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Why a Hollywood boycott would have minimal impact on box office sales (Vanity)
September 24, 2017 | Ednamode

Posted on 09/24/2017 9:27:47 AM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: EdnaMode

I don’t remember any Super hero movies in my youth. The first I recall was the 1966 BATMAN comedy, then this joke of a movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argoman_the_Fantastic_Superman

Now so many superhero si-fi movies have been made, several times I have noticed every movie at the local Six Plex theater has been a superhero-SiFi movie.

Today’s youth truly live in an age of fantasy.


21 posted on 09/24/2017 11:24:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: EdnaMode

The real point of all this is that the smugness of Hollywood calling itself “art” with buffoons like Meryl Streep is just a fraud. They only make money off the cartoons and superheroes. The audiences are immature and easily entertained by shiny objects, but government schools have suppressed their abilities to think. So forget art or anything serious.


22 posted on 09/24/2017 11:30:21 AM PDT by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: a fool in paradise

*** 90 years of “product” under copyright on tv, cable, netflix, hulu, amazon prime, DVD, blu-ray, etc.***

And to think, in the ancient past, such films would be released for the screen, then go to double billing with another movie, then sold for the chemicals in the film, or thrown in a storeroom to degrade.
Then came TV, and a new market to keep degraded films alive. Think of many of the great films of the past in which there are no copies of today.


23 posted on 09/24/2017 11:30:43 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: dila813
These are current stats, they lost the majority of conservative audiences a long time ago.

Exactly. We cannot boycott Hollywood because we've already been doing that for years.

24 posted on 09/24/2017 11:56:32 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

There are still some, but the owners haven’t spit on the flag like the NFL has


25 posted on 09/24/2017 12:40:24 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Maverick68

Conservatives need to enter the market place and make good, decent, patriotic movies. Movies that show America and Americans at their best. Watch such films make a mint. Remember the “Passion of Christ” that Mel Gibson made? He made a great deal of money on that. More Christian focused films. More films on American History Remember “The Patriot”?
Some ideas I give away Free of charge to any film maker or screen writer out there on the Free Republic.
1. Admiral John Paul Jones in Russia—his career in the Russian Navy vs. Turks after the Revolution.
2. The Morro War after the Spanish-American war. How the US defeater Islamic Morros.
3. The siege of Louisburg in the French and Indian War where American colonials proved they could fight and beat French troops.
4. The travels of Oscar Wilde in the American West. How a Gay British writer captured the admiration of American cowboys in the west on a tour.
5. Benidict Arnold—a tragic figure both hero and traitor of the Revolution.
6. The story of PT Barnum and his museum in New York City.


26 posted on 09/24/2017 12:54:39 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: grania

Agreed. There used to be good movies that appealed to older moviegoers. My family used to go to several movies a year.


27 posted on 09/24/2017 1:01:15 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: motor_racer

Totally agree.


28 posted on 09/24/2017 1:02:26 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode
Also, consider that Hollywood derives much of its revenue outside the box office these days. Primarily a result of high definition widescreen televisions in private homes. Most people now screen movies at home by streaming them over the Internet.

Whether through rentals, Netflix, Amazon, etc., Hollywood gets a cut of all that.

29 posted on 09/24/2017 1:04:56 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SauronOfMordor

yep, these helicopters swooping on Kim dot com in New Zealand tells you who has power in America. Obviously the FBI sucks cock to these Hollywood traitors who spew communist sht day in day out.


30 posted on 09/24/2017 8:34:08 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: SamAdams76

Like I said, cancel your subscriptions and stream the bootleg as a sample (no torrent hard drive trace storage).


31 posted on 09/24/2017 8:35:25 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: EdnaMode

They’re having enough trouble trying to get the next one finished and the han solo movie is a disaster in the making.


32 posted on 09/25/2017 12:31:16 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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