Rush Hour 3

[ANTOINE X]

Man! Chris T is rich$$$$$$$ he was payed 25 MILLION + 20% back end gross!!!

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

Man! Chris T is rich$$$$$$$ he was payed 25 MILLION + 20% back end gross!!!

he deserves it IMO. He makes a movie, gets paid, then goes to Africa and helps children with aids...he's a nice man

 

[Blader5489]

Saw the movie last Friday, and came out sorely disappointed. I really liked the first two movies, but Rush Hour 3 was terrible and one of the worst films of the summer. Aside from the bloopers, I laughed maybe three times throughout the whole thing. Most of the jokes were either recycled from the other movies or were just awful in their own right (like the Roman Polanski cameo).

And I know this is a comedy, and isn't meant to be taken seriously, but the script was just absolute garbage.

 

[Bishop2]

Man! Chris T is rich$$$$$$$ he was payed 25 MILLION + 20% back end gross!!!

Actually it was $20 million and 20% back end, but you got the idea. Jackie didn't do much worse, you know.... $15 million plus 15% back end!

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

Saw the movie last Friday, and came out sorely disappointed. I really liked the first two movies, but Rush Hour 3 was terrible and one of the worst films of the summer. Aside from the bloopers, I laughed maybe three times throughout the whole thing. Most of the jokes were either recycled from the other movies or were just awful in their own right (like the Roman Polanski cameo).

And I know this is a comedy, and isn't meant to be taken seriously, but the script was just absolute garbage.

I thought it was good?

 

[Bishop2]

I would love to know why the dude who wrote the original Rush Hour, Ross LaManna, hasn't had a job since? I thought that was easily the best one. Who the hell threw him out on the street?

 

[Pyroschik]

I thought it was awesome and hilarious, but that's just my personal opinion.

 

[ANTOINE X]

he deserves it IMO. He makes a movie, gets paid, then goes to Africa and helps children with aids...he's a nice man

you re right

 

[ANTOINE X]

Actually it was $20 million and 20% back end, but you got the idea. Jackie didn't do much worse, you know.... $15 million plus 15% back end!

oh? Ok IMDB said 25M probably they didn t update

 

[TheVileOne]

I would love to know why the dude who wrote the original Rush Hour, Ross LaManna, hasn't had a job since? I thought that was easily the best one. Who the hell threw him out on the street?

My guess is that he was the original writer for the movie before it became a Jackie Chan/Chris Tucker buddy comedy. The movie was not originally written as such. Ratner was the one that brought to Jackie Chan and got him on and I believe Jeff Nathanson was the un-credited writer that tailored it to Chan and Tucker.

 

[ANTOINE X]

It was funny but not better than the first 2. Where was Jackie chan stunts??? there s nothing spectacular compare to the previous one.

 

[Warhammer]

It was funny but not better than the first 2. Where was Jackie chan stunts??? there s nothing spectacular compare to the previous one.

He was too old to be doing that stuff.

 

[xwolverine2]

yeah... just a dumb and simple jump-off-the eiffle tower routine...... anybody can do that.

 

[ANTOINE X]

He was too old to be doing that stuff.

You right its been alomst 6 years since rush hour 2... he most be old by now

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

nah, I completely disagree with a bunch of you...I think it's the best of the trilogy...FULL ON RUSH HOUR!

 

[TheVileOne]

VileOne, I don't really enjoy putting you on the spot, but I must. I saw that you rated this movie with the lowest rating. Here's the thing that confuses me. You've not only been adament of your Brett Ratner hate, but also your extreme dislike of the Rush Hour franchise as a whole, as well as dogging this film before you saw it, talking about this movie in the Bourne thread, quoting Kal-El 8 and saying how a Rush Hour movie is not worthy of 4 and 5 stars, and constantly discussing/posting box office results.

Let's get something straight. I don't hate the franchise as a whole. I mildly enjoy Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2. But let's be honest about something. These are NOT great movies. Or they are not 4 or 5 star movies. At best they are maybe 3 stars. I think parts of them are decent, somewhat fun action movies. But THIS movie was NOT worth waiting six years and all the money it took to make. And all it does is recycle lots of **** from the last two as well as showing a totally bored and pedestrian Chan phoning it in, and a totally one-note Chris Tucker.

It just makes total sense to me that Brett Ratner was the person Tom Rothman gave X-men 3 to. I thank the Deity that we at least got two X-men movies that Ratner had nothing to do with. When Rothman and Arad probably would've loved it even more if Ratner did all three.

Did you actually watch Rush Hour 3 before you voted on the poll?
Did you seriously pay 9 bucks to watch a film that you seemed to have no interest in?

1. Yes.
2. I didn't pay 9 bucks.
3. It's my job to see it.

I'm pretty sure that's an exaggeration - even freaking Waterworld managed to be profitable a little over a year after it's release thanks to people checking it out on video. I mean, c'mon. If this thing does even as well as Rise of the Silver Surfer did, I think it's got an easy profit ahead of it overseas. But it'll never been as the hit the first two were.

It's ridiculous budget was a little cushioned by the overseas gross.

Rise of the Silver Surfer did not do that well. It totally disappointed and underperformed.

And my prediction is that it will make even less than that movie, unless the overseas gross is really fantastic, which I don't see happening.

My predictions are based directly upon what I've been reading on the movie from sources such as The Wall Street Journal. The costs for the movie are almost un-Godly, and it's not just the production budget.

Initially, I heard a paycheck around $25 million for Tucker as well. But hey, New Line gave it to him.

 

[Warhammer]

Are you a film critic?

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

Are you a film critic?

yeah, I think he is...

 

[BloodyWolverine]

I gave t a 7 deserved a 6 but in my opinion the better film this weekedn was Stardust and it will flop because of this disaster. A shame Stardust didn't get more money in the opening weekend.

 

[TheVileOne]

Also, let's be honest about something else. Jackie Chan has been publically honest that he HATES these movies and he doesn't like doing them, and he only does them for the money.

So it's kind of telling because you see that in his work here. It's total, "Just here for the paycheck" performance work.

 

[xwolverine2]

Are you a film critic?

we all are.

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

Also, let's be honest about something else. Jackie Chan has been publically honest that he HATES these movies and he doesn't like doing them, and he only does them for the money.

So it's kind of telling because you see that in his work here. It's total, "Just here for the paycheck" performance work.

Now where the hell are you getting this? BS I tell you...BS!

 

[TheVileOne]

Now where the hell are you getting this? BS I tell you...BS!

He said so in an interview for THE TUXEDO on CHUD.COM several years ago.

 

[Bishop2]

Also, let's be honest about something else. Jackie Chan has been publically honest that he HATES these movies and he doesn't like doing them, and he only does them for the money.

I think you've... misinterpreted what he's said on the subject.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/chan.php

He originally came back after filming the first one and didn't understand why they didn't spend as much time on the action. Didn't understand the jokes. Thought it was a piece of crap because of the American system. Came home and told the press that he hated the movie... this was before it came out. And then it was a hit, and he suddenly understood that Americans do it very differently. Plus his English improved noticably since that first film if you ask me.

I don't think Jackie is ever interested in a paycheck. He doesn't need any more of those to live a life of luxury forevermore. He IS interested in attaining fame in America, though. He wants to be known worldwide, that's always been a goal of his. I think that, even though he's uncomfortable with how films are shot in the American system, he's come to respect these movies - and the Shanghai series to a lesser extent - because they've given him the fame he always wanted in America. He's also mentioned that he appreciates being able to work as the fight choreographer and have control over his own action in these things. When he did The Big Brawl, he didn't even have THAT much respect afforded to him.

Truly, if he didn't care, he wouldn't have spent so much of the last 6 years trying to throw location pitches for Rush Hour 3 at Chris Tucker, flying out to wherever Tuck was on vacation to talk to him about movie ideas, etc. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have been so actively pursuing it if he didn't give a damn.

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

He said so in an interview for THE TUXEDO on CHUD.COM several years ago.

Wrong! check Bishop2's post...