Comments on: Hang A Lantern On It http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/07/27/hang-a-lantern-on-it/ Covering weekly box office grosses in the US and TV ratings. Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:33:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: TPN :: Box Office Weekly » Blog Archive » Box Office Weekly #077 http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/07/27/hang-a-lantern-on-it/#comment-111897 TPN :: Box Office Weekly » Blog Archive » Box Office Weekly #077 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:49:37 +0000 http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/07/27/hang-a-lantern-on-it/#comment-111897 [...] In todays show: O.J. Finally makes money on his book but it’s for someone else… Woody Allen seduces Barcelona… and in this week’s commentary; I spotlight the writer’s trick that makes any script flaw work. All this and a program hits number one without being a reality show, today on Box Office Weekly. [...] [...] In todays show: O.J. Finally makes money on his book but it’s for someone else… Woody Allen seduces Barcelona… and in this week’s commentary; I spotlight the writer’s trick that makes any script flaw work. All this and a program hits number one without being a reality show, today on Box Office Weekly. [...]

]]> By: Skot http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/07/27/hang-a-lantern-on-it/#comment-110649 Skot Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:07:11 +0000 http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/07/27/hang-a-lantern-on-it/#comment-110649 "The Wild, Wild West" was (and still is) a slippery slope to me. It's not that it seemed too farfetched for me (I loved "The Twilight Zone" and even thought "Gilligan's Island" had a certain logic to it). ANd it's not that I thought it was dumb-- unlike "Lost in Space," which I'm proud to admit insulted my intelligence as a six-year-old. I guess I just never got the "James Bond-Secret Agent-Western" premise. I couldn't make the conceptual leap, I guess. The WWW movie (which I feel bad about mentioning as even by association it sullies this fine entry) oddly enough, bridges this article and the last one. Turning it into a star vehicle for Will Smith made a dog's breakfast out of an already delicate concept. “The Wild, Wild West” was (and still is) a slippery slope to me. It’s not that it seemed too farfetched for me (I loved “The Twilight Zone” and even thought “Gilligan’s Island” had a certain logic to it). ANd it’s not that I thought it was dumb– unlike “Lost in Space,” which I’m proud to admit insulted my intelligence as a six-year-old. I guess I just never got the “James Bond-Secret Agent-Western” premise. I couldn’t make the conceptual leap, I guess.

The WWW movie (which I feel bad about mentioning as even by association it sullies this fine entry) oddly enough, bridges this article and the last one. Turning it into a star vehicle for Will Smith made a dog’s breakfast out of an already delicate concept.

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