Ang Lee says he's baffled by 'Woodstock' results

Yahoo ^ | 9-30-09 | Min Lee

[STONEWALLS]

"HONG KONG (AP) -- Ang Lee says he's baffled by the poor box office results of "Taking Woodstock" -- the Oscar-winning director's worst-performing English-language movie in the U.S. in 10 years.

[STONEWALLS]

...of course he's baffled...he doesn't understand that the "Woodstock Nation" zeitgeist was very destructive...that's why the public doesn't want to plunk down cash to see this movie..if you want to see the damage, just go to any liberal arts department on any campus....yesterday's campus radicals became today's tenured professors.

[Paladin2]

I thought this movie was based on the life of Snoopy’s bird friend.

[cripplecreek]

The only thing worse than watching dirty hippies is watching dirty hippies on the big screen.

[Cicero]

Brokeback Mountain. Woodstock. He’s working hard to be the next Roman Polanski.

[Borges]

The people who were there are married with kids and/or grandkids and didn’t want to see a romanticized vision of something they experienced. Younger generations have their own pop cultural touchstones.

[Paladin2]

"Lee's last English film, the 2005 gay romance "Brokeback Mountain," "

There's a problem.

[FormerACLUmember]

I’d poke my eyes out before I would watch such boring cr*p.

[GeronL]

Are their actually people who still think this whole “Woodstock” thing isn’t over and done with?

[Borges]

What do you mean?

[C19fan]

Except for Baby Boombers still living in the 60s, probably a large percentage of the D-Congressional delegation and the MSM, Americans were repulsed by Woodstock and everything it stood for or Generation X-ers and later who don’t give a damn.

[dfwgator]

I thought this movie was based on the life of Snoopy’s bird friend.

Here is Woodstock's brother, "Altamont."

[Antoninus]

Uh, the answer is easy. Woodstock sucks and their generation created a mess in our country. Few people want to be reminded of it.

[FormerACLUmember]

[DManA]

The “Woodstock Nation” zeitgeist was always an illusion and even the illusion evaporated after a few months. It just wasn’t that important and as proof I submit the fact that no one under 50 gives a rat’s patootie about it.

[r9etb]

Amazingly, Mr. Lee seems not to understand that the movie-going public no longer gives a rat's ass about the unending navel-gazing of children of the '60s.

After all, few people under 40 care to pay attention to the ancient drug-addled antics of senior citizens.

[max americana]

Maybe Ang should have added fag cowboys in it like his other film..

[Drew68]

...of course he's baffled...he doesn't understand that the "Woodstock Nation" zeitgeist was very destructive...that's why the public doesn't want to plunk down cash to see this movie.

Not quite true.

It's doing poorly at the box office because the people interested in seeing this film have stopped going to the cinema. They have nice home theaters where they prefer to watch movies in comfort and they're waiting for the DVD. Hollywood hasn't figured this out yet. The only films that do great at the box office these days are big-budget CGI films.

Hollywood is still using box office receipts to measure a film's success, seemingly unaware that the whole model has changed.

FWIW, Lee's 2nd worse performing English language film, Ride with the Devil is one of my favorite movies.

[dfwgator]

And Ang was the one whose “Hulk” movie was so bad, they had to make another one a few years later to save the franchise.

[discostu]

I thought about seeing the movie, until word hit the street of how period music was in it, just couldn’t see the point of a Woodstock movie without Woodstock music. So I went and saw Halloween II.

[Candor7]

Poor Ang Lee doesn't understand how fed up America is with the Woodstock Self Centered Generation. Now they have managed to hoodwink America into the current national socialist mess in the White House,America is even LESS predisposed to honor the memory of their so called awakening in a tub of $hit farm field, come pig wallow, in up state New York.

( They actually went to sleep then, AND NOW THEY MUST AWAKEN.........OR ELSE!)