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New Shaft Movie Dies at the Box Office!!!!!!
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 | 06-16-2019
 | Captain Peter Blood
Posted on 06/16/2019 9:40:04 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
Well according to Box Office Mojo this morning the recent Shaft movie starring Free Republic Fan Favorite Samuel L. Jackson BOMBED at the Box Office over the weekend. 
Total Domestic Gross $8.3 Million. What a huge disappointment for the studio.
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KEYWORDS: jackson; noarticle; nosource; notnews; samuelljackson; samuellracist; shaft
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    There was a time I liked Samuel L. Jackson but the press clippings went to his head and he essentially played himself in every movie with the same attitude that finally wore very thin. 
The last movie he was really good in was 1994's "Die Hard" picture. 
Sam's mouth and ignorance have done him in so I am not surprised that this latest film flopped. It would have been better starring the original Shaft star Richard Roundtree. A better actor and star than Jackson.
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
    They need to make a Homo version of the film and call it “Bent Shaft.”
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 9:50:01 AM PDT
by 
Cowboy Bob
("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
    People are getting sick of Hollywood retreads.
They better start getting original or they will continue to have these major bombs in the box office.
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 9:50:42 AM PDT
by 
Bayard
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
    You see, that new “Shaft” movie is a baaad mutha.
Shut your mouth.
But I’m talking about new “Shaft”.
Then we can dig it.
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
    Isn’t he a bit old for that role?
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 9:52:19 AM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
    Surprised they didn’t make “Shaft” a female, that seems to be the go-to for Hollywood retread flops.
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
    They should cast a white Shaft in the spirit of diversity.
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
    Shaft receipts petered out, and the box office numbers went limp. The flaccid results will disappoint moviegoers and the producers.
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
    He’s been type cast as a member of the comedy team of Jackson, Lee, and Barkley.
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 9:53:29 AM PDT
by 
freedom1st
(Build the Wall)
 
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
    
"They're my theme music. Every good hero should have some."
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 9:53:49 AM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
To: Captain Peter Blood
    he essentially played himself in every movie with the same attitude that finally wore very thin
  My assessment is this: There are actors and there are personalities. 
 
 A true actor can play any part/character and make the audience believe. 
 
 A personality plays the same part/character in every roll. 
 
 It is difficult to find true actors in the 'cult of personality' environment. There are few truly great actors. 
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 9:59:15 AM PDT
by 
TomGuy
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
To: conservative98
    Father’s Day Weekend
How many fathers want to go see “Late Night”? or “Ridiculously Overconfident Black women in Black”? or “Shaft”?
I actually felt like seeing a movie this weekend. But there was nothing out there.
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 10:01:16 AM PDT
by 
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
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posted on 
06/16/2019 10:01:52 AM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
    Only time I ever liked Samuel L Jackson was when he took a Lucchese bullet in the head
Loud mouth low IQ toad
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 10:02:30 AM PDT
by 
wardaddy
(I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
 
To: wardaddy
    
 "Yeah, you were always f***in' late, you'd be late for your own f***in' funeral."
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 10:05:49 AM PDT
by 
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
 
    Should have made shaft asian
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 10:06:44 AM PDT
by 
dsrtsage
(For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
 
To: Captain Peter Blood
    No one can replace Chef. RIP Issac Hayes.
 
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posted on 
06/16/2019 10:14:55 AM PDT
by 
willk
(A bias news media is not a free press.)
 
To: TomGuy
    TomGuy wrote:
“My assessment is this: There are actors and there are personalities.
A true actor can play any part/character and make the audience believe.
A personality plays the same part/character in every roll.
It is difficult to find true actors in the ‘cult of personality’ environment. There are few truly great actors.”
You are 100% right, but your comment made me think of one case where it could be argued that a (formerly) great actor, over time, became nothing more than a caricature:
Robert DeNiro.
Any thoughts?
 
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