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April 17, 2008
Losses Won't Stop for Stop Loss
Posted by Dave Blount at April 17, 2008 7:11 AM
It used to be that when Hollywood churned out garbage, it could hide behind the market. "We're just businessmen, giving people what they ask for." However, nobody is asking for the seditious trash it has been pumping out in an overt campaign to undermine our troops fighting terrorists abroad.
The latest case in point is Stop Loss. Due to its anti-American message, the movie received laudatory reviews. But for some reason no one wants to sit through it:
Friday's No. 7 Stop-Loss fell a spot to 8th after it opened to only $1.7 million Friday and Saturday from a limited 1,291 plays. It eked out a $4.5M weekend. Although the drama from MTV Films was the best-reviewed movie opening this weekend, Paramount wasn't expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office. "It's not looking good," a studio source told me before the weekend. "No one wants to see Iraq war movies. No matter what we put out there in terms of great cast or trailers, people were completely turned off."
They could always try making a movie that doesn't cast Americans as the bad guys. But that would be pandering to the grubby marketplace, full of bitter yokel losers who cling to their guns and Bibles, etc.
Stop Loss has been out since March and has only grossed just over $10 million. The production budget was $25 million. The numbers are even grimmer for Brian De Palma's despicable Redacted, which has grossed about $750,000 worldwide since it came out last November.
You might think heads would be rolling after all the money flushed away on anti-war flops like Stop Loss, Redacted, Rendition, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, Badland, Grace Is Gone, ad nauseam. If so, think again. The people running Hollyweird have more money than they know what to do with, or they wouldn't support Democrats. Maybe movies were about business in the olden days; now they are about disseminating moonbattery.
Hat tip: CosmicConservative, on tips from General Jack D. Ripper.
