Posted on 03/29/2008 7:12:49 AM PDT by NRPM
I'm told Stop-Loss opened to only $1.6 million Friday from just 1,291 plays. Although the drama from MTV Films was the best-reviewed movie opening this weekend, Paramount wasn't expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office.
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I was hoping for this. Thank you American viewing public!
ditto.
I saw the previews for this and was amused at the transparency of their effort to push propaganda.
The link works but I mistyped the source. It’s http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com
Hollywood keeps a-tryin’, and Hollywood keeps a-dyin’ (propaganda, that is).
Available on Blu-Ray and DVD in time for Mother’s Day...
Could you imagine this movie being made during World War 2?
My son and I watched 3:10 to Yuma on PPV last night. Had to shut it off about 2/3 of the way through. Can you imagine a western where the good guy is beguiled by the bad guy and is afraid to use his gun?
WHAT in God’s name are these Pansies thinking?
Film Noir was pretty bleak stuff, but it was after the war.
I simply must wonder if these studios are at all interested in earning any money at all? And why do their shareholders put up with the creation of such turkeys?
“... Paramount wasn’t expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office....”
These idiots still don’t get it. It’s not because it’s an Iraq war-themed movie .. IT’S BECAUSE IT’S A SLAP IN THE FACE OF OUR COURAGEOUS MILITARY - AND THAT’S ALL HOLLYWOOD’S WAR-THEMED MOVIES ARE ABOUT - STICKING IT TO OUR MILITARY.
During WWII - there was no such type of movie - and I think my Dad took our family to all of them. When the enemy bit the dust - the whole theater would stand up and cheer.
Hollywood is just too full of itself.
I didn’t know about the MTV connection until I read the article.
That does tell you just about everything you need to know!
(love your tagline!)
These are the same pansies that go to anti-war rallies, scream and cry that “Bush lied and people died”. These are the same pansies whose dad’s and grandads fought in WWII. They tried to give their kids more than they had. It backfired and created loose, immoral, liberal pansies who beget even more pansies.
Director] Peirce wants to leave us with something heavy to ponder, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out what that is.
No kidding.
My husband got me a book for my birthday. It’s a book about rabbits. Specifically, meat rabbits. It’s a propaganda book from the early 1940s...but still very informative.
I read it and sometimes yearn for that time. The pride the author had in his country and his meager effort to improve the lives of the folks on the Home Front, many of whom had very little to eat and no meat at all, is so bittersweet to me. The motive of the book is to grow and process meat rabbits so other meat products can be saved for use in the War Effort.
Why doesn’t Hollywood make movies about people like this man? They’d make a fortune.
Good. I earnestly hope these SOB’s lose money on this film.
Didn’t one old time Hollywood mogul once say, if you want to send a message, used Western Union (meaning that movies should be for entertainment and escape). Today’s film makes want to send “messages”. Unfortunately not all of us want agree with what they are sending.
Here's Kyle Smith's devastating review. Smith, a Gulf War I veteran, is fast becoming my favorite movie critic:
"Stop-Loss" is as phony as a re-enactment with finger puppets.
"Stop-Loss" is a highly patriotic film, if you happen to dream of the restored caliphate as you sleep in your Osama bin Laden pajamas.
Its message is that the good guys are US soldiers who decide to desert, such as a sergeant played by Ryan Phillippe. (Another soldier, played by Channing Tatum of "Step Up," is the villain: He wants to re-enlist.)
I can’t imagine why nobody wants to watch it. Hell, Rolling Stone says it’s great.
Yes, 10 seconds of the trailer and you can see the agenda immediately. It isn’t even “clever” anymore.
Hope the pimps take a bath on this one too.
The other night flipping through they had a documentary on about gay porn and how it is no different from any other job and those who think that it is wrong for someone to do something like that is abnormal and close minded.
I agree .. the Hollywood-ites think we’re too stupid to catch on to their propaganda films.
A sample of the comments from some of these cultural icons, taken over the past five years, should be enough to testify to the kind of political posturing that panders to the far left and passes today as radical chic:
Harry Belafonte: “ I not only think that they [U.S. leaders] are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.”
Sandra Bernhard: “The infrastructure of America and the world is caving in, and George Bush is a figurehead of that.”
George Clooney: I believe he(Bush) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can’t beat anyone anymore.”
Sheryl Crow: “I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.”
Janeane Garofalo: “This will potentially be one of the worst chapters in American history that will go on for twenty or thirty years, until democracy, in some fashion, is re-established.”
Larry Hagman: “[Bush is a] sad figure: not too well educated, who doesn’t get out of America much. He’s leading the country towards fascism.”
Jessica Lange: “I hate Bush; I despise him and his entire administration, everything he represents and everything he has tried to do, not only internationally, which is horrific, but domestically as well.”
Rosie O’Donnell: “You know [President Bush] invaded a sovereign nation [Iraq] in defiance of the U.N. He is basically a war criminal! He should be tried in the Hague!
Gwyneth Paltrow: “I think George Bush is such an embarrassment to America in the way that he doesn’t take the rest of the world into consideration. And it all seems to be for him and his friends to keep getting richer at the expense of a nation, at the expense of the environment. It’s like a full scale assault on the environment.
Sean Penn: “We now have a president who thinks in terms of good and evil, and that comes from watching too many Hollywood movies.”
Tim Robbins: “ In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom. Let us find a way to resist fundamentalism that leads to violence—fundamentalism of all kinds, in al Qaeda and within our own government. What is our fundamentalism? Cloaked in patriotism and our doctrine of spreading democracy throughout the world, our fundamentalism is business, the unfettered spread of our economic interests throughout the globe.”
Julia Roberts: “He’s embarrassing. He’s not my president. He will never be my president.”
Susan Sarandon: “In the name of fear and fighting terror we are giving the reigns of power to oil men more interested in a financial bottom line than a moral bottom line. Oil men ready to expand their influence with new contracts on the soil our bombers have plowed…”
Martin Sheen: “Every time I cross the Canadian border I feel like I’ve left the land of lunatics. You are not armed and dangerous. You do not shoot each other. I always feel a bit more human when I come here.”
Patti Smith: “The world right now is being run by a**holes like George Bush and pharmaceutical companies, these greedy people who don’t care about the environment, who don’t really understand the poor, who don’t understand other cultures.”
Oliver Stone: “Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.”
Gore Vidal: We’re not a democracy, and we have absolutely nothing to give the world in the way of political ideas or political arrangements. God knows, the mention of justice is like a clove of garlic to Count Dracula.”
These words offer a window into a mindset that has regressed into its own form of group think. Insulated from the real world these doyens of political correctness slough off the absence of freedom in so much of the Muslim world. They seem generally unconcerned about the ubiquity of female circumcision, honor killings, wife beatings, the murder of homosexuals or the rising militancy of disaffected Muslim youth in Europe. They have little sympathy for the casualties of fundamentalist Islam – a fact given testimony by the enthusiastic Hollywood reception which greeted the release of the Palestinian film Paradise Now. There has been no suggestion of an international performance, such as the recently staged Live 8, by any major entertainment figure, to protest the genocidal slaughter of blacks in the Sudan. Their self absorbed pieties are instead reserved for a home grown evil that they find much easier to both identify and castigate.
Treason? Perhaps not. But it is unquestionable that they have given a measure of aid and comfort to the enemy. With a global audience listening, their pontifications have contributed to the notion that not only has the United States abdicated its role as a purveyor of justice, but is also morally bankrupt.
This jaundiced point of view has in turn been readily exploited by Muslim dictators and even many European leaders, anxious to see the United States’ influence on world affairs weakened. Moreover, as becomes clear from a reading of celebrity speeches and statements, there has emerged a disturbing moral asymmetry in their statements about right and wrong, good and evil. Actions, even ones as shocking as suicide bombing, are to be comprehended and analyzed rather than condemned. “ There is no right or wrong on this issue,” said actor George Clooney about his recently released movie Syriana which deals with terrorism and, in part, corrupt US policies in the Middle East. “ There is only understanding.”
Yet no matter what they believe, the United States is a country at war against terrorism and an uncompromising jihadist culture. That war is principally taking place in Iraq where the world awaits an outcome. A defeat, so it is widely recognized across the American political mainstream, could indeed mean the end of many of the kind of liberties we currently enjoy, even without further 9/11s. In this desperate undertaking there should be little doubt that our celebrities have weakened and tarnished the image of the United States and jeopardized our own struggle for freedom.-Avi Davis is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles.
Shoulda made Jackass III.
Producers lied, movie died.
If you’ve actually seen the movie, raise your hand.
That's an excellent point.
LOL! When Martin Sheen goes to Canada, it improves both countries.
Hopefully, they spent hundreds of millions making this rat movie, and that the Hollywood plague rats, lose most of
rhe money they put into this piece of sh*t enemy propaganda.
bump
New Publican Radio (NPR) has an interview with the failed director coming up.
That's because all the "Iraq war-themed" movies have been anti-war, anti-troops, and anti-America.
The original had a better ending and the new one had some added scenes but you should have finished the movie to see how it ended.
Worth repeating:
That's because all the "Iraq war-themed" movies have been anti-war, anti-troops, and anti-America.
I had never heard of Ryan Philippe until he was on Jay Leno’s show last week. Man, is that guy VAIN. One of Jay’s schticks is to find old video footage of actors and play it. Most of the guests are pretty good humored about it, but this character threatened, more than once, to walk off the stage. He tried to play it off like he was kidding, but you could tell he was annoyed to have anyone tease him and not kiss his a*s. For goodness sake; he played a gay teenager on One Life to Live. How can you not make fun of that?
Anyway, he came off as a total jerk.
3:10 to Yuma is such a horrible movie. I almost threw something at the tv screen.
It did prove without a shadow of doubt hollywood knows nothing about firearms.
Great column by Avi Davis.
Hollywood is irrelevant to American culture today.
When was the last time any of these people had a hit movie?
Ryan Philippe is also featured in that Obama-worship video “We Ate the Ones”.
Perhaps the most brilliant evidence of this was his role in Gosford Park.
Like most books or movies, you should have finished the rest of it and it would make sense.
To be honest Normy, it was so incredibly dull and frustrating, I could care less how it ended. Maybe hubby will watch it today, he can always tell me.
"It's not looking good...No one wants to see Iraq war movies. No matter what we put out there in terms of great cast or trailers, people were completely turned off."
The stockholders in the corporations that own these studios need to sue the studios for malfeasance. The studios are taking tens of millions of dollars of company funds and spending them on political infomercials that "no one wants to see."
When was the last time any of these people had a hit movie?"
Today? Yesterday, last week, last month . There's always a 'hit movie' in the real world.
Right now, for long term earnings, it look like Horton Hears A Who will fit the bill.
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