“Rendition,” which features three Oscar winners in key roles, grossed $4.1 million over the weekend in 2,250 screens for a ninth-place finish. A re-release of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” beat it, and it’s 14 years old.
“Rendition,” which features three Oscar winners in key roles, grossed $4.1 million over the weekend in 2,250 screens for a ninth-place finish. A re-release of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” beat it, and it’s 14 years old.
So people don’t like to see torture. Bit surprising?
Yeah, but “Nightmare” is one of the greatest movies of all time. Original story, captivating visuals, witty banter and a brilliant score. “Rendition” didn’t stand a chance.
So the movie going public is getting tired of the political BS and empty rhetoric that Hollywood spews…??
That’d be a nice change!
maybe they should have made the movie about the people who do the actual torture, like the Syrians, the Iranians or Saddam’s Iraq.
No . . can’t do that, that wouldn’t give an opportunity to malign the US Government.
Too bad, so sad.
I don’t think Hollywood’s lefty mind set and it’s almost constant anti war/Bush/establishment is the real cause for low movie goer returns. Even if smart, pro American political flicks would be produced, attendance would still be low UNLESS, a Rambo like nonsense with an improbable plot filled with explosions and gore is offered. Add 50% more if our hero is also a vampire!
No, I believe it’s North America’s continuing decent in mind rot that’s the cause.
30 Days of Night is currently number 1 at the box office.
Do a quick check and you will see many thought provoking and intelligent movies out right now and they are all doing poorly.
Just 2 weekends ago I went to see “Elizabeth, the golden age” which I think pretty much qualifies as a near masterpiece and the room was literally empty of viewers. It is to note that the movie editing was fast moving, with as minimum dialogue but just enough to not be stupid and with as much action and violence as possible: This was in an effort to appeal to the Pepsi generation…To no avail.
I don’t even think it’s in the theaters anymore already…
BUT, 30 days of Night is still going on strong: An average, gore filled, no suspense building, blood soaked eye candy of a typical overdone vampire show.
I stopped supporting Hollywood movies long ago, unless it’s Bruce Willis or Gary Sinise movie. There are a few who are supporting the proper culture of America. We should support them. Tom Selek is another on. Perhaps we need a list to know who they all are so we can support our Hollywood troops too.
If there is a movie I want to see I wait for the DVD so as not pay more than I need to in support of those Hollywood jihadist bastards.
Also consider, the last time I went to a movie I bought a large popcorn and small coke. It was TEN dollars. I won’t do that again. Whey the hell must we eat all that crap all time anyway?
Wait a minute? The movie criticizes the US for shipping people to secret locations to be tortured? What a piece of sh*t! Everyone knows the US should do what they want, whenever they want.
Nonetheless, it had better have some t&a in it or it’ll go straight to DVD.
Guess I’m the only one who hated Nightmare. Yeah, Easter’s all about eggs. Great.
Tim Burton is SO over.
You mean like Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Hitler, Guevara, Castro, Chavez and all the other totalitarians got to do what they wanted?
How many films were prodcued during their reign IN THEIR COUNTRY BY THEIR SUBJECTS that were critical of them?
Answer the question, Marxist bootlick.
I suspect that many of the lefty elites in Hollowood are so wealthy that financial concerns are not a major factor in deciding what they produce.
Everyone likes a hobby. Some folks are happy with a 22, a box of shells and a field of gophers. Billionaires own money losing sport franchises. Hollywoodees produce propaganda to validate their world views.
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“This was in an effort to appeal to the Pepsi generation…To no avail.”
Grind a Grit, I think the Pepsi generation could safely be called the Grecian Formula generation by now.
There is an even more disgusting aspect to the self-loathing lefties in Hollywood, they produce anti-American products to feed the anti-American masses overseas. What we shun for good reason here gets wide promotion and play abroad. Its the export market that counts now for them and they craft their themes accordingly.
What I hate Hollywood most for is that. They have created an insincere and untruthful portrait of our culture, most of the world only knows America through Hollywood movies.
Like the MSM, Hollywood can’t be financially punished and dismantled fast enough.
@Cal:
If what you’re saying is true, then something closer to the public’s taste will slip through the indie circuit. This week, Rendition grossed about 100 times the filming cost of The Blair Witch Project, if I recall the latter correctly.
Does anyone here rememeber the slew of “Tax Shelter One-Stars” up here that came courtesy of tax write-offs before the Mulroney government closed the loophole? I think there were a lot of “dentist-financed” observations about them around that time (late ’70s-mid’80s.)
A similar thing may be going on wrt Hollywood and those low-grossing movies. Some money-losers are valued for the resultant tax write-offs.
Thee nay be light at the end of the tunnel.Mikey’s “SICKO” was not the blockbuster that he and the leftoids had hoped it would be.Possibly people are waking up to the nonsense. Also,rosie o’donald isn’t making the news anymore.
What’s the point of complaining about Hollywood? It’s really not like anyone is about to boycott American movies.
It’s their money and they’ll spend it however they see fit, the same as every consumer…
“So people don’t like to see torture. Bit surprising?” — Saskboy
Why, you are so right, Saskboy. That also explains the failure of “Saw.” And “Saw II.” And “Saw III.” And Saw IV soon as well, I suppose. And all the other slasher movies too.
So, yes. You are right. “Rendition” and the other recent anti-war films are failing because the viewing public is too squeamish. Makes sense to me. You must be an important Movie Mogul. Am I right?
However … are you sure you don’t want to default to reason number 2, that the American movie-viewing public is just too base in their aesthetic preferences? Surely it cannot be that Americans actually support winning the war. It. Cannot. Be.
Don’t forget “Syriana”; was that not a Hollywood production about a… ahem… poor, misunderstood suicide bomber?
Doug: I like the way you compared Bush to those other dictators. I wouldn’t have gone that far, but whatever (straw man) makes your point, right (straw man)?
By the way, you don’t know me or what I believe, so p*ss off, you angry little pr*ck.
Answer the question.
Waiting….
Doug
Anon can but will not answer your question because even a socialist bootlick knows that it is an undeniable historical fact that in each and every country controlled by the left the first thing to go is freedom of speech. Russia, China, Albania or Cuba..pick one. Mr. Anon the left leaning bootlick can only resort to cursing and name calling like the rest of his NDP brethern when faced with the consistently ugly history of the left.
Got to love SDA comments. Like February in Saskabush, they’re always completely predictable. Pavlovian, even.
Funny, Lloyd, we same the same things about you lefty apologists.
There are four types of comments that can usually be attributed to you folks. Yours falls under #2.
1. The drive-by smear. Usually has nothing to do with the topic, and often results in a topic going off the rails.
2. The tsk-tsk routine. Adds nothing, explains nothing, and is generally worthless. Is intended to make the commenter superior without risk.
3. The parrot. Take a comment made about something horrible. Replace it with your choice of Bush, U.S.A., Harper, Christians, etc. Used to show how really bad we are and should keep our noses out of stuff. Also can be used to place racism angles by the truly skilled.
4. The intelligent argument. Extremely rare, and should only be attempted by the truly prepared troll. Not recommended in your case, Lloyd.
IN every instance logic,reasoned discourse and intellient debate, like left wing governments leaves our left wing friends speechless.
Wow, someone totally missed the point about Syriana. Or did you miss the twenty or thirty minutes of the madrassa brain washing techniques? Or that little part of the movie – I think it was essentially most of the plot – that dealt with the CIA trying to prove a terrorist connection between Iran and Hezbollah (that, in the movie, existed)?
Yes, big oil and globalization bashing are in there…but I think, overall, Syriana didn’t take the easy Hollywood way out. For a major production, it dealt pretty honestly with both big business/political corruption, AND religious fanaticism.
I haven’t seen Rendition, but I’ll definitely rent it.
By the way, I make the point about the connection between Iran and Hezbollah being “in the movie” to make my case about the fact the film took a multidimensional view to the middle east. That comment has nothing to do with whether I think there is a connection between Iran and Hezbollah or any other country/terrorist group.
Perry, does that mean you think there is *NOT* a connection between Iran and Hezbollah or any other country/terrorist group?
Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. Has there been conclusive proof made public? I ask, only because I haven’t really looked into it.
Perry (5:53 PM)…
The point?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030201209.html
Sorry, but what is there “to get” about the movie?
No, I haven’t seen it… because it smacks of anti-American Hollywood schlock; at least the reviews I’ve read deem it as such. I like Krauthammer’s comparison to Oliver Stone’s “JFK”. That’s all I need to know about the damn thing.
Joe, if you haven’t seen it, your opinion is worthless. Maybe Triumph of the Will is more your flavour, since you obviously can’t form an opinion without someone thinking it for you.
I just read today that woody haraldsen is teaming up with stone for a movie about the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war. The article said that up to 500 villagers were brutally killed.My recollection was that 22 were killed,but what the hell,michael moore embellishes and makes money,everyone should.Damn the truth,full speed ahead,riches for a few is the goal of any decent socialist.
Perry, only a high flown pompous asshole would come out with the nazi card.
Go to hell.
Yes, do.
“if you haven’t seen it, your opinion is worthless. Maybe Triumph of the Will is more your flavour, since you obviously can’t form an opinion without someone thinking it for you.”
(Perry, 8:25PM)
By inference you have seen Triumph of the Will, Perry… as you so obviously have an opinion on it.
Doing this:
Comment by Perry blocked.
Comment by Lloyd Fister blocked.
Makes life so much more pleasant…
Anyone who produced, directed, or acted in a pro-US, pro-OIF, pro-soldier movie would be subject to the full informal Hollywood and academic blacklist. E.g., Pat Dollard, ex-producer with lots of H’wood chops, left his career, home, and marriage (as it turned out) to report on Iraq. He’s now putting together a documentary called Young Americans and is having to go way outside the lines to get funding and distribution.
http://patdollard.com/about
http://patdollard.com/young-americans
Doug: You really are a dumbass. I don’t know the answer to your question, and neither do I care. The reason: because it has NOTHING to do with what I said. It’s a straw man. Do you understand that? You are implying that I think Bush or the US is as bad as those other dictatorships, and I don’t. So there’s the answer to the dumbass question that you WANTED to ask, but didn’t. Now, as I said before: p*ss of you (intellectually) spineless pus*y. That goes for your followers, too.
If anyone else wants to read why this politicization of movies is retarded, I like the slacktivist take on it.
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2005/12/wwad.html
Still waiting for the answer.
Hollywood is becoming a real life Pork Chop Hill.
Its no different then movies like LIONS AND LAMBS which is nothing more then the usial left-wing antiamerican propeganda and frankly i,ll never again watch another ROBERT REDFORD or TOM CRUISE movie again which is disapointing i realy liked TOP GUN
“Just 2 weekends ago I went to see “Elizabeth, the golden age” which I think pretty much qualifies as a near masterpiece…”
How near? It was visually stunning, with some excellent individual performances, but it didn’t hold together at all, and pales in comparison to its predecessor. I enjoyed it, and even with Oscars and accolades I believe Cate Blanchett is STILL the most underrated actress in the world (my God, see “Oscar and Lucinda”), but IMHO, masterpiece it was not, as much as I wish it had been.
I think the abject failure of these anti-war screeds is one of the best things I’ve seen in the entertainment biz lately.
First and most importantly, people are refusing to go see it. All the usual advertising hype is failing to get people out to see their own country trashed. They don’t want to see that. Finally!
Second, a bunch of people who really hate America just lost a butt load of money. Their investors will be FAR more hesitant to invest in their next hate America project.
Hating America is no longer cool. Hating America is no longer a guaranteed box office. Hating America is for DORKS!
That’s what I’ve been waiting to see, baby. Vietnam is dead and buried, the Boomers are The Man now, time to move on.
Hell, maybe somebody will make a western where the cowboys aren’t fags or psychos! I’ll pay money to see that.