Strange heading for a post that. What's $828 anyway? Well there's a film called Perrier's Bounty and this blog is not a fan. Already, it's been mentioned here how unoriginal, smug, contrived, and crap the film is. But did this stop the Irish media from acclaiming the movie? Of course not. Because the Irish Film industry is all about the backslapping and showing that we can do it as well as the Brits. Sadly we can't. Not only did this pile of crap cost €5 million to make but it also received extra funding from the Film Board to promote! So what's that $828 again? Well that's how much it took at the American box office! It made EIGHT HUNDRED and TWENTY EIGHT dollars*! So once again well done to the Irish Film Board for funding this sh*te. Well done to the no-hopers who made this picture. It's all about who you know, eh? Listen, if this movie was an arthouse film in the Irish language then fair enough. But it was a very commercial and multiplex-aimed movie that no-one liked. Now it's out on DVD. Check the XtraVision bargain bin in a few months folks!
* Today's Irish Mail on Sunday