To: pepsionice
U-571 brought in $127 million ($77 million domestic and $50 million foreign) on a $62 million budget.
But you are correct, most modern WW2 movies have been flops. The Thin Red Line (a very lousy movie) and The Great Raid (a wonderful movie) were both box office nightmares.
29 posted on
07/22/2007 1:08:00 PM PDT by
Stonewall Jackson
(The Hunt for FRed November. 11/04/08)
To: Stonewall Jackson; pepsionice
War movies in general have bombed over the past decade.
31 posted on
07/22/2007 4:34:18 PM PDT by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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