Posted on 08/07/2004 8:06:59 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Preliminary figures from the Hollywood insiders..
1. Collateral (Tom Cruise) $7.8 million, $24 million weekend estimate
2. The Village (M. Night/Disney) $5.5 million, $17 million weekend estimate
3.Little Black Book (Brittany Murphy, Ron Livingston) $2 million, $6 million weekend estimate
(Excerpt) Read more at talk.hsx.com ...
I would join a conservative utopia if there would ever be one started, but I certainly would think think one could ignore the outside world. It would just be to live with people you identify with and to have deeper connections to people.
fix that...I certainly would NOT think one would ignore the outside world.
Yes, Kerry took on a whole VC regiment single-handed and destroyed them. Kerry was actually a Ninja in the Nam, his name(Hidden Faggot). Bush/Cheney 2004
Sorry, I can't find my tin-foil hat.
I sat on my tin foil hat, maybe I sat on yours too. If I find it do you want it back? ;9]
That explains why we can't see his medal records. They're classified along with his penicillin records.
I heard his name was crouching p*ssy, and that he graduated (with honors) from the highly specialized "throw like a girlie man" ninja correspondence school.
"In order to keep their children from leaving the commune, and hold onto their power, the Village leaders manufactured "monsters" in the woods. Some have speculated that this is a metaphor for Bush and the war on terror."
If that's the basis for a charge of bush-bashing, it sounds kind of thin. Well, you can find metaphors anywhere you want, I guess.
I saw The Manchurian Candidate the other nite. Now a lot of people claim that is a bush-bashing movie too. Maybe Jonathan Demme meant it as an attack on Bush, but it worked out more in the opposite direction. To me and other people I talked to there were eerie Kerry parallels in the story of the fake "war hero." And Meryl Streep may not have intended it, but the character of the evil mother of the candidate seemed modelled on Hillary Clinton -- mannerisms were very reminiscent, I can't help thinking that Streep, either deliberately or inadvertently, was channelling HRC.
RE: "Meryl Streep may not have intended it, but the character of the evil mother of the candidate seemed modelled on Hillary Clinton "
Streep was confronted on this point and after denying it for serveral days, then came up with a claim that it was modelled on Peggy Noonan.
I almost fell off my chair laughing. I'm a huge news junkie and even I have rarely seen Peggy on TV. So it's obvious to me that Streep would never have seen enough of Peggy to form any basis.
I see you are very observant of Kerry's most graceful moves. I laugh everytime I see the fool trying to be,"Macho Man." I could see kerry as a back-up in a street fight, Man!! I had to ghost in order to contact the police because I knew you had things under control. John Kerry, talking loud and saying nothing. Bush/Cheney 2004
Lousy boring pointless film...too bad because Shyamalan tries hard to mimic Hitch...to no avail in this one.
I do not normally feel sorry for actors but I did in this turkey.
When I saw the original a few years ago on DVD, I thought "Hillary" everytime I saw Angela Lansbury.
As for "Bush-bashing", only someone with a Stalinesque paranoia could see it like that.
You tend to find lots of fanatics like that in politics, however.
I'm still waiting for someone to claim that this movie is sedious, and everyone who goes to see it should be followed the FBI, and charged with treason.
Like I said earlier, politics seems to bring out a certain paranoia and fanaticism in some folks (on both sides).
Some of the claims here are simply absurd.
Furthermore, so what if the media is against Bush? They were against Reagan in 1980, and the mainstream media was MUCH more powerful back then. There was no C-SPAN, or no talk radio, or no FOX news, or no internet. Everyone got their news from the big three. A strong candidate can easily overcome a leftist media.
Finally, it's insulting to suggest that people are going to base their votes on what they see in movies. Then again, as long as candidates keep talking to us like we're children, maybe people WILL be dumbed down to the point where they vote based on a movie.
Steamboat Willie is a Bush-bashing movie and I refuse to spend anymore money on Disney!
Remember to keep the shiny side out on the tinfoil!!!
first, there is almost no buzz about this movie among moviegoers, which imo, is a bomb for night, whose movies i love.
second the political slamming is pretty obvious if you have an analytical mind. particularly noticeable, it becomes, when night appears at the end and is listening to the news and reading the paper and it's about the war (ie-unreasoning violence that the "villagers" have spurned is equivalent to a war that is fought in defense of one's country-NOT)
third, the script is fairly laughable once you realize what he's doing. the character of the monster is an absurdity, a deus ex machina in reverse...there were also spots where we laughed out loud--at serious moments...
fourth--you must really be an unhappy person and/or a DEMOCRAT if you can't discuss something intelligently without getting contemptuously nasty. ...one of the anointed, i suppose. how sad.
you're an idiot.
I saw it.
It was great. I want to see it again soon.
There was nothing remotely political in the picture at all.
It's laughable to refer to The Village as "bush-bashing".
M. Night was reading the newspaper in the ranger station. You could see his face reflected in the door of the fridge when the ranger was getting the antibiotics out.
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