Five reasons "Pirate Radio" flopped.
As you're doubtless aware, the weekend saw "Precious" making $6.1 million from a measly 174 screens, doing well on its probable journey towards Best Picture; "Fantastic Mr. Fox" did well too, pulling roughly the same per-theater average as "The Darjeeling Limited" in its first weekend, which means Wes Anderson may or may not still be too cool for the mainstream. Less remarked upon was the crash-and-burn failure of "Pirate Radio," Richard Curtis' tepidly-awaited follow-up to "Love Actually." Considering the latter is a dorm-room staple of deluded pseudo-romantic girls everywhere, why might this be? And no, "bad reviews" is not an acceptable answer -- the Metacritic score for "Pirate Radio" is actually slightly higher than that for "Love Actually". Here are five reasons for the film's failure, both conceptual and lifted from the terrible trailer: 1. No one cares about Richard Curtis in the US. Richard Curtis did time on "BlackAdder"...
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