©1991-2007
Student Publications,
All rights reserved.

Last modified:

Contact:
ktruitt@uh.edu

Life & Arts

Stinky 'Pink Panther' keeps others away

Moviegoers should chill until quality films hit the big screen

COUGAR LIFE & ARTS STAFF

It was a photo finish at the box office as Steve Martin's The Pink Panther grossed $21.7 million, $1.6 million more than the gimmick-driven Final Destination 3 to claim the top spot.

That's a lot of money for some pink cat. Any way you look at it, you know Hollywood isn't trying too hard to release quality films right now when films like Curious George, which grossed $15.3 million in its debut, and Firewall ($13.8 million) are earning enough money to make us feel sick in the belly.

It's just a joke when you see a movie like The Pink Panther appeal to so many people.

Steve Martin is a wild and crazy guy and all but this is hardly him at his best. He should round up the old gang, dust off his old mariachi suit and try and save some small Mexican village from a gang of banditos.

Nah, Hollywood may just ruin that too.

Even Big Momma's House 2 is still managing to get people in the theater seats. The film earned $6.8 million to bring its total to $54.8 million. Think about it. It's a guy who calls jumping in a fat suit going under cover. Whatever happened to the cop movies like Dirty Harry or even Hard to Kill? Most would love to see old Clint Eastwood make a couple of bad guys sweat. Some would even rather see a hefty Steven Seagal karate-chop some guy in the throat than watch Big Momma scarf down a pork chop.

Goodness gracious, Big Momma has some explaining to do.

Here's a thought: Why don't moviegoers just go see the films that were nominated for Oscars or Golden Globes until we get past this dry spell? Brokeback Mountain, which had the fourth spot in the box office top 10, was bumped down to number eight. That's worse than canceling a fishing trip in the mountains, but the film is still in there sword-fighting with these other punks.

The other option would be to go see Kate Beckinsale in Underworld: Evolution and hope you get a peek at her underpants. I keeed, I keeed.
 

Send comments to dcshobiz@mail.uh.edu