"Stop-Loss" DOA at box office (Yet another anti-war propaganda film bombs)

Deadline Hollywood ^ | 3/28/08 | Nikke Finke

[Callahan]

...I'm told #7 Stop-Loss opened to only $1.6 million Friday from just 1,291 plays and should eke out $4+M. Although the drama from MTV Films was the best-reviewed movie opening this weekend, Paramount wasn't expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office. "It's not looking good," a studio source told me before the weekend. "No one wants to see Iraq war movies. No matter what we put out there in terms of great cast or trailers, people were completely turned off. It's a function of the marketplace not being ready to address this conflict in a dramatic way because the war itself is something that's unresolved yet. It's a shame because it's a good movie that's just ahead of its time."...

[LottieDah]

My daughter’s boyfriend , a USMC, kicked ass all over Falujah. Five of his friends were sacrificed. Thank God he is back home. We love him. I spoil him rotten because he is a great guy and a Marine through and through.

[swain_forkbeard]

Irrelevant.

[visualops]

If you want to see an incredible war movie, see Christian Bale in Rescue Dawn. It's very very good.

[skeeter]

Keep spending yer money, morons.

[Hildy]

Did you know Oliver Stone is doing a movie about George Bush? Josh Brolin playing GW? Incredible..I pray he includes his drug-induced delusions into the film, and then Bush sues the crap out of him and Stone winds up handing checks to Bush for the rest of his life.

This is the movie that Ryann Phillippe lost Reese Witherspoon over by having an affair with his co-star. So not only did it ruin his life, it might even ruin his career. COULD NOT be happier. He is a BORING actor to boot.

[Callahan]

I did see that. It was great.

[joebuck]

Predictable. It’s also predictable that the next Rambo flick will gross at least 200 million domestically. Hollywood seems to forget that during a time of war, patriotic war flicks are boffo box office. That or their hate of America is even stronger than their breathtaking greed.

[Richard Kimball]

I pray he includes his drug-induced delusions into the film, and then Bush sues the crap out of him and Stone winds up handing checks to Bush for the rest of his life.

Whenever I get angry at Bush, I always try to remember that the things he does that irritate me are often because he's a better man than me. Dan Rather should be in jail. Production of those falsified government documents was a felony. Bush didn't do anything, IMHO, because the guy who actually falsified them was a crackpot old political enemy of his. I think Bush felt sorry for him.

Bush does not retaliate against people.

[Williams]

I saw the trailer for this and wanted to throw somwething at the screen, and I knew it would be a total bomb. The trailer was a joke, trying to portray a jerk refusing to honor his commitment to the VOLUNTARY force as a “hero” for saying things like “This family’s fought this war long enough!”

[Dr. Scarpetta]

This is the movie that Ryann Phillippe lost Reese Witherspoon over by having an affair with his co-star.

Phillippe cheated on Witherspoon by having an affair and then was complaining how he couldn't get out of bed because he was so depressed about the divorce. What a loser...

[live+let_live]

I think what is going on is a combination of your two posts, #12 and #13. Hollywood makes a lot of money on foreign distribution. What sells in the US and what sells in the rest of the world are not the same.

In the US we want to see the US kicking ass and taking names.
The rest of the world wants to see the US getting it’s ass kicked.

Judging by the number of films made that have no hope of a profit in the US, I’d say the US market is smaller than the world market and Hollywood has given up on it.

[ansel12]

Another review that describes it as anti-American, anti-army and anti-Texan.

http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/