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Nolte: Harveywood Ties, Terrible Reviews Threaten Box Office for George Clooney’s ‘Suburbicon’
Breitbart ^ | October 24, 2017 | John Nolte

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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; boxofficeflop; boycott; clooney; coen; coens; damon; ethancoen; film; films; flop; georgeclooney; harveryweinstein; hollywood; joelcoen; juliannemoore; mattcharman; mattdamon; merylstreep; moviereview; movies; netflix; oscarisaac; suburbicon; weinstein
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To: MPJackal

For me, it was the music and the humor. I guess it was before he took himself that seriously.


21 posted on 10/24/2017 4:59:09 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: EdnaMode

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...


22 posted on 10/24/2017 4:59:27 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: EdnaMode
This was George Clooney's best role....




23 posted on 10/24/2017 5:00:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EdnaMode

Well “The Peacemaker” was okay for an action film.


24 posted on 10/24/2017 5:02:22 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: EdnaMode

Time for another rewrite of Hooray for Hollywood.

Hooray for HarveyWood

Where everybody knows what Harvey did

HOOOray forrrr HarrrveyWooood.


25 posted on 10/24/2017 5:02:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: MPJackal

O Brother Where Art Thou.......Clooney says, “I am bonfide.”


26 posted on 10/24/2017 5:03:39 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: EdnaMode

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.


27 posted on 10/24/2017 5:04:51 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: EdnaMode

It looks like another Hollywood hate on suburbia. I’ll pass.


28 posted on 10/24/2017 5:08:17 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


29 posted on 10/24/2017 5:13:36 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: EdnaMode

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...


30 posted on 10/24/2017 5:24:20 PM PDT by karnage
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To: JimSEA

Leather Heads? That was totally funny and the music great.


31 posted on 10/24/2017 5:24:57 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: karnage

Leather Heads? That was totally funny and the music great.


32 posted on 10/24/2017 5:25:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

For a no talent (except a deer staring in the headlights look) slob, he did pretty good.. It paid to have conenctions,, ask aRnie.


33 posted on 10/24/2017 5:36:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: karnage

LOL. The feminists would get pretty mad.


34 posted on 10/24/2017 5:42:42 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

“I’m a Dapper Dan man.”


35 posted on 10/24/2017 5:48:23 PM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done things in my life I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
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To: JimSEA

“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.


36 posted on 10/24/2017 5:58:50 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: DAC21

Sorry cut and paste didn’t work, should have been.

“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” was good”


37 posted on 10/24/2017 6:01:47 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: EdnaMode

Sanctimonious lecturing is definitely NOT my idea of “entertainment”. Making a “socially conscious” movie about “white privilege”? Thanks, I’ll pass.


38 posted on 10/24/2017 6:01:51 PM PDT by SkiKnee
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To: EdnaMode

Aren’t they always mad?


39 posted on 10/24/2017 6:43:21 PM PDT by karnage
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To: karnage

They seem to be.


40 posted on 10/24/2017 6:47:49 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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