{"id":693,"date":"2007-04-09T06:15:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T12:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/09\/schadenfreud-alert\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T06:15:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T12:15:49","slug":"schadenfreud-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreud Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tarantino <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com\/grindhouse-didnt-gun-friday-ticket-sales\/\">gets spanked<\/a> in a disastrous opening for <em>Grindhouse<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;major players in the movie capital were talking about the utter collapse at the box office of Grindhouse, that double-feature from celebrated directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. (I had wondered here if the movie could live up to the Weinsteins&#8217; hype.) Despite decent reviews, the hard &#8220;R&#8221;-rated pic filled with blood and violence took in just $12 million this weekend &#8212; nowhere near even the lowest $20 mil opening predicted (or the $25 mil debut anticipated after midnight sneaks were arranged in major cities). blades1.jpgThe weekend take was far, far below the openings for, say, Rodriguez&#8217;s Sin City ($29.1 mil) or Tarantino&#8217;s Kill Bill 1 ($22 mil) and 2 ($25.1 mil).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be advised:\u00a0 I detest Quentin Tarantino.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t like <em>Reservoir Dogs.\u00a0 <\/em>I mildly disliked <em>Pulp Fiction.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em> I hated <em>Kill Bill <\/em>with a cordial passion.\u00a0 And everything I&#8217;ve ever read about Quentin Tarantino makes me hope his next movie is the new generation&#8217;s <em>Ishtar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarantino gets spanked in a disastrous opening for Grindhouse: &#8230;major players in the movie capital were talking about the utter collapse at the box office of Grindhouse, that double-feature from celebrated directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. (I had wondered here if the movie could live up to the Weinsteins&#8217; hype.) Despite decent reviews, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}