Posted on 10/20/2005 4:45:32 PM PDT by Rastus
A number of new films want you to stand up for a cause - though not necessarily in the movie theater.
Following Michael Moore, who tried to galvanize voters by highlighting President Bush's perceived follies in his blockbuster Fahrenheit 9/11, activism movies have proven their clout at the box office, if not the voting booth.
This fall, Hollywood is combining issues movies with campaigns designed to get people active.
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•Good Night, and Good Luck, in theaters, is George Clooney's McCarthyism drama about the media's power to expose government abuse of power. It also has a tie-in at participate.net; users are invited to report stories from their area that the media have ignored.
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Come on, Freepers! Let's give this left-wing jackass some news stories the media won't touch. Suggestions: Sandy Berger's pants; Juanita Broderick; etc.
Thankfully, Clooney's movie bombed.
It already opened? It bombed so bad, I figured it was weeks away! Good news!
Now is the time to set the record straight about a true hero and patriot, Sen. Joseph McCarthy. With this stupid movie, America might learn the truth about the man who warned us about the Red Menace.
Actually, the Clooney picture hasn't gone into wide release yet but it was cheap to make and will undoubedtly recoup its investment. The more interesting thing about it is that it's the only Hollywood movie currently out there whose hero is a chainsmoking straight white male who always wears a suit and tie.
BTW: One of the reasons I loved the Aviator was because the hero was an unabashed white male heterosexual capitalist cigar smoker from TEXAS.
That website invites you to post local community news. We should all investigate the links between communism and anti-war movement in each city and write stories and post them there.
I liked the Aviator too, which surprised me because I didn't think the script was that good. But Scorsese has a great eye and the crash sequence was terrific.
The Clooney movie won't make big money theatrical but it doesn't have to, and it was made for frankly political reasons. Whenever somebody in Hollywood wants to show how courageous they are, they make the five thousandth movie about the Holocaust or yet another picture attacking the blacklist. This is the most conformist place on earth.
Oops, I meant that we sshould be doing it. I know the movie is BS. We should hold a "Fartandhype 7/11" type deal to bring to light many Americans the greatest defeat in the Cold War.
ABLE DANGER
Did I miss something here? Don't these movies bomb so bady that they are technically in violation of The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
Good one. Best one, actually.
The rave reviews for Clooney's movie border on the masturbatory. After Rathergate, the Newsweek Koran story, and now, the exaggeration of Hurricane Katrina, the media left (and film critics are among the most far left of journalists) are yearning for the days when they had no competition, when they could peddle as many lies, distortions and misrepresentations without any external fact-checkers to hinder them, and when they could bring down any public figure who displeased the. No wonder that with the exception of the conservative James Bowman and the relatively apolitical Stephen Hunter, the critics are are ga-ga over GNAGL.
What are the numbers...I knew the MSM would slobber all over this and give it glowing reviews...and I also knew nobody would go to see it...Clooney is not a draw anymore. He doesn's seem to realize this. He COULDN'T EVEN GET HIS FATHER ELECTED in his own homestate. What does that say about his "influence." What a joke.
Numbers as of yesterday:
Playing in 69 theaters. 14 days of release so far. Total haul of $2.2M. Production budget of $7M. It expands to 225 theaters today. It'll make back its budget, but I don't think it'll be a hit of any kind. The bad news for Georgie is that the papers all reviewed it a couple weeks ago, so there won't be much awareness of it now that it's playing wide. For example, the Dallas Morning News had nothing new about it today. I saw from their quick review list that they gave it an A, though. "It's more relevant than ever now." Yeah, right.
Political/scandal driven movies just don't do well anymore at all. At least dramatic films. Back in the day stuff like 'All The President's Men' and 'Silkwood' used to do quite well.
did you see Clooney's previous film as a director? the one about chuck Barris. I actually think he's a much better director then actor.
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