:26 #19212

rodeojack OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 1216 Thank you received: 3 Karma: 0	Things might be a little better next week. Pretty much everyone was at Dark Knight this weekend.
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Re: Space Chimps 20 Jul 2008 14:51 #19213

ttroidl OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 350 Thank you received: 2 Karma: 1	It's not all that bad a kiddie movie, but aparently it's been in the can a while as the prints say '2007 version' rite on them... I miss our old booker, Ike would have told us if he knew it was a pile of monkey poop and wouldn't have booked it.
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Re: Space Chimps 24 Jul 2008 05:43 #19214

rdetzler OFFLINE Expert Boarder Posts: 116 Karma: 0	I took my son to see it, left after 20 minutes. If they test marketed this to a bunch of monkeys, I'm sure they would have thrown dung at it. How does stuff this bad even get made? Where do they get the money? My guess is that we will see a lot less of this kind of stuff now that the credit markets are shutting down.
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Re: Space Chimps 24 Jul 2008 09:16 #19215

muviebuf OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 680 Thank you received: 1 Karma: 0	This film is a classic example of something obvioulsy made for video that was being thrown into theatres to "legitamize" the video release as being a "real movie". Any booker who could not see (or smell) this ought to be fired for incompetence. And that goes for anyone who booked "Meet Dave" as well.
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Re: Space Chimps 24 Jul 2008 10:03 #19216

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Man you guys are hard.

Our customers have enjoyed the movie. The kids (intended audience) have liked it alot. My 4 and 6 year sons have watched it alot. Will probably watch it more then Wall*E when it is all said and done.

Since there is no more kid product until Chihuahua, I am glad to have it.

I do agree with Meet Dave though.

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Re: Space Chimps 24 Jul 2008 10:27 #19217

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Will probably watch it more then Wall*E when it is all said and done.

That is really not surprising. WALL-E despite the Pixar name and Disney marketing is really not a movie for young children. It is more in the nature of an experimental cartoon.

BTW.... Chihuahua is one of the worst looking trailers I have ever seen. And you know what they say... if they can't even make the trailer look good ....fugetaboutit

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Re: Space Chimps 25 Jul 2008 08:55 #19218

ttroidl OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 350 Thank you received: 2 Karma: 1	Direct to Video for sure! Can you beleave my boss was told " It's going to be the next 'Finding Nemo'" and he beleived it! What a horable comparison that was, maybe it could have been as one review said 'the next Doogal' All said it is not the Worst kid film I have seen but would not make the top 100!
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