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Ang Lee says he's baffled by 'Woodstock' results
Yahoo ^ | 9-30-09 | Min Lee

Posted on 09/30/2009 9:44:14 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anglee; hollyweird; hollywood; itsuckedthatswhy; takingwoodstock; woodstock
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To: max americana
Maybe Ang should have added fag cowboys in it like his other film..

Read a summary about "Taking Woodstock", he did!

21 posted on 09/30/2009 9:53:39 AM PDT by ThreeYearLurker
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To: dfwgator

The only good point of the movie was Sam Elliott as Gen. Ross and Eric Bana.

The worst was turning it into a Shakespearean play that no one could relate to. It was in short..a sermon, not a movie.


22 posted on 09/30/2009 9:54:26 AM PDT by max americana (i)
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To: ThreeYearLurker

Holy crap. Even in jest, these egotistical libtards are truly predictable.


23 posted on 09/30/2009 9:55:45 AM PDT by max americana (i)
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To: Cicero

Huh?


24 posted on 09/30/2009 9:57:37 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: STONEWALLS
We're living the fruit of Woodstock in our government, media and schools.

I was a Woodstocker myself, and am now repulsed by what it has wrought.

I don't need to glorify that debunked fantasy.

Unlike most baby boomers, I accepted growing up and facing reality.

25 posted on 09/30/2009 9:58:05 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (u)
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To: max americana

Yeah, Shakespearean themes don’t resonate at all. /sarc


26 posted on 09/30/2009 9:58:43 AM PDT by Borges
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To: STONEWALLS

no need for 70’s nostalgia when we’re living it every day, Mr. Lee


27 posted on 09/30/2009 9:58:44 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: cripplecreek

Lived for 40 years in Calif.

Had as much contact with hippies as I ever want.


28 posted on 09/30/2009 9:58:54 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: STONEWALLS

Besides a couple-hundred thousand (supposedly) hippies at Woodstock, there were another 200+ million Americans going about their daily lives.

Somehow the cultural elites decided Woodstock was a watershed event. The rest of American could not have cared less.


29 posted on 09/30/2009 9:59:24 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: dfwgator

LOL.


30 posted on 09/30/2009 10:00:21 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: cripplecreek

LOL So true.


31 posted on 09/30/2009 10:01:10 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: ridesthemiles

I’m less than 30 miles from Ann Arbor.


32 posted on 09/30/2009 10:01:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: STONEWALLS

Maybe the SOB doesn’t realize that most sane people utterly despise the “Woodstock Generation” for being a bunch of self-centered, drugged-out,cowardly perverts who would sacrifice everything and everyone around them to satiate their own wants and needs. And now that they are fat, old, and ugly, they are more repulsive than ever.


33 posted on 09/30/2009 10:06:11 AM PDT by hampdenkid
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To: hampdenkid

Also remember, Woodstock was supposed to be a pay for concert, but all of the freeloaders thought they were entitled to a “Free Concert”.

The liberal mentality in a nutshell.


34 posted on 09/30/2009 10:08:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: STONEWALLS
Cartman and Hippies Pictures, Images and Photos
35 posted on 09/30/2009 10:12:24 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Paladin2

I’d watch it in a heartbeat if it was about Snoopy’s sidekick. :)


36 posted on 09/30/2009 10:12:32 AM PDT by nomoremods
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To: STONEWALLS

I suspect that much of the younger audience that makes up much of the movie ticket buyers consider a film about Woodstock just about as interesting as a film about Lawrence Welk!


37 posted on 09/30/2009 10:16:01 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: STONEWALLS

Ang Lee is under the illusion that we celebrate Woodstock here. On the contrary, we’ve come to view it as the nadir of baby-boomer self-indulgence.


38 posted on 09/30/2009 11:28:34 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: cripplecreek

....And paying for it.


39 posted on 09/30/2009 12:46:49 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: STONEWALLS
imdb says:

Who plays the musicians at the concert?

No one. The concert isn't the focus. The focus is the hero's relationship with his parents and fear of "coming out".

No wonder no one is seeing this movie. It is not about "Woodstock" at all. It is about some random Jewish boy who comes out gay. Boring

40 posted on 09/30/2009 1:27:57 PM PDT by NathanR (,)
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