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The Awful Truth Behind The Worst Director In The World
Cinema Blend ^ | 11/30/05 | Stuart Wood

Posted on 11/30/2005 12:26:58 PM PST by minus_273

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I think this explains a lot.
1 posted on 11/30/2005 12:26:59 PM PST by minus_273
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To: minus_273
damn for got to say SPRING TIME FOR HITLER!! :D
2 posted on 11/30/2005 12:28:14 PM PST by minus_273
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The author is a moron. He blames "capitalism" for a phenomenon that is only possible through government-imposed tax codes.


3 posted on 11/30/2005 12:38:27 PM PST by wideawake
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yeah, i noticed that too. To many liberals, any profit of any kind =capitalism. Looking beyond that, it is an interesting article


4 posted on 11/30/2005 12:40:01 PM PST by minus_273
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To: minus_273
Meanwhile, you sit back safe and secure in the knowledge that while your project drops out of the 300 theatres it was showing in after 2 weeks, it is actually making you a mint.

This explains sooooo much about... Tim Burton.

5 posted on 11/30/2005 12:40:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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To: minus_273

To keep up the H'weird braggadocio lifestyle, actors, like ballplayers, receive gluttonous amounts of money for less than stellar performance. Now this money comes from various means especially from the consumer in jacked up high prices at the movie theatre. In this atmosphere of high-priced movie theatre entertainment with mediocre acting and shrinking movie-goers, one wonders how long H'weird will stay in existence.


6 posted on 11/30/2005 12:40:44 PM PST by lilylangtree
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To: minus_273

Ed Wood? I'm a big fan of his work--it takes a lot to pursue a dream when you have absolutely zero talent. He did what he loved and will be remembered as a passionate if hilariously inept film-maker. It's too bad he died before he could see his movies rise in the public consciousness.


7 posted on 11/30/2005 12:47:00 PM PST by Cyclopean Squid (Remember, my friends--future events such as these will affect you in the future)
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It saddens me to see Hollywood continue to throw money into mindless, meaningless crap. Speaking as someone who wants to go into the film business as a director/producer it is frustrating to see the screw ups of the world get their chance to fail time and time and time again while talented people are overlooked simply because they're not rich or connected.

Hollywood likes to lecture on how the rich get everything handed to them, but in typical lefty fashion it's someone else's responsible to correct the problem. They're going to just keep promoting it.


8 posted on 11/30/2005 12:57:05 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: minus_273

How does a tax write-off become a gold mine?

You STILL have to have earned the money in the first place. So what, it's 100% deductible. Big deal. It's also 100% down a rat hole. If I want a 100% tax deduction on money I'm going to burn, I'll ask my employer to stop paying me. Therefore that money that I would have had and burnt, was 100% tax free!



9 posted on 11/30/2005 1:00:07 PM PST by Malsua
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To: wideawake

The author must have snuck out to a movie the day his English teacher explained the difference between "your" and "you're."


10 posted on 11/30/2005 1:00:19 PM PST by SoCalRight
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To: minus_273
I had some quality time with my 8 year old grandson over the weekend and I asked if he wanted to see a movie. The options were Chicken Little, Harry Potter or "Your's, Mine & Ours" which for some reason is what he wanted to see -- Must have had a lot of hype advertising on Nickelodeon is all I can figure. It was a totally lame remake of an old movie from the 60s and even my grandson, who will laugh at just about anything, hardly gave it a chuckle and I didn't hear any laughing from the rest of the audience.

It was a waste of money. I should have taken him bowling instead.

11 posted on 11/30/2005 1:06:16 PM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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You should have seen Chicken Little... It was very funny, IMHO...

Yours, Mine & Ours doesn't even look good from the trailer...

12 posted on 11/30/2005 1:12:18 PM PST by vrwinger (You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.)
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To: wideawake
The author is a moron. He blames "capitalism" for a phenomenon that is only possible through government-imposed tax codes.

Where is he blaming it on capitalism? He explains that it has to do with a loophole in the German tax code. (But you have to read the whole article, not just the excerpt! :-)

13 posted on 11/30/2005 1:14:46 PM PST by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: Art of Unix Programming by Raymond)
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To: Tzimisce

"Ability is of little account without opportunity." Napoleon I


14 posted on 11/30/2005 1:15:34 PM PST by Cyclopean Squid (Remember, my friends--future events such as these will affect you in the future)
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To: jennyp
He explains that it has to do with a loophole in the German tax code. (But you have to read the whole article, not just the excerpt! :-)

I quote the following directly from the article, which I did read in its entirety before I originally posted:

Boll’s movies aren’t being made out of a love for cinema. They are a shallow exercise in money-making greed and exploitation. Rich Germans getting richer by exploiting the stupidity of the Hollywood system and the naivety of critics like us, who never thought to question the true motives of why these horrible, horrible movies existed. Pure and unfiltered 21st century capitalism.

:-)

15 posted on 11/30/2005 1:20:09 PM PST by wideawake
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To: minus_273

bttt


16 posted on 11/30/2005 1:26:12 PM PST by Christian4Bush ("Cowards cut and run: Marines never do." And I do NOT wish to revise or extend my remarks.)
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To: wideawake
Um, I didn't say you had to read the article that closely. =:-D
17 posted on 11/30/2005 1:30:05 PM PST by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: Art of Unix Programming by Raymond)
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To: wideawake
The author is a moron. He blames "capitalism" for a phenomenon that is only possible through government-imposed tax codes.

Would that he were a moron. Unfortunately, most people have this knee-jerk reaction thanks to a century of deceipt by "the intellectuals" who bought the Marxist lies and fed them into our universities.

18 posted on 11/30/2005 1:46:17 PM PST by Misterioso
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To: wideawake

The author is a moron for more than that.

You cannot make money simply by not paying taxes on zero earnings.

Boll makes money simply because he gets paid regardless of if his movies flop or not. He would likely make more money if they were successful, but he's still getting paid money to produce them.

What this author seems to be unable to understand is that while the investors don't pay taxes if they don't make money on their investment, they also lose their investment if the movie loses money.

If you lose a million dollars not paying taxes on zero profits doesn't help you any. You still lost a million dollars.


19 posted on 11/30/2005 2:11:28 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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It all depends on what end it deducts from and the person's opinion of paying taxes. If it deducts from taxable income you're right it's a wash, still out the money and who really cares what it does to your tax bill; if it deducts from your tax PAYMENT though it's a different matter entirely, a few of those kind of tax deductions can turn the ugliest tax bill into a refund, and even if it doesn't most folks would rather give money to just about anybody that isn't the government.


20 posted on 11/30/2005 2:33:18 PM PST by discostu (When someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back)
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