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Mike1
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:58 am
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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alamo.htm

Total income as of April 11 = $ 9,124,701

Total Expenses = Production Budget ($107 Million)
plus Estimated Marketing Costs ( $30 Million)
renders a grand total of $137,000,000!

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Nick Macpherson
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:49 pm
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From: "Zimmy" zimmy@msn.com

I guess forcing the director to make it PG made a huge difference.
I'm sure Ron Howard directing Russell Crowe in a R rated "Alamo" wouldn't
pull in over 9 million either.

I saw The Alamo yesterday and the audience reaction was like the reaction from
the audience at a Heaven's Gate screening back in '80. It was a confused sense
of, hey, this movie wasn't as bad as it's supposed to be.

It's got a lot of problems--too much Ken Burns Civil War movie hokey solemnity,
obvious editing problems and some clashing acting styles (Jason Patric's pretty
boy method acting doesn't belong in the same movie as Dennis Quaid's confident
big Hollywood acting) but out of all the recent Hollywood historical
epics--Cold Mountain, Master & Commander, The Last Samurai, The Passion of the
Christ--The Alamo is the only one where the characters act like real,
conflicted human beings, especially Thornton as Davey Crockett, someone forced
for the first time to live up to the hype.
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Tom Cervo
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 10:44 pm
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Quote:
I saw The Alamo yesterday and the audience reaction was like the reaction
from
the audience at a Heaven's Gate screening back in '80. It was a confused
sense
of, hey, this movie wasn't as bad as it's supposed to be.

Sounds like Ebert's reaction to his fellow critics, who are starting to sound
like a bunch of hipsters who badly underestimate the mass audience. "What
happened to Bowie's wife?" they ask, when it's pretty obvious that she's dead
and he's bereaved by her loss. What do they want, an autopsy?

Quote:
The Alamo is the only one where the characters act like real,
conflicted human beings, especially Thornton as Davey Crockett, someone
forced
for the first time to live up to the hype.

It's pretty close to the record: Crockett did play his fiddle and tell stories

to cheer up the men, and they all thought that the other Texans would come to
their aid. The longer version might have included the idea that Houston let the
Alamo go without aid to buy time to rally his army and/or allow three rivals
for power to die.
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Richard
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 1:36 pm
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nmacphe421@aol.com (Nick Macpherson) wrote in message news:<20040415204948.22245.00000426@mb-m06.aol.com>...
Quote:
From: "Zimmy" zimmy@msn.com

I guess forcing the director to make it PG made a huge difference.
I'm sure Ron Howard directing Russell Crowe in a R rated "Alamo" wouldn't
pull in over 9 million either.

I saw The Alamo yesterday and the audience reaction was like the reaction from
the audience at a Heaven's Gate screening back in '80. It was a confused sense
of, hey, this movie wasn't as bad as it's supposed to be.

It's got a lot of problems--too much Ken Burns Civil War movie hokey solemnity,
obvious editing problems and some clashing acting styles (Jason Patric's pretty
boy method acting doesn't belong in the same movie as Dennis Quaid's confident
big Hollywood acting) but out of all the recent Hollywood historical
epics--Cold Mountain, Master & Commander, The Last Samurai, The Passion of the
Christ--The Alamo is the only one where the characters act like real,
conflicted human beings, especially Thornton as Davey Crockett, someone forced
for the first time to live up to the hype.

Yes, that's what we need more of in historical films; 90's men. Sad
-Rich
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Nick Macpherson
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:50 pm
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Quote:
From: rander3127@rogers.com (Richard)

out of all the recent Hollywood historical
epics--Cold Mountain, Master & Commander, The Last Samurai, The Passion of
the
Christ--The Alamo is the only one where the characters act like real,
conflicted human beings, especially Thornton as Davey Crockett, someone
forced
for the first time to live up to the hype.

Yes, that's what we need more of in historical films; 90's men. Sad

And we need more people criticizing movies they haven't seen. You're the one
who likes to slag critics but you're more than willing to fall lockstep in line
with them on The Alamo.
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