Posted on 07/01/2013 12:54:12 PM PDT by SMGFan
"White House Down" was supposed to be one of the surefire hits of the summer.
Channing Tatum became a bona fide movie star last year with a sleeper hit trifecta of "The Vow," "21 Jump Street" and "Magic Mike" (not to mention being named People's Sexiest Man Alive). Jamie Foxx was coming off his biggest box office success to date with the Oscar nominated "Django Unchained." And director Roland Emmerich has experience both directing blockbuster hits ("2012," "The Day After Tomorrow") and destroying the White House in a patriotic summer movie sensation ("Independence Day").
But even with that pedigree and high profile pre-release hype dating all the way back to Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscars ABC special (where Foxx and Tatum turned catchy/silly slow jam "Channing All Over Your Tatum" into a viral hit), "White House Down" shocked Hollywood with a embarrassingly limp $25.7 million estimated opening weekend.
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Well, I almost decided to go see it yesterday, but in the end I finally decided that cleaning my cats' litter box would be more entertaining.
Jamie Foxx is only 33 years old, therefore is ineligible to be president of the U.S.
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I don’t watch movies where American landmarks are destroyed for cheap thrills. Even Independence Day left a pit in my stomach as a teenager in the 90s.
He’s 45.
Maybe they don’t want to see a film whose star publicly announces he worships Obama is his lord and saviour?
And Jamie Fox was in a hit movie last year because it was directed by Quentin Tarrantino. Really any reasonably fit black dude could have played the part.
Now he's playing some badass Reggie Love in some lame "action movie". Ain't nobody got time for that.
Sadly, I must report that bingo playing wifey of mine was going to see this flick with a gal friend.
I never go to movies anymore.. if I want to be insulted, I can tune in ABC cbsnbclsdhsgftv channel.
Jamie Foxx is 45 years old.
Right winger extremist terrorists attempt to take down President Jamie Foxx because he pulls all of the US troops out of the Middle East to usher in a new era of peace.
And audiences stayed home?
I guess people get enough propaganda on ABC-CBS-NBC-CNN-NPR-PBS-Nick-H-etc.
Because of the belief that Propaganda should be free?
and were stinko movies to boot
I had thought to see it only because I could do with a good dose of Washington in flames. Then I saw a trailer with Foxx starting to jump in the back of a vehicle and then explaining that it was ‘force of habit’. That one line told me everything I needed to know. In addition, Foxx is a racist idiot.
If people want to see the The White House and American institutions destroyed all they have to do is read a newspaper.
Bingo. I have no interest in supporting a racist actor.
Heroic, dashing young Black Presidents are SOOOOOO 2008...
I agree, I dislike where some of our icon landmarks get hosed.
so it did swell overseas....that hardly constitutes a hit...did you see either of these two movies. They were atrocious ( and no I didn’t pay for a ticket I waited till they showed up on late night cable).
Because its premise is insulting?
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