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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Read a summary about "Taking Woodstock", he did!
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.
Holy crap. Even in jest, these egotistical libtards are truly predictable.
Huh?
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.
Yeah, Shakespearean themes don’t resonate at all. /sarc
no need for 70’s nostalgia when we’re living it every day, Mr. Lee
Lived for 40 years in Calif.
Had as much contact with hippies as I ever want.
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.
LOL.
LOL So true.
I’m less than 30 miles from Ann Arbor.
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.
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.
I’d watch it in a heartbeat if it was about Snoopy’s sidekick. :)
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!
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.
....And paying for it.
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
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