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‘Bros’ Director Blasts Audiences for Film’s Box Office Failure
Hollywood in toto ^ | 8th October 2022 | Christian Totot

Posted on 10/10/2022 4:26:52 AM PDT by Cronos

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To: Cronos
"It’s almost like people don’t know what’s good for them.

Now there's a phrase that sums up perfectly what leftists really think about the rest of us. No room for differing opinions. If you don't agree with them, there's something wrong with you.

I wouldn't watch this movie in a million years. That being said, I do remember hearing a lot about Brokeback Mountain (which I never saw either), so I looked it up and saw that it made nearly $180M. I really wish someone would ask this director if the public as a whole was really so anti-gay, how did Brokeback make that much money?

Maybe his movie just sucks.

61 posted on 10/10/2022 6:07:22 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: lodi90

*** This movie was relentlessly promoted. Near everybody knew about it and nobody went. If that isn’t a clear rejection nothing is.***

Not even the gay community want to see it, or maybe there aren’t as many gays as they keep trying to us there are. I found this gem deep within the article.

“The dismal numbers still show most gay Americans chose other movie options last weekend.”

So it sounds like after 2 weekends, it’s a huge bust even within their own community. We know it will win awards though. Cr** like this always does.


62 posted on 10/10/2022 6:08:44 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: USAF1985

“They are mistreating our youth in the schools”

Good point. I’d say they need to be not mistreated by normal society. Advertising, demonstrating or teaching their lifestyle to youngsters should be kicked out by normal society.

I think most gays just want to have a peaceful life and have a few friends — just what I want.


63 posted on 10/10/2022 6:09:22 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Cronos
’It's almost like people don’t know what’s good for them'

Actually, it is precisely BECAUSE we know what’s good for us. And we know that four men buggering each other isn’t.

64 posted on 10/10/2022 6:12:21 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Cronos

Stop using common sense to explain this fiasco.


65 posted on 10/10/2022 6:16:32 AM PDT by griswold3 (There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. – Thomas Sowell)
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To: Cronos

If I wanna see faggots in action I can go down to the bath house in a nearby city and watch them go in...anticipating fun...and coming out having been infected with a dozen rare,and incurable,diseases.


66 posted on 10/10/2022 6:20:26 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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To: FlyingEagle

If people are staying away because of the subject matter and they are biased as the director alleges, then how do you explain the overwhelming commercial success of the Bird Cage.
Perhaps, because the Bird Cage was delivering humor without the lectures.


67 posted on 10/10/2022 6:20:59 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: fwdude
I can see this publicity of a failure first weekend being exactly a prop to bring attention to the film.

This whole thing is a marketing stunt to get people talking about the movie. I doubt it was the original plan, but this is what they're running with. The woke scolding in this case is probably the funniest part of the movie because the director actually believes his own press.

So long as the movie is in the news, it has a case to make to the theaters to keep it running, and in theory get people to either buy tickets or to have it get promoted whe it hits HBO and Netflix.

68 posted on 10/10/2022 6:31:13 AM PDT by jz638
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To: FamiliarFace
Of course the movie will win awards, even though it was a box office bomb. I call it the prom queen effect. After all, the Oscar judges all know that they will be condemned as homophobes if they don't give this turkey of a film some kind of award.

With regard to "prom queen effect", I am referring to the fact that whenever a boy puts on a dress for his high school prom, he is automatically made prom queen and lauded as a brave hero by the school faculty. Other boys are branded as bigots for not doing at least one dance with him and the actual girls have to just keep their mouths shut about it.

69 posted on 10/10/2022 6:33:19 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,156,407 active user on Truth Social)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

In some cities they used a Poster for Brokeback Mountain showing the main character with his wife and baby, in order to trick people.


70 posted on 10/10/2022 6:35:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Cronos

“It is very strange just because the movie is so much fun. And as someone who makes comedies for movie theaters — or did until, I guess, this weekend — I love seeing comedies in movie theaters, and people do. It’s almost like people don’t know what’s good for them.“

People do know what’s good for them. That’s why they don’t want to pay to watch cavorting faggots in a movie.


71 posted on 10/10/2022 6:39:06 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Cronos

DUH! Low box office numbers means people are not buying tickets.
A theater is not a proctology office. I do not need my bowels examined. Especially since I am perfectly happy with my bowels just the way they are. Thank you very much but no thanks.


72 posted on 10/10/2022 6:40:58 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Seek refuge in Christ. He is your sword and shield.)
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To: Cronos

If there are as many gays as they always claim there are, how come they didn’t flock to the theaters to watch it? My guess is that there really aren’t anywhere near the number as they claim, maybe only a 10th of what they claim.


73 posted on 10/10/2022 6:42:35 AM PDT by euram
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To: dfwgator

Imagine that joke being said today. You’d be blacklisted for life.


74 posted on 10/10/2022 6:44:14 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: Mr. K

That’s is so true. When I see two men hugging and kissing, it turns my stomach. Stopped watching New Amsterdam when they showed two guys rolling around in bed. I refuse to watch it. Hallmark is going that route so they will be off my list of movies to watch also.


75 posted on 10/10/2022 6:49:03 AM PDT by JoJo354 (I am in mourning for the United States of America.)
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To: lodi90
This movie was relentlessly promoted. Near everybody knew about it and nobody went.

[raises hand] Count me among the multitude of people who never heard of this film until the complaining over opening weekend revenues started by this little faggot.

Maybe I just pay scant attention to entertainment culture, but I didn't even see it in the regular news. If it was relentlessly promoted, the promoters did a horrible job.

76 posted on 10/10/2022 6:52:11 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: SamAdams76
The contemptible people behind this movie compounded their problems when they decided to guilt-trip the people that didn't come to see it on opening weekend, inferring that they are narrow-minded bigots.

Keep in mind that these are the same people who try to guilt-trip normals for saying they would never even consider "dating" a "transgender" person. So, we're "transphobic," when even homosexuals by huge margins don't want to date them.

You'd think that if 20% of the population is "LGBTQ" as recent fake stats have reveals, they would have had a blockbuster opening. Not even the pervert "community" is supporting this.

77 posted on 10/10/2022 6:56:12 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: fwdude

How many movies to you see in the theater? I go to like two movies a year in the theater and it was previewed at both of them. They spent $40 million promoting it, supposedly.


78 posted on 10/10/2022 7:01:24 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: SamAdams76
As a result of this catastrophic box-office bomb, we may thankfully never see another big budget homo movie thrust upon us like this again. They can take this filth back to the X-rated back alley theaters where it belongs.

I'd like to think that you are correct, but failure to indoctrinate never stopped these degenerates from their mission to fully "queer" society before. I'm convinced they have massive underwriting by well-heeled queer billionaires, and probably partly by government/taxpayers. Otherwise the market would determine viability.

As it is, this film will join the other "gay"-themed bombs which will be standard fare in annual "gay" film festivals in, as you say, back-alley artsy theaters.

79 posted on 10/10/2022 7:01:50 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: Cronos

Don’t assume that he was actually surprised by the movie’s disappointing box office. Complaining afterwards is a way of getting publicity, keeping the movie in the news, and guilting some people into seeing it. It also gives him a reputation in Hollywood as someone willing to go out on a limb, and that can come across as not a bad thing if the industry approves of the cause.


80 posted on 10/10/2022 7:02:01 AM PDT by x
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