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New Shaft Movie Dies at the Box Office!!!!!!
Vanity | 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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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.

1 posted on 06/16/2019 9:40:04 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

They need to make a Homo version of the film and call it “Bent Shaft.”


2 posted on 06/16/2019 9:50:01 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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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.


3 posted on 06/16/2019 9:50:42 AM PDT by Bayard
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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.


4 posted on 06/16/2019 9:51:06 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Isn’t he a bit old for that role?


5 posted on 06/16/2019 9:52:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Surprised they didn’t make “Shaft” a female, that seems to be the go-to for Hollywood retread flops.


6 posted on 06/16/2019 9:52:52 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Captain Peter Blood

They should cast a white Shaft in the spirit of diversity.


7 posted on 06/16/2019 9:53:18 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Shaft receipts petered out, and the box office numbers went limp. The flaccid results will disappoint moviegoers and the producers.


8 posted on 06/16/2019 9:53:18 AM PDT by nickedknack
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To: Captain Peter Blood

He’s been type cast as a member of the comedy team of Jackson, Lee, and Barkley.


9 posted on 06/16/2019 9:53:29 AM PDT by freedom1st (Build the Wall)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

"They're my theme music. Every good hero should have some."

10 posted on 06/16/2019 9:53:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Box Office: 'Men In Black,' 'Shaft' And 'Late Night' All Bomb On Friday
11 posted on 06/16/2019 9:54:22 AM PDT by conservative98
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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.

12 posted on 06/16/2019 9:59:15 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Captain Peter Blood

What?


13 posted on 06/16/2019 10:00:29 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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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.


14 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?)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Shaft Goes Limp!


15 posted on 06/16/2019 10:01:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Only time I ever liked Samuel L Jackson was when he took a Lucchese bullet in the head

Loud mouth low IQ toad


16 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)
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"Yeah, you were always f***in' late, you'd be late for your own f***in' funeral."
17 posted on 06/16/2019 10:05:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Should have made shaft asian


18 posted on 06/16/2019 10:06:44 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

No one can replace Chef. RIP Issac Hayes.


19 posted on 06/16/2019 10:14:55 AM PDT by willk (A bias news media is not a free press.)
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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?


20 posted on 06/16/2019 10:17:25 AM PDT by Simon Foxx
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