DE PALMA IRAQ FLICK BOMBS!
From the New York Post via the blog What Bubba Knows
Sphere: Related ContentAmericans won’t see their movies. While the public is staying away in droves from “Rendition,” “Lions for Lambs” and “In the Valley of Elah,” audiences are really avoiding “Redacted,” De Palma’s picture about US soldiers who rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, then kill her and her family. The message movie was produced by NBA Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who insisted on deleting grisly images of Iraqi war casualties from the montage at the film’s end. Cuban offered to sell the film back to De Palma at cost, but the director was too smart to go for that deal.“Redacted” - which “could be the worst movie I’ve ever seen,” said critic Michael Medved -
took in just $25,628 in its opening weekend in 15 theaters, which means roughly 3,000 people saw it in the entire country.
Oh shit, I thought this was a typo!!
“This, despite an A-list director, a huge wave of publicity, high praise in the Times, The New Yorker, left-leaning sites like Salon, etc. A Joe Strummer documentary [of punk-rock band The Clash] playing in fewer theaters made more in its third week,” e-mailed one cineaste. “Not even people who presumably agree with the movie’s antiwar thesis made the effort to see it.”
Hey Cuban your basketball team SUCKS TOO! LOL!!!!
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November 28th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
I can’t speak for other anti-war liberal types, but this administration and their war has made me so angry and unhappy that the idea of spending a couple of hours in the movies thinking about it is not the slightest bit appealing to me. In times as messed up as these, I want my entertainment more on the mindlessly fun side.