Well, here comes the last weekend Box-Office report for the past week.. aw, all right, i know that it has been several days past. But everybody wants a holiday.
In several weeks, the battle for the audiences are still between the big gorilla and his affection blonde, and the bunch of kids led by a lion who fought against the white witch. And of course, being a cute-ish family movie for a holiday-season, so far, Aslan and the kids were the victor of the battle.
But, the first week of a brand-new-year wasn't a PG movie, but an R-rated movie. Hostel - quoting its official plot - Two adventurous American college buddies, Paxton and Josh, backpack through Europe eager to make quintessentially hazy travel memories with new friend Oli, an Icelander they've met along the way. Paxton and Josh are eventually lured by a fellow traveler to what's described as a nirvana for American backpackers--a particular hostel in an out-of-the-way Slovakian town stocked with Eastern European women as desperate as they are gorgeous. The two friends arrive and soon easily pair off with exotic beauties Natalya and Svetlana. In fact, too easily. Initially distracted by the good time they're having, the two Americans quickly find themselves trapped in an increasingly sinister situation that they will discover is as wide and as deep as the darkest, sickest recess of human nature itself--if they survive.
I took the poster from the Chinese-version simply because i liked it more than the other poster out there. Brandished by "Produced by Quentin Tarantino", this cheap-budgeted horror flick was written directed by Eli Roth and distributed by Lions Gate Films who both has been established themself as an horror-specialized movie-men. They (who had watch it) said that it had similar shock to Saw (a Lions Gate Films as well), only better. In Saw case, i really didn't expect it to be that good, so i guess it was enough reason for me to wait for this movie. There's a one-minute clip available on the net that depicted what to expect in this movie. Though i really must warn you. If you didn't dig for the 'gore' scenes, never watch the clip, let alone the movie. This is a 'gore' movie that doesn't soften itself like Saw or Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake). The statistic says it all. Sixty-five percent of the weekend audiences (in the U.S) were under 25, and 60 percent were male.Random trivia: The movie was written, produced, directed and released theatrically all in a twelve month period, which is three times faster than the average Hollywood film.
Another two new releases for this week, however, weren't that good. They didn't even made top-10. Adam Sandler produced movie (which of course, packed with his cronies), Grandma's Boy falls on #13. And Uwe Boll's latest disaster, Bloodrayne, as expected came on #19 with lousy 900+ theaters opening averaging for US$1,573.
My take, i never cared about Adam Sandler's works (unless if he's teamed ON SCREEN with Drew Barrymore), and i believed that somewhere on this site i had a statement, a fair-warning that everyone who doesn't liked to waste their money should Never seen anything from Uwe Boll if it was an adaption from video-game. Might as well flush the money down the toilet. And that statement shall holds true again. Some random guy even said that Bloodrayne was every film professor's nightmare and some other guy said that it was so UN-tertaining that made having cancer seem fun.
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