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According to Adventureland at IMDb, the film is slated to be released in 2008. Can anyone confirm that its release is 2009? ( IndulgentReader ( talk) 23:59, 4 December 2007 (UTC))
Perhaps there should be some mention of the real amusement park Adventureland that this film is based upon? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.196.246 ( talk) 02:00, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, actually to clarify that, the theme park from the movie is based on Adventureland in New York, but the movie is most definitely set in Pittsburgh. ( MJuice ( talk) 04:50, 4 April 2009 (UTC))
I find the cast section horribly written, so I deleted it and added the appopriate information into the plot summary. This is above and beyond the fact that most of the cast section is completely unnecessary.
For example, these have information that can just be added to the plot if necessary:
* Margarita Levieva as Lisa P., a worker at Adventureland she is a Rides person, and dances in front of her ride to draw in customers. She asks James out on a date. * Jack Gilpin as Mr. Brennan. He is transferred to a new job with less pay, and is unable to help James go on his dream tour of Europe for the summer and he won't be able to help pay for his graduate education at Columbia University. * Wendie Malick as Mrs. Brennan. James believes his mother would rather he intern at some fortune 500 company rather than go on to study journalism.
And particularly these ones, if they're not important enough to be in the plot section, then we don't need to discuss them:
* Kristen Wiig as Paulette, Bobby's wife, who is living her husband's dream (and she likes it). * Mark Miller as Mark, a Games Worker * Paige Howard as Sue O'Malley, another park employee who gets drunk and kisses Joel but quickly loses interest in him, claiming her strict Catholic parents wouldn't let her be with a Jewish boy. * Dan Bittner as Pete O'Malley, Sue's obnoxious brother and one of the park's employees. * Barret Hackney as Munch, one of the games employees, who attempts to impress Em' with his drumming skills. * Josh Pais as Emilys father, a laywer. * Mary Birdsong as Francie, Emilys stepmother. She lost her hair from the stress of a nervous breakdown after her first divorce and wears a wig. If she weren't a "status obsessed witch" Emily might feel sorry for her.
I admit that I did not summarize every detail from the cast section into the plot summary, but that was because it was not necessary (for example, the fact that Joel is Jewish is not crucial to the plot). If someone wants to do that, feel free to do so. If there is a consensus that there must be a cast section, then please rewrite it so it's not painful to read. Jabberwockgee ( talk) 18:54, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
The Soundtrack section was made into two collapsible objects. I was skeptical of the change of the second section from adequate prose into a more dull list. Changing that list into a table is overcomplicated even if the table can be now hidden. Having two collapsible boxes is messy and cluttered. If you could make it so the whole soundtrack section could be collapsed in one go instead of two boxes it might makes some sense. This doesn't really make sense at all if it is not part of a policy (or some kind of consensus) that others are working to apply to the Soundtrack sections across other film articles. -- Horkana ( talk) 00:24, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Along with the discussion of mismarketing, the Reception section makes it sounds like this film was a commercial failure:
In its first week at the box office Adventureland opened moderately wide in only 1862 screens grossing 5.7 million ranking #6 at the box office. Despite opening up in fourteen more screens in its second week Adventureland only took in 3.4 million, falling to #9 at the box office.
If it made 16 million on domestic, not even counting overseas, DVD sales etc., isn't that a resounding commercial success for a film with a budget of 9.5 million? Skomorokh, barbarian 17:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Someone (not me, I'm terrible with this stuff) should create a separate page for the soundtrack, not only is it brilliant (by itself or taken with the other songs used in the film), but the other songs used within feature a prominent role in the movie, as evidenced all the Lou Reed, Neil Young, Husker Du, Big Star references, shirts, etc. From a purely clerical perspective, the soundtrack section is rather large...typically you'd just see a track listing (not that I'm arguing for someone to just wipe it out and not put up a new page - don't!). ````Jason H —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.97.197.19 ( talk) 05:10, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
I agree. Jabberwockgee ( talk) 17:33, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
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According to Adventureland at IMDb, the film is slated to be released in 2008. Can anyone confirm that its release is 2009? ( IndulgentReader ( talk) 23:59, 4 December 2007 (UTC))
Perhaps there should be some mention of the real amusement park Adventureland that this film is based upon? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.196.246 ( talk) 02:00, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, actually to clarify that, the theme park from the movie is based on Adventureland in New York, but the movie is most definitely set in Pittsburgh. ( MJuice ( talk) 04:50, 4 April 2009 (UTC))
I find the cast section horribly written, so I deleted it and added the appopriate information into the plot summary. This is above and beyond the fact that most of the cast section is completely unnecessary.
For example, these have information that can just be added to the plot if necessary:
* Margarita Levieva as Lisa P., a worker at Adventureland she is a Rides person, and dances in front of her ride to draw in customers. She asks James out on a date. * Jack Gilpin as Mr. Brennan. He is transferred to a new job with less pay, and is unable to help James go on his dream tour of Europe for the summer and he won't be able to help pay for his graduate education at Columbia University. * Wendie Malick as Mrs. Brennan. James believes his mother would rather he intern at some fortune 500 company rather than go on to study journalism.
And particularly these ones, if they're not important enough to be in the plot section, then we don't need to discuss them:
* Kristen Wiig as Paulette, Bobby's wife, who is living her husband's dream (and she likes it). * Mark Miller as Mark, a Games Worker * Paige Howard as Sue O'Malley, another park employee who gets drunk and kisses Joel but quickly loses interest in him, claiming her strict Catholic parents wouldn't let her be with a Jewish boy. * Dan Bittner as Pete O'Malley, Sue's obnoxious brother and one of the park's employees. * Barret Hackney as Munch, one of the games employees, who attempts to impress Em' with his drumming skills. * Josh Pais as Emilys father, a laywer. * Mary Birdsong as Francie, Emilys stepmother. She lost her hair from the stress of a nervous breakdown after her first divorce and wears a wig. If she weren't a "status obsessed witch" Emily might feel sorry for her.
I admit that I did not summarize every detail from the cast section into the plot summary, but that was because it was not necessary (for example, the fact that Joel is Jewish is not crucial to the plot). If someone wants to do that, feel free to do so. If there is a consensus that there must be a cast section, then please rewrite it so it's not painful to read. Jabberwockgee ( talk) 18:54, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
The Soundtrack section was made into two collapsible objects. I was skeptical of the change of the second section from adequate prose into a more dull list. Changing that list into a table is overcomplicated even if the table can be now hidden. Having two collapsible boxes is messy and cluttered. If you could make it so the whole soundtrack section could be collapsed in one go instead of two boxes it might makes some sense. This doesn't really make sense at all if it is not part of a policy (or some kind of consensus) that others are working to apply to the Soundtrack sections across other film articles. -- Horkana ( talk) 00:24, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Along with the discussion of mismarketing, the Reception section makes it sounds like this film was a commercial failure:
In its first week at the box office Adventureland opened moderately wide in only 1862 screens grossing 5.7 million ranking #6 at the box office. Despite opening up in fourteen more screens in its second week Adventureland only took in 3.4 million, falling to #9 at the box office.
If it made 16 million on domestic, not even counting overseas, DVD sales etc., isn't that a resounding commercial success for a film with a budget of 9.5 million? Skomorokh, barbarian 17:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Someone (not me, I'm terrible with this stuff) should create a separate page for the soundtrack, not only is it brilliant (by itself or taken with the other songs used in the film), but the other songs used within feature a prominent role in the movie, as evidenced all the Lou Reed, Neil Young, Husker Du, Big Star references, shirts, etc. From a purely clerical perspective, the soundtrack section is rather large...typically you'd just see a track listing (not that I'm arguing for someone to just wipe it out and not put up a new page - don't!). ````Jason H —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.97.197.19 ( talk) 05:10, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
I agree. Jabberwockgee ( talk) 17:33, 1 January 2011 (UTC)