I agree completely!
The homosexual agenda is trying to pervert an American hero icon but it ain't gonna work!
Cause my Heroes have always been cowboys!
Posted on 12/28/2005 6:59:55 AM PST by bulldozer
These days, the film industry bemoans decreasing box office sales by crying about illegal downloads of movies. If all the major providers of peer-to-peer software had not been shut down, they might have a point.
Industries who think consumers are slaves to their products usually end up in this boat. The consumer goes elsewhere.
“Brokeback Mountain” has netted a paltry $4.9 million in box office sales, nearly identical to “Memoirs of a Geisha”. Both movies have been out for about two weeks. King Kong has earned twenty times more in only eight days of apish reincarnation.
Here is a wake-up call for Hollywood: Nearly one-fourth of viewers gave Brokeback Mountain an “F”, while 69.4% gave it an A, leaving no middle-ground. We can easily guess who these votes came from on both sides of this tin coin.
Golden Globe elites went into plebian parinirvana over the idea of two married cowboys rustling something more than livestock on the range. Monkeys go “ape” seeing themselves in the mirror, too. A “Gone With The Wind” this is not.
The business model for film distribution is changing rapidly in ways Hollywood is loathe to admit. With cable and satellite, viewers do not need to waste money going out to see movies they do not really want to see, out of sheer boredom. We can more easily surf cable to watch the best of the worst, in far more comfortable surroundings, with our favorite snacks just a few steps away. The box office and DVD rentals merely give us time to figure out what we really want to see.
Hollywood no longer has a monopoly on entertainment. The internet and video games are where celluloid ex-pats now reside.
Consumer dollar-votes are most instructive. The fish now know the difference between a real worm and a fake one with a hook on it. We are no longer addicted to seeing the latest insult to family values just so we can pretend we are hip while complaining about it at lunch.
Shock entertainment will be an increasingly marginal market. Those who wish to be successful in film and television will look to the great box office hits, shows, and the legendary acts for new foundations for the film industry.
David R. Usher is President of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, Missouri Coalition
This year's Oscars will be the lowest-rated ever.
...a dozen times. Betcha that's where a lot of their revenue comes in: multiple viewing by the multiple-partner target audience.
The old women scenes made me cringe.....
And they will drive for miles to theaters in the suburbs just to try to make it look like the movie is accepted in fly-over country.
You've just contradicted this article...if people are turning aways from anti family-values entertainment, why are people turning out in droves for satellite radio for Howard Stern and in record numbers to watch cable TV fare? People still want Empty filth, they just want it in the privacy of their own homes. It's the overt political agenda that people are turning away from. You watch any episode of and FX series or an HBO series and it's pretty graphically sexual with lots of filthy language. But the shows are great. I watch all of them.
Perhaps it would be more instructive to look at "why" they would put BBM in select-city-release for the first few weeks. My guess is that they wanted to build hype in friendly markets. A general release during Christmas would likely have resulted in a bomb performance. This would have killed the movie before it had time to get all over the morning shows with awards talk. We'll see how it does compared to the average "PG" film.
What are "movies"?
Nathan Lane can't help but make me laugh. I tried hard to dislike the Birdcage but Lane pulled that movie out.
Next thing you'll be saying is there isn't any pudding.
-Eric
Bet the Uma Thurman scenes didn't. ;-)
Gosh, the boys had to have a choice of pleasure, either sheep or man!!! When you get up this morning and look at your kids and family, ask yourself, is this the America you want your family to reside in? If your answer is yes, than vote Democrat, if not, you know what we need to do, destroy the entire Democrat Party at the voting booth!!!
They'll do the sheep in Brokeback Mountain II.
I agree completely!
The homosexual agenda is trying to pervert an American hero icon but it ain't gonna work!
Cause my Heroes have always been cowboys!
Brokeback Mountin' Too! or Humpback Mountin' in 3D!
I agree completely!
The homosexual agenda is trying to pervert an American hero icon but it ain't gonna work!
Cause my Heroes have always been cowboys!
The commercials for Gayback are sickening, I really, really, really do NOT want to see guys hugging, or looking forlorn at each other. I do not want to see a gay man "fake it" with his wife, have kids, etc.....
If you're gay, be gay...don't screw the rest of us with your stupid lifestyle.
OOOooops sorry for double post, darn 'puter!
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