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Anti-Iraq films are box office duds

I mean, there are only so many moonbats who are willing to spend their welfare checks on these movies.  Given the choice to spend their welfare checks to watch bad movies or to drink copius amounts of malt liquor, leftist miscreants are apparently choosing the latter.  From the NY Post:

IT’S hard for Hollywood pacifists like Brian De Palma to capture the hearts and minds of America if Americans 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. “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.” 

Here’s guessing these Hollyweirdos won’t learn their lesson and will release another anti-war film (within the next 2 – 3 months) that no one will come to see.

November 26, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | Hollyweirdos, Iraq, moonbats