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To: kattracks

Good posting (you're on a roll). If you look at the movies which make money (The Passion, Saving Private Ryan, & Schindler's List, for example) and the ones which lose money (The Last Temptation of Christ & Revolution come to mind), you'll see the public wants a different kind of entertainment than most Hollywood types want to provide.

What keeps so much leftist dreck coming out of Hollywood is that if a movie loses money, the distributors don't have to endure the financial losses. They are allowed to turn the loss into a tax write-off. As a result, movies that alienate and offend the audiences are indirectly subsidized by the American taxpayer. So refusing to pay to see unpatriotic, politically-correct, or anti-Christian movies does nothing to penalize those distribute them.

If more people were aware of this, maybe it could be changed. But I'm not optimistic.


13 posted on 06/22/2004 11:09:15 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: Clintonfatigued

Is that "all in the name of entertainment"?


43 posted on 06/24/2004 1:27:01 AM PDT by malia (BUSH/CHENEY '04)
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