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Anyone else think this will be the biggest box office hit of the year?


OK Transformers 3 may have it beat, but I feel that it will certainly appeal to the same audiences and it comes out at a time when it isn't cluttered with other Harry Potter or Twilight openings. My kid has been asking me if we can go to the midnight showing on the Thursday before it opens. I just hope I can score a ticket. I also hope this will be the start in a long successful series to rival the Marvel Superhero films. "Young Nietzsche in love", "Young Sartre in Love", and for the art house crowd even "Young Proust in Love" (This one would probably be R rated and not something I would recommend letting your kids see.) I am surprised at the lack of marketing around the film. Last week I went to the local McDonalds and they offered my son a Puss in Boots toy with his happy meal. He actually cried when he couldn't get a Goethe figurine. I had to go buy a Ken Doll and dress him up in homemade 18th century garb. It was fun to make but a bit of a hassle.

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Nice post! I imagine Ken would look just fine in 18th-century garb.

But the sad fact is, this movie really isn't a lot more intelligent than Transformers 3. Yes, it uses Goethe (or an absurdly modernized, dumbed-down, fantasy version of him), and yes, it's heard of the book about Werther, and the writers may have even read the SparkNotes version of it, but that's about the extent of it.

There is the germ of a fascinating story here, but the writers and director seem not to be much interested in following up on it. Maybe they're all hoping to get just enough attention from this to be hired on in Hollywood for the next Transformers movie . . . Sorry to sound so negative, but this movie really got under my skin. I like "light entertainment" as much as the next person, but this was just plain stupid.

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I think you're being a bit hard on it. There's not a whole lot innovative here, but as a romance with occasional hard edges (Jerusalem's plotline, for one) I think it functions just fine.

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