The Hard Way
No matter what I do or say,
Youre much too dumb to educate.
One day lifes going to turn around and slap you in the face,
Then youre gonna find out the hard way.
Youll take the hard way,
Gonna take the hard way.
(Ray Davies, The Hard Way)
DrewM, posting at Ace of Spades HQ, points out the dismal box office numbers for the latest Hollywood anti-war flopperoo, Lions for Lambs. (When even the Guardian calls it a 'turkey' you know it has to stink so badly that one can hear it.) Yet another slap in Hollywood's collective face.
Looks like the Saturday night box office estimates are in and while Lions for Lambs basically doubled its take from Friday, $6.7 million in box office is only good for 4th place.
A distant 4th place: Bee Movie grossed $26 million, American Gangster $24 million, and Fred Claus $19 million.
Hollywood is flushing huge amounts of money down the drain on these celluloid gobblers. At some point, the studios are going to realize that their declining revenues are somehow tied to their poor judgment in selecting targets to bash. They'll have to take a few more hard lessons to figure it out, though. Although they may yet prove to be completely incapable of being educated.
By mockinbird, Monday, 12 November , 2007 @ 3:56 pm
I really don’t see movies at all anymore. I stopped watching when I had to go to work for a living and started having a life worth living.