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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: Stravinsky

Spielberg and Kushner haven’t really put down the original film publicly. It’s more the entertainment media doing that. Spielberg knew Robert Wise and would not want to insult him after the latter has died.


61 posted on 12/12/2021 12:10:13 PM PST by Borges
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To: TonyM

I saw it. It isn’t.


62 posted on 12/12/2021 12:10:31 PM PST by Borges
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To: jocon307
"I read a couple of reviews of that, some people felt like they were having psychotic breakdowns while watching it."

I guess I was fortunate. I fell asleep in the first half and then left the theater before it was over.
63 posted on 12/12/2021 12:13:08 PM PST by chrisser (I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It’s what happens when you do a remake with PC writers.


64 posted on 12/12/2021 12:14:38 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Borges

I heard it was very respectful of the original. Did you enjoy it?


65 posted on 12/12/2021 12:15:23 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The Passion of the Christ was in Aramaic (and a little Latin), with no subtitles. It was a monster hit.


66 posted on 12/12/2021 12:17:06 PM PST by Romulus
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Yeah, let’s put on a oxygen stifling face diaper, and sit in a movie theater for 2 hours, watching Spielberg’s latest WOKE pontificating.


67 posted on 12/12/2021 12:22:30 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: Gaffer

No amount of casting could have saved “Temple of Doom”. It was just horrible.


68 posted on 12/12/2021 12:28:07 PM PST by GingisK
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To: chrisser

I’d have given anything to have been able to sleep through Doctor Zhivago.


69 posted on 12/12/2021 12:32:43 PM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK

It was a baaaad version of Thugee history, IMO...


70 posted on 12/12/2021 12:34:37 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Very much so. It really isn’t changed all that much. It is better acted and directed.


71 posted on 12/12/2021 12:35:55 PM PST by Borges
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To: BrexitBen

It isn’t “WOKE pontificating”. It’s quite good.


72 posted on 12/12/2021 12:36:38 PM PST by Borges
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Right!!!


73 posted on 12/12/2021 12:39:16 PM PST by Exit148 (I’m)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

There is no way that anything from HollyWeird could do to update any of the musicals from year ago.


74 posted on 12/12/2021 1:00:16 PM PST by laweeks
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

From previews I have seen, it is totally out of whack, with its display of female anatomy and phony-sounding fifties talk. It doesn’t capture the zeitgeist or whatever.


75 posted on 12/12/2021 1:04:28 PM PST by firebrand
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To: Borges

You’re talking a whole nother dramatic category now. You go to a new Shakespeare production to see how they do it this time.


76 posted on 12/12/2021 1:09:06 PM PST by firebrand
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
"West Side Story" could have faltered this weekend due to myriad factors

I was never interested in a remake of West Side Story. However, even if I had been interested, after reading that Spielberg was having the dialogue in Spanish with NO subtitles (because that would be racist), I figured that I could find something else to spend my money on.

77 posted on 12/12/2021 1:09:58 PM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I’ll stick to Shakespeare’s original.


78 posted on 12/12/2021 1:19:26 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“A boy like that would kill your brother. Forget that boy and find another. One of your own kind. Stick to your own kind,” Anita says to Maria.


79 posted on 12/12/2021 1:21:19 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Borges
It’s quite good.

I'll take your word for it.

80 posted on 12/12/2021 1:21:45 PM PST by Billthedrill
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