Let's take photos of our cinema admission tickets, until we gather... 47, and perhaps Ani can put together a nice collage in photoshop.... and we'll put that on our front page. And send the final image to Universal, too...
I provide the first eight tickets, and will add two more tomorrow. That makes 10. We need 37 more. Every ticket counts....
It's a joke, it's a statement, it's... whatever you want to call it.
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg108/taifunu/IMDB%20stuff/ronintickets2013.jpg

We were Keanu's SWAT Team, once.
Maybe we can be Keanu's ronins, too. If only for one day...

Please?

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/47-ronin-box-office-bomb-1201012170/

aaaand... the plot thickens :

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/47-ronin-box-office-bomb-1201012170/#comments

mcstack says:
January 2, 2014 at 5:59 am

I would like to offer a couple of insights regarding the fate of 47 Ronin failure in the “Asian market” mentioned at the beginning of this article.

1) The “Asian market” consists of very diverse and sometimes-at-odds countries. The connection of this movie to a Japanese historical story often used to illustrate traditional Japanese values of the honor of loyalty and glory of sacrifice and the mainly Japanese cast spelled doom for this movie from the start in China and South Korea. There was never any hope for this movie, at this time, being embraced in those to major markets.

2) The movie also faced obstacles here in Japan, the only place where 47 Ronin ever had any hope of making money. First, the addition of all the fantasy elements really took the well known, traditional story too far beyond where people were willing to go with it. 47 Ronin would have had a better chance for success in Japan if it had a different title – spinning itself as it really was intended to be…a samurai “Lord of the Rings.” Next, there is a suspicion in Japan that the release of the 47 Ronin caused the release of the Hobbit 2 to be delayed for two and a half months until February 28, 2014. Some people, including me, actually advocated boycotting 47 Ronin in protest of the delay of the Hobbit 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_from_Japan

Also, if one doesn't know anything about Seppuku, Ronin, Bushido code than they may struggle to understand why this didn't have the a-typical Western happy ending.

Oh and I read one review that said it made no sense for Sanada's character to go find Reeves character. 100% disagree on that, wondered did they watch the same movie? (as I'm sure you all do too)

Now, the theater I went to here in Florida was packed. Never seen this place so full (just not for 47...) every movie was sold out. The couple in front of me ended up seeing Ronin instead and in the half-full theater showing it, the audience seemed to enjoy it. They laughed when it was appropriate and no groans, moans or complaining. So there you have it.

Just an example: when Gravity was launched, Warner offered a luncheon to all the media and press d*cks who then praised the movie to outer space and back. That's PR, people. Universal didn't lift a finger to promote 47 Ronin for the above mentioned keyboard pushers.

IF 47 Ronin were a bad or so-so movie, I wouldn't be so pissed about this lack of implication from its own producing studio. But it's a beautiful movie , and its only fault (IMO) is the lack of backstory which, I highly suspect, is due to the editing wars and NOT the director's fault. I never thought I'd have to defend a movie against its own producers, but apparently life can still offer me surprises. Oh well.