Yet Another Antiwar Movie, Yet Another Flop
Charles Johnson
Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 8:36 am PDT • Views: 817
The movie Stop Loss is yet another in a long string of Hollywood anti-American and antiwar flops: ‘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.”
Right. It’s “a function of the marketplace not being ready.” Have they ever considered the possibility that the marketplace doesn’t want Hollywood’s tedious left-wing anti-American self-hating bias shoved down its throat?
(Hat tip: Ayatollah Ghilmeini.)
Frank says: