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Box Office Flops For Tom Cruise’s ‘Rock Of Ages’
Deadline ^ | 6/15/12 | NIKKI FINKE

Posted on 06/16/2012 8:21:43 AM PDT by jimbo123

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New Line/Warner Bros’ Rock Of Ages (3,470 theaters) is falling to earth with a thud. Which Hollywood expected because the pic had been tracking poorly for weeks (and even went down at one point week to week). The studio felt the 1980s period piece was a hard sell to younger moviegoers. I suspect the problem was casting. Russell Brand has been repellant to moviegoers, while Tom Cruise as iconic rocker proved just too incredulous for audiences.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; hollyweird; hollywood; moviereview; rock; russellbrand; scientology; tomcruise; yeshesgay
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Hollyweird FAIL.
1 posted on 06/16/2012 8:21:52 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Tom Cruise being in the film for any reason is why I won’t see it.


2 posted on 06/16/2012 8:24:25 AM PDT by nhoward14
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To: jimbo123

I might actually go see “Abe Lincoln: Vampire Killer”. It might help me get my mind off “Barack Hussein Kardashian: Amerika Killer”


3 posted on 06/16/2012 8:24:48 AM PDT by Perdogg
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They should have picked an actor under 50 years old.

Pour some splenda on me...


4 posted on 06/16/2012 8:26:11 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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There is only one Rock of Ages and I don't think Tom Cruise is in fellowship with Him.
5 posted on 06/16/2012 8:27:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: cripplecreek

I never got the whole Tom Cruise thing


6 posted on 06/16/2012 8:28:06 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: jimbo123

We don’t watch movies starring “The Cruiser” no matter how good they’re purported to be. I suspect many others feel the same way.


7 posted on 06/16/2012 8:28:45 AM PDT by youngidiot (Hear Hear!)
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To: al baby

That’s a good thing. Suggest that you don’t dig any deeper either. Nothing good to learn there.


8 posted on 06/16/2012 8:30:28 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: jimbo123

South Park was right about Tom Cruise. enough said


9 posted on 06/16/2012 8:31:51 AM PDT by Nifster
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That’s great, cast Tom Cruise an 80s rocker? It’s really a role for him—25 years ago.


10 posted on 06/16/2012 8:32:26 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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Maybe it’s weird enough to live on as an audience participation cult classic like Rocky Horror, lol.


11 posted on 06/16/2012 8:34:33 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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I never got the whole Tom Cruise thing

If you aren't a Scientologist, you might not get it.

Gooba gabba. It's a Hollyweird thing.

12 posted on 06/16/2012 8:34:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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I liked Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol ,looks like Cruise got beat up real good and the other actors were alright


13 posted on 06/16/2012 8:35:25 AM PDT by molson209
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Tom Cruise as iconic rocker proved just too incredulous for audiences. >p>And yet we're not supposed to find this short and softly pretty man "too incredulous" to play Lee Child's 6'5" tall and imposing Marine combat trained Jack Reacher? Looks as if actual casting has given way to the purported "box office name."
14 posted on 06/16/2012 8:39:57 AM PDT by dorothy ( "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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I liked Cruise in “Minority Report.”
It was one damned scary movie.


15 posted on 06/16/2012 8:42:26 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: a fool in paradise

***Gooba gabba. It’s a Hollyweird thing. ***

Subtle hit to FREAKS.


16 posted on 06/16/2012 8:42:59 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

hit = hint.


17 posted on 06/16/2012 8:43:43 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)
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To: jimbo123

They expected something different to happen? America is starting to fall out of love with Hollyweird.


18 posted on 06/16/2012 8:44:30 AM PDT by ducttape45
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L. Ron Hubbard says "See this movie."
19 posted on 06/16/2012 8:45:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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Hollywood just keeps cranking out junk.


20 posted on 06/16/2012 8:47:54 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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