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Comment on Candy Boy - Episode 1 by Josh

Josh — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:05:17 +0000

I was wondering if it would be once a month after a new episode didn’t get released after a week.

Comment on Candy Boy - Episode 1 by [Blademaster]

[Blademaster] — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:05:26 +0000

@Josh: Some people at Animesuki says something about once a month…

Comment on Candy Boy - Episode 1 by Josh

Josh — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:15:04 +0000

Lol, good idea, and yes, she pretty much is a stalker.

The FanSubWiki says it is 7 episodes, but as I said, I’m not sure how often they’re being released.

Apparently they’re only online in like, 512xwhatever resolution, so fairly small too -_-

Comment on Candy Boy - Episode 1 by Endz

Endz — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:35:49 +0000

I think Sakuya is a borderline stalker or IS a stalker. Why wont the three of them get on a threesome, that should resolve everything.

Its good for the viewers too.

Btw, how long is it?

Comment on Speed Racers loses nearly $2 million on weekend actuals by Josh

Josh — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:27:38 +0000

That would be nice. It’s certainly set up for that, considering that the word from most people who have actually seen it seems to be overall positive.

Comment on Speed Racers loses nearly $2 million on weekend actuals by Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:32:30 +0000

Maybe it will get a cult following for the DVD release.

Comment on Speed Racers loses nearly $2 million on weekend actuals by IcyStorm

IcyStorm — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:41:58 +0000

It’s not a bad movie; I liked it. It wasn’t fantastic, but worth a watch.

Disappointed that it barely made any money.

Comment on Speed Racers loses nearly $2 million on weekend actuals by nckl

nckl — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:33:31 +0000

So does this constitute a box office bomb?

Personally, I may have considered going to watch it if it wasn’t for the trailer. Instead of it making me want to see the movie, it made me want to stay the hell away from it. I wonder if there are others out there that felt the same way.

Comment on Speed Racer only takes in $20.2 million by Josh’s Anime Blog » Speed Racers loses nearly $2 million on weekend actuals

Tue, 13 May 2008 22:46:16 +0000

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Comment on Speed Racer only takes in $20.2 million by Josh

Josh — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:22:38 +0000

Well, I’m wondering if it’s a combination of it being a racing movie - which typically don’t do well anyway - plus confusion of exactly who this is targeted for plus the fact that it’s teh animez.

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.