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2005-08-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

From the "no shit" dept. - Summer movie slump blamed on dull movies

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Posted by mmurray821 2005-08-24 11:45|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anything with Will Ferrell.
"Die Hard in a _______"
Third-string Marvel comic book heroes
NO. MORE. REMAKES. You have nothing to add to Hitchcock, or even Roger Corman.

Posted by BH 2005-08-24 11:58|| 2005-08-24 11:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Two suggestions to get my business back:

1. Shut up and act. And sing. And dance. I want my entertainers to ENTERTAIN me, not lecture me on foreign policy. And don't go to Ramallah and put on a keffiyeh.

2. Don't put the entire plot of the movie in the trailer. I have no reason to shell out $20 if I feel that I've already seen the dang thing in previews.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-24 12:18|| 2005-08-24 12:18|| Front Page Top

#3 In previous years, he said, "you could still count on enough people to come whether you failed at entertaining them or not, out of habit, or boredom, or a desire to get out of the house. You had a little bit of backstop."

And you clowns used that backstop as an excuse to make whatever kind of trash you wanted.

Lord of the Rings? Hollywierd wouldn't touch it. Dopes. But line up the anti-war, jihadi-hero flicks. Morons.

Posted by Bobby 2005-08-24 12:19|| 2005-08-24 12:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Anything with Will Ferrell

What's with the endless succession of mildly amusing rubbish from SNL alumni?

Posted by john 2005-08-24 12:30|| 2005-08-24 12:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Anything with Will Ferrell

What's with the endless succession of mildly amusing rubbish from SNL alumni?

Posted by john 2005-08-24 12:34|| 2005-08-24 12:34|| Front Page Top

#6 If a movie is mediocre you can wait 6 months and see it on DVD. Naturally movie theaters are slumping. Now Hollywood is talking about cutting movie ads in papers and releasing DVDs on the same day. If cinemas weren't dead before that'll do it.

Drive in movie theaters died, now big cinaplexes will probably die as well. I don't mourn their loss but then again I'm not in the dating scene anymore.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-08-24 13:15|| 2005-08-24 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Two nights ago, Fox Movie Channel ran (no pun intended) Kurosawa's "Ran" -- subtitled! -- without commercial interruption. The movie, beautifully filmed and wonderfully acted, was riveting. Watching this film made me realize how poorly served fans of the genre have been served as of late -- not only by Hollywood, but by film studios across the world.

Posted by Curt Simon 2005-08-24 13:24|| 2005-08-24 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's see. I can pay through the nose, buy some overpriced food, and watch a mediocre movie usually featuring a bunch of moonbat "stars" I don't want to give any of my money to with a audience that usually consists of a lot of the mangiest yutes this side of Death Row?
I haven't seen a movie in a theatre since Apollo 13...

Posted by tu3031 2005-08-24 13:24|| 2005-08-24 13:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, let's see:

Lousy films with no imagination. 70's TV? (retch)
$5.00 bag of popcorn with fake(!) butter
$3.00 coke (12 oz.)
sticky floors, covered with trash.
pervert in the back row moaning too much.
can't stand "Metroplex" theatres
hour drive, followed by parking hell.

I could go on. But I have a DVD player.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-08-24 15:17|| 2005-08-24 15:17|| Front Page Top

#10 mojo, i have to ad one ! when you take your kid too a kids movie nad their is always at least 1 middleaged child molester looking type there

Posted by Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-08-24 15:55|| 2005-08-24 15:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Naturally you will all buy my DVD when it hits the shelves though, right? Drivetime of the Dead, a zombie comedy that should start shooting this weekend in Orange County.

Any Rantburgers want to be a zombie shoot me an email.

/end premature sales pitch

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-08-24 16:21|| 2005-08-24 16:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey, hate on everything else, BUT NOT THE PUNISHER.

Curt Simon, is it just me, or did Hollywood's overall crappiness actually drag down HERO with it??

rjschwarz, damn you for being in Orange County; otherwise I'd be there.

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-08-24 16:30|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-08-24 16:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Any Rantburgers want to be a zombie shoot me an email.

Whatcha? Going to be a Democrat?
See yesterdays post.

Posted by Elmemble Ulaitch5567 2005-08-24 16:40|| 2005-08-24 16:40|| Front Page Top

#14 Orange County California, to be precise.

Later shooting will be in San Diego (either at SDSU or hopefully the KGB FM studios). I had considered giving at least one zombie a Che t-shirt. You know, mindless and all.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-08-24 17:12|| 2005-08-24 17:12|| Front Page Top

#15 My favorite scene in Return of the Living Dead 2 was the Michael Jackson zombie. You should put Sean Penn in there somewhere.

Posted by BH 2005-08-24 17:45|| 2005-08-24 17:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Michael Jackson has the distinctive clothes. Sean Penn would be hard to recognize, but I like the way you're thinking.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-08-24 17:47|| 2005-08-24 17:47|| Front Page Top

#17 Michael Moore? He's got the appetite, and he likes to eat his own.

Posted by BH 2005-08-24 17:55|| 2005-08-24 17:55|| Front Page Top

#18 Just need a large bearded man with a wind breaker and a Detroit Tigers hat right? If someone like that shows up I'll zombify them right away. Send a PA out to get the jacket and hat if I have to.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-08-24 17:59|| 2005-08-24 17:59|| Front Page Top

#19 Actually, Sean Penn could be identifiable if you dress him as Jeff Spicoli. I understand he hates being linked to that role. ;)

Posted by BH 2005-08-24 18:01|| 2005-08-24 18:01|| Front Page Top

#20 I'd like to see a Blue State vs Red State breakdown of the slump by total # of tickets sold.
That might be...informative.

Posted by dushan 2005-08-24 20:29|| 2005-08-24 20:29|| Front Page Top

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