Posted on 12/19/2021 9:48:48 AM PST by marcusmaximus
All hope for Steven Spielberg’s racially divisive West Side Story remake died in week two, plummeting 68 percent with a humiliating take of just $3.4 million.
After ten days in release, which includes two weekends, this historic box office bomb has grossed just $17.9 million.
The hope had been that word of mouth would give Woke Side box office legs. Sorry, nope. No legs. Just two little stumps.
Between production and marketing, this stinker probably cost close to $200 million. As a result, Disney’s going to lose a fortune.
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Is his daughter still doing porn films?
Yeah, they didn't take the concept far enough. Too bad.
It started at the bottom, then went right down.
I've thought the exact same thing. I keep expecting it to come out in the alternative media. Hasn't yet, but I bet it will. The Dave Chappelle Juicy Smelle thing was a down payment.
Just leave the original one alone! NO WAY TO TOP IT!
The trailers look great but no way would I spend a penny to see it. Take a look at the lead’s Twitter responses to the cops and Rittenhouse. What an informed idiot. Scroll down a bit: https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2021/12/13/spielbergs-woke-take-on-west-side-story-performs-like-youd-expect-woke-productions-do-n490781
Yeah, and they would say that it’s dangerous hate speech, then stage a bunch of hoax hate crimes in Juicy fashion to prove it.
“Just the same old retread plots only now they are filled with woke BS.”
Agreed. Pre-scamdemic lockdowns, I hadn’t been to a movie theatre more than a handful of times since 2013. Very rarely did any of the crap coming out Hollywood instill any enthusiasm or motivation in me to pay $20 for a ticket and another $15 for a soda and popcorn.
“That’s a shame.” — Jerry Seinfeld
The original was woke and preachy for its day. The new version may actually be behind the curve so far as woke PC is concerned. But the discussion is academic. If we haven’t seen the movie, we really don’t know what it is. I may see it eventually and probably won’t love it or hate it.
Thanks for the laugh. I’d missed that one.
Hold my beer - sandman and Rittenhouse
Disney is happy to fund a huge Virtue Soapbox.
Maybe today’s movie goers are not interested in watching a bunch of Juvenile delinquents jumping around “like a bunch of Kansas City Faggots!” (I stole that from Blazing Saddles.)
Simple answer, mandate the people watch it. For their health. I’m sure our government kneepaders on FR can justify a mental health mandate full of wokeism.
LOL The most recent film I watched in a movie theatre was "The Patriot." I just looked and found that was over twenty years ago.
*** Disney will claim the movie as a success...**
reminds me of Ross Hunter’s disaster the musical LOST HORIZON. Bombed at the box office.
A couple of years later it was on commercial TV and the blurb said “ROSS HUNTER’S GREAT FILM HIT, LOST HORIZON!”
Which is the problem with most movies anymore.
Once you strip away the light show where is the core story?
There is nothing there to care about.
Sure, songs and dancing and flashy CGI are fun. So are witty one liners and even visual jokes. But you have to have a story underneath it all.
And that is where they fail.
Normal to have a drop of up to 50% the second weekend (for non-blockbuster movies). A 68% drop is going off a cliff. Spielberg touched all the ‘progressive’ bases with white racists, transexuals, etc. Who could have possibly guessed it would bomb at the box office?
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