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1 posted on 12/17/2005 11:10:23 AM PST by dangus
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Yes, this will be THE movie that reverses Hoolywood's enormous decline.


54 posted on 12/17/2005 11:34:57 AM PST by FormerACLUmember
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I guess you could say it isn't only the Mountain that is broke.


55 posted on 12/17/2005 11:35:29 AM PST by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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The set of guys willing to plunk down $20 to see a gay cowboy movie is pretty small.


60 posted on 12/17/2005 11:38:20 AM PST by JoeGar
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Here's a little ballad from my imaginary soundtrack:
Homo...........homo on the range,
Where the sheep and the shepherds do play,
Where never you'll see,
A man standing to pee,
And everything's merry and gay.


64 posted on 12/17/2005 11:39:26 AM PST by weeder
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I think you'll see that Karl Rove had a lot to do with this. Many Americans have been glued to their TV's on a incidents that Rove him manipulated to happen during the opening of this movie. The Iraqi Elections for one. Then, even though Bush had taken responsibility before for freeing the Iraqi people, he did so again just before the weekend. Many other stories unfolding as well. Surely Backdoor Mountain would have done much better if Karl Rove wasn't behind the scenes manipulating the news during its debut. Heck, it would have surpassed Titanic's total income by now under normal circumstances!

http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html


68 posted on 12/17/2005 11:41:21 AM PST by MaineVoter2002 (http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
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At this rate, they might as well release "Gigli II".


69 posted on 12/17/2005 11:41:23 AM PST by martin_fierro (Famous Insomniac)
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A gross of $11,000 per screen is quite good. If you're an autumn Wide Release, opening on 3500 screens across the country. When a movie opens on only 69 of the nation's largest theaters in a few dozen of the largest cities, with almost all of your target audience within range of those theaters, it's pretty bad.

Umm, no, actually, it's not, and you obviously don't know what you are talking about.

$11,000 per theater, especially the arthouse theaters where a movie like that is likely to play, is probably a sellout audience at most theaters.

The opposition to this film on FR really surprises me. I thought we took a 'live and let live' position. Who cares if it's about gay cowboys? I'm sure there are gay cowboys somewhere out there. If they want a movie, good for them. Might actually be good. I'm not gonna take kids to see it, but its stupid to say that there shouldn't be a movie on that topic.

73 posted on 12/17/2005 11:44:32 AM PST by zbigreddogz
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It's gonna be "broke on their ass" for the producers of this joke of a film.


81 posted on 12/17/2005 11:49:50 AM PST by dc-zoo
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It's sure to get the Best Picture Oscar now that it's losing money.


83 posted on 12/17/2005 11:51:04 AM PST by popdonnelly
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Target audience? Gay cowboys?

Ha ha ha ha ha!


89 posted on 12/17/2005 11:54:07 AM PST by airborne (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't!)
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Syriana also fell hard, too... ($1.6 million).

Woo hoo!

94 posted on 12/17/2005 11:56:02 AM PST by Ichneumon
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I'm salivating for Narnia to come out on DVD.


96 posted on 12/17/2005 11:57:24 AM PST by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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IMHO, the overuse of computer enhanced images has ruined the movies.

If you look back at, say, some of the early Bond movies, the explosions, etc. were obviously not "real." But they looked real, and most importantly, plausible. Not so today. Everything is over-enhanced and overdone. And apparently the movie going public doesn't like it.

98 posted on 12/17/2005 11:58:48 AM PST by upchuck (Article posts of just one or two sentences do not preserve the quality of FR. Lazy FReepers be gone!)
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I thought it was called 'Bareback Mountain'?


100 posted on 12/17/2005 12:00:07 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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I'm not interested in sissy cowboys.


102 posted on 12/17/2005 12:00:46 PM PST by Carolinamom (Winter is in my head , but eternal spring is in my heart. ---Victor Hugo)
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Narnia was great.


105 posted on 12/17/2005 12:04:12 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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..maybe it would have done better if they had made a 2 hr. version of the Brokeback Kong parody...


115 posted on 12/17/2005 12:11:56 PM PST by WalterSkinner
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Looks like it won't be showing where I live. A pity, I would have loved to read a review of it in the local rag. I can just see them sweating over it -- how do we push the homosexual agenda without disgusting our readership?


116 posted on 12/17/2005 12:12:22 PM PST by Alain Chartier
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Another blow for Blue-State America.


121 posted on 12/17/2005 12:17:04 PM PST by desherwood7
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I knew this was going to happen, but it makes me feel really good to see it in print.


123 posted on 12/17/2005 12:19:43 PM PST by I still care (You don't demonstrate tolerance for minorities by apologising for your own heritage,- John Howard)
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