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It's hard to imagine that Warren Beatty was once an A-list actor.
I thought he was working on a set of one year deals. Did they sign him to a multi-year job?
Isn't insurance picking up most of the latter?
You should see "McCabe & Mrs. Miller."
I don't think very many people thought the A-Rod contract was a really good idea. At the very least, nobody thought he'd be worth anything like $60 million after he turned forty.
1. Zito
2. V. Wells
3. A-Rod
4. C. Silva
5. Sabathia
6. A. Soriano
7. Hafner
8. Matthews Jr.
9. Rowand
10. Willis/N. Robertson/Bonderman/C. Guillen (heh)
11. Helton
12. C. Lee
13. Pierre
14. Johjima
15. YuBet
Not too bad, really, although I agree that A-Rod/Sabathia aren't really appropriate. For one thing, I bet the Red Sox would take them...
but but but...
All info from Cot's Contracts:
2009:$15M, 2010:$19M, 2011:$20M
I thought he was working on a set of one year deals. Did they sign him to a multi-year job?
Phillies bought out the rest of his arbitration years. But it really hurt them.
Howard still hasn't figured out how to hit left handers, career .223/.306/.442 in 972 PAs. And that's with his huge 2006 MVP year. His ability to hit lefties keeps on regressing from 2007 on.
Well, as you note, it's only for the rest of the year, so it's a contract which could easily be moved by the Padres in return for another bad but short term contract - something like the annual NBA "Let's swap headcases" trade.
5. Sabathia
9. Rowand
Both these guys are good bets to be worth their contracts, or close to it. CC has a 119 ERA+ and is by merits clearly the team's ace. Rowand is a league average hitter and plays a decent CF. I'm not saying they are particularly *good* contracts, but barring injury or a sudden collapse, they are no worse than slight overpays and probably better than several dozen contracts not on the list.
He's been just ghastly for most of this season. To make it worse, Jason Bay has completely stopped hitting at the same time.
"As one agent to another, I've heard the emir is a prick."
If by "most of the season" you mean "the last month, and not at all for the first three months of the year" then, yeah.
I was just about to post the same thing.
She said "Come, look, there's a wardrobe of love in my eyes
"Take your time, look around, and see if there's something your size"
Ditto Hudson Hawk, BTW.
Matthews for CC Sabathia? They would trade Matthews for JJ Fad. They would also trade him for Hafner, if Vlad were no longer available.
The difference between Matthews and most of those guys (save for a couple bad arms) is that Matthews doesn't belong on a big league roster.
My brother is an actor and was in that movie. I was forced to see if and it was not funny. Was is the worst movie of all time? No, but it was below average. The songs were okay.
He was a little better than I remember him being in April and May, but not really good enough for someone with that high a profile in April at least. Probably more "middling" than "ghastly."
Since July 1 of course he's been hitting like a pitcher.
No one would take his contract if you included Roy Halladay with him.
Hey, there's always a chance he might use his option to become a free agent and opt out of the remaining $63 million after 2011. If you trade for him you get ample time to figure out a way to drug him or blackmail him into doing so.
I think torture would be required, and probably justified given that contract.
If every other professional and college player was somehow killed or maimed, he might get a bigger contract.
Hudson Hawk is exactly as funny as Ishtar. Though in my view, that's not a good thing for either movie.
The list is a list of "untradeable" contracts. That doesn't necessarily mean bad. Nobody was lining up to beat the Yankees' offer last offseason. Sabathia has been solid enough but certainly hasn't done anything to convince a team that didn't think he was worth 8/$180 (or whatever) last offseason to change their minds. (not to mention the economy) Some of the contracts on this list (and in the honorable mentions) are there because there are only 2-3 teams that could afford the contract anyway.
Now "untradeable" probably isn't the right word. The Dodgers could trade Pierre as long as they were willing to pick up all but about $2-3 M per year. Surely the same is true of Hafner (who's having a pretty good season) and lots of other guys on this list. The proper term would be something like "contracts that the team will never really be able to get out from under" but that's a bit cumbersome.
Rowand's probably the one ranked much too highly. I agree it's not a great contract but 3/$36 remaining isn't a killer and he likely won't be terrible. In theory, the Rowand and Wells contracts shouldn't have turned out any worse than the Torii Hunter contract.
But, technically, injured players aside, Johjima (his #14) probably deserves the #1 slot whether you're talking "dumb" or "untradeable." Other than in a dual salary dump or an "OK, we'll trade you Felix but you have to take Johjima" trade, that thing is radioactive.
J.D. Drew is signed thru 2011; that should have at least gotten an honorable mention.
Common denominator? Dan Aykroyd. That's why Exit to Eden, Coneheads, and Doctor Detroit were so hilarious as well.
That reminds me - "Evan Almighty" was terrible. I think they spent like $100 million on that. Terrible.
It seems like whenever a comedy comes out and someone makes a note of its big budget, it's pretty much always horrible. Evan Almighty, Town & Country, Monster In Law...
Isn't that because nobody "makes a note" of the budget until it's clear the movie is going to be bad? Nobody mentions the budgets for the Pixar movies.
Well, we expect summer action blockbusters and other effects-heavy extravaganzas to have huge budgets, and those budgets get routinely discussed whether or not the movies are reviewed favorably or are commercial successes
Of course people are more likely to know 2009 Mets payroll than the 2009 Dodgers payroll going forward.
Blues Brothers had a great soundtrack and two or three good scenes, but had way too many car crashes. The first Ghostbusters, OTOH, was genuinely clever and funny.
It seems like whenever a comedy comes out and someone makes a note of its big budget, it's pretty much always horrible.
Terry Gilliam's movies cost a fortune, but you see every penny on the screen. They're generally worth it.
Even movies about his movies are entertaining - Lost in La Mancha was a ton of fun.
Nothing beats Rosie O'Donnell running around in bondage wear.
Chavez is 85% covered by insurance, and Byrnes is a better player. Betancourt is terrible, and the Royals are so bad that they'll keep trotting him out there.
Jose Guillen gets no respect.
His contract is way too short, and up until this season, he hasn't been near as bad as any of those guys.
While it would be nice to clear Vernon's contract, the idea of Barry Zito against the offenses of the AL East ranks right up there with "Land War in Asia," "New Coke," and "Hockey in Phoenix."
I didn't know that such a thing was possible.
I think torture would be required, and probably justified given that contract.
Hire Tony Bernazard to be his personal trainer.
Up until about 3 weeks ago, he was on pace to surpase his WAR from last season. Most players have slumps during the course of the season and right now Drew happens to be in one.
This is something I want, my girlfriend is thinking of remodeling some of her bathroom and I keep telling her to get these.
You should post her and see the bidding war that ensues.
And going in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!
ouch, she would probably beat me to ribbons if I did that, she's upset enough when I did the donkey punch thing......Um, post doesn't mean something like that? um nevermind.
biggest problem is getting the outlet closer to the seat.
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it's a condo that she just bought (closed on the 14th) she's doing a lot of other type of work before moving in but doesn't really want to do any more electrical stuff(had three ceiling fans wired already) we still have to paint and other stuff, I just keep teasing her about the toilet telling her to buy one of those $5000 deals with all the amenities.
Everyone I know who's seen it loves it. It's a great movie, even though Robin Williams is in it trying to be funny.
At 5 large, it should come with a guy who wipes your arse for you.
Not Hale-Bopp, though.
I feel like Back to the Future, at $19 million, probably had a fairly substantial budget by the standards of its day, and it is the best movie ever made bar none.
Who's that? A general sense or someone in particular.
The biggest spenders aren't hurt by salary albatrosses to the same extent as the other teams. That's pretty obvious, right? The Yankees have had overpaid players all throughout this decade, and to their credit, they generally don't parcel out playing time based on salary. It's almost as though they really do set paying for past peak years as part of the cost of signing FAs, accepting salaries in trades, and resigning their own. This isn't the Jays with Wells. You don't see the Yankees shopping their best player to pay for the mistake--or even refraining from adding massive contracts when they've got some overpaid bits.
That's probably a pretty good example, though BttF is sort of a hybrid of a teen comedy and a low-intensity sci-fi picture, the latter of which at least suggests a big budget.
And there's the real advatange the Yankees have even over the second-tier of big-money teams like the Red Sox, Mets, Dodgers, et al.
this is something I don't really understand, outside of Men in Black, how often does a comedy really generate a ton of money, the best ones are stuff with relatively small budgets and a good script and cast, special effects(which is what a large portion of the budgets are spent) is not really necessary for a comedy.
Cable Guy was/is underrated. Supposedly too many people were turned off by a 'dark' Jim Carey. I love the movie.
Does "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" count as a comedy? Roughly $100M to make (plus marketing of around $20M) and world wide theater revenues of just over $7M.
Why do studios keep giving Eddie Murphy work?
EDIT: I see that it was already linked in #77.
you don't need the $5000 toilet, though.
I remember reading a while back that EVERY single movie of his had turned a profit. If this was true, and even if the streak ended with one of the movies just mentioned, you can see why they keep giving him work.
In theater, or once DVD/VHS/PPV is included? If it's the latter, then there's nothing particularly abnormal about that - the massive majority of major studio movies turn a profit once all revenue streams are included.
Comsidering some of the horse crap he's been in over his career, I refuse to believe it's the former.
but sometimes horsecrap is popular horsecrap
I never saw the movie, but read the book in high school. I know the film angered lots of people by changing the ending due to unfavorable focus group testing. However, I don't quite understand how a 1995 movie got that price tag attached to it, unless they also added spaceships, multiple car chases and subsequent crashes, epic battle scenes, or random explosions, which were also missing from the source material.
And the spaceships.
Fortunately, Dana Delany offsets this somewhat.
More than somewhat.
Yes, how does one think of that movie and Rosie O'Donnell is the first name that comes to mind?
Well, some things are just so obvious that you don't even need to mention them.
Because that's an image not easily scrubbed from ones retinae, no matter how hard one might try.
Wow, that's an interesting list. I actually saw "Burn Hollywood Burn". How ironic that a movie about "Alan Smithee", the pseudonym used for directors who want their name disassociated with a disaster, was Alan Smitheed. It was a disaster of a movie. I can't believe it even made $45,000.
I take some pleasure in seeing that politically conservative "comedy" "An American Carol" on there. I had a very right-wing friend see it and he said he walked out in the middle of it - it was that bad.
How does a movie gross only $30 even with very, very limited release? I mean can't they get friends and family to watch it?
Idiocracy was a spectacular failure, although I think that was the movie company not promoting it at all and not widely releasing it. Cost $30 million and grossed $444,000. It had its moments though.
That movie was released to one theater somewhere in the Dallas area pursuant to some agreement about a theatrical release. There was an article in Entertainment Weekly all about it.
You're right about a large part of the reason behind Idiocracy failing - there was no real ad campaign, and the studio greatly scaled back the release on short notice. As a result, there were a ton of cities where it never even opened. They did basically the same thing to Office Space, although people were more aggressive in seeking it out both in theater and on video/DVD.
It's interesting that they did that to Mike Judge twice, when he's proven that he knows how to make successful comedy.
They're just not very good at dealing with satire that's targetted at them (and their advertisers/sponsors). I can't imagine that, after watching Idiocracy, Starbucks would have been very happy to find out that their company was associated with hand jobs.
That's another thing I noticed. I mean, I suppose $60M is not especially extravagant for a LOTR-esque epic movie made in 2007-08. But the act of giving Uwe Boll, the man behind Alone In The Dark and Bloodrayne, that kind of money and expecting anything good or lucrative to come of it...that is another story.
But they don't expect anything lucrative to come from it, which is why they give it to Uwe Boll. He's funded by companies looking to get a loss so that they can get themself a nice tax credit, or otherwise reduce their tax burden:
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