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You mean it doesn't appeal to the bubblegum crowd, metrosexuals, hippies, single femi-nazis (is that a redundancy?), conspiricy nuts, and/or eco-freaks? 

Watch it become a mega-hit.

2 You can add emigrant computer programmers in their 40s to the list.

Look, I've seen Iron Man and The Dark Knight. Isn't it enough already?

On second thought, maybe on DVD.

3 "Rival distribution executives"....?
Doubtless a valuable and completely unbiased source of information.

4 Well, speaking as a comic fan who likes most of the current wave of super hero movies. . .

I'm *not* looking forward to it, despite thinking the book was a masterpiece.  The way I see it, it'll either be:

1.  A disaster translating book to film

2.  A success. . . and result in the same grim-and-gritty fest that took over comics in the 90s all over again

5 Well I remember buying and reading the book when it came out, I was impressed with it as an artistic project and character study. It was indeed a "graphic" novel. However IMHO it promoted a not so subtle anti-American that was already somewhat dated when the book came out. Gillam just can't help it. He lives in the '60s. Given the viewpoint of the current Hollywood crowd I figure they'll bugger it with political view points.

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I have to say that I doubt this movie will do really well at the box office.  Even if it's a masterpiece, I just can't see it really catching on... I'd be happy if it did, but the story is dark enough and weird enough that I can't  see it doing that well in theaters.  The hype and lack of competition will probably give it a great launch this weekend, but after that, I'd expect it to drop like a stone.  Perhaps not as precipitous as Friday the 13th (which had an 80% or so drop off in ticket sales in its second week), but bad enough.  It's a hard movie to predict.  I could be disasterously wrong.

7 Pixy, can we borrow the pixy-wand again?

8 Bah, teens and twenty something males are also pretty interested in the movie.