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I remember strolling through my college bookstore during my freshman year, leafing through just about any book I brushed against in an attempt to fill my burgeoning brain with all the world’s knowledge. My fingers didn’t spill over Nick McDonell’s *Twelve *so much as they stubbed into it, and as I reflexively peeled back the front cover of the previously loved novel, I saw that a former owner had written the following on the first page: “This is a very, very horrible book.” Okay, so maybe we can just call it “used.” I left it there on the shelf in the hopes that I could revisit it over the course of the year and see how long it might take for someone to ignore its warning. By the time I returned the next day the book had already been sold. Evidently – and to our collective misfortune – that copy was not purchased by Joel Schumacher.
Schumacher’s cinematic adaptation of ***Twelve*******opened last weekend to a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 4%, which suggests that the film is exactly half as good as M. Night Shymalan’s *The Last Airbender *(8%). Even so, Twelve was accepted and then debuted at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, the star-studded and widely loathed flick quickly becoming emblematic of everything that is wrong with Robert Redford’s once respectable indie happening. The film’s weekend gross of $110,238 may not seem so tragic at first, but when you consider that the film opened at 231 engagements, therefore making only $477 per theater, things suddenly get grim. Very, very grim. Comparatively, The A-Team](The A-Team (2010) - Movie | Moviefone) scraped together $789 per engagement, nearly doubling Twelve’s take despite being in its 9th week of release. Do you know anyone who saw *The A-Team *this weekend? I don’t even know anyone who saw The A-Team during the last 8 weeks.Filed under: Box Office
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