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Nic Cage Has Embarrassing #1 Opening With Bangkok Dangerous

Nic Cage Has Embarrassing #1 Opening With Bangkok Dangerous

This weekend moviegoers decided there were better things to do than actually go to the movies. The top ten movies slumped to the lowest gross in five years and got the fall movie season off to a horrible start. Nicolas Cage will get to claim another number one opening, but this one is nothing to brag about.

Avoid Babylon A.D. At All Costs?

Avoid Babylon A.D. At All Costs?

I like Vin Diesel, I admit it. Pitch Black is one of my favorite science fiction movies films, and I enjoyed Chronicles of Riddick. So when I saw the first trailers for Babylon A.D., I was actually intrigued and figured with Diesel and a cool looking science fiction story, nothing could go wrong.

Oh boy did something bad happen to this movie.

I haven’t seen it yet, and by all accounts, I shouldn’t. But some of the stuff being said about just how bad it is actually make me want to witness for myself what all the fuss is about.

Tropic Thunder Stays On Top Of Labor Day Weekend

Tropic Thunder Stays On Top Of Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day weekend is the traditional close of the summer movie season and this Labor Day saw no shortage of new films being dumped into the marketplace for a last ditch effort at making a few summer dollars. Most of the new films met with failure, however, enabling Robert Downey, Jr., who opened the summer at number one with Iron Man, close out the summer at number one with Tropic Thunder.

Tropic Thunder Retains The Top Spot At The Weekend Box Office

Tropic Thunder Retains The Top Spot At The Weekend Box Office

Tropic Thunder took advantage of strong word of mouth, a softening box office, and a host of weak contenders to stay at the top of the weekend box office charts for a second week in a row. The four films opening against it were all hit-and-miss.

Movie Poster for Babylon A.D. Starring Vin Diesel

Movie Poster for Babylon A.D. Starring Vin Diesel

The publicity for Babylon A.D. starring Vin Diesel has been decidedly low key for some reason. There were a lot of rumors at one time that the film had issues, but the trailers that I’ve seen have looked really good. This is exactly the kind of role I’d expect Vin Diesel fans to want to see him in so I’m a little perplexed as to why they haven’t been advertising more.

“Babylon A.D.” trailer with Vin Diesel

“Babylon A.D.” trailer with Vin Diesel

I found this trailer via First Showing, which was first posted over at IGN.

The movie is called Babylon A.D. and it stars Vin Diesel as a mercenary who takes on a high-risk job escorting a woman from Russia to China. However, there is something special about her, which IMDB tells us: