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this movie grossed $101,000,000 + dollars?

posted 17 years ago by lilkunta3
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this movie really made $101,000,000 + dollars?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081562/business

Wow. Did it earn this in the 80s, or it has earned this much to date? That is alot of money now in 7 so I now it was super super alot of $ for the 80s!

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[–] Doom 16 years ago

At the time, Silver Streak really 'caught on' and this film truly reaped the rewards from that, being their next release paired together.

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[–] preppy-3 15 years ago

Yeah--this would have bombed without "Silver Streak". "Silver..." was a great movie but this is crude, stupid and unfunny. Critics tore it apart too. I remember seeing this in a theatre in 1980. It was packed but most of the audience sat there in dead silence throughout. I almost walked out but I kept saying to myself "maybe it'll get better". Sadly it didn't. Pryor and Wilder were great together but this is easily the worst of their pairings.

[–] skiop 15 years ago

Critics tore it apart too

Really? How did it get three stars in the TV listings? The only negative review I ever saw was Ebert's. Not that I'm taking up for it; in fact, I've never been able to make it through the whole thing, but I think you might be generalizing a bit.

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[–] preppy-3 15 years ago

Actually Siskel AND Ebert hated it. Pauline Kael of "The New Yorker" hated it. The Boston Globe and Boston Herald hated it. I didn't say ALL the critics hated it but, in general, they did.

[–] skiop 15 years ago

That's a lot, but I'm somehow not surprised by Gene Siskel and Pauline Kael (did they like anything?). It's surprising that it got a good rating in the TV listings (both TV Guide and online). TV Guide's online review (many of which differ significantly from what TV Guide magazine gives them) gives it three stars but says what they say for pretty much all Richard Pryor movies (Pryor elevates the movie above the material). They only gave Silver Streak 2.5; I didn't care for that one either, for the record.

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[–] preppy-3 15 years ago

LOL--Well Siskel seemed to hate everything but Pauline Kael loved quite a few movies. She also thought Wilder and Pryor were very talented comedians--she just thought "Stir Crazy" was beneath them (she hated the script--not them). OK--I LOVED "Silver Streak". Remember--that's the film that first paired them and got them started as a team.

[–] mkie492 15 years ago

The movie was huge when it first came out. Everyone was talking about it for years after, especially the "we bad" scene.