[SFRA-L] The Da Vinci Code (THE THREE MUSKETEERS [2011]: Links)

[Richard Erlich]

MetaCritic link: <http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-three- 
musketeers/critic-reviews>: "Generally unfavorable" initial reviews  
(12).

On 24/10/2011, at 8:20, John Pierce wrote:

> More tellingly. it's been a flop at the box office.

In the USA, definitely, so far — but it may be doing better world- 
wide (I don't know the reliability of "BoxOfficeMojo"):

> Total Lifetime Grosses
> Domestic:
>  $8,800,000
>    12.0%
> + Foreign:
>  $64,400,000
>    88.0%
> = Worldwide:
>  $73,200,000
>
>
>
> 	<http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=threemusketeers11.htm>


IMDb estimated budget: $75M (but they can be way off) <http:// 
www.imdb.com/title/tt1509767/>.

>
> --J.J.P.
>
> On Oct 23, 2011, at 1:09 PM, GHMyst at aol.com wrote:
>
>> The reviewer in the Orlando Sentinel only gave it one star, and  
>> closed his review by saying that it was "le pits".
>>
>>     Ed Wysocki
>>
>> In a message dated 10/23/2011 10:43:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
>> pierceqfpl at ewwpi.com writes:
>> No, this isn't about the Dan Brown novel or the movie based on it;  
>> it's about the latest version of THE THREE MUSKETEERS, which  
>> Marcia and I saw yesterday.
>>
>> Those 17th Century airships, it turns out, were built from  
>> supposed designs by Leonardo, taken by the Musketeers from a  
>> secret vault in Venice and then purloined from them by MiLady, who  
>> takes them to Lord Buckingham. As part of the only story line  
>> related to the novel, involving the queen's jewels, they later  
>> manage to steal Buckingham's airship (which has previously made a  
>> spectacular visit to the royal palace in Paris), but Cardinal  
>> Richlieu has built a bigger one and those are the airships that  
>> battle it out in the preview trailer. It also turns out that Da  
>> Vinci must have known about helium and how to prepare it, because  
>> shots ARE fired at the gas bags -- but they don't go up like the  
>> Hindenburg's. There is other   silliness, of course -- with only  
>> sails instead of propellors, these aiurshps can rise and descend  
>> with amazing speed, and easily stay on course.
>>
>> The movie got a terrible review in The New York Times, and it IS a  
>> hoot. But it obviiously has its tongue in its cheek, and isn't  
>> meant to be taken any more seriously than the PIRATES OF THE  
>> CARIBBEAN series. In one scene, D'Artagnan is issued a ticket for  
>> not cleaning up after his horse; in another, the previous year's  
>> fashions are called "retro." There's an in-joke about the game  
>> being afoot (By coincidence, one of the previews we saw yesterday  
>> was for December's Sherlock Holmes movie.). The thing is, as the  
>> Times noted, that PIRATES has Johnny Depp and his crew going for  
>> it, whereas none of the players in THE THREE MUSKETEERS are  
>> impressive. There's a teaser for a second MUSKETEERS Da Vinci punk  
>> movie, with Buckingham leading an entiire armada of airships and  
>> ordinary ships against France, but I'm not holding my breath.
>>
>> --J.J.P.
>>
>>
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