Deflate their ego's and eventually they'll blow away.
Posted on 08/22/2005 5:24:35 PM PDT by rface
My mom took my 5-year-old to see "March of the Penguins." They loved it.
For decades it was possible to entertain people by shocking them, by showing something just a little bit more risque or profane than what they had seen before. Somebody should have been able to figure out that this was a vanishing asset. At some point, which we appear to have reached, there just isn't anything worse to show.
Somebody might have noticed the 1B+ raked in by LOTR over three years. Such an old-fashioned story, but sure was popular.
This may explain how Hollywood thinks, from a conservative screen writer:
"Help! I'm a Hollywood Republican!" (article posted twice)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1467821/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1467922/posts
Damn!! Where shall I begin??
Deflate their ego's and eventually they'll blow away.
Like other MSM outlets, Hollywood is beyond reformation. The current people and institutions will only continue to go downhill. It will take outsiders to push them aside.
BTW, I have not been able to find Napoleon Dynamite DVD sales figures. Anybody have a link?
Accoring to www.leesmovieinfo.net, it's sold about 5.6 million DVDs through mid-year.
Same here...there are few movies I would even go see for free...the opportunity cost of 2-3 hours of my life is enough by itself to make the decision easy.
I am very particular on what movies I am willing to spend money on the last one I saw was THE GREAT RAID....loved it...I do not even waste my money or time with DVD rentals...vote with your money folks
The movies that do well are the ones that are based on a children's book or very patriotic, like The Great Raid. The rest of the movies are just trash. It is so hard to find very wholesome family films. And the ones that they tout as family have to have some sexual inuendos or what we call potty humor. Just makes me sick,
How Stupid is Hollywood really? LOL, the Dickens you say....
Mrs. randog used to work for a TV station, and I used to lament every time the new season came out. "Why can't they come up with something more creative than another family/cop/lawyer sitcom?" I used to ask. "What happened to those whacky sitcoms that have become classics? A flying nun, a genie and an Air Force major, a cranky junkyard man and his son, etc., etc.? What happened to true comic talent like Lucille Ball?".
Sadly, H.W. is all about ideology and agenda and cramming it down America's throat. Yeah, that's a recipe for success--give the people what they don't want.
Is this a trick question?
See "Millions"... a British film that didn't hang around the theaters in my area long... but well worth the money.
"vote with your money folks"
Damn straight - stay home and cruise FR!
"How Stupid is Hollywood really? LOL, the Dickens you say...."
Hollywho?
One stinkin' movie may rake in $22 million - in one weekend. I'd do the same if I could. You?
Anybody can crap in a bucket and call it art .... and there are plenty of idiots who might pay a couple $$ to watch - but I won't be part of that crowd....you?
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