Beverly Hills Chihuahua made 30 million this weekend.

I don't think it's a bunch of grown-ups coming down on a kid's film... I think it's a few film enthusiasts coming down on what looks like an cheesy re-hash of a re-hash, packaged in a stupid idea.

Perhaps this thread should have been under film discussions... and not cafe.

Either way... it's only an opinion about a movie, and to perceive this as adults against kids gives the thread more weight then I'm sure was intended... Better to point out that maybe the market wants more family friendly material... or to say "it's a kid's movie... what do you expect?"... instead of making it sound like child [film] abuse.

If the same thread was started about Space Monkeys, the "space flies" thing, or that Star Wars cartoon... again, based on the perception that it was a poor concept, that amazingly enough, did well... is that still in bad taste?
 
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Dude when you were a kid I believe the "Muppets take Manhattan" was all the rage. But a talking dog, that's far fetched. I'm simply putting things in perspective. Like when my friend started going on about the logic holes in Freddy versus Jason = the logic holes in a movie about a man who goes after people in their dreams fighting an immortal killer Zombie. LOL, don't mean to make the thread become heated.

-Nate
 
Sorry dude... I didn't mean to sound hostile about it... it's just that lately I've been feeling like a guy can say what he wants around here... just so long as it doesn't go against the flow in any way. I'm not talking about justifying "trouble-making"... but I felt like the OP (and myself) were both taking some weird heat for making a joke about current pop culture.
 
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Sorry dude... I didn't mean to sound hostile about it... it's just that lately I've been feeling like a guy can say what he wants around here... just so long as it doesn't go against the flow in any way. I'm not talking about justifying "trouble-making"... but I felt like the OP (and myself) were both taking some weird heat for making a joke about current pop culture.
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LOL. Yea, I think a lot of steam has been blown off in the forums over the past week. I myself have participated in some heated but good discussions. Between the Spike Lee thread and the Fireproof thread I feel like a load off my shoulders. Personally I didn't even expect to see the film mentioned here, but then again I don't know why with this being a film forum. I all but ignored it. It's such a blow off flick if you don't have kids. But Disaster Movie, had that been #1 I don't know - time to slit my wrist with a #2 pencil.

-Nate
 
We took our kids to see it when it was raining last weekend. A lost dog movie in the trademark Disney fashion. The kids really liked it - lots of laughing throughout. It's a movie.

I'll tell you that we also took our youngest to see Igor, which is a dark, unhappy picture that looks and sounds just like a Tim Burton outing - with all the life sucked out of it. If I'd known how unfortunate this film is in advance, I'd have gone to see Chihuahua twice instead.

With kids, the choices for films are usually very narrow. Sometimes we get pictures that entertain kids and speak to adults at a different level. Pixar does this on each and every outing.

The dog movie was a popcorn outing and I hope they make their money back. With an advertised budget of $50M, they should get close enough on domestic alone.

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Hi,

With kids, the choices for films are usually very narrow.
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Spot on Erik.

Like I said, I'd like to take my grandchildren to the Next Best Thing, but those are pretty rare. That age group is a forgotten market, and I think that's unfortunate for both the audience and producers' pocketbooks.

The children get fed a lot of drivel because that's what's there, but no one seems willing to do anymore about it other than complain about it.

Ahem...
 
I would suggest the National Treasure films. They're PG action adventure films which haven't been seen for years. You may want to check those out.

-Nate
 
"Surely a sign of the coming apocalypse."

Whenever I see a films like this, I always say " Now there's a great salesman " .

I've always thought about shooting a little hidden cam doc. on the things these guys say in hollywood to pitch a film.

I was going to call it "The Mouth Of Gold" :)
 
Really???

Really???

Really?.....30 million...come the F*** on! I just don't understand the world anymore. I've completely lost all faith in humanity.
 
I don't get why when films which aren't to someone's taste do well, it has to be some sign of societal collapse. Especially a movie like this one, of a type which has done well pretty much since Hollywood began. What else are you supposed to take kids to see? Or do you think that kids' movies just shouldn't be made?

(I'm FAR more worried that torture fetish films like "Hostel" and "Saw" do well. Speaking of gratuitousness . . .)
 
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