Posted on 11/06/2005 5:01:03 PM PST by RWR8189
"That's because they are cow-pokes."
So, how would you explain cow patties? What about horse apples, for that matter?
"Reminds me of the Kinsey bio "starring" Liam Neeson (another actor I will never clap my eyes on). I don't remember reading if it was a flop or not, I certainly hope so - hope it lost money big time."
Estimated budget: 11 million
Box office: 10.2 million
Boycott Hollywood.
It sucks. All of it sucks.
Uh oh
The Republicans have to use this movie to (again) define Hollywood for the toilet that it is and at the same time reinforce the conventional wisdom that Hollywood IS the Democrat Party and the Democrat Party IS Hollywood.
I haven't seen a movie at a theater since "Passion of the Christ," and that was only one besides the LOTR movies I had seen in years.
The sickos down there would obviously rather preach their religion of mental illness than make money. Let them wallow in their filth; I have disengaged from the diseased pop culture.
There was an episode of South Park a while back where an indie film festival came to the town, and all of the movies were about gay cowboys eating pudding.
And how about "Rump Rangers?" Explain please.
Well, at least it lost some money. I was all prepared to picket the movie theaters in town if it came here, but I don't think it did.
Small town, red county in a blue state, and all that.
No, they'd rather make money. But the American audience is less and less important to them.
I haven't seen the movie, and may not, since I suspect Hollywood has tarted it up and used it as a vehicle to say "up yours" to the red states. However, I read the original short story that it is taken from (in The New Yorker magazine) and I have to say it was an excellent short story. Very well written, not sentimental, an interesting portrait of two friends who got too friendly and how it affected the rest of their lives. I suspect the movie does not live up to it.
I've heard that cowboys sometimes kiss their horse on the nose. But this...? ughh
One of the ironies of leftist kookery is that they constantly make excuses for the Islamic terrorists by claiming that their grievances against America and/or Israel are legitimate, but would never even consider that they might not appreciate their kids being exposed to the toxic waste being spread worldwide by the sickos in Hollywierd.
I don't know that much about the movie, but it will probably do well in Western Europe.
Also, I'd remind you of two fairly interesting facts:
A)Movies, video games, music -- pop culture -- remain one of America's strongest exports. And about the only thing that can't be completely outsourced to China.
B)The movie industry is largely a blue collar industry. You just don't see the blue collars at the premiers and Academy Awards.
I don't care if it's blue-collar, white-collar, or red-collar; they're not getting a dime from me, or a growing number of other Americans.
I'm tired of the constant assault against Christianity, traditional values and the family.
It's not an assault. It's simply a product that some people will buy and others won't buy. Some will find it offensive and others will no doubt flock to it.
Personally, I'm going to take a pass because I don't particularly like the author and because I believe that the cowboy genre is pretty much dead. Like jazz, it was an original American artform, but it's pretty much reached its end.
I think it's obvious that it is an assault.
They know how to make money, and it does not involve making filth like this.
Look at how much Mel Gibson made...ask yourself why no one else would make a movie like TPOTC.
They could make a traditional Western and bring in a ton of money. But that doesn't further their sick agenda.
TPOTC was a huge gamble. It also succeeded for the very reason you state -- nobody else was willing to take that gamble.
I think westerns reached their high point in the late 40s and early 1960s with movies like High Noon, Shane, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, etc. After that you get movies that kinda play on the western theme like True Grit, Two Mules for Sister Sarah, etc. And some anomalies, like The Shootist and Louie Lamour's The Quick and the Dead. But they're just kinda echos.
p.s.
now we just get dumb stuff, like Maverick and Wild, Wild West.
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