Evan Almighty (Tom Shadyac, 2007)

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patrick · #1 Post by **patrick** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:20 pm

I could give a rat's ass about the movie, but here's a pretty fascinating article about how Universal ended up spending $175 million making it and don't seem to know how to (or just don't want to try to) sell it to the public.

LionelHutz · #2 Post by **LionelHutz** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:41 pm

patrick wrote:I could give a rat's ass about the movie, but here's a pretty fascinating article about how Universal ended up spending $175 million making it and don't seem to know how to (or just don't want to try to) sell it to the public.

This is obviously one of the instances where the story behind the film turns out to be more interesting than the actual film!
Seems like hollywood never learns

Barmy · #3 Post by **Barmy** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:53 pm

Getting bad reviews. Hope it bombs.

tavernier · #4 Post by **tavernier** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:07 pm

Barmy wrote:Getting bad reviews. Hope it bombs.

Doubt it.

tryavna · #5 Post by **tryavna** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:52 pm

Steve Carell was always my least favorite Daily Show correspondent during his tenure there. I don't really understand his appeal.

Len · #6 Post by **Len** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:38 pm

tryavna wrote:Steve Carell was always my least favorite Daily Show correspondent during his tenure there. I don't really understand his appeal.

I could almost agree with you if it wasn't for Even Stevphen. He had great chemistry with Colbert.

Then again, I quite like his post-Daily Show work too. Evan Almighty looks horrible though.

#7 Post by **domino harvey** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:16 am

they showed clips of this last night during commercial breaks of the Office and the clips shown contained zero laughs. I don't just mean they weren't funny, I mean there were no jokes attempted in the clips shown. This is a film that cribs scenes from the Santa Clause. Read that again: This is a film that cribs scenes from the Santa Clause. Also, if a monkey carrying a hammer is your idea of hilarity, good news

patrick · #8 Post by **patrick** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:19 am

I like Steve Carell a lot, and I hope he doesn't get hung out to dry if this movie doesn't live up to expectations (and really, how could it?). Even if it doesn't tank, I doubt it's going to make even half of its budget back. The clips they showed on NBC last night were even worse than I expected, and the CGI boat on the CGI ocean didn't look half as good as the storm in The Perfect Storm - a movie that was made 7 years ago.

souvenir · #9 Post by **souvenir** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:36 am

This picture makes me wish the forum still had the rotating director shots as its logo. Instead of fake Criterion covers, we could have fake Criterion forum director photos.

flyonthewall2983 · Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:39 am

souvenir wrote:This picture make me wish the forum still had the rotating director shots as its logo. Instead of fake Criterion covers, we could have fake Criterion forum director photos.

That would be, by far, the most inside joke I've ever read on the internet.

colinr0380 · #11 Post by **colinr0380** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:06 pm

I've been wanting to ask (although I really should watch the film myself to find this out! But then I didn't bother to see the first!) - how does a family friendly film tackle most people and animals in the world drowning in a flood? Does it gloss over that issue? Make everyone else in the film unsympathetic so we are glad they die? Get into a Sophie's Choice situation of deciding who gets on the ark and who is left behind? Or is it just a localised flood? Or does it try to make the event into a feel-good ending?

The Fanciful Norwegian · Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:37 am

Nobody drowns. The flood is localized to a single city and God doesn't really cause it in the first place. I guess this is a spoiler but it doesn't cover even half the stupid shit in the movie.

lord_clyde · #13 Post by **lord_clyde** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:56 am

It made 15 mil so far. Only 160 to go. . .

margot · #14 Post by **margot** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:28 am

lord_clyde wrote:It made 15 mil so far. Only 160 to go. . .

It has made 60 million so far.

lord_clyde · #15 Post by **lord_clyde** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:59 am

Raoul Duke wrote:
lord_clyde wrote:It made 15 mil so far. Only 160 to go. . .
It has made 60 million so far.

Alright! You can do it Evan Almighty, just chug along up that hill, you're almost there!

The Invunche · #16 Post by **The Invunche** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:20 pm

The Fanciful Norwegian wrote:The flood is localized to a single city and God doesn't really cause it in the first place.

Sounds more realistic than the Bible.

bunuelian · #17 Post by **bunuelian** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:29 pm

Ran across this on a web page discussing the coming nuking of New York by terrorists as a fulfillment of the apocalpyse of Revelations:

"In the movie Evan Almighty slated to be released June 22, 2007, Steve Carell, a modern day American, is called by God to build an Ark. Could this movie be God's way of telling America that the flood waters are coming?" (sorry, I've lost the link, but it's trash anyway)

Now that I understand that the film is prophetic, I have to see it.

Barmy · #18 Post by **Barmy** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:29 pm

It turns out that "ark" stands for "acts of random kindness". So Evan gets all embarrassed about the misunderstanding. The End.

Pay it Forward everyone!

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