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Box-Office Slump: Hollywood Facing Worst Summer in Eight Years (Obama effect?)
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 07/23/2014 | Pamela McClintock

Posted on 07/23/2014 10:23:50 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Obama effect?

Hell YES! No question, just read the comments on the bottom of that website. People are absolutely outraged at Hollywood for fanatically pushing that putz.


61 posted on 07/23/2014 11:14:50 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Blue Ink

I want to see the number of butts in the seats, not the $ ticket sales. They raise ticket prices, it just makes it seem like movies did better.


62 posted on 07/23/2014 11:17:13 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

For the first time in history probably, television is where the more interesting writing and storylines are.


63 posted on 07/23/2014 11:19:05 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

Nah, nothing good on TV either.


64 posted on 07/23/2014 11:19:41 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Eight years ago was about the last time I attended a movie theater.


65 posted on 07/23/2014 11:28:34 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: GeronL

You’ll never see that number, because nobody tracks that data.

The closest you’ll get to a “butts in seats” tally is to look at a “per screen average.”


66 posted on 07/23/2014 11:29:13 AM PDT by Blue Ink
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To: GSWarrior

just watched the trailer for THE EQUALIZER movie. think i’ll pass. too attached to the characters from the tv series. there is only 1 robert mccall just like there is only 1 thomas magnum.


67 posted on 07/23/2014 11:30:49 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Remakes, sequels of sequels, remakes of remakes of remakes, bad acting (very bad), very little to no originality, 3-D (lol), $15 to see a movie, theaters full of loud obnoxious people, theaters full of trash and trash smells.....


68 posted on 07/23/2014 11:31:58 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Good for them.


69 posted on 07/23/2014 11:33:53 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: blueplum

Both?


70 posted on 07/23/2014 11:34:21 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

The main reason is a dearth of good movies to go see.
I have been to two movies, Transformers and Captain America, and that is all I saw even remotely worth going to.
The next picture I will definitely see is “Expendables III”.


71 posted on 07/23/2014 11:36:57 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I haven’t been to the movies since Roger rabbit. Quit Netflix because nothing seemed interesting.

If an occasional movie comes out I might be interested, I download it only.


72 posted on 07/23/2014 11:38:49 AM PDT by dforest
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To: VanDeKoik
Glad to see someone else who gets it. The funny part is that most movies these days are so bad they're not even worth downloading.

Hollywood will never make another good movie, except by accident, because they are completely creatively bankrupt and beholden to political correctness. I can see the script-writing by hive-mind in everything they do, including a lot of TV: someone starts with a decent idea, and then the ideologues holding the purses say, "Oh, ok, but where is the gay character? And shouldn't there be more people of color? And where is the witty, wise-cracking banter between the protagonists? And shouldn't the bad guy be white?" In the end, you get the same movie over and over and over again, just set in a different place or time.
73 posted on 07/23/2014 11:40:00 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Obama effect?

No, I don’t think so. I think it’s the “the-movies-are-so-crappy-that-people-don’t-want-to-waste-their-time-and-money” effect.

For one thing, CGI can only go so far in compensating for the lack of story, bad dialog, bad acting, and interminably long and boring fight scenes. And movies permeated through and through with “Progressive” propaganda don’t exactly pluck at the heart strings with poignant story-telling and universal themes. I suspect even the teens are tired of going to grossly over-priced, badly made, sophomoric movies made just for them.


74 posted on 07/23/2014 11:40:11 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: GeronL

Longmire, The Americans, Fallen Skies, all on right now, are all very well written and entertaining.


75 posted on 07/23/2014 11:42:58 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Yes I blame Obama for everything!...That sounds refreshing!


76 posted on 07/23/2014 11:44:38 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Obama and plain old crap spewing out from Hollywood.


77 posted on 07/23/2014 11:46:24 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: GeronL
They have some terrible sounding movies out there, things I wouldn’t watch for free.

So does this mean you're not going to line up to see The Rock as Hercules? Or the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot?

78 posted on 07/23/2014 11:49:35 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
We ignore(at our own peril)the power/influence of the liberals control of media/academia on the young and the stupid in this country.

Where are the "affirmative action" cries to demand this one-sided power/influence become more ideologically balanced?

(crickets)

79 posted on 07/23/2014 11:50:25 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: jalisco555

No way. Not even if they get the cast of Superbad to remake CHiPS


80 posted on 07/23/2014 11:50:43 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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