They are “surprised” that a movie would do so great which tells the story of an American-loving, God-fearing, family-oriented, service-driven SEAL member?!?!
That tells you exactly, I mean EXACTLY, how out of touch with reality and the American people, Hollywood really finds itself!! SAD!!
I mean, their surprise should be an eye opener for not only the American public, but also Hollyweird!!!
They just don’t get it.
What would be a kewel movie theme is get two hapless idiots together, send em to North Korea under the auspice of interviewing Dear Leader but, bumble over their true mission and assasinate him.
The script should be pedantic, adolscelent and use plenty of cuss words with no real purpose and a total lack of ingenuity or creativity.
Then have Shiite for CGI and make the pace of the movie extremely quick but, with no tempo.
Now that would sell a bazillion tickets.
But 1st you’d need to PR it to death with an extraordinary tale of being hacked and having more than 40 different operating systems, unique software, editing, viewing and award keys violated and throw in some salacious but, idioticly benign emails.
But, the emails should be very specific and you shouldn’t release all of them, en masse. Just a few lines.
Then top that off with manufactured threats to SONY and the USA that have zero chance of ever happening, cuz North Korea can only throw a rock so far.
And finally, release four movie products on torrent sites but, but.... BUT not the one that supposedly offends. No save that for its actual release date.
But, wait!!! There’s more.
Get the three largest movie chains to invent the the excuse they won’t show the film for security reasons, not because it sucks louder than an airliner jet engine and would waste valuable real estate screens.
Now, blow some $44 million on the whole thing and see if you can make a profit on maybe $6 million dollars in sales, now a month later.
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Clint makes incredible products.
They are compelling, move the heart and memorable.
I’ll never forget Kyle’s struggle to not want to shoot the boy and the lady at the beginning of the movie but, was ultimately given no other choice.
And then his anguish to whisper, from his perch, to a little boy “please don’t pick it up. Please don’t pick it up....Oh please put it down...don’t don’t “
The relief that he didn’t have to take that little boy’s life came off the screen. I and several men around me put our hands to our mouths during that scene and then our mouths just dropped open. Our hands rubbing around our gape, I think searching for our humanity and hoping God was still with us.
Incredible film.
I’ll buy the disc when it comes out, to help our soldiers and his family but, I doubt I’ll ever watch it again.
Just can’t