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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.

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

Getting bad reviews. Hope it bombs.

Barmy wrote:Getting bad reviews. Hope it bombs.

Doubt it.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

It has made 60 million so far.

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 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.

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.

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!