Well, the Hollywood Elites continue not to understand why average Americans want to have nothing to do with the anti-war tripe that tinseltown continues to push on us. Fortunately, no one is forced to part with hard-earned money to watch this stuff.
MTV Films' "Stop-Loss" opened Friday with a box-office take of... drumroll... $1.6 million.
"Stop-Loss" DOA
I’m told #7 Stop-Loss opened to only $1.6 million Friday from just 1,291 plays and should eke out $4 M. Although the drama from MTV Films was the best-reviewed movie opening this weekend, Paramount wasn’t expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office. “It’s not looking good,” a studio source told me before the weekend. “No one wants to see Iraq war movies. No matter what we put out there in terms of great cast or trailers, people were completely turned off. It’s a function of the marketplace not being ready to address this conflict in a dramatic way because the war itself is something that’s unresolved yet. It’s a shame because it’s a good movie that’s just ahead of its time.”
Dirty Harry at Libertas has this to say about the movie (among other things):
What is possibly left to say about a poorly produced, poorly acted, poorly directed, and very poorly written anti-war film that defames our troops…? What’s left to say that hasn’t been said about the dozen or so that came before? The only new angle here is that we’re told Stop-Loss is co-written by a conservative. Either this poor guy was steamrolled flat in story meetings or it’s true that Hollywood’s idea of a conservative is someone who only kinda hates President Bush.
and this...
Stop-Loss is just an unforgivably cruel and stupid movie. Would an Army deserter wear Army fatigues? Do Hispanic soldiers really hope to get killed so their family will receive green cards? Is that even true? Would a soldier discharged in 2007 be so caught off-guard by a stop-loss order after years of publicity about it?
Hollywood needs to make a movie about the film industry. They could name it "DOA," except that name's already taken.
