I mean, it seems that many of the people who have actually seen the movie have liked it (note how it’s gone from “so-so” to “go” on Fandango since it opened) - it’s just that not many people have seen it, with a large number of people basically writing it off without giving it a chance.

One thing that I tend to notice in movies, though, is that weird ideas tend to be OK - if they’re presented “realistically.”

I mean, most of the comic book movies are obviously ridiculous if you think about their premises, but a lot of them seem to do fine.

Meanwhile you have movies like Sky Captain and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which not only have odd premises but are done in an unusual style and guess what - they both bombed.

I’m just wondering if the weird visual style was just too weird for people. And the fact that the genre hasn’t done as well in the past anyway, as I noted before.

I’ve also noticed that it’s largely been ignored by summer movie previewers, who tend to favor Iron Man, Narnia, Indiana Jones, and Batman.

In any case, WB has to be bashing their head trying to figure out what people want to see, as their last big movie, 10,000 BC only opened with about $35 million.