'Crash' director eyeing timely terrorist thriller (anti-Bush thriller)

Reuters ^ | 3/12/06 | Tatiana Siegel

[Billthedrill]

I'm sure Clooney will be available.

[Americanexpat]

Well if it is anti Bush it will be a shoe in for an oscar next year.

[Vince Ferrer]

Clarke, a former U.S. terrorism czar, offers the ultimate insider's account into the nation's security apparatus, featuring a cast of power brokers that includes President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and himself.

I forget who said it, but someone coined this gem, which will likely be appropriate:

There are two kinds of people, the innocent people who write memoirs, and the guilty people who don't.

[Enchante]

"Clarke, a former U.S. terrorism czar, offers the ultimate insider's account into the nation's security apparatus"

Typical liberal b.s. propaganda: Richard Clarke is a lying charlatan (like Joe Wilson and Clarke's pal Rand Beers who went on to head up John Kerry's campaign national security staff). Clarke is an incompetent who missed the biggest challenges of the '90s, botched the effort to stop Al Qaeda before 9/11, and now wants to endlessly cash in on his dishonest assault on the Bush administration while lying about his own incompetence.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

"Crash" is an overrated POS movie.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I agree with you on Bush and the media thing. Bush just sits around all chumpish while they take potshots at him. Any of his proposals or statements are immediately twisted and spun by the MSM and there's tepid or non-existant responses from his spokespeople. Bush is one of the worst Presidents to utilize the media.

[dalight]

snore.... what a bore.. so easy to ignore.. if Hollywood wants to pour their money into this dog.. all of the less to give to the RATs.. I say.. good job!

[Frank_2001]

Shocking!;)

[Echo Talon]

This should be huge... will probably will all the awards... /sarcasm

[Echo Talon]

win*

[AmishDude]

Richard Clarke as Jack Bauer. Incredible.

[AmishDude]

Most around here think Bush kept on far too many. Exhibit A: Norm Mineta.

[Screamname]

The Oscars have no credibility. Just to give you an example, in the past half century, not one and I mean ONE Godzilla movie has ever won an Oscar.

[finnman69]

And yhey wonder why Hollywood is becoming 'Brokeass Mountain'.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593389/posts
World box office dipped 7.9 pct to 23 billion dollars last year : study

Hollywood movie ticket sales around the world dropped by 7.9 percent last year to 23 billion dollars, with the US box office accounting for nearly 40 percent of the haul, a study showed.

Movie ticket receipts in North America dipped by six percent in 2005 to nine billion dollars, according to a study by the ratings statistics firm Nielsen Entertainment/NRG that comes as movie-goers increasingly stay out of cinemas.

[Kimmers]

giggle

[Darkwolf377]

Since the Oscars, 'Bareback Mountin' has dropped off the radar screens. I wonder why?

Please, let's not do THIS again. BBM was an unmitigated hit. It cost little and made tons of profit.

That it fell off the radar after NOT winning Best Pic proves what, exactly? All movies nominated for Best Pic that don't win fall off the radar. The thing has been in theaters since December for Pete's sake.

Just because we dislike the movie's message doesn't mean we should ignore reality, and the reality is this thing was a huge financial hit.

[Darkwolf377]

Yes, it is one of those things that make you say hmmmmm.......soon in video stores

Why does this make you go "hmmmm"? It'll probably be in video stores in April or May, no surprise for an indie movie released in December. Seeing how much of a profit it's made, the producers would be fools NOT to put it out on video to capitalize on the reviews and box office success.

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is coming out next month and it was released in December, too--does THAT make anyone wonder? Of course not. Neither should this.

[Darkwolf377]

I saw "Crash" with some friends. One person heard good things on it. One of the worst movies I ever saw.

What I find curious about this movie is that the most conservative AND the most liberal people I know HATED this movie. The liberal said he was hoping ANYTHING but Crash won.

[Darkwolf377]

I haven't been keeping up but I wonder how the Oscar ratings were. All I cared about was John Williams; he's won for score in the past when he didn't deserve it, and was ripped off this year (by BBM0 when he deserved to win.

Someone told me Geroge Clooney made a "great" acceptance speech and I asked what it was about she said "About how Hollywood ISN'T behind the times" and she had to wait while I laughed, and he claimed Hollywood was making AIDS movies when no one else was talking about AIDS. I challenged her to name all these AIDS movies during the 80's when all anyone talked about was AIDS, AIDS, AIDS. Clooney is a boob who thinks that having a platform means having the intelligence to say something meaningful. He's a moron who is told by other morons that he's a genius, so he believes it.

[Kimmers]

I should have quoted the person I was responding too. It was noted that Brokeback has dropped off the radar screens since the Oscars...which I guess is not unusual...my hmmmm was really in response to that comment.....Brokeback will probably fly off the video shelves and then we will have a renewed interest in the film via the MSM