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"Stop-Loss" DOA at box office (Yet another anti-war propaganda film bombs)
Deadline Hollywood ^ | 3/28/08 | Nikke Finke

Posted on 03/29/2008 8:09:53 AM PDT by 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."...


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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.

As opposed to a function of Americans being uninterested in paying $10 plus popcorn to watch anti-US propaganda.

1 posted on 03/29/2008 8:09:55 AM PDT by Callahan
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“...anti-US propaganda.”

Is that what it is? Have you seen it?


2 posted on 03/29/2008 8:11:20 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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I think “The Kingdom” was OK—I maintain our Netflix queue and I research the new releases very carefully before I put them in our queue.

There must have been at least 7 anti-U.S.-in-Iraq movies I passed over in the past year or so. Not including all the anti-U.S.-in-Iraq documentaries. There are dozens of those it seems.


3 posted on 03/29/2008 8:13:47 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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As opposed to a function of Americans being uninterested in paying $10 plus popcorn to watch anti-US propaganda.

Yup.

It's okay though- let them keep trying. At least it'll keep a lot of gaffers and key grips and such in butter-and-egg money.

4 posted on 03/29/2008 8:14:01 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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“anti-US propaganda.”

The Kingdom did very well, and any anti-US propaganda has done very bad, I’ll bet a Pro-US film would do very well, like one about the battle for Fallugah. <=(spelling police, sorry, but you know what I mean)


5 posted on 03/29/2008 8:14:55 AM PDT by stockpirate (McCain, Hillery with a war record. Time to run a 3rd party conservative for POTUS!)
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they keep throwing these anti war anti American movies out and NOBODY goes to see em. You would think that Hollywood might call a halt sooner or later, wouldnt you?

I mean, sooner or later the bankers have to say, “give it a rest comrades, or we arent gonna be able to afford another G-5 this year.”


6 posted on 03/29/2008 8:15:00 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Chuin, Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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"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."

Yet they continue to make movies that nobody wants to see. The psyche of these people is "If it makes us FEEL good then do it"

Typical liberal/socialist mantra!!

7 posted on 03/29/2008 8:17:16 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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8 posted on 03/29/2008 8:20:29 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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the public is turned off by anti-US propoganda, and also by films like “Stop-Loss” which, I gather from the title, are about presenting the U.S. soldier as a victim instead of a hero.


9 posted on 03/29/2008 8:20:45 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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Have you seen it?

This person has.

10 posted on 03/29/2008 8:21:24 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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And yet war films like “Blackhawk Down” that don’t feature a glaring liberal bias make money. Hollywood will release six sequels to the same crappy flick if they can squeeze an extra dollar of profit, but their Dem bias trumps all when it comes to Iraq.


11 posted on 03/29/2008 8:21:50 AM PDT by Callahan
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“I mean, sooner or later the bankers have to say, “give it a rest comrades, or we arent gonna be able to afford another G-5 this year.””

They make so much money off of these films that they won’t stop making them.............. these films make tons of money internationally.


12 posted on 03/29/2008 8:22:09 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77 ($15,000 to the first Trinity congregate to tell the world they saw Obama listening to Wright's venom)
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Make a movie showing the USMC kicking ass all over Falujah, I mean kicking ass, taking names, sacrificing for their friends, units and country to kill the enemy in the traditional way we have always killed our enemies and it would make untold millions, imo.


13 posted on 03/29/2008 8:22:20 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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Not only that, but what really is out there? The latest comicbook crap? War sucks crap? Republicans, Christians and Bush suck crap? Disaster CGI ladened enviormental crap? Latest computerized penguin cartoon movie crap? Or sequel de-jour crap? I find more entertaining stuff on You Tube.
14 posted on 03/29/2008 8:23:31 AM PDT by Bommer (Hmmm who to vote for? A Far leftist? A Radical Leftist? Or a Republican that enjoys being a Leftist?)
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“...anti-US propaganda.”
Is that what it is? Have you seen it?

Sometimes you don't need to stick your nose in a turd to recognize that it's sh*t.

15 posted on 03/29/2008 8:24:03 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (101st Airborne Army Dad)
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Hollywood must be yelling Stop the Loss.


16 posted on 03/29/2008 8:24:31 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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Already posted:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993588/posts


17 posted on 03/29/2008 8:24:59 AM PDT by NRPM
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How bout just one unabashedly patriotic, John Wayne stye movie to balance out the half-dozen lessons in Bill Moyers-approved angst.


18 posted on 03/29/2008 8:26:54 AM PDT by Callahan
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I had thought Bruce Willis was going to make a movie about the march to Baghdad, but it is not showing up on his IMDB.com page. Ironically the only military themed movie on his upcoming projects list is a Vietnam movie.


19 posted on 03/29/2008 8:30:24 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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From what I have seen from the trailers, it looks just another US Army (or military in general) bashing movie. More bitching from crappy soldiers who have lost perspective on the big picture. I have known a lot of people that got stop loss’d and listened to their wives bitch about it. And my response to it was simple; “ In life, there are some things a hell of a lot bigger than any one individual. After all, the defense of this country is not all about you, it’s about 300 million people. So stop your pissing and moaning, pick up your rifle and go do your damn job”


20 posted on 03/29/2008 8:30:37 AM PDT by infantrywhooah (Hold your nose and vote in November. Even McCain is better than the alternatives)
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