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Five Myths About Those Tinseltown Liberals

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Posted by Bobby 2008-10-12 05:54|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 #1 box office: Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Oh how the mighty have fallen. It seems the only things Hollywood makes anymore goes straight to video or the Bangkok matinee.

Posted by ed 2008-10-12 09:04|| 2008-10-12 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Five Myths About Those Tinseltown ~~Liberals~~ self anointed aristocrats

Pelosi-Reid Bailouts awaiting the coming of The One. Must keep the Ministry of Propaganda in operation.

"Why don't you just admit it? Conservatives have no talent!" Didn't I just live through that when it was "Why don't you just admit it? Negros have no talent!". [See it wasn't about principle, it was all about POWER.] By the way, if Hollyweird has so much talent, why do they have to continuously raid old films, comic books, and video games for ideas? [rhetorical question]

Posted by Prococipus2k 2008-10-12 09:19|| 2008-10-12 09:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Like the car manufactures they don't understand that they are going out of business, just like newspapers. They are so, 20th century and think that people will forever fawn over their output when their output is only bought for $19.99 and shown 2 or 3 times in somebody's home theatre.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-10-12 10:52|| 2008-10-12 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 If #1 were true, they'd make movies that made money instead of making movies they want to make.

Posted by Zorba Shose6140 2008-10-12 12:08|| 2008-10-12 12:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Re: #1, I thought "The Kingdom" wasn't bad... check it out, decent flick.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2008-10-12 14:01|| 2008-10-12 14:01|| Front Page Top

#6 neither was Dark Knight or Iron Man. Both had stong messages of responsibility, good vs evil.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-10-12 14:07|| 2008-10-12 14:07|| Front Page Top

#7 The article is a bit off. There are two Hollywoods. The money folks and the creative folk. So Number 1, the money folk certainly are out to make money and only money, but they allow the creative folks a movies they know will lose money in order to get them to do the big pictures. It's an investment. THat is why you don't find the massive summer movies with a political agenda. Same with Number 3. The money folk don't pretend to be liberals, they fight to make money while dependent upon Liberals and they clash from time to time. That is why the Guilds came about in the first place. Number 4 is also a compromise that the money people make in order to work with the creative liberals.

Having said that the rest is true and the ones I mentioned are partially true.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-12 15:08|| 2008-10-12 15:08|| Front Page Top

#8 "The Kingdom" was ruined in the last 45 seconds with the moral-relativism... "how can you say we are any different" and the panning to the boy deciding to get his revenge..

/spit

Posted by Abu do you love 2008-10-12 15:42|| 2008-10-12 15:42|| Front Page Top

#9 actually 4 Hollywoods

the creative types
the big money types
the on screen "talent"
the stage hands, stunt folks, etc.

The first three tend to be left to far left
The last tends to be conservative (partly I think because of the obnoxiousness of the 1st 3 Hollywoods)

Posted by mhw 2008-10-12 16:32|| 2008-10-12 16:32|| Front Page Top

#10 So how may went to see An American Carol? It was Zucker's best work in decades and was very funny and entertaining. What I did not expect was how moving some of the scenes would be. John Voight's Washington was incredible, although too brief. Unfortunately, this conservative movie has not done well at the box office.

Lots of Palin/McCain bumper stickers in the parking lot. Including one with WICCAN as a license plate. Pagans for Palin? It's a funny world.

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-10-12 20:22|| 2008-10-12 20:22|| Front Page Top

#11 There are unsubstantiated rumors that some theaters are deliberately under reporting ticket sales (chalking them up to other films instead). However, when we went the theater was only about 1/4-1/3 full and a good part of the audience were in their 50s and 60s. Red county in a blue state FWIW

Posted by lotp 2008-10-12 20:59|| 2008-10-12 20:59|| Front Page Top

#12 An outstanding movie and comedy. I would encourage everyone to see An American Carol. It was a hoot!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-12 21:01|| 2008-10-12 21:01|| Front Page Top

#13 I've read recently that actually Hollywood did not fund "W", it was a number of foreign investors that backed Mr. Stone. Even Hollywood wouldn't support propaganda against a sitting president.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-12 21:21|| 2008-10-12 21:21|| Front Page Top

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