Posted on 10/24/2017 4:35:31 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Even if terrible reviews and the exploding scandal around Harvey Weinstein were not an issue, past as prologue informs us that director George Clooney’s Suburbicon would still be in trouble. While the Hollywood bubble, which includes the lackey entertainment media, likes to pretend Clooney is a Big Star, moviegoers disagree, most especially when it comes to the films he directs.
Other than the forgettable mess that was Monuments Men, which squeaked over $75 million (and probably still lost money), American audiences have expressed a startling indifference towards everything Clooney’s directed. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) grossed just $16 million, Leatherheads (2002) was a total washout at $32 million, Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) crashed and burned at $31.5 million, and 2011’s The Ides of March stalled out at $41 million.
The same is almost as true of the movies Clooney stars in. Unless you want to count his extended cameo in Gravity (2013), without the help of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, and the word “Oceans” in the title, it has been 17 years since Clooney appeared in something that reached $100 million — and the real star of that particular film was a giant wave.
Another problem for Clooney is that over a 21-year film career that began in 1996 with Miramax’s From Dusk Till Dawn, nothing Clooney has been a part of has stuck. What I mean is that not a single movie he has made has stood the test of time; not a single title is iconic. In simpler terms, Clooney has no Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Heat, Forrest Gump, JFK, Do the Right Thing, Fargo, Zodiac, Titanic, Iron Man, Boogie Nights, Malcolm X, Matrix, or Trainspotting on his resume. Nothing we will still be talking about in 50 years.
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For me, it was the music and the humor. I guess it was before he took himself that seriously.
Clooney just did an interview on WGN TV in Chicago promoting this turkey. The interview was nothing but soft ball questions that were probably written by his publicity machine. Nothing at all about his good buddy Harvey...
Well “The Peacemaker” was okay for an action film.
Time for another rewrite of Hooray for Hollywood.
Hooray for HarveyWood
Where everybody knows what Harvey did
HOOOray forrrr HarrrveyWooood.
O Brother Where Art Thou.......Clooney says, “I am bonfide.”
Clooney said when he was told he had the part in From Dusk To Dawn he said *I’m not going to have to have sex with a goat, am I?” Sounds like he knew all about giving sex for work.
It looks like another Hollywood hate on suburbia. I’ll pass.
In a series of tweets over the week, Vanessa Marquez called “B.S.” on Clooney’s statements of concern about the female victims of workplace harassment and assault in the wake of reports that the actor’s former collaborator Harvey Weinstein abused multiple A-list actresses and other women for decades.
Marquez said Clooney “helped blacklist” her when she spoke up about about abusive behavior on the set of “E.R.,” the hit NBC medical drama that catapulted Clooney to movie stardom in the 1990s.
I’m waiting for all the “MeToo” hashtags of guys who have been humped ‘n’ dumped by gold-digging wenches on their stone-hearted march to the top.
Hahahaha.
Yeah, that’s gonna happen...
Leather Heads? That was totally funny and the music great.
Leather Heads? That was totally funny and the music great.
For a no talent (except a deer staring in the headlights look) slob, he did pretty good.. It paid to have conenctions,, ask aRnie.
LOL. The feminists would get pretty mad.
“I’m a Dapper Dan man.”
“Wait, did the Washington Compost actually report this? I must be dreaming”
Agree but more to the point it was because of the music, at least for me.
Sorry cut and paste didn’t work, should have been.
“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” was good”
Sanctimonious lecturing is definitely NOT my idea of “entertainment”. Making a “socially conscious” movie about “white privilege”? Thanks, I’ll pass.
Aren’t they always mad?
They seem to be.
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