Posted on 12/14/2016 6:52:14 AM PST by xzins
The American people don’t want to condescended to.
They don’t want to go to the movies and watch some flick about the far left political agenda.
They want to be entertained; to escape reality.
What a concept!
Miss Sloane was just released and it’s all about gun control. It earned $1.9 million while playing in 1,648 theaters.
That’s insanely awful.
From Fox News:
Movie goers weren’t too interested in “Miss Sloane,” a film that explores the gun control debate from the perspective of a lawyer who is lobbying for universal background checks for gun ownership. Still, the film’s leading lady, Jessica Chastain, landed a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination for the poorly received flick.
The film, which premiered in select cities on Thanksgiving, hit more theaters this past weekend, and it fizzled in its wide expansion, earning $1.9 million from 1,648 locations.
According to Deadline, “Miss Sloane” cost $13 million to produce.
Time to regroup, Hollywood.
Middle America wants you to cut the BS and start making movies for those of us who don’t live in either New York or California.
Like Nike taught us – just do it!
Saw a preview on tv couple of weeks back with the header “The movie the NRA doesn’t want you to see” no wonder it did so bad.
Tone deaf. Don’t they understand what’s happening in America? We’re done with this PC crap. So make your stupid movies and lose bazillions of dollars; keep it up and good for you!
My wife is a huge gun control proponent - she always wants to go to the range to fine tune her own gun control.....
I fine tune mine in my back yard
I fell into that pit many years ago, but learned how to avoid it. As follows
1. See the movie and watch it for what it is. You can judge the movie on its own, and as with JAWS, the movie was better than the book, which is unusual.
2. Get and read the book, which will really be enjoyable, to the extent you may not want to put it down until done.
IF you have already read the book, and literally could not put it down, DO NOT go to the movie.
Hollywood can,wil and does ruin any book ever written in a process I call Hollywoodizing.
FIRST the movie...THEN the book. The flaw here is that always the book is out first.
The movie was "Sum Of All Fears." In the book the muzzies were able to rebuild a stolen/found Israeli nuke and detonate the device during the Super Bowl in Denver.
The movie turned the bad guys into evil white Europeans and the device went off in Baltimore harbor (I think).
I heard about the plot change and have refused to ever watch the movie while the book is very good.
Ron Howard's daughter is Dallas Bryce Howard. She was in the last Jurassic Park movie.
On another FR thread yesterday someone posted Jessica Chastain's bio and it seems she was raised in a pretty broken/dysfunctional family, although it seems her stepdad was the only stable person in her life.
KRAMER: Yeah, went straight to video. KRAMER: That makes me the premiere.
I miss the convenience but I don't miss cleaning up the brass from the grass and occasionally send some flying with the lawn mower.
Mine isn’t in danger of getting annexed by anything in the next 100 years probably....if ever.
I remember it now. Thanks.
I agree with you, except for the key thing that it was known history already to me!
But I am in complete agreement for fiction...I love seeing the movie first, then reading the book. It gives me a mental image of the characters in the book kind of pre-built for me by watching the movie.
Spot on! LOL! I never even heard of it util this thread.
Suck it Hillary and Hollywood!
Is that Jessica Chastaine?
Oh, I could have sworn I read she was Ron Howard’s daughter. Huh. Sorry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/fashion/mens-style/leonard-cohen-jikan-zen-monk-buddhism.html?_r=1
"I was getting lunch on Larchmont Street with an old friend from my Hollywood screenwriting days. I had given him a copy of my book. Only one thing about it impressed him: “Dude, I can’t believe you know Leonard Cohen!” We left the pizza parlor, turned the corner, and who should be sitting at a table outside a burger restaurant but Jikan Leonard Cohen himself. He had an office nearby, and we spent the afternoon brainstorming about how to revitalize the monastery now that our teacher was dead. “What if you put in a rifle range and get a bunch of young guys up there?” Jikan said. “Man, if I were 15 minutes younger, I’d join you.”
Yes, rifles. For all the self-satisfied liberals who want to claim him as one of their own, I’m sorry, but Leonard Cohen belongs to everyone. Once, when we were waiting in the lobby at the doctor’s office, he said: “My National Rifle Association hat came in the mail today. I looked at the tag. I couldn’t believe it: Made in China!”
Just curious. Do you also get a big kick out of spotting a historical boo-boo in historical movies. I always laugh my head off, silently, and feel smarter the movie makers, which we both probably are.
My favorite (I am a watchmaker). In the movie Tora Tora Tora, the fleet is just about to signal “colors” for the raising of the flag and the O.D. checks his watch, which is critical for history. There is a close up of a clear faced CARAVELLE (by Bulova). It shows the moment in time the bombs started falling on 12/7/41. I was very embarassed when I laughed for a second.
The Caravelle brand was INTRODUCED 4/15/60 and only the watchmaker caught the continuity screw-up.
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