[goldstategop]

I'm glad the movie bombed. It was an affront to everything Americans revere about their history and the heroes who died at the Alamo. Americans had the good sense not to watch Disney's politically correct dud about what happened in 1830s Texas. We're tired of Hollyweird forcing its anti-American garbage down our throats and voted with our pocketbooks to send Disney a message. We hope they heard it loud and clear.

[DeuceTraveler]

The funny thing is that if they created a pro-Texan Alamo they would have easily made most of their money back from Texans alone.

[Common Tator]

One would have to be blind, deaf, and believe Peter Jennings has a brain to think "The Passion of the Christ" would be a flop and "The Alamo" would be a hit.

[CalifornianConservative]

I had a former A list screenwriter lecture me the other day that studios today are in collusion when it comes to buying scripts that are outside their clique of filmmakers. They have figured it is easier just to hire the same old lib hacks, and throw fifty million dollar marketing campaigns at their latest piece of trash to see what suckers turn out opening weekend.

With the ALAMO bombing, it would seem even this lazy, monopolistic PC groupthink is backfiring on 'em.

What Eisner and these other aging executives and marketing hacks haven't realized is that the internet and Fox and talk radio and even cell phones have changed everything. Their demographic has gotten smart. And informed. And picky. And hard to cattle prod into theaters.

Teenagers with cellphones inside a theater can ruin that big first weekend.

The internet exposes bad scripts or pc tendencies in a project before it gets to theaters.

Talk radio exposes Hollywood's anti American and Anti Christ bias before potential ticket buyers pony up.

Eisner and Lansing and Spielberg and everyone else better wise up: people expect to get their money's worth at the movies today.

That means writers have to DO THEIR JOBS in their scripts, filmmakers have to attempt to uplift, entertain, and encourage their audiences, NOT debase, degrade and discredit an audience's ideas and beliefs.

Craftily constructed evil and blatant sedition will only titillate for a moment; THE PASSION shows that audiences want something deeper and lasting than the tripe being churned out today.

Where are the new Walt Disneys? Where are this generations John Fords? Or Alfred Hitchcock? Or Frank Capra? Or Orson Welles, or Billy Wilder or Howard Hawks, or Preston Sturges?

A famous critic once wrote that "myth is on the right".

He meant that the deeply seeded ideas of heroism and self sacrifice and love of others are politically and mythically on the right of the political spectrum. This is because the left champions the faceless masses while the right champions the individual.

The old soviet Sergei Eisenstein proved once and for all that you just can't make movies about "the faceless masses". You gotta have an individual who does something extraordinary and heroic.

This is the inherent problem that Hollywood doesn't want to understand. The more left wing they get, the less money they will make and the more alienated their audiences will become.

People go to the movies to be uplifted, not debased.

Even Charlie Kaufman, the film community's latest darling, can't hit big box office. His latest ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND is actually his best film, a romance at heart but it is puttering along in the low 22 million dollar figure after a few week's release.

Big box office equals conservative values well told. There is no way around this for Hollywood.

[junta]

The new version is not that bad. It seems our American heroes have to be some caricature without flaws, or otherwise the lefty poofters have won something. To think that is weakness in itself, a brittleness like Islam has. As an old stock American I do not want sugar coated grade school history lessons to tell the story of the conquering of America.

[geedee]

I'm glad the movie bombed. It was an affront to everything Americans revere about their history and the heroes who died at the Alamo.

Here! Here!

I think everyone knows that the John Wayne classic isn't EXACT history . . . but we need heroes! We need role models. Leftists can't stand patriotic symbols.

Has anyone ever heard a PROGRESSIVE say anything positive? They know only doom and gloom and blame America first, last, and always for all the world's problems.

Watch the History Channel sometime . . . especially when it has something on about Vietnam or later. EVERYTHING is filtered through a liberal lens and they make it appear that the U.S. is responsible for all evil. The pre-Vietnam shows are just as bad but most of you aren't old enough to remember the way it "really" was versus how the liberal jackasses say it was.

Eisner has ruined Disney. I haven't watched any of their movies in 20 years. ABC is blocked on my remote. As is ESPN. THAT is the only way a little guy like me can show my displeasure.

[Shooter 2.5]

The Freepers who actually saw the movie seemed to like it. The kiss of death for this has been the reviews which said that it was only OK. It's not blockbuster material.

I don't have a problem of the accuracy portayed in the movie. I'll take a well researched movie like this one over a Hollywood story any day.

The Alamo movie scores points with me for the description of the Alamo itself without the frontal piece we are so used to. Also the capture of Davy Crockett at the end.

I don't know if anyone is watching "Deadwood" on HBO but it's incredible. I've never seen a western that was so accurate.