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This could be M. Nights first, money losing picture for Disney..may not even get to 100 domestic
1 posted on 08/07/2004 8:06:59 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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I've not seen it -- where does it bash Bush?


2 posted on 08/07/2004 8:09:41 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.)
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What Bush bashing? First I heard this.


3 posted on 08/07/2004 8:10:33 AM PDT by NYS_Eric
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You hav sum 'splainng to do, Lucy.


4 posted on 08/07/2004 8:12:33 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Bush is Hell on liberals and terrorists.)
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check out later


5 posted on 08/07/2004 8:12:41 AM PDT by tioga (Flush the johns in '04!)
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What's funny: A republican friend of mine loved the movie because she saw it as bashing hippies.


16 posted on 08/07/2004 8:17:59 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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I went to see The Village last Wednesday....WHAT A MISTAKE! VERY politicial undertones! The jest of the movie was....BUSH LIED! I'm not kidding you!


23 posted on 08/07/2004 8:27:19 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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I just read in the paper that there 4 more Bush-bashing movies will be released before the election.


24 posted on 08/07/2004 8:28:11 AM PDT by Hildy ( If you don't stand up for what's RIGHT, you'll settle for what's LEFT.)
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May not go $100 million domestic? It was at $69 million as of Thursday night, and your numbers are forecasting it to be at $86 million by Sunday. And it only came out 7/30.


25 posted on 08/07/2004 8:29:17 AM PDT by sharktrager (The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And the paving contractor lives in Chappaqua.)
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You may want to request that this thread be pulled or edited by a moderator. The headline is misleading and inaccurate.


27 posted on 08/07/2004 8:29:49 AM PDT by HipShot (EOM couldn't cut the head off a beer with a chainsaw)
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I am sorry but this movie does not bash Bush. There was no way I could come away with this idea.

All I got out of the film was the idea that no matter how you run from it, you still have to deal with human nature or good and evil.

This movie was about a bunch of wimpy people when confronted with evil ran (sounds like a bunch of hippies to me). They created what they thought was a paradise and in the end were once again confronted with the same evil they ran from because people were involved. Absolutely nothing that could be connected with Bush that I could see and I went looking.

28 posted on 08/07/2004 8:30:11 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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You must not follow Box Office grosses much. "The Village" as of Thursday had already done $70 Million. There is no doubt it will do $100 Million Plus here in the U.S. and at least another $200 to $300 Million worldwide and that doesn't count video and DVD. This picture will be very profitable.


29 posted on 08/07/2004 8:30:36 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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I think too many people are stretching to see Anti-Bush messages in movies, tv, etc.. Hollywood isn't that smart and I don't believe that everything coming out has this type of connotation.
36 posted on 08/07/2004 8:35:23 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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I've seen the movie and I enjoyed it. There was nothing partisan in it. It is just a movie.


40 posted on 08/07/2004 8:40:07 AM PDT by GOP
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there are two reasons it bombed, imo. the public relations were all wrong because it isn't in the least bit scary. and the bush bashing made it seem like a high schooler's script, with the overbearing leader named WALKER and the yellow and red terror warnings. my friends, who are extremely political, really didn't notice the bush bashing until i pointed it out.

but the more i have thought about it, the more i think that the bush bashing was the whole point of the movie and was done VERY POORLY...an infantile treatment of a much more complex problem. i have actually felt, looking back, that it was stupid.

if it hadn't been bush-bashing and night had focused on a REAL theme, it could have been a really good movie. as is, very amateurish.

51 posted on 08/07/2004 9:07:14 AM PDT by wildwood
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I saw the film the day it opened. In no manner did it "Bash Bush". The main characters are not a religious conservatives, mean-spirited control freaks, CEO's or any of the various elite liberals enjoy labeling conservatives. It's best not to judge the film until one sees it. It's reminicent of an Alfred Hitchcock film - including a brief sighting of the writer/director himself. I found it a fascinating, film and well-worth the ticket price.


53 posted on 08/07/2004 9:07:59 AM PDT by Irish Queen
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Odd link, a stupid vanity post, and you're nuts about this film bashing Bush.


55 posted on 08/07/2004 9:10:22 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (~*-,._.,-*~Loves her hubbit~*-,._.,-*~)
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No Bush bashing. Just a bunch of Luddites with *zero* common sense.


56 posted on 08/07/2004 9:10:56 AM PDT by Ditter
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I saw the film the day it opened. In no manner did it "Bash Bush". The main characters are not a religious conservatives, mean-spirited control freaks, CEO's or any of the various ways elite liberals enjoy labeling conservatives. It's best not to judge the film until one sees it. It's reminicent of an Alfred Hitchcock film - including a brief sighting of the writer/director himself. I found it a fascinating, film and well-worth the ticket price.


57 posted on 08/07/2004 9:13:36 AM PDT by Irish Queen
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I love M. Nights movies.

Roger Friedman, that loony whack job critic for Fox.com started that "this is worse than Fahrenheit 911" in it's hatred for Bush.

What I remember is that Friedman decided that the color red had symbolic interpretations for "red state vrs blue state".
Yea right symbolism.

I remember years ago watching a movie where the main characters hat is blown off his head by the wind and the camera stays on the hat while it rolls down the street. Critics spent pages on what the hat represented. IMO, sometimes a hat is just a hat and red is just red.
58 posted on 08/07/2004 9:19:14 AM PDT by Republican Red (Is that a classified document in your pants Sandy or are you just glad to see me?)
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Friday Night US Box Office -Bush Bashing 'The Village' Continues to Bomb for Disney..

Me thinks this headline is just an attention seeker !
I havent seen the movie but i did see the making of this movie on scifi and i cant see Mnight even remotly throwing politics into this movie

Hell they could hardly get him to talk and when he did it was clouded with occultism and fear of the unknown seems Mnight walks around in some kind of occultist haze !


68 posted on 08/07/2004 9:36:47 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Sharing the world has never been Humanity's Defining Attribute)
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