Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts In Holiday Flop (Hollyweird liberals need a bailout...)

Deadline Hollywood ^ | 7/3/11 | Nikki Finke

[jimbo123]

There look to be fireworks for some Hollywood action and family movies this Fourth Of July long weekend but not for Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts whose new movie bombed.

[hoagy62]

One of our local critics, Tom Tagney, said this movie was “the worst movie of the year” so far.

[tflabo]

Run Retire Forrest, Run Retire.

[death2tyrants]

[forgotten man]

“Why should I watch movies in an uncomfortable theater and pay highway robbery prices for both tickets and concessions?”

I talked to an exterminator this week. There are bed bugs in the movie theaters. I will never go inside one of those places again.

[Gena Bukin]

Why would a freeper support Tom Hanks?

Band of Brothers

The Pacific

Thank you, Mr. Hanks.

[imfrmdixie]

LMAO! This is so why I can’t stand Julia Robert’s movies....in every one they have to have her give that annoying cackling laugh....and I agree with all who say they will not spend one dime supporting people who want to bring down our democracy. Why do we continue to afford these people lavish lifestyles when they want to take away our meager ones?

[Captain Peter Blood]

Actually the Rodney Dangerfield movie was a remake of a Bing Crosby picture called “High Time” from about 1960, and I think that might have been a remake from a picture made in the 1930’s.
I knew the Hanks picture was a bomb from the promo’s I saw.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Not mention her walk. Julia Roberts has the most clumsy, ungraceful walk I ever saw on a woman reputed to be a movie star.
Please where is Claudia Cardinale, Verna Lisi, Grace Kelly, etc., women who looked like women and walked like one????

[MamaB]

I have not been to a movie in probably 25 or more years. I just do not like going. I, too have a huge tv with surround sound or rather I did have all of the surround sound. Gave it all to my grandson. I am not a movie person and have not been for many years. I can not remember the last movie I did see. My grandson is into music and movies so he needed all that stuff a whole lot more than I did. Hubby died in 06 and I had not used any of it since the year before that. He used to put cds on and turn the golf channel on, turn the sound down on that and listen to his music.

[rawcatslyentist]

Them lips of hers do have that wormy bait look.

[Signalman]

Good. Some cheerful news for a change. Anytime uber-lib Julia Roberts fails, it makes me happy.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Liberal movie flops, Transformers 3, which I believe is an Real American movie kicks butt.

Hmmm.... Now why would that be?

[Blue Ink]

Movies screened for audiences on large screens in dedicated spaces have been popular for nearly one hundred years.

The big fear was television would be the death knell of theaters. Didn’t happen. And that was sixty years ago.

Many thing about seeing movies in theaters with other people enhance the experience.

NetFlix won’t be the end of movie theaters.

[Blue Ink]

“I talked to an exterminator this week. There are bed bugs in the movie theaters.”

This is TERRIBLE news! What state/city?

[discostu]

Cinemas aren’t a dying breed. Transformers 3 just hauled 162 million dollars in 5 days. There’s still an audience out there, you just have to tap it. Any theater that goes out of business is either mismanaged or did something to earn the ire of the MPAA distributors.

[TennesseeGirl]

My wife and I went to see this movie... I thought it was quite good

I wondered about that. I'd rather have word of mouth than a critic's opinion anyday.

[Patton@Bastogne]

thanks for reminding me (with direct quotes) “exactly” why I didn’t want to see this movie ... even if i was offered FREE tickets ...

[SkyDancer]

That may be true in some instances but here’s a good reason why the movie industry as a whole may be on the wane. http://www.breitbart.tv/whittle-hollywood-hates-america-and-themselves/

[Oatka]

cinema's are a dying breed.

I always wondered if they couldn't extend their lifespan by having a "Classics Night" and show some of the great oldies, including black and white. I'd love to see "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" on the BIG screen and hear Alfonso Bodoya leer and say "I don't gotta show you no steekin batches!".

It might also wke up some of the younger generation to the fact that you don't need CGI to tell a story - if there is a story at all in films nowadays.

Maybe there are some distributor restrictions.

[discostu]

Hollywood on the “wane” has hauled in just shy of 5 billion dollars in domestic theatrical release this year. 10.5 billion in both of the last 2 years. And that’s just domestic theatrical, not international, no DVD, and no TV network distribution in that figure. I’d love to be in a waning industry pulling in almost 1 billion dollars a month on its least lucrative revenue stream.

The death of Hollywood is grossly overstated. And has been grossly overstated for about 50 years.