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Posted on 03/29/2008 8:09:53 AM PDT by Callahan
...I'm told #7 Stop-Loss opened to only $1.6 million Friday from just 1,291 plays and should eke out $4+M. 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. "It's not looking good," a studio source told me before the weekend. "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. It's a function of the marketplace not being ready to address this conflict in a dramatic way because the war itself is something that's unresolved yet. It's a shame because it's a good movie that's just ahead of its time."...
As opposed to a function of Americans being uninterested in paying $10 plus popcorn to watch anti-US propaganda.
“...anti-US propaganda.”
Is that what it is? Have you seen it?
I think “The Kingdom” was OK—I maintain our Netflix queue and I research the new releases very carefully before I put them in our queue.
There must have been at least 7 anti-U.S.-in-Iraq movies I passed over in the past year or so. Not including all the anti-U.S.-in-Iraq documentaries. There are dozens of those it seems.
Yup.
It's okay though- let them keep trying. At least it'll keep a lot of gaffers and key grips and such in butter-and-egg money.
“anti-US propaganda.”
The Kingdom did very well, and any anti-US propaganda has done very bad, I’ll bet a Pro-US film would do very well, like one about the battle for Fallugah. <=(spelling police, sorry, but you know what I mean)
they keep throwing these anti war anti American movies out and NOBODY goes to see em. You would think that Hollywood might call a halt sooner or later, wouldnt you?
I mean, sooner or later the bankers have to say, “give it a rest comrades, or we arent gonna be able to afford another G-5 this year.”
Yet they continue to make movies that nobody wants to see. The psyche of these people is "If it makes us FEEL good then do it"
Typical liberal/socialist mantra!!
the public is turned off by anti-US propoganda, and also by films like “Stop-Loss” which, I gather from the title, are about presenting the U.S. soldier as a victim instead of a hero.
And yet war films like “Blackhawk Down” that don’t feature a glaring liberal bias make money. Hollywood will release six sequels to the same crappy flick if they can squeeze an extra dollar of profit, but their Dem bias trumps all when it comes to Iraq.
“I mean, sooner or later the bankers have to say, “give it a rest comrades, or we arent gonna be able to afford another G-5 this year.””
They make so much money off of these films that they won’t stop making them.............. these films make tons of money internationally.
Make a movie showing the USMC kicking ass all over Falujah, I mean kicking ass, taking names, sacrificing for their friends, units and country to kill the enemy in the traditional way we have always killed our enemies and it would make untold millions, imo.
Sometimes you don't need to stick your nose in a turd to recognize that it's sh*t.
Hollywood must be yelling Stop the Loss.
How bout just one unabashedly patriotic, John Wayne stye movie to balance out the half-dozen lessons in Bill Moyers-approved angst.
I had thought Bruce Willis was going to make a movie about the march to Baghdad, but it is not showing up on his IMDB.com page. Ironically the only military themed movie on his upcoming projects list is a Vietnam movie.
From what I have seen from the trailers, it looks just another US Army (or military in general) bashing movie. More bitching from crappy soldiers who have lost perspective on the big picture. I have known a lot of people that got stop loss’d and listened to their wives bitch about it. And my response to it was simple; “ In life, there are some things a hell of a lot bigger than any one individual. After all, the defense of this country is not all about you, it’s about 300 million people. So stop your pissing and moaning, pick up your rifle and go do your damn job”
My daughter’s boyfriend , a USMC, kicked ass all over Falujah. Five of his friends were sacrificed. Thank God he is back home. We love him. I spoil him rotten because he is a great guy and a Marine through and through.
Irrelevant.
Keep spending yer money, morons.
This is the movie that Ryann Phillippe lost Reese Witherspoon over by having an affair with his co-star. So not only did it ruin his life, it might even ruin his career. COULD NOT be happier. He is a BORING actor to boot.
I did see that. It was great.
Predictable. It’s also predictable that the next Rambo flick will gross at least 200 million domestically. Hollywood seems to forget that during a time of war, patriotic war flicks are boffo box office. That or their hate of America is even stronger than their breathtaking greed.
Whenever I get angry at Bush, I always try to remember that the things he does that irritate me are often because he's a better man than me. Dan Rather should be in jail. Production of those falsified government documents was a felony. Bush didn't do anything, IMHO, because the guy who actually falsified them was a crackpot old political enemy of his. I think Bush felt sorry for him.
Bush does not retaliate against people.
I saw the trailer for this and wanted to throw somwething at the screen, and I knew it would be a total bomb. The trailer was a joke, trying to portray a jerk refusing to honor his commitment to the VOLUNTARY force as a “hero” for saying things like “This family’s fought this war long enough!”
Phillippe cheated on Witherspoon by having an affair and then was complaining how he couldn't get out of bed because he was so depressed about the divorce. What a loser...
I think what is going on is a combination of your two posts, #12 and #13. Hollywood makes a lot of money on foreign distribution. What sells in the US and what sells in the rest of the world are not the same.
In the US we want to see the US kicking ass and taking names.
The rest of the world wants to see the US getting it’s ass kicked.
Judging by the number of films made that have no hope of a profit in the US, I’d say the US market is smaller than the world market and Hollywood has given up on it.
Another review that describes it as anti-American, anti-army and anti-Texan.
http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/
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