Dinosaur

[JoBlo]

$38 MILLION over the weekend? Wow...I gotta give it to Disney and their marketing juggernaut. Slap a bunch of computer images inside an extremely weak story based on ten other movies, and they still manage to crack all records.

Don't get me wrong, I did like most of the special effects, but will this movie actually continue to bring in the moolah, or drown in bad word of mouth?

Are kids liking it?

[HomerSimpson]

Kids SHOULD be digging it (though I'm not sure if they do), because kids are stupid.

As long as a movie has tons of eye-candy, kids will love it, no matter how bad it is.

As for the parents, the movie is only 80 minutes long, so their torture wouldn't take long.

I expect Dinosaur to continue bringing in gigantic grosses and ending up one of 2000's highest grossing movies.

[PackBacker]

Originally posted by HomerSimpson:
Kids SHOULD be digging it (though I'm not sure if they do), because kids are stupid.

As long as a movie has tons of eye-candy, kids will love it, no matter how bad it is.



I think more than Kids dig eye-candy flicks. How do you explain the success of Armaggeddon? /ubb/smile.gif I think Disney does it through relentless advertising possibly containing many subliminal messages. /ubb/wink.gif

[ToasT]

Define the term kids, please. I don't think kids are dumb. Example: Columbine.

[ToasT]

At columbine, these kids were smart enough to evade the system when buying guns and create and plant bombs.

[ToasT]

Just trying to say "Don't underestimate them."

[HomerSimpson]

In reply to ToasT:

By "kids", I mean 7 - 12 year-olds. But teenagers are also stupid. I'm just speaking in general here. I believe many teenagers can appreciate great movies (myself included), but much more are easily entertained by slaher flicks (I Know... movies), teen romantic comedies - Shit's All That (that's my name for She's All That) and idiotic "funny" movies - THE PEST??? My friends were talking how much they liked it yesterday...

[ToasT]

I am a teenager myself and I agree with some teenagers being dumb and going for the slasher flix. Myself on the other hand like movies like The Thin Red Line, The Usual Suspects, Princess Mononoke, and Imitation of Life. I wouldn't be caught dead in a theater watching a slasher movie (excluding the Halloween series).

[hornytony]

I am teenage too, and I will go see any movie. I think its being a snob if you see I wouldn't be caught dead in a slasher flick. I loved The Thin Red Line, but I enjoyed Scream also. Not because it was greatly written and was beatiful but because it was sly and is entertainment. That's why I like movies like the Mummy, and Deep Blu Sea. If I want quality I go see something like Wonder Boys, Thin Red Line, Green Mile

[HomerSimpson]

In reply to hornytony:

I think the Scream movies are much different from the rest of the slasher crap. I loved The Mummy and Deep Blue Sea, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy great movies like "The Truman Show", "A Fish Called Wanda", "Dark City" and "Appocalypse Now".

[degenerationxwwfwdw1]

I enjoyed this movie alot and I am a teenager. This movie had a good story to me at least. But if you got to ride Countdown To Extenction (A ride at Disney World)before you would have liked this movie better. Even if you ride it now (now called Dinosaur) you will appreciate the movie. The ride and movie go hand in hand. Carnotaurs (sp?) chase you and pop up to scare you in the ride. And Aladar only appears once. I really enjoyed the messages for kids to stand together and to not outcast the elderly. One thing you have to admit is that NO ONE can market like Disney. NO ONE