Posted on 10/30/2007 8:40:06 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Bella to Anti-War Movies: Show Me the Money!
The independent pro-life film trounced Hollywood's anti-war movies in per-theater revenues, in spite of hostile mainstream media reviews.
You won’t see this fun movie fact in any mainstream media outlets, but the little pro-life movie Bella, which just opened, beat the socks off of several anti-war/anti-American movies in opening weekend per-theater revenues.
This despite the fact that Bella was panned by critics in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Variety and other mainstream outlets.(For an interesting article on how movie critics inject their politics into reviews, click here.)
Here’s the breakdown. Bella opened with a limited release, meaning it was only shown in 165 theaters, according to the Web site Boxofficemojo.com. It grossed $1,324,000 or roughly $8,024 per theater.
Compare this to the recent opening weekends for three anti-war movies: Valley of Elah, Rendition, and The Kingdom. Valley of Elah opened in 762 theaters and grossed $1,512310 or $1,984 per theatre. Rendition opened in 2,250 theaters, and grossed $4,060,012 or $1,804 per theatre. The über violent The Kingdom opened in 2,793 theatres and grossed $17,135,055 or $6,135 per theater....
Hollywood pays attention to box office numbers. Given that this little independent, pro-life movie did better than many major players, will it get an “expansion” too?
Tune in next week to find out.
(Excerpt) Read more at cultureandmediainstitute.org ...
So in the end when both sides propose taking the same course of action the difference is that one side (Jihadis) targets good and the other side (Americans) targets evil.
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Was Harry Truman a fascist when he imposed strict wartime censorship during the Korean War?
Boy, that one is sure in the eye of the beholder.
My take away from that scene not that thee was moral equivalence, but that that this is not only an ideological conflict but also a blood-feud, and likely our children and theirs will be still be fighting it a generation hence.
But it doesn’t necessarily mean to link the two as identical on all levels. The obvious link, that we and they have the same goal of killing every last member of the opposition, doesn’t necessarily link the motivations. And motivations are the difference in wars between the good guys and the bad guys. The Axis and the Allies had the same goals, but for different reasons, and the reasons are why the Allies were the good guys. Same thing in the WOT, they want to kill us because we’re not them, we want to kill them because if we don’t they’ll kill us. There’s nothing wrong with a movie linking the two and reminding audiences this is a fight to the finish.
The code was certainly excessive. However, there are those (such as Spencer Warren & Lawrence Auster) who believe the code was at least partly responsible for the Golden Age of great Hollywood films. By putting a halt to gratuitous sex and violence, writers and directors were forced to actually come up with some superior material.
Agreed. With Good Vibrations blaring in the back. I like the movie..not the best...but cool.
Very interesting.
Can anyone who has seen this movie tell me if it’s appropriate for a 13yo?
There was still plenty of violence in films back then it was just treated lightly...dozens of people falling bloeelessly from a handgun which fires an endless stream of bullets...
You make a good point about it being a fight to the finish. I guess I am hypersensitive to this stuff because, working as a conservative in Hollywood, the relentless leftism and anti-Americanism of so many of my colleagues gets tiresome after a while. I just didn’t like the implication of the link between the heroes and villains. Would have preferred that Foxx said, “We’ll get them all,” instead of “kill them all.”
It is. As long as they understand what abortion is.
I really want to see this movie!
Also, they have announced cities that the movie will open on November 16, 2007.
The number of cities for these dates will only increase or perhaps stay the same...
Important to get the word out about these cities...
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