Here is Woodstock's brother, "Altamont."
Posted on 09/30/2009 9:44:14 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
"HONG KONG (AP) -- Ang Lee says he's baffled by the poor box office results of "Taking Woodstock" -- the Oscar-winning director's worst-performing English-language movie in the U.S. in 10 years.
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I thought this movie was based on the life of Snoopy’s bird friend.
The only thing worse than watching dirty hippies is watching dirty hippies on the big screen.
Brokeback Mountain. Woodstock. He’s working hard to be the next Roman Polanski.
The people who were there are married with kids and/or grandkids and didn’t want to see a romanticized vision of something they experienced. Younger generations have their own pop cultural touchstones.
There's a problem.
I’d poke my eyes out before I would watch such boring cr*p.
Are their actually people who still think this whole “Woodstock” thing isn’t over and done with?
What do you mean?
Except for Baby Boombers still living in the 60s, probably a large percentage of the D-Congressional delegation and the MSM, Americans were repulsed by Woodstock and everything it stood for or Generation X-ers and later who don’t give a damn.
Here is Woodstock's brother, "Altamont."
Uh, the answer is easy. Woodstock sucks and their generation created a mess in our country. Few people want to be reminded of it.
The “Woodstock Nation” zeitgeist was always an illusion and even the illusion evaporated after a few months. It just wasn’t that important and as proof I submit the fact that no one under 50 gives a rat’s patootie about it.
After all, few people under 40 care to pay attention to the ancient drug-addled antics of senior citizens.
Maybe Ang should have added fag cowboys in it like his other film..
Not quite true.
It's doing poorly at the box office because the people interested in seeing this film have stopped going to the cinema. They have nice home theaters where they prefer to watch movies in comfort and they're waiting for the DVD. Hollywood hasn't figured this out yet. The only films that do great at the box office these days are big-budget CGI films.
Hollywood is still using box office receipts to measure a film's success, seemingly unaware that the whole model has changed.
FWIW, Lee's 2nd worse performing English language film, Ride with the Devil is one of my favorite movies.
And Ang was the one whose “Hulk” movie was so bad, they had to make another one a few years later to save the franchise.
I thought about seeing the movie, until word hit the street of how period music was in it, just couldn’t see the point of a Woodstock movie without Woodstock music. So I went and saw Halloween II.
( They actually went to sleep then, AND NOW THEY MUST AWAKEN.........OR ELSE!)
Read a summary about "Taking Woodstock", he did!
The only good point of the movie was Sam Elliott as Gen. Ross and Eric Bana.
The worst was turning it into a Shakespearean play that no one could relate to. It was in short..a sermon, not a movie.
Holy crap. Even in jest, these egotistical libtards are truly predictable.
Huh?
I was a Woodstocker myself, and am now repulsed by what it has wrought.
I don't need to glorify that debunked fantasy.
Unlike most baby boomers, I accepted growing up and facing reality.
Yeah, Shakespearean themes don’t resonate at all. /sarc
no need for 70’s nostalgia when we’re living it every day, Mr. Lee
Lived for 40 years in Calif.
Had as much contact with hippies as I ever want.
Besides a couple-hundred thousand (supposedly) hippies at Woodstock, there were another 200+ million Americans going about their daily lives.
Somehow the cultural elites decided Woodstock was a watershed event. The rest of American could not have cared less.
LOL.
LOL So true.
I’m less than 30 miles from Ann Arbor.
Maybe the SOB doesn’t realize that most sane people utterly despise the “Woodstock Generation” for being a bunch of self-centered, drugged-out,cowardly perverts who would sacrifice everything and everyone around them to satiate their own wants and needs. And now that they are fat, old, and ugly, they are more repulsive than ever.
Also remember, Woodstock was supposed to be a pay for concert, but all of the freeloaders thought they were entitled to a “Free Concert”.
The liberal mentality in a nutshell.
I’d watch it in a heartbeat if it was about Snoopy’s sidekick. :)
I suspect that much of the younger audience that makes up much of the movie ticket buyers consider a film about Woodstock just about as interesting as a film about Lawrence Welk!
Ang Lee is under the illusion that we celebrate Woodstock here. On the contrary, we’ve come to view it as the nadir of baby-boomer self-indulgence.
....And paying for it.
Who plays the musicians at the concert?
No one. The concert isn't the focus. The focus is the hero's relationship with his parents and fear of "coming out".
No wonder no one is seeing this movie. It is not about "Woodstock" at all. It is about some random Jewish boy who comes out gay. Boring
But as a boomer male you were one of the 9.4 million boomer men that served in the military which gave you a leg up.
I would not describe boomer Sarah Palin that way.
Perhaps Ang Lee - rather than producing movies critical of American culture - should show some innovation and directoral bravery.
And produce a movie which portrays members of Mao’s long march as gay marchers. Rather than some dumb-a** portrayal of American cowboys.
I think Ang Lee is an anti-American racist.
I may be old but I am not fat and ugly. Neither am I repulsive. It is you that has one BIG problem attitude.
My friend, if you will look around at our generation, I’m afraid you will see that those of us who have kept our hair, stayed in terrific shape, and not wrinkled up like prunes are the exception to the rule. Remember: denial is not just a rive in Egypt.
“how fed up America is with the Woodstock Self Centered Generation”
Yep, how they abdicated every chance to rise to the occasion and then soaked the people for every benefit.
I was speaking for myself. Each day I go to work I marvel that without the baby boomers, we would have to shut down our nuclear power plants.
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