Weekend Box Office: 1/30/04 - 2/1/04

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

New Releases:

 

"You Got Served" (Marques Houston, Omari Grandberry)

"The Perfect Score" (Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen)

"The Big Bounce" (Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman)

 

Box Office Top 10:

 

1. You Got Served SONY $16,000,000/$16,000,000

 

2. Along Came Polly UNIV $10,072,000/$66,764,000

3. The Butterfly Effect NL $9,950,000/$32,429,000

4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King NL $5,275,000/$345,296,000

5. The Perfect Score PARA $5,000,000/$5,000,000

6. Big Fish SONY $4,600,000/$55,382,000

7. Cold Mountain M'MAX $4,532,143/$78,833,809

8. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! D'WORKS $4,500,000/$13,400,000

9. Mystic River WB $4,405,000/$64,885,000

10. Cheaper by the Dozen FOX $4,100,000/$127,848,825

 

12. The Big Bounce WB $3,315,000/$3,315,000

 

 

I guess all that extra press from their "Breakup" (CoughBullshitCough) helped the movie out.

 

FLAME ON!

 

Opening Friday:

 

"Barbershop 2: Back in Business" (Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer)

"Catch That Kid"

"Miracle" (Kurt Russell)

[Guest Choken One]

what the fuck is You Got Served?

[NYU 0]

Holy shit....."The Big Bounce" BOMBED. As did "The Perfect Score." I've been seeing non-stop advertisements for both of these movies, so it comes as somewhat of a shock that they performed as poorly as they did.

 

"Barber Shop 2" will probably be #1 next week.

[LaParkaMarka 0]

Weird that Big Bounce bombed...it had a nice ensemble cast, a ot of adverts. Did it get a lot of really bad reviews?

 

That Perfect Score movie looked retarded. Ooh, we're stealing the SAT! LOLOL. Tards.

[The Fett 0]

Never even heard of 'you got served'.

[razazteca 0]

Some thing is very wrong when a direct to video movie staring B2K and Steve Harvey is number #1.

[Damaramu 0]

You Got Served!? First of all the kind of people portrayed in that movie are fuckwads....and are a huge stereotype. They try to make them seem as G funk'd as possible.

God...what's America coming to?

[razazteca 0]

The girls love the boyband breakdancing movies.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

The Review I heard of the perfect score suggested going to the video store and renting any 80's teen flick (Breakfast Club was specifically mentioned).

 

The Big Bounce review I saw said that the cast seemed uninspired and the movie drug on..

 

and how the hell did Cheaper by the dozen make 127 million? I know its been out for a while, but still, I heard it was bad.

[razazteca 0]

The Review I heard of the perfect score suggested going to the video store and renting any 80's teen flick (Breakfast Club was specifically mentioned).

 

The Big Bounce review I saw said that the cast seemed uninspired and the movie drug on..

 

and how the hell did Cheaper by the dozen make 127 million? I know its been out for a while, but still, I heard it was bad.

It's the perfect family movie?

[Guest Smues]

You got served made 16 million.................I think I'm going to go kill myself.

[Brocklock 0]

Since You Got Served looks like the new version of Breakin, are we going to get You Got Served 2: Electric Boogaloo.

[razazteca 0]

The Brits don't get the luxery of getting "urban" movies released in their region.

[Guest Choken One]

Will someone tell what the movie is?

 

I haven't seen ONE fucking advertisment for this...

[razazteca 0]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365957/

 

There's a tradition in the dance films of the 80s and 90s, in that for every interesting scene of booty shaking, there must be at least twice as much clichéd and painful screenwriting to support it. With `Flashdance,' `Footloose,' and the two `Breakin' films, the formula thrived to decent box office, and occasionally became cinema legend.

 

The tradition continues in the new decade with `You Got Served,' a highly energetic dance drama about covert dance competitions that sinks to mind-boggling depths of awfulness when the characters feel compelled to speak. Much like its cousin, the recent Jessica Alba misfire `Honey,' `Served' has this outlandish notion that the story is the real glue to the film's success. Writer/director Christopher Stokes has plenty of great dance footage to work with, and, unlike `Honey,' the filmmaker seems to enjoy the rumbling thunder of the underground hip-hop nation of dance-offs, often letting the `crews' just do their thing without much obstruction. The movie does present an overtly urban storyline that is about as fictional as the dancing world depicted, including stogie-suckling crime lords, `big momma' type grandmothers, and the thematically desperate shooting of a 9 year-old to get the film to a climax. Oh, and the two leads of the film are well meaning drug couriers. Clearly, there's not a lot to root for.

 

Whenever the film finds itself in a hole, Stokes cuts back to the dance footage, making the picture seem like a less depressing venture than it was before. The tightly choreographed routines are fun to watch, and they're backed with a booming soundtrack that helps these propulsive sequences out immensely. It's a wonder why Stokes just didn't cut out the Ebonics-heavy dialog (which actress Jennifer Freeman has a hard time with, much to the delight of the audience I attended the screening with) and afterschool special material that clogs up the momentum of his film, and just showcase the dances on their own. But I guess I shouldn't expect the director of `House Party 4' to have that kind of foresight.

 

`You Got Served' is borderline racist (all the Caucasian characters are designated as pure evil right away), the acting atrocious (by such `thespians' as Raz B, Lil' Fizz, and J-Boog), and Stokes has a borderline grip on what making a movie is all about. But all that is silenced once the dancing begins, and it's hard to deny a mighty power like that. ---- 5/10

 

Its all about The Man holding down B2K with Steve Harvey in there to be father figure.

[Guest Ghettoman]

It's about a team of dancers struggle to stay together and dance like the true champions they feel they are, with an urban twist.

 

In other words complete and utter shit.

[Guest JumpinJackFlash]

No! People are becoming dumber by the minute!

 

Last 3 Movies #1 at Box Ofice:

Along Came Polly

The Butterfly Effect

You've Got Served

 

This sucks!

[tpww7 0]

Hey..Butterfly Effect was good.

[Guest JumpinJackFlash]

Hey..Butterfly Effect was good.

 

I don't like Aston Kutcher.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Meaning you haven't seen it... so shaddup.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I knew that damn thing would be #1...and every time I see the previews and hear:

 

"No rules?"

"Straight Street!"

 

I laugh my balls off...I mean they're dancing for Christ sake. DANCING! It's not like they're doing anything remotly dangerous.

 

And Big Bounce just looked like Balls. Based on the previews it just didn't look like there was anything good about it.

[Ravenbomb 0]

shit, someone beat me to You Got Served 2: Electric Boogaloo

[razazteca 0]

Actually I brought it up days ago in hardcore...

[Tawren 0]

I hate my generation. You Got Served? God...

[Guest Unwritten Religion]

There Is going to be a part 2 to YOU GOT SERVED~!

 

 

And the only reason why that movie did good because of one women....

 

MEGAN GOOD!

[razazteca 0]

Who is Megan Good? Need to see pic!

[Guest Unwritten Religion]

Who is Megan Good? Need to see pic!

 

[Guest El Satanico]

You Got Served didn't even have a very big promotional push. Not even close to the promotional pushes for The Big Bounce, The Score nor the last two #1 movies.

[Mik 0]

I love Owen Wilson, and I can't even lie...Big Bounce sucked...terribly.

[Vyce 0]

Big Bounce got incredibly awful reviews. It got an astounding 15% at Rottentomatoes.com. The only appeal I can see to that movie would be if it was 88 minutes of every male lead fucking Sara Foster. Really fucking her. On camera. Hardcore. Money shots & everything. That's the only way. Believe me, people would pay 9 bucks to see Morgan Freeman bukkake that bitch's face.

 

The Perfect score got a 16% rating, and You Got Served got 18%.

 

Absolutely atrocious. C'mon, America - go out and see Big Fish instead. Or watch LOTR for the 18th time like the rest of us geeks, both are better than this shit.