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NEWS: Live-Action Kite Film Opens in Theaters on Friday




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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:39 am Reply with quote
Not sure why SLJ was in this. I can't imagine they had a budget to pay him a lot. Particularly as it is essentially a direct-to-video film.

And so far the verdict is not good. 0% on Rottentomatoes. 19 on Metacritic. That isn't just bad, it is awful. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:56 am Reply with quote
On the plus side, a zero-percent Tomatometer means ads for this movie (which is hardly being advertised anywhere so far as I can tell, but I don't have cable right now) can legitimately claim "Critics are unanimous!", and technically be telling the truth.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:22 am Reply with quote
Tenchi wrote:
On the plus side, a zero-percent Tomatometer means ads for this movie can legitimately claim "Critics are unanimous!", and technically be telling the truth.

Everybody does that. I'm half expecting:
Zac Bertschy wrote:
"if you're really in to cruelty and depravity and are A-OK with a rape scene unambiguously played for fanservice titillation"

to show up like this in a year or so:
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"A-OK!" - Zac Bertschy, Anime News Network
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 4:21 am Reply with quote
I had a moment of whiplash when I read the name Brian Cox but I quickly realized it couldn't possibly be that Brian Cox (you know, the physicist/author/frequent BBC science program host)...
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 6:01 am Reply with quote
I saw a random commercial about this on cinimax i think.

just looking at the trailer they butchered this.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 8:24 am Reply with quote
They played this at Otakon this year. Wasn't happy with it.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:03 am Reply with quote
partially wrote:
Not sure why SLJ was in this. I can't imagine they had a budget to pay him a lot. Particularly as it is essentially a direct-to-video film.


He was also Afro Samurai. I'm guessing he's got some affinity for anime.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 3:38 am Reply with quote
partially wrote:
Not sure why SLJ was in this. I can't imagine they had a budget to pay him a lot. Particularly as it is essentially a direct-to-video film.

And so far the verdict is not good. 0% on Rottentomatoes. 19 on Metacritic. That isn't just bad, it is awful. Rolling Eyes


He's in it because he was one of the individuals pushing to get it made. As for why that's simple because he is an anime fan. Kite being one of his favorites.

As for the rating it was never intended to be a big budget blockbuster. This film was made on a very small budget. More of a "lets just make it a cheap as we can just because we want to and screw the critics".
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:56 pm Reply with quote
Mikeski wrote:
Tenchi wrote:
On the plus side, a zero-percent Tomatometer means ads for this movie can legitimately claim "Critics are unanimous!", and technically be telling the truth.

Everybody does that. I'm half expecting:
Zac Bertschy wrote:
"if you're really in to cruelty and depravity and are A-OK with a rape scene unambiguously played for fanservice titillation"

to show up like this in a year or so:
CrossAnge BluRay cover wrote:
"A-OK!" - Zac Bertschy, Anime News Network

+1 internet points to you Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:46 pm Reply with quote
digritz wrote:
He's in it because he was one of the individuals pushing to get it made. As for why that's simple because he is an anime fan. Kite being one of his favorites.

As for the rating it was never intended to be a big budget blockbuster. This film was made on a very small budget. More of a "lets just make it a cheap as we can just because we want to and screw the critics".


I don't think SLJ knew a goddamn thing about it. In that video where he was introducing the trailer he was talking about some graphic novel that doesn't exist. Actors do just take shit jobs because they offered a paycheck (see: Nick Cage), they do it all the time, and this is just one those "should have stayed DTV" examples. I'm inclined to believe fans of Kite would probably just hate it all the more for being a low budget production with no style of its own.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 1:58 pm Reply with quote
How many theatres was Kite even in? I don't see it at all on BoxOffice.com's nor The-Numbers.com's weekend estimates. (BoxOfficeMojo.com isn't showing up for me right now. I know it was redirecting to IMDb earlier this weekend but was back up for a while last night. Now I'm not even getting the IMDb re-direct, just a blank screen.)

Kite got reviewed by some big city critics, so I know it didn't get just a contractural obligation single screen theatrical release in some small town way out in the desert in Arizona, but it doesn't seem to have been on too many other screens.
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