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2005-07-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Oscars' ratings bomb, Summer boxoffice plunges. Trend or Coincidence?

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Posted by Whomoting Shomp1655 2005-07-05 08:19|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No Doubt hollywierd blames it on 'those meddeling kids' who copy and share movies.

Not that their movies simply SUCK ROCKS and are mostly badly made rehashes of old movies ("War of the Worlds", "Bewitched', "Herbie", "Longest Yard", "Land of the Dead", ...).

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-07-05 08:56|| 2005-07-05 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 To paraphrase a witty comment on another site (which blog it was escapes me!)on the topic of the continuing Hollywood slump....
"There is intelligent life in the universe... but when they saw what was playing at the multiplex, they barfed, and left!"

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2005-07-05 09:02|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-07-05 09:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Speasking for mwe just the fact that Tim Robbins is in War of the Worlds is enough for me to not want to see it. I wonder if they yet realize that a lot of people just don't plain like them because of their sedition to this country.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2005-07-05 09:06|| 2005-07-05 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 It's been years since I've been in a theatre. And no, I don't download, buy, or rent movies at home, either.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-07-05 09:37|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-07-05 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 FWIW, I went to an electrical shop on Friday. A few minutes later a guy walks in with a ton of DVD's, with War of The Worlds right on top of the stack. I'd think box office receipts would get killed with pirated copies coming out within mere days of the film itself.

Posted by Raj 2005-07-05 10:39|| 2005-07-05 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 I blame it on those unattended bastard teens who get dropped off at the movies by their moms. I can't even stand to go to the theater anymore.

Posted by BH 2005-07-05 11:43|| 2005-07-05 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7

People have less time and are less inclined to go through the hassle to drive to a theater to pay $8 a ticket and get gouged for popcorn. The real money is in DVD sales, pay per view and premium channels where costs are low and most othe dollar spent is pure profit. I get concerned (NOT) when star's salaries drop below $20 million per movie.

Posted by ed 2005-07-05 12:01|| 2005-07-05 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 What more needs to be said? Hollywood gets the rights to the real life story of a former supermodel turned lesbian bounty hunter.... and they still screw it up. They are doomed.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-07-05 13:12|| 2005-07-05 13:12|| Front Page Top

#9 The real question is: why are the studios paying $20 mil salaries to the likes of Tom Cruise? War of the Worlds didn't need a "box office draw", so why not hire a good, moderately unknown actor for the job? Or 20, for $20 mil. That way the audience can concentrate on story, and not on Tom.

But that probably is naive, isn't it?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-07-05 14:37|| 2005-07-05 14:37|| Front Page Top

#10 What we need are new classics in the vein of "3000 Miles to Graceland", "Waterworld", "For the Love of the Game", "Message in a Bottle"... great films like that. All available on DVD by the way. Do me a favor and pick one up. You wouldn't believe how much that wedding to my latest tootsie put me in hock. Well...maybe you would.

Posted by Kevin Costner 2005-07-05 14:49|| 2005-07-05 14:49|| Front Page Top

#11 ...and "The Postman". How could I forget "The Postman"!

Posted by Kevin Costner 2005-07-05 14:53|| 2005-07-05 14:53|| Front Page Top

#12 ... uh, did I mention Dances with Wolves! ... man, a really meaningful film with a timely message or something like that ... bored audiences to tears in 6 continents and told the trew story of wild west.

Posted by Kev Costner 2005-07-05 15:07|| 2005-07-05 15:07|| Front Page Top

#13 ROFL, Sgt. Mom!

Here's one reason their income is down: No only haven't I gone to a movie in years, I've stopped by the video store several times in the past few months and couldn't even find a video/dvd worth renting.

Hollyweird is losing because their products SUCK.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-07-05 16:08|| 2005-07-05 16:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Tom Cruise is a certified nut, er, Scientologist bigwig. He is doing for that moonbat cult what Pelosi and Reid are doing for the Democrats. I will not pay to see his movies.

Posted by remoteman 2005-07-05 16:35|| 2005-07-05 16:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Cruise - I guess he missed the Heaven's Gate trip on the UFO which was hiding in the Hale-Bopp comet tail...

It's called Alien Envy...

Posted by BigEd 2005-07-05 16:37|| 2005-07-05 16:37|| Front Page Top

#16 What's really sad is that The Postman wasn't a bad SciFi Novel.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-05 16:44|| 2005-07-05 16:44|| Front Page Top

#17 True, Ship, and "The War of the Worlds" was pretty good, too. I haven't been to the theatre since "The Green Mile". I thought it was a pretty good movie. I will go see "The Work and the Glory II and III" when they come out because I know a bit about the people involved. Eric Johnson, Johnathon Scarfe, Brenda Strong, and most of the others were really interested in all us "little people" and were actually fairly well informed about current events. Eric Johnson and Johnathon Scarfe are both Canadian. I had some interesting talks with them. The quality of Hollywood movies is certainly way down with movies with ecological agendas based on bad science and movies with political agendas based on propaganda are not my idea of intertainment. Give me verasimilitude.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-07-05 19:49|| 2005-07-05 19:49|| Front Page Top

#18 Barbara,

Get the movie IRON & SILK, if you haven't seen it. It just came out on DVD and it is a wonderful film with real values and an anti-Commie pro-responsibility message! Be sure to watch the end credits.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2005-07-05 20:41|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2005-07-05 20:41|| Front Page Top

#19 I wonder how well Bollywood films are doing. Maybe the focus has shifted there.

Posted by R 2005-07-05 23:18|| 2005-07-05 23:18|| Front Page Top

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