Posted on 12/28/2005 8:28:19 AM PST by Zender500
Dr. Ted Baehr, founder of the Christian Film & Television Commission™, one of the top advocacy groups in Hollywood, predicts that Americans moviegoers will reject the top movie choices for the 63rd annual Golden Globes Awards.
"They've already rejected three of the five choices for Best Drama," Dr. Baehr said about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's choices, which include BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN; THE CONSTANT GARDENER; GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK; A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE; and MATCH POINT.
"These movies aren't that good," said Dr. Baehr, who noted that the Commission's flagship, MOVIEGUIDE®, at its Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala, has a better track record than the Globes and any other film critic association, when it comes to picking the kind of award-winning movies that Americans really want to see.
He predicted that moviegoers will reject both BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, an explicit, "boring" movie about two homosexual cowboys punching sheep, and each other, and Woody Allen's new "slow-paced" atheist drama, MATCH POINT, when they open wide next month.
"These kinds of boring, politically correct movies tend to make much less than $10 million at the box office," he said. "This is not even a drop in the bucket when compared to the box office numbers for a movie like THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, the classic Christian created by C.S. Lewis, which made more than $67 million in three days.
"Do you want your daughter or niece seeing two cowboys sodomize each other?" Dr. Baehr asked, referring to Ang Lee's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.
Dr. Baehr said that THE CONSTANT GARDENER is a "left-wing diatribe" and that GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK is "a distorted, revisionist picture" of the fight against Communism in the 1950s.
"A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE is just a very odd choice," Dr. Baehr added. "I don't know what to make of the mindset that would pick such a mediocre, unsuccessful movie like this for an award."
Finally, Dr. Baehr said that, while he can see why the HFPA nominated THE PRODUCERS and WALK THE LINE for Best Musical or Comedy, one of their picks, THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, has no music and is a heavy family drama, not a comedy.
"The mostly out of work people who pick the Golden Gropes must be getting senile," he concluded. "Of course, in reality, there are less than 100 members in the HFPA and less than 90 of them can vote. Many of them don't even work in the news media anymore. Furthermore, they only add about two members each year. The whole thing is a sham which the Hollywood studios promote because it helps sell tickets."
You know what R-rated movie would make a lot of money for any producer with balls? A war movie like they used to make: One where the Americans are unambiguous good-guys fighting unsympathetic bad guys. To bad Hollywood would never allow it.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I don't watch awards shows not out of any political sentiment, but mostly because after I passed age 15 or so it was very clear to me how absurd they were. I just find them boring. 'Stars being stars' appeals to the young teen in everyone, but that's about it.
"flat-out superb cinematography"
Ang Lee is famous for that. I read somewhere that he's a bisexual so no surprise he'd use all his skill making something ugly look good.
Unfortunately "Broke-butt Mountain" isn't approaching zero, it's sales increased and it still has one of the highest per theater averages.
When I was a young sailor, I used to watch golden globes on the beach as often as possible.
According to "Box Office Mojo"
Brokeback Mountain (Focus Films)
This Week: #13
Last Week: #8
Weekend Gross: $1,910,310
%Change: -23.8%
Theaters showing this week: 217
Change in # of theaters since last week: +148
Gross per screen: $8,803
Total Gross to date: $6,847,551
Cost to make: $14 million
Weeks in Theater: 3
So. . .despite nearly doubling the amount of theaters it showed in, weekend gross was DOWN nearly 25%, it dropped out of the Top Ten, it still is a money-loser, and only its' gross-per-screen is notable. . .
"Per theater" is the key to your spin. If they showed it in only one theater in the country -- and it happened to be in San Francisco and all the gays packed in -- you could get the very highest "per theater" boxoffice in history. This is a smoke-and-mirrors way to "calculate" its success.
$13 million is chump change. It's less than the cost of some larger homes in Beverly Hills.
I think brokeback will probably earn about as much as a midling porn flick.
Well, its been doing pretty well in DC. I wouldn't be surprised if it made some box office bucks.
Also, the "records" the media was speaking of was "per theatre." It was around $38k per theatre when it was only playing next door to bars like "the Man Hole."
Okay, that's quite enough jokes about Heath and Jake's privates.
Proves my point. It's doing well in one of the most unrepresentative communities in the country. It's doing pretty well in a city that voted against Reagan when 49 states were voting for Reagan. That's a sign of nothing other than its doing well in bizarroworld.
Someone could create perfect "Smell-o-vision" and
make a TV vesion of it..an't gonna make mer enjoy
watching movies/TV about back alleys, dumpsters, mass
graves, war, dead body scenes, factories, chemical
explosions..one bit better, that i cn smell them...In
fact, it would make most of my favorite movies, a
distictly unpleasant viewing expirience...Especially if i happened to be fixing or eating dinner.
Nope! No amount of Cinematography is going to turn
this pigs butt, into a silky camisol.
"two homosexual cowboys punching sheep, and each other" - Great Observation.
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