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2007-12-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

Weak box office for 'Lions' gives United Artists bumpy ride

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Posted by Steve White 2007-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 The movie is horrible. Redford has the gall to think that he can define present day America from his base in pot-polluted Aspen. He juggles together an interview between a liberal reporter and a hardline GWOT senator, front line soldiers whose experience is supposed to illustrate the futility of intervention in Afghanistan, and himself as a guidance counselor to a youth who seems to have lost his social engineering zeal. There you go; Redford tried to clone radicals. To show my anti-pinko cynicicm, I downloaded it off one of those torrent websites. More GWOT please.

Posted by McZoid 2007-12-01 03:13|| 2007-12-01 03:13|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not going with 12 of my friends.
On Sunday after lunch we're not going again.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-12-01 05:48|| 2007-12-01 05:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Tom, you got room for one more?

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-12-01 06:37|| 2007-12-01 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Removing some of the sting is the fact that the film cost only $35 million to produce.

That's the pre-post-production costs. Hollyweird is famous for the cost of movies to go up after its been sent the theaters to cover 'expenses'. Well, at least that's what they tell the IRS. Which is another reason to take the 'tax' cut, like everyone else in the business, off the gross.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-12-01 07:43|| 2007-12-01 07:43|| Front Page Top

#5 United Artists used to make Bond films; now it is making treasonous retard drivel. Typical Scientology tactic to buy a brand and use it as cover for their propaganda.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-12-01 07:46|| 2007-12-01 07:46|| Front Page Top

#6 I personally know of four men who won't be going. Maybe we could make an evening of it?

Posted by badanov 2007-12-01 08:14|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-12-01 08:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I think they spent at leat 35mil to advertise the wretched thing. 1 or 2 mil on Fred's sidebar alone, by my estimation.

And I'm not going neither. Maybe we should rent a minibus?

Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-01 10:52|| 2007-12-01 10:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Make it a full-sized bus. I'm sure we can convince a few others.

Posted by Pappy 2007-12-01 11:14|| 2007-12-01 11:14|| Front Page Top

#9 I'll hook Ace to a wagon and we can all not go together. A locally produced and directed film showed in a few theaters here last summer. It is the only film to sell out every night for 14 consecutive nights. It was very well done on a shoe-string budget ($5,000.00). If locals can make a decent film with so little money Hollywierd should be able to as well. The problem with Hollyweierd is they are more interested in making "Political Statements) then good movies.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-12-01 11:17|| 2007-12-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Team America: World Police did almost as well ( ~$33 M US gross, $50 M world vs $20 M production cost) and it starred PUPPETS! America, *bleep* yeah!

Any over-under on when the naughty version "Loins for Lambs" appears?

Posted by SteveS 2007-12-01 11:25|| 2007-12-01 11:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Can we not go see "Redacted" too?
Or was it "Rendition"?

Posted by tu3031 2007-12-01 11:33|| 2007-12-01 11:33|| Front Page Top

#12 I think it was "Redundant".

Posted by wxjames 2007-12-01 12:03|| 2007-12-01 12:03|| Front Page Top

#13 I'll guarantee you that Team America sold more DVDs than this POS ever will also.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-12-01 12:35|| 2007-12-01 12:35|| Front Page Top

#14 I am not going to that movie, or most any other Hollywood perv POS movie. Ima going to "Freedom," starring Deacon and Ace. Read the reviews and looking forward to it. This is for real.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-12-01 13:40|| 2007-12-01 13:40|| Front Page Top

#15 When these disastrous anti-war productions were in the planning stage, Hollywood and other media cultists fully expected them to be released into a world where the US effort in Iraq had already resulted in disaster. Their sacred Vietnam dogma told them this was inevitable. They might even have expected dramatic scenes of a chaotic Saigon-style evacuation to be available to assist marketing. The Hollywood political arm was trying to defund the war to bring about such a debacle, as they had defunded South Vietnam, and there was every reason for true believers like Redford and retards like Cruise to expect a repeat performance.
The resulting films now look about as silly as Leni Riefenstahl's efforts did in the summer of 1945.

Posted by Angique Gonque2974 2007-12-01 13:51|| 2007-12-01 13:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Some say "Lions" could lose as much as $25 million, although UA and parent company MGM won't comment on any figures. They said that "Lions" could even be profitable once it gets into its home entertainment and television runs.

Denial aside, I believe the trend is actually .... bad at the box, worse at Blockbusters.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-12-01 13:57|| 2007-12-01 13:57|| Front Page Top

#17 ! was all set to not go today. Then the Army/Navy game came on and I forgot all about not going.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-12-01 15:23|| 2007-12-01 15:23|| Front Page Top

#18 I wasn't going to go either, even after I clicked on the ad. at rantburg for more information about this great movie.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-12-01 18:55|| 2007-12-01 18:55|| Front Page Top

#19 Count me out!

Posted by jds 2007-12-01 19:30|| 2007-12-01 19:30|| Front Page Top

#20 I'm going to wait for the DVD and not watch it on that. It's a waste of no money to not watch it now when I can not watch it later instead.

Posted by Darrell 2007-12-01 19:42|| 2007-12-01 19:42|| Front Page Top

#21 Any over-under on when the naughty version "Loins for Lambs" appears?

I think it already has on numerous Islamic naughty sites. They always really, really liked their goats.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-12-01 19:46|| 2007-12-01 19:46|| Front Page Top

#22 You folks have convinced me! I guess I'll not go to the movies tomorrow, either. Maybe I can do something even more exciting than watching "Lions", or "Redacted", or any of the other silly offerings from the lamestream media. I might be able to find some paint and a brush, and I can watch paint dry. Sounds more exciting than these movies...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-12-01 20:54|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-12-01 20:54|| Front Page Top

#23 I'm not going, and neither is anyone I know.

Maybe we'd better rent Amtrak for the occasion?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-12-01 20:56|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-12-01 20:56|| Front Page Top

#24 Report: I had a lovely time today not going to the cinema. Tomorrow looks to be even better.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-12-01 21:41|| 2007-12-01 21:41|| Front Page Top

#25 With all these people not going, shouldn't we be getting some carbon credits for not going together? And what say we smuggle in a couple garbage bags of popcorn? The AoS travels on its stomach - even if it's not going anywhere.

Posted by SteveS 2007-12-01 22:31|| 2007-12-01 22:31|| Front Page Top

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