Posted on 10/02/2005 12:10:18 PM PDT by wagglebee
Damn right!
Only problem is that The Great Raid bombed at the box office this year!
Wow...what a bad movie. Trite story, shallow characters, steely, cold sets. No I never saw Firefly (the TV precursor). More of the same I'm sure.
At least it had no cursing or sex. But 5 minutes into it I knew I'd made a mistake. Should have seen Lords of War instead. Probably that was not great either but I'm sure it would have been better.
Outstanding article!
America wants to remain patriotic and support the courage of our troops. America does NOT want to hear and see Bruce Spingsteen, Martin Sheehan, George Clooney, and Sean Penn spit on America.
Thank you,
J. Scott Davis
Veteran: U.S. Navy & Persian Gulf War
I don't think the hollywierd girly-men know how to make anything but movies for each other.
Fascinating that Holywood refuses to cut out this cancer of 20th century leftist relativist Mother Goose Marxism. Will they get rid of it before the MSM or academia?
Sorry but discussions of Hollywood and actors always make me sleepy.
There is some justice in the world, the one type of movie
Hollywierd could make to get back in the graces of the public, a movie about an American family that gets caught
up in Islamic terrorism and rises to the challenge,perhaps
losing some family members but still vanquishing the fanatics......they can't bring themselves to make!
A movie that most all of America would plunk down their
hard earned gasolene money for, a movie that would show
Islamic terrorists as they are and that they can be beaten
would be a blockbuster.
Another problem is the ever so small theaters. People not only want to see a good movie, they want to view it in a great atmosphere.
The movie experience just isn`t the same as it was 20 years ago when you could actually walk into a huge theater with and upper balcony. When everyone whispered and didn`t sit there and flap their trap through the whole thing.
The last movie I paid to see was "Total Recall". I don`t think I have even rented a video since then. I have completely turned away from the whole movie scene.
I love movies and have a huge DVD collection but right now I can't remember the last "new release" I purchased. Too much garbage came out over the last year. I am looking forward to the DVD of "Into the West" on Tuesday. Hollywood needs to get with the program. Although there is a small, but loud, "Trash America First" crowd out there, trashing America is still unpopular with that part of the American public that hasn't lost it's mind.
"Hollywood history is not hard to learn. When the studios make movies that leave ticket buyers feeling good about their country, that celebrate the everyday heroes who live among us, and that aren't afraid to turn the people who want to destroy our way of life (today, Islamic terrorists) into movie villains then moviegoers, red and blue, will flock to the theaters."
That is it, exactly. You're completely correct about that and that is that the film industry continues to plummet as to quality of product produced because they are too busy making the films that impress and enthuse their peers...in the film industry. It's a closed society and from my own experiences in it, it is comprised of nearly everyone EXCEPT the average American.
They're just too busy making films and music for one another without regard for who it is that they need to buy tickets and DVDs and CDs otherwise. As in, the awareness of audience as an integral aspect to theatricals has all but disappeared. Instead, you get popularity among the self-identifying already popular and little respect for anyone else.
"I love movies and have a huge DVD collection but right now I can't remember the last "new release" I purchased."
BTT
What comes out of Hollywood is nothing more than rehashed PC versions of works more inspired and more creative than any twenty of these drug- and alcohol-soaked idiots put together could conceive.
It's all cocaine-fueled, self-congratulatory warmed over Marxist BS.
Remember - liberals and democrats are the party of murder, treason and socialism.
Another problem for Hollywood is TV has gotten so much better. It really has. So why spend $12 to go to the movies when you can stay home and see some pretty good fare!
Very cool analysis.
I'm another guy that has cut out nearly all movies, and now that I think about it, it was about 1985 that I went from seeing about three a week to three or fewer a year.
I think the moviegoing population is a little war-movied out, personally. Given all the crap that's going on in the world right now, some good escapism is what's needed.
That's why "Serenity" is going to do so well. A solid, well-told story that is action-packed, funny, and engaging. What more can you ask for?
It's hard for them to cut the cancer out when they're the tumor that the cancer is growing from...
Or maybe the audience is just afraid of getting sucked into another 'the military is evil' movie.
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