“The Mummy” is out in the world, and while the Tom Cruise movie has barely made a ripple domestically, internationally the A-list star had the best opening of his career, which has helped power the picture to nearly $300 million worldwide. It’s not bad for one of the worst reviewed blockbusters of the summer and of Cruise’s career, but, according to director Alex Kurtzman, the audiences are digging it and that’s all that matters.
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Chatting with Business Insider, the filmmaker made it clear: “This is a movie that I think is made for audiences and in my experience, critics and audiences don’t always sing the same song.”
“I’m not making movies ,” he added. “Would I love them to love it? Of course, everybody would, but that’s not really the endgame. We made a film for audiences and not critics so my great hope is they will find it and they will appreciate it.”
However, that’s not to say that negative press doesn’t reach Kurtzman, as he admits it “kills your soul” a little bit after spending so long working on a movie. Still, the audiences have spoken — at least internationally — in opposition to the critics, which means Universal avoids a full-on flop as “The Mummy” approaches a respectable, though not quite heroic tally. Meanwhile, Hollywood continues to try and figure out what to do with those pesky critics….. [via Bloody Disgusting]
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Aren’t they one and the same?
this kind of rhetoric is just disrespectful to fans, basically insulting them as if they aren’t critics of what is fed to them. corporate blockbusters are trying to keep audiences dumbed down.
The story is out: it was a Tom Cruise production from pillar to post and Kurtzman was the “Richard Marquand” of that crew.
And yet “the audience” has rated The Mummy a 5.8 on imdb, a score equal to his much maglined film, Cocktail, and the lowest of his repertoire.
“It’s for fans, not critics” is the thing directors now say to cover their asses when their movie tanks. See Batman V Superman.
Correction: We made a movie Tom Cruise wanted to see.
Get a life.
Critics are paid douchebags.
I saw the movie, it’s fantastic and way better than Brendan Fraser’s flicks.