Looper at the box office

Looper did better than expected at the box office this weekend. No final numbers yet but critics predicted high teens while in reality, it made approximately $21 mil. With a $30 mil. budget and rated R, not bad at all! The interesting thing though? China's box office numbers:

The biggest surprise is in China, where the Rian Johnson helmed time travel adventure has taken the top spot with an estimated $24 million (...) and it looks set to become the first opening of there which actually outgrosses that of North America. Endgame's James Stern tells Deadline, "While we don’t have the final box office tally’s because of the Chinese National Holiday, it looks as if we are #1 in that market and at least on par if not exceeding the U.S. box office, marking the very first time in history that China would be world’s leading market for an international film."

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First movie in history to achieve that, huh? It just proves that the foreign BO is where the big bucks can be found these days, not in the US anymore. I think that studios and critics will soon have to redefine their strategy of labeling "flops". The US BO is stumbling more and more while foreign countries are becoming a much stronger purchasing power in that department.

Good for Looper. Even with just this weekend's BO numbers in the US and China, investors already got their money back.

Well f***!

So, not only won't they air Dredd here in the cinemas, they now dropped Premium Rush too, even though they aired trailers for it and hung up posters in the cinema. Well that's just great. That's the perfect way how to battle internet piracy - not show the movie at all and fuck the viewers. I'm so angry right now.

Squicks

In the Inception fandom, I stumbled across several teen!Arthur/adult!Eames fics in a row - and boy, I never realized that the idea of an adult having sex with a teenager squicked me so much *shudders* Seriously, I love het sex, gay sex, threesomes, BDSM... between CONSENTING ADULTS. But an adult and a teenager? No, just no!

I mean, I can take it when it's a high-school and a college student, when the age difference is 4-5 years tops - like, for example, in Teen Wolf (IIRC, Derek is 20-21, some authors use 24-25 but that's the actor's age, not the character's) - that I can take because I don't think the level of maturity between 16 and 20 differs that much - speaking from personal experience. But even then the adult should be absolutely sure that they're both are on the same level intellectually/emotionally and if there's the slightest doubt, he/she should back the hell off.

But when the age difference is bigger, when it's a fic about someone in their late twenties or thirties or even older having sex with a teenager? It turns my stomach, literally. And when the older person is someone in a position of power, like a teacher or a babysitter or a priest or even the next-door neighbor, it's ten times worse. I mean, I couldn't accept Spock/Uhura in the new Star Trek movie because Spock was Uhura's teacher, I couldn't get over it despite them both being adults. When one of the partners is a teenager, it feels too much like coercion. No, just no.

Wow, I never realized just how strongly I felt about this. Interesting...

3x LGBT: A Home at the End of the World

Colin Farrell was definitely the star of this movie. He was simply excellent as Bobby, the sweet and innocent young man with a heart so big that everybody could find a place in it. There wasn't one character in the film who hated or disliked Bobby because it was impossible. Everyone, simply everyone fell in love with him. I think Bobby was the most lovable character I've seen in a movie in ages. A rather unusual part for Colin Farrell but he just excelled in it. And it also helped that he was utterly gorgeous ;)



I didn't like Jonathan - I thought he was a selfish, promiscuous prick most of the time - so his fate, strongly hinted at at the end of the movie, didn't really bother me that much. What did make me sad was, what it meant for Bobby. As he told Clare, there was one thing he couldn't do: be alone. And Clare. I know that some people hate her for the decisions she made but I didn't really blame her - she felt like the fifth wheel. Not that she was for Bobby, he loved both her and Jonathan. But Clare and Jonathan - and especially Clare in the end - they felt like they were competing for Bobby's love and attention. I wonder if she came back in the end. I think she did because, IMHO, she was a good person, that's how I saw her.

This is a really sweet movie. Sad, true, but sweet too. And should you see it, I think you would love Bobby too.