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‘LA Times’ To Hollywood: Please Ignore the Box Office Success of ‘The Expendables’
Big Hollywood ^

Posted on 08/16/2010 11:14:20 AM PDT by roses of sharon

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Liberals running Hollywood ping!
1 posted on 08/16/2010 11:14:20 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: roses of sharon

Hollywood isn’t interested in always making blockbuster films. They will bury a film out of spite or even write the losses of a “protected” film off against a successful modestly budgeted film (burying it and it’s production team).

They have 75 years of film to sell/lease on cable and home video to remain solvent.


2 posted on 08/16/2010 11:19:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
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To: roses of sharon

Stallone did a fund raiser for Obama. F Him

The only one in that movie who is not a lib is Mickey Rourke.

Hollywood can go to h*ll.


3 posted on 08/16/2010 11:20:15 AM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats are the party of Islam.)
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To: roses of sharon

The Expendables is being reviewed better than Eat Pray Love (barf) by the critics.

Eat Pray Love review: Self-indulgent... a talky travelogue — like riding a tour bus with a passenger who won’t shut up about her inner journey.


4 posted on 08/16/2010 11:23:57 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Frantzie

If you’ve ever been there, you’d know they’re already there and just putting on a pretty face to deceive everyone into thinking they don’t notice.


5 posted on 08/16/2010 11:24:09 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: Frantzie

Bruce Willis is in the movie, along with Schwarzenegger.
Willis is a conservative ~ Arnold?-Phfftt...


6 posted on 08/16/2010 11:25:45 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: roses of sharon

The “paint by numbers” line was so worth reading this article.


7 posted on 08/16/2010 11:26:40 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: roses of sharon

Expendables, A-Team, Red Dawn. Is it time to wallow in 80s nostalgia already? I thought we’d have a few more years. What next? Sixteen Candles with Megan Ringwald?


8 posted on 08/16/2010 11:37:57 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: libertarian27

Wills and Schwarzie are in it so momentarily they shouldn’t be listed in the credits, cameos at best.

My girlfriend went to see Eat, Pray, Vomit at the same time. I wish I had gone with her.


9 posted on 08/16/2010 11:38:28 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: roses of sharon

Saw it and loved it.


10 posted on 08/16/2010 11:42:36 AM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: Cyman

They aren’t listed in the credits but they are there - just grasping at Republicans and Rinos ;)

The last line of the Arnold scene was funny though....


11 posted on 08/16/2010 11:42:41 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: libertarian27

Saw it this weekend. thought the lines were crappy. the one-liners that could have been funny were lame.

(Ahnold had the one decent one and only one the audience chuckled at) Lundgren still sounds like Ahnold’s more retarded brother.

I did like Sly’s rat-rod pickup.


12 posted on 08/16/2010 11:54:16 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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To: a fool in paradise

“They have 75 years of film to sell/lease on cable and home video to remain solvent.”

I agree with your first statement, but this one isn’t as true as it once was. MGM thought it could handle excessive debt due to its catalog of films. That turned out not to be the case :-).


13 posted on 08/16/2010 11:59:48 AM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Good movie poster (and advertising team)...


14 posted on 08/16/2010 12:00:39 PM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: roses of sharon

I would rather have another Dark Knight than another Expendables, but maybe that is just me.


15 posted on 08/16/2010 12:01:00 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: edh

MGM of 1968 or MGM of Time-Warner-Turner media empire today?


16 posted on 08/16/2010 12:01:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

Yet another remake of the Batman-Joker origin stories? That’s all it appears Hollywood is interested in filming.


17 posted on 08/16/2010 12:06:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
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To: Retired Greyhound

“...like riding a tour bus with a passenger who won’t shut up about her inner journey.”

LOL, and it fits with your name!


18 posted on 08/16/2010 12:07:55 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: libertarian27

Sounds like a Planet Hollywood reunion.

But Hollywood appears to be against it as they’ve been on a decade run of anti-American films and even “heroic” films are quick to denounce any support for “the American way”.


19 posted on 08/16/2010 12:08:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
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To: Mr. Blonde
I would rather have another Dark Knight than another Expendables, but maybe that is just me.

I fail to see the appeal of The Dark Knight. And I loved Batman Begins. I thought the only people who loved The Dark Knight were Heath Ledger fans.

20 posted on 08/16/2010 12:16:46 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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