While I'm sure other entertainment options are a factor, maybe Hollywood should take a look at the quality of what they're putting out there.
Family-friendly movies continue to lead in earnings at the box office, but the movie industry insists on pushing trash on us like "Brokeback Mountain," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Wedding Crashers," "Eyes Wide Shut," "American Beauty," and those awful "American Pie" movies.
It makes sense from a logistical perspective that family-friendly movies would make more money (after all, a family taking the kids to see "Narnia" is going to sell more tickets than just mom and dad going to see "Wedding Crashers" or some homosexuals going to see "Bareback Mountain." But maybe your average American is also realizing that a lot of those filthy moves Hollywood is offering are just pure rot that corrupts your soul--and they don't want to pay to have their hearts darkened.
While they're at it, maybe they should consider the possibility that many Americans (like me) are tired of spending money to support the liberal and anti-American activities of the likes of Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Janeane Garofalo, Woopie Goldberg, Mike Farrell, and their ilk.
Like all Americans, they're entitled to their opinions, but I find it a little distasteful that we're expected to listen intently to their drivel about how America has generally been screwed up it's whole history when their greatest qualification is that they can pretend to be something they're not.
They have their freedom to make complete idiots of themselves in public, and I have the freedom not to subsidize their public display of anti-Americanism. Hollywood would do well to take a look at that when they try to figure out why Americans aren't spending money on their product--an encourage these ungrateful babies to put a sock in it.
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There are huge lines for Brokeback all over the country. It's only opened in a few dozen theaters but its breaking box office records.
Get over it. You've lost the culture.
Yeah, you Red State Redneckers win elections but the culture is left liberal, pro-diversity, pro-gay and listening to rap music.
Even in beautiful Rapid City (just take a look around).
Mc Govern was ahead of his time!
You're certainly right about the culture: it's in the toilet. You're also right about McGovern: we weren't ready for his kind of socialist decay back then; like the frog in the pot, we've come a long way!
As for Bareback Mountain, it's certainly breaking records on all 69 theaters it's in...records for depravity and decadence. It comes in considerably behind King Kong (which isn't selling as well as they had hoped) at about 5% of Kong. Yep, it's a recordsetter, alright.
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