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April 17, 2008
Losses Won't Stop for Stop Loss
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 17, 2008 7:11 AM
Comments
TV has also become infected with the same nonsense. Day 7 of "24" is reportedly about evil corporations and white men ruining America; despite "24" being a FOX show. Battlestar Galactica's ratings cratered after a largely Iraq themed season and now its being cancelled after Season 4 - ratings even worse than last year.
The worst of the lot was the 2nd season of the finally-cancelled-for-good CBS series JERICHO which featured evil white men in business suits resembling George Bush and Dick Cheney nuking 2 dozen US cities so they could build their own personal country called the Allied States of America (west of the Missisippi). The worst was a Blackwater USA type paramilitary group that went around killing civilians including a deaf girl to cover up embezzlement. They solved this by re-enacting Fallujah Iraq 2004 where contractors were hung like hunting trophies. The funny part was there was a train wreck in the first Season 2 episode that foreshadowed the cancellation.
Posted by: Anonymous at April 17, 2008 8:35 AM
is Battlestar Galactica even on tv anymore, they kept putting the season off further and further and i forgot it even existed.
Posted by: furballz at April 17, 2008 10:53 AM
maybe, just maybe people don't want to pay money to see the same inane liberal talking points they've heard every single day for the last 6 years portrayed in technicolour when they could be watching harry potter or something interesting..
or staying home to watch heroes on tv..
ya think, hollywood?
Posted by: Anonymous at April 17, 2008 10:03 PM
Just wait... almost everything we enjoy as it is now will be twisted and warped to fit the current poli-think. Ratings be damned! The networks and studios feel the need to pound into us "simple folk" their worldview. Just keep watching.
Posted by: monsterforge at April 18, 2008 8:43 AM
