O, Labor Day, you lazy long weekend, you musty farewell. And Seriously, summer: Good Riddance. The holiday frame offers up a storm-shattering tandem of films well worth your time, money and consideration on a gruesome August, as well as one stinker Thurs help balance out the cosmos. (Or something. I do not know why it exists, to Be honest.) Grab a lawn chair, pop open a beer, and Meet Me on the jump to talk it over.
NATIONAL FORECAST
Going the Distance: The optimist in, we'd love to Believe That The rollicking Splatter show Machete Might come on this Drew Barrymore / Justin Long romcom with at his weapon of choice, shaving a few million dollars off the opening gross and stuffing it in at his leather vest en route to a sequel. You Could Probably argue That the long-distance couple in Going the Distance Event'd choose over Machete Their own film is one of Their all-too-rare date nights. But the Cynic in me knows better: The market is due for a Barrymore lady-pleaser, and it will reward her and Warner Brothers. accordingly before shuffling off to the beach wondering why it sees Eve's movies anymore anyway. And the moderate, Practical prognosticator in me Could not Give a crap either way. FOUR-DAY FORECAST: $ 16.4 million (See Movie Line's full review here.)
Machete: You pretty much know what I have to say about the Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis's Mexploitation barnburner, up to and Including ITS Modest opening-weekend prediction. I can bump it up a little bit as word-of-Mouth Spreads Among the mainstream, but their it's still a pretty fanboy Acquired taste That Might not have Blown ITS best shot at crossing over by Avoiding the Political spotlight. It is so genuinely subversive - not only inverting America's NeoCon, border-Militia mythology in the name of immigrant revolution, but their explicitly calling for Mexican rebellion - That it Zapraszamy inhabit throughout indoor.net hours of Fox News' pages of Big Hollywood and an FBI file-three inches thick. Of course, Fox is ITS studio, but their all the better: Synergy through Ideology! OK, maybe beer That wasn't such "a good idea. FOUR-DAY FORECAST: $ 15.5 million
(See Movie Line's full review here.)...
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