Tony Curtis Blasts 'Brokeback Mountain'

Newsmax.com ^ | Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006 | James Hirsen

[Richard Kimball]

There's a very strange arc on this movie's box office, and despite the claims, this movie has not made any money. Then again, it wasn't made to make money. It was made to be the breakthrough movie for homosexuals, and the Hollywood left and the east coast left were determined that it would be a smash. To date, the box has been 62 million. If it were any other movie, the ad campaign would have died at about three weeks in. Normally, advertising is 1/2 movie cost. On this movie, I believe everything is being plowed back into advertising. I also think that there's a little scam going on with the box office. the numbers have held exactly steady for the last month. I suspect that there's an organized effort and some funding provided for the same people to buy tickets every week.

This movie is about creating the perception that semi hard core homosexuality is acceptable at the box office. I think that money is flowing in from a pre-established fund. The numbers this movie is generating do not justify the continuing ad campaign. Hollywood has gone past "We're going to create a blockbuster" and has moved to "We're going to make this movie to push our point, and continue to pump funding into it during the box office run in order to create the perception that it's a blockbuster." What would people be saying about "The Passion of the Christ" if it had been out over two months and had generated a total of $62 mil, with an ad campaign that exceeds the market saturation of a Star Wars flick?

[Doctor Don]

I'm for making Mel Gibson Czar of Hollywood....if he don't like it it don't get filmed!

[NormsRevenge]

Hollyweird has turned into a gaybent communal hot tub with a bunch of turds floating in it.

What next, Gay Star Wars? I doubt it.

[John Lenin]

The movie has been seen by almost no one. The attendance figures are totally bogus too.

[patriot_wes]

The combined audience total for all of the Best Picture nominations is less than the number of moviegoers who flocked to see "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

SAYS IT ALL FOLKS!

[landerwy]

Yes! That's been my thought about it too.

[theFIRMbss]

>Let the free market destroy Hollywood

You must think this through.
Studios are owned by BIG
global companies.

From their point of view,
the market-role of movies
is to generate

advertising hooks
and attention-getting "buzz,"
both of which support

the over all scene,
that is, the much larger scene,
the total market.

The revenues of
this or that one-off movie
are incidental.

Just as departments
within a company don't
all create profits

(but all contribute
to the larger enterprise
which does make profits)

Hollywood-at-large
doesn't have to "make profits"
because it's a part

of much larger things --
the global corporations.
Hollywood is just

one "department," and
if they make money, that's great,
but if they do not,

that's great too, if they
continue to contribute
advertising and

buzz and star-making
and all the side-effect crap
Hollywood's great at.

[mthom]

Theyll work towards that one but something similar will be along soon you can bet on that.

[pepsionice]

In small town America...it just doesn't sell. It doesn't sell in rural America. It doesn't sell to most folks over the age of 50. And the odds of some guy taking his date to BrokeButt...just ain't going to happen. So its more of a joke to advertise it unless you live in NY City or Boston.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Tony Curtis Blasts Brokeback Mountain. Like he's in any position to talk.

[mthom]

He has a series of thrillers made before and after Bridges that are good.

[Just mythoughts]

Christ did say something about a perverse generation. It's here and everywhere, wonder what is next?

[Redleg Duke]

"Some Like It Hot" was a classic movie. A comedy with no homosexual overtones. Even what might have been one, when Jack Lemon's character explains why he can't marry Joe E. Bowne's character because..."I'm a man!", Browne's comeback, "Well, nobody's perfect!" was hilarious...not queer!

[Vinomori]

"The DaVinci Code" starring Tom Hanks & directed by Ron Howard. Wonder what angle they will do with that.

Totally anti-Catholic, anti-Christian.

[Havoc]

The Academy had to be shamed into recognizing Pete Jackson and Lord of the Rings. Amazing that they had enough sense to honor it even with their noses pinched or lose any hope of credibility with America. They seem destined to be as hopelessly irrelevant as the UN. And that would really unhinge them.

[lakeman]

I have a t shirt that says that!!!!!

[lakeman]

Blockbuster??? Was he constipated???