These two need to go after them for giving Sheepherders a bad name.
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
I agree. He's an extremely gifted actor. I also note that he doesn't make an issue about being homosexual, i.e. he keeps his private life to himself when doing interviews in the MSM. Different from Ellen Degenerate and Rosie O'Cowbell...two talentless hags who expect public adoration because they're gay.
"Seen 'Brokeback Mountain' yet?"
"Yeah, a couple of times. Let's go see 'King Kong' tonight, but buy tickets for 'Brokeback' instead."
"'Kay."
The 69.4% A's is not surprising since most of the audience to this movie is probably homosexual. Like the monkeys in the mirror, they love to see themselves in the movies doing "their thing"—sort of a porno excitement factor, I guess.
These two need to go after them for giving Sheepherders a bad name.
Sorry, I can't resist...
My bad.
It's very good - but save a fistful of dollars and rent it. I would have enjoyed it much more at home.
BBM will never be on as many screens as KK, never, ever, not even close.
Full release for BBM means another 500 'art' theaters.
Geez, that joke is soooo old.
My best friend when I was a kid was the youngest of eight children. His dad came out of the closet, left his mom, and 'married' another man when my friend was nine years old. Destroyed the family. Almost all of the children ended up with drug and alcohol problems. His father died of AIDS in the mid-80s. So much destruction from an uncontrolled libido.
One of the "cowpokes" is apparently only too happy to already be promoting his NEXT movie. Incredibly, the very week that the "cowpoke" movie came out, televisions across the nation were showing trailers for 'Casanova', starring Heath Ledger.
Had to break the homos' hearts.
Brokeback Mountain is NOT in a select-city release. It is in full, national release. They tried remaining in few theaters within a given city as possible, to create buzz, but the movie is showing in just about every major metropolitan area.
They went off their game plan when the movie expanded to 69 theaters, and saw the box office take drop badly during a week. (No, I can't be sure of cause and effect.) They then went from planning 130 theaters to opening in 217; apparently opening in any market that they could.
This writer gets things
exactly opposite from
what they really are.
"Shock" entertainment
pays the bills for Hollywood,
because shock movies
have a small but fierce
audience that's always there.
What we're seeing now
is Hollywood try
to apply the dynamics
of shock cinema
to mainstream movies,
building major releases
around shocking themes
guaranteed to push
someone's hot buttons and cause
everyone to talk.
And, at the same time,
there's still an endless supply
of movies like these:
Good comment, and agree about the History Channel. Occasionally there is something of value there but more and more it has become distortion and sensation.
I'm not one to get hooked on TV shows/series, except for 24, but I have to admit that I can't help but watch Nip/Tuck, that's just a great show. I like Prison Break too.
-snip-Plus, last I looked Sheep aren't Cows.
You expect Hollyweirdoes to know the difference?
I agree completely. As soon as I heard the basic premis and how the word "cowbow" was being utilized I KNEW it was an attempt to dilute the manly image we have of RR & Dubya!
Not gonna work. And although I am a movie addict, there will be many movies I chose to see before this one. I will no doubt eventually see it on big screen but it will be on bottom of heap & I might just wait til it hits 2nd run/dollar theater.
Thanks for ping apo2.. I would have missed this.!
I imagine you're correct, but it is not playing in Dothan, Alabama.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.