Posted on 04/02/2018 2:34:56 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Oprah Winfrey latest movie “A Wrinkle In Time” just premiered, and it’s officially been labeled a flop.
The award-winning book that the movie is based on is a science fiction fantasy about Christianity’s concept of good versus evil, but Winfrey and the Black Lives Matter director Ava DuVernay erased Christianity, making it New Age and politically correct.
You’ll be shocked how “Christians and white people” are now blamed for its horrendous reviews. Oprah Winfrey starring in “A Wrinkle In Time” (left), a stock image of moviegoers (right).
Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 award-winning book “A Wrinkle In Time” is known for its Christian themes, as well as being a sci-fi fantasy about a young girl named Meg whose scientist father gets trapped in another dimension by his own governmental experiment. Well, Oprah and her new favorite director, Ava DuVernay, took the novel and transformed it into a hot mess of a movie.
The movie is about racial diversity and social justice, and the critics say it “sucks.” The Federalist reports, “Critics are largely panning ‘A Wrinkle In Time,’ and Director Ava DuVernay is not taking it well. According to her Twitter feed, white journalists of either gender simply don’t understand her vision for the movie.”
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And you have to add an additional 20-25% advertising and promotion budget on top of the original 88 million “actual production” costs, right?
It was a good action superhero movie. They didn’t put in social justice themes so didn’t p!$$ off any potential audience. It’s worth watching if you like superhero movies.
I believe the box office takes are now about $100 million odd -- but out of this only a fraction goes to the producers, the rest is to the theatre owners, distributors etc.
Then from the sun that the producers get, they have to account for marketing costs.
So this film would most likely lose money. It will definitely lose money in the fiscal/calendar year but may get some money back after DVD sales, streaming etc.
I just doubt it will get back enough over the next 5 years to break even.
What a pity - the book was very good - scientifically accurate and religious.
And that just makes me want to cry.
Hey, I have to confess that the twin movie house that we have in town does have a marquee. And probably 98% of the movies that are listed on the Marquee I’ve never heard of, nor do I really care to research what those movies are about.
To be perfectly honest when I read the Marquee that said “A Wrinkle in Time 3D” I thought it was a science fiction movie about space travel and the ability to transcend large chunks of time by shortening the travel time and distance (Dune called it folding space).
Oh well... I guess that’s makes me easy to blame because I don’t really care.
Oprah is certainly welcome to come over and listen to me play some violin in the afternoon after my chores are finished. I’ll even provide the boutique tea and instant mashed potatoes.
Hmm, I think my mom read us this book when my brothers and I were little, I don’t remember it so it must not have been one of my favorites but I know it’s very popular.
It sounds like Oprah and this Ava DuVernay raped the source material, that’s generally a track to avoid when doing an adaptation.
I have some suggestions for DuVernay (reading the article it’s her that’s throwing a tantrum, not Oprah, but no one has heard of her so Oprah goes in the headline)
1)Go screw yourself, always a good idea
2)End it all, a little extreme but it works for me
3)Have your “vision” not be a dog pile if you want to people to “get” it. From the commercial it looks like weird garbage, if Chris Pine is stuck in another dimension forever, so be it. A girl not liking her hair is supposed to be a theme of the movie? what’s wrong with you? Whatever it probably has little to do with race.
Nailed it.
On the plus side, it does make her look slimming.
Ask Dialectic Joe sez:
"Cultural Appropriation" eez sledge hammer tool against running dog capitalist. Nyet meant for logical consistency.
Off to the gulag with you! {catch phrase:audience laughs}
Haha—you’re right. Cultural appropriation only works one way—against whitey.
Jolie did that?
Screw her, then.
Her movie "First They Killed My Father" is the most boring Cambodian Genocide movie EVER.
How she could take that subject material and make it boring is beyond me.
Don't beat around the bush: Oprahs eats Gail's' bearded clam.
Gail munches on Oprah's furburger.
Please! Beat around the bush! Beat around the bush!
Too late.
You dove right into the bush.
“Don’t beat around the bush: “
Resisting...mental....picture Arrrrrgg!
You suck!
Understandable. I'm still wondering what the fuss was all about with that Black poet Mia Angelou, I thought her stuff stunk.
It’s a veritable fat black woman seafood cocktail every night in the Orca mansion.
Wait, did I say “cocktail”?
Redact that. It is not part of this story in any way.
Maya ain’t no poet.
Her shee don’t even rhyme!
Are you saying it’s a clowder of gleaming, purring pussies at Casa d’Oprah every night? Is it a floating galleon of gash? A slurry of scissoring succubi?
Be clear, man! Tell us what you really mean.
It’s an abundance of African axe wounds!
You took it a little too far with this one, FRiend.
Wait: I'm a little pukey right now.
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