"The Women" remake bombs at the box office
"The Women" remake bombs at the box office
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
"The Women" remake bombs at the box office#1
Posted: 9/14/08 at 3:00pm
Number 4 for the weekend with $10 million.
I think Ebert was the only critic who liked it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#2
Posted: 9/14/08 at 3:06pmI've heard really bad reviews.
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#2
Posted: 9/14/08 at 3:18pmWell, since the budget was only $16,000,000 I think, it didn't really bomb. It'll make a profit.
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re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#3
Posted: 9/14/08 at 3:33pmPeople really shouldn't mess with classics.
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re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#4
Posted: 9/14/08 at 3:34pmThe ads made it look unspeakable. Has anyone seen it?
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#5
Posted: 9/14/08 at 3:46pmI waffled on going to see it today for the hell of it, but it's been nasty and raining all weekend and I'd rather just stay in and watch the original.
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re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#6
Posted: 9/14/08 at 3:51pmThe only reason I want to see it is because part of it was filmed in the town next to mine, at a camp where my best friend is a counselor.
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#7
Posted: 9/14/08 at 4:21pm
I've thought of seeing it, but then I think of the fact I'd have to look at Meg Ryan's face for 2 hours and I think of the awful reviews and I decide not to.
I love Debra Messing, but I'm not sure I love her enough to shell out $14 to see this.
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#8
Posted: 9/14/08 at 4:30pmYeah, Meg Ryan's face is another deterrent for me.
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#9
Posted: 9/14/08 at 4:32pm
Me too. I like the idea of Bette Midler and Annette Benning, but Meg outweighs that, I think.
Updated On: 9/14/08 at 04:32 PM
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#10
Posted: 9/14/08 at 4:44pm
Isn't that awful how Meg Ryan went from cute, adorable face to "creature" face?
Kidman is teetering on the edge as well.
I wish Hollywood actresses would learn! Audiences like to read between the lines, and if you pull them flat, puff them up or iron them out, there's nothing left for us to read between. We're just staring at smooth, dead surface.
And we can tell. Films aren't terribly grainy or blurry for the most part anymore to help them out. We see everything! The lenses have improved, and many of the movies are digital now. And so much of TV is in HD. We might be able to see their lines and wrinkles, but we can see their surgery now too. And it kinda kills everything.
"She's a white, blonde, mother of three who lives in Missouri or South Dakota, or she's a simple working lawyer fighting for the rights of her underprivileged clients... with plastic pouty lips, permanently surprised eyes, a blank shiny forehead. She weighs 100 pounds and has a D cup."
Yeah... I'm buyin' the "reality" of that. Right.
I think the risk of not only ruining one's face, but also one's career would make the gamble seem not worth it to them. Yet... they keep on going, and going...
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re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#11
Posted: 9/14/08 at 4:53pmBesty you're preaching to choir here. Hollywood needs to hear it. I don't think most of those actresses can get much work unless they look young and wrinkle-less.
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#12
Posted: 9/14/08 at 5:03pm
Ebert's reviews have been getting further and further off. The man believed that Zemeckis' animated BEOWULF was a Monty Python-style comedy, and named CRASH best film of the year, and called MILLION DOLLAR BABY a masterpiece.
Has the parade of illnesses the poor man has been suffering finally de-railed his once considerable faculties?
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#13
Posted: 9/14/08 at 5:14pm
"named CRASH best film of the year, and called MILLION DOLLAR BABY a masterpiece"
Well, so did OSCAR.
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#14
Posted: 9/14/08 at 5:29pm
"The Women," of all movies, is a thing of its time. The recent stage play proved that such a moment in time can't be recreated. People just don't have the same sensibility anymore. The style and manner of the time always sounds false when they try.
Maybe someone can do it, someday. But, without having seen the remake, I'm doubtful that modernizing it helps. In fact, I'm sure it would seem even further from that quality that made the original so special.
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#15
Posted: 9/14/08 at 5:43pmAnnette Bening is my fave screen actress but I'll have to catch this one on DVD if I see it at all. Not my kind of flick.
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#16
Posted: 9/14/08 at 5:52pm
I think the risk of not only ruining one's face, but also one's career would make the gamble seem not worth it to them. Yet... they keep on going, and going...
Well, at least Annette Benning is still looking as beautiful and natural as can be!
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re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#17
Posted: 9/14/08 at 6:11pmThe trailers looked so completely unappealing, I can't imagine someone actually spending money on this.
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#18
Posted: 9/14/08 at 6:12pm
"Well, at least Annette Benning is still looking as beautiful and natural as can be!"
I would love to say what's on my mind, but I would get hate PMs and probably banned from the board.
*steps back from the keyboard*
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re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#19
Posted: 9/14/08 at 6:17pm
Another one of my guilty pleasures is looking at some of the Latin American soap operas and spotting really awful plastic surgery. There are some luminaries on the more popular "novelas" that have been carved up more than last year's Thanksgiving turkey. Especially the serials from Venezuela. My best bud is from there and he hates it when I point out how "plastic" many of the really young actresses look.
The thing is that after going under the knife once, some of worst offenders can't seem to resist getting just a little more "work" done. I would never want to be the biggest hit on http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/.
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#20
Posted: 9/14/08 at 6:19pm
Lol, Besty. I must encourage you to speak out. I personally don't think Bening looks as natural and beautiful as can be...and I'm a fan 
I have never been a fan of Ryan, but to look at her face now is just deeply scary. She looks like the Joker without the make-up...and without the brilliance of Heath Ledger performing the part.
I love the NY Times review of the film in which Scott says that for a film that features no males, you feel like all the women's lives are too deeply governed by them.
I also think it's interesting that the film first started as a table reading with Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, and Marisa Tomei. Then Roberts and Ryan became interested in playing the same role, people lost interest, and it all fell apart until now.
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re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#21
Posted: 9/14/08 at 6:35pm
I can't even look at Meg anymore. She was so naturally pretty--I don't know why she even felt the need. To go and alter herself the way she did...it's just scary. She almost looks disfigured. Of course it's her face so it's her right to do whatever the hell she wants to it, but she clearly went BEYOND a facelift or whatever. It looks like she had implants in her chin and cheeks. I'd be terrified to ever get plastic surgery, Botox or any of that crap.
P.S. javero, I wanted Bening to win the Oscar for BEING JULIA so, so badly!
Updated On: 9/14/08 at 06:35 PM
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#22
Posted: 9/14/08 at 6:45pm
ray---You tempt me too much, but I'll start.
When I first saw photos from this remake, I didn't even recognize Miss Bening. I think she's a brilliant actress, but sometime recently she was replaced by a very thin teenage boy with long stringy Hippie hair.
She looks like she was carved in balsa wood. Just how many layers did they whittle, I mean peel away?
She's all one color now too. Beige.
*backs away from the keyboard again before it gets even worse*
I don't mean to be a bitchy queen, but it comes out in me as ANGER, because I would LOVE to see Annette and Meg and others grow older naturally, and play interesting and different roles. They're throwing their acting careers away, nip by tuck.
Let's face it, even with great surgery (which neither one has), they will NEVER play hot, sexy, cute ingenue 20-something roles again. NEVER. Leave the eyes and forehead alone. You're not 20, and we know it!
They can either play various older women, with no surgery, or curious Beverly Hills post-op matrons with "fabulous clothes" and smooth dead skin. I just wish they would have chosen the former.
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re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#23
Posted: 9/14/08 at 6:52pm
Besty, sorry to tempt you...not really 
I thoroughly agree. I mean, just look at Nicole Kidman! Gorgeous woman, pretty good actress...and now? She can only register about two or three expressions. Meg Ryan should really sue whoever did work on her because (s)he really disfigured her face. Bening's work is obvious as well.
Look at someone like Diane Keaton, or Meryl Streep (whom I really don't think has had work done, and if she has, at least she can still master more than one or two expressions), Helen Mirren, Dianne Wiest, Ellen Burstyn, Sissy Spaceck, Julie Christie, and Sally Field. All of them look their age or naturally younger, and all of them still manage to get me invested in their acting. The parade of deformed plastic that younger, yet aging, actresses keep making us subject to is just tiring and ridiculous.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
re: 'The Women' remake bombs at the box office#24
Posted: 9/14/08 at 6:55pm
Ray, I agree, all of those women you listed have aged beautifully.
Although I really don't think Annette looks that bad.
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