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'West Side Story' has a disappointing box office opening
CNN Business ^ | Dec 12, 2021 | Frank Pallotta

Posted on 12/12/2021 10:43:05 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: cymbeline

I also read somewhere that you have to be bilingual to understand all the dialog since when Spanish is being spoken there are no subtitles because Speilberg wanted the movie to be more inclusive, whatever that means.


41 posted on 12/12/2021 11:34:54 AM PST by Breyean
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To: Vermont Lt

Oh my.. lol


42 posted on 12/12/2021 11:35:25 AM PST by Trillian
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To: cymbeline

Plus, they have stretched it to 2 hours and 36 minutes. Brutal!


43 posted on 12/12/2021 11:36:37 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

That’s only 3 minutes longer than the original. And that’s probably all in the credits since those are much longer these days.


44 posted on 12/12/2021 11:38:41 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: Vermont Lt
I asked my wife if she had ever seen it before. She and her friend said, “No, why?”

They were lucky. I took my wife to see a special big screen presentation of Citizen Kane when we were newly married. She didn't know what Rosebud was. Unfortunately, a dopey college professor gave an uninteresting talk before the movie that was filled with spoilers. He wrongly assumed that we all knew what Rosebud was (I only knew from a Peanuts comic).
45 posted on 12/12/2021 11:41:09 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

No need to see it. I saw the original version in the theater.


46 posted on 12/12/2021 11:42:39 AM PST by centurion316
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To: discostu

Ha—you’re right. I loved that film: it didn’t seem long to me at all.


47 posted on 12/12/2021 11:43:11 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It isn’t Woke at all. This is one of the better American studio films in years.


48 posted on 12/12/2021 11:45:09 AM PST by Borges
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To: Billthedrill

It actually is very good.


49 posted on 12/12/2021 11:46:09 AM PST by Borges
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To: Vermont Lt

It isn’t a remake. It’s a new filmic spin on the play. The people who created the original Broadway show did not like the 1961 film.


50 posted on 12/12/2021 11:46:57 AM PST by Borges
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To: laconic

Famous Rex Reed movie review:

“I’ve seen better film on teeth.”


51 posted on 12/12/2021 11:48:19 AM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: Breyean

” . . . when Spanish is being spoken there are no subtitles because Speilberg wanted the movie to be more inclusive . . .”

What a dick - all he had to do is make one version with English sub-titles when Spanish is spoken and a second version with Spanish sub-titles when English is spoken - how hard is that? Let the theater owners pick what version they want to project - in Chicago neighborhoods like Humboldt Park, Little Village and Pilsen, they might actual do better with the English sub-titles.


52 posted on 12/12/2021 11:54:42 AM PST by Stosh
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To: Jemian

It isn’t a remake. Just like every film of Macbeth isn’t a remake of an earlier film.


53 posted on 12/12/2021 11:55:01 AM PST by Borges
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

LOL, “Cats”! I wouldn’t compare ANY of the other movies mentioned in that article to that train wreck. I read a couple of reviews of that, some people felt like they were having psychotic breakdowns while watching it.


54 posted on 12/12/2021 11:55:21 AM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Plus who wants to sit in a theater for 2 hours wearing a mask?

Exactly. The Democrat dictators and bureaucrats have screwed over an industry that probably votes 90% Democrat.

But, Hollywood, at least those in Hollywood who were already rich, seems just fine with that.

55 posted on 12/12/2021 11:55:45 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Gaffer

“Spielberg lost all credibility with me when he cast his wife, Kate Capshaw, in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.””

They were not married when that movie was made. That is where they became acquainted.


56 posted on 12/12/2021 11:56:16 AM PST by odawg
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To: Borges

It doesn’t really matter what Bernstein, Sondheim, et al thought about the 1961 film. Or what I think about it (overrated film based on the greatest American musical). It’s a beloved classic.

The reason people think this is woke is because that’s how they’ve been trying to sell it. Correcting a “wrong” has been a huge focus of the PR surrounding this film. My hunch is that they have done this to try to appeal to my generation (millennial) and younger, but it’s a fool’s errands because most younger people have no sense of culture and think trash like Mamma Mia is high art. Beyond that, it’s a huge turnoff for people who loved the original to be told that the 1961 film was racist, flawed, etc.


57 posted on 12/12/2021 11:57:40 AM PST by Stravinsky
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To: odawg

Still makes no difference. He was tryna get in her pants, then. Same thing.


58 posted on 12/12/2021 11:58:08 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Borges; Rastus
After Rastus' heads-up about Kushner (he is disgusting- look it up)...I'm glad to have missed it.

We should not support our enemies.

59 posted on 12/12/2021 11:59:22 AM PST by spankalib
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

My guess its all about gays, transsexuals, cross dressers, and all the other depravities Hollywood just loves to shove in our faces to try and convince us its normal. I am glad to hear it flopped. I guess sexual depravity is not as normal as they want us to believe.


60 posted on 12/12/2021 12:10:11 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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