Another Anti-War Film Bombs At Box Office

[red states rule]

The much hyped "Lions and Lambs", directed by Robert Redford is bombing at the box office

Here we are told how a majority of Americans are oposed to the war - why are people ignoring this film

Opening week was a snooze for this film

LIONS FOR LAMBS United Artists

2,215 Theaters

$2,150,000

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1923880/posts

[retiredman]

Redford did not make the movie to be a box office smash.

He knows full well that most folks would rather see a mindless comedy movie about an animated bee or about Santa's brother Fred than they would a movie that required them to think.

[red states rule]

Redford did not make the movie to be a box office smash.

He knows full well that most folks would rather see a mindless comedy movie about an animated bee or about Santa's brother Fred than they would a movie that required them to think.

Oh yea, he spends millions to lose millions

It is another attempt to smear the war, the troops, and the President that is blowing up in the kook lefts face

[retiredman]

Oh yea, he spends millions to lose millions

It is another attempt to smear the war, the troops, and the President that is blowing up in the kook lefts face

he won't lose any money on that movie.

he might not make tons, but he certainly won't lose a penny.

and have you SEEN his ranch at Sundance? He doesn't need to make a ton of money at this point in his life!!!

[red states rule]

he won't lose any money on that movie.

he might not make tons, but he certainly won't lose a penny.

and have you SEEN his ranch at Sundance? He doesn't need to make a ton of money at this point in his life!!!

given his opening week numbers - it does not look good

as well as all the glowing coverage from the liberal media - it is a dud

[April15]

You don't make a movie about a tragedy while the majority of your potential audience is living that tragedy. Then there are those like me who can't or haven't the reserve funds to afford to go to the movies.

[retiredman]

given his opening week numbers - it does not look good

as well as all the glowing coverage from the liberal media - it is a dud

like I said, he won't lose millions...he won't lose a penny.

you are just being typically flatulent.

[red states rule]

You don't make a movie about a tragedy while the majority of your potential audience is living that tragedy. Then there are those like me who can't or haven't the reserve funds to afford to go to the movies.

ever heard of Bargain Matinee

[retiredman]

looks to me like the movie is holding 4th at the box office while being in 2/3's the theaters of the top three.

[red states rule]

looks to me like the movie is holding 4th at the box office while being in 2/3's the theaters of the top three.

2,215 Theaters

$2,150,000


It is doing as well as Al's Inconcenient bomb

[retiredman]

2,215 Theaters

$2,150,000


It is doing as well as Al's Inconcenient bomb

like I said...it is in fourth place while being in 2/3rds as many theaters as the three movies in front of it.

It was never aimed at the mindless nerds (like you, apparently) who like to laugh at Fred Claus....

and Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar. Bee Movie, probably won't.

[red states rule]

like I said...it is in fourth place while being in 2/3rds as many theaters as the three movies in front of it.

Yes, it is a bomb

Not only this hit piece fil, but others as well

Box office bust: Americans antiwar and anti-antiwar

By JONAH GOLDBERG

We've all heard the stories, many true, some apocryphal, of soldiers returning home from Vietnam only to be disrespected and shunned by an ungrateful nation. How many were called war criminals or spat upon is as controversial as it is unknowable. But there's one thing we know our troops never experienced. We never filled the movie theaters during wartime with films calling them war criminals, rapists and, figuratively, spitting on them or on their mission.

Not so today. Hollywood has been churning out antiwar movies at a blistering pace of late, with more to come. We've already had Rendition, a tendentious, plodding assault on the war on terror, seemingly as-told-to by the ACLU, starring Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, Meryl Streep and Jake Gyllenhaal. There's the meandering In the Valley of Elah, written and directed by Paul Haggis, about a family dealing with a cover-up of their soldier-son's death in an unnecessary war. The Kingdom, more exciting than most, deals with an FBI team's attempt to investigate a terrorist attack on Americans in Saudi Arabia. Its antiwar credentials come from suggesting that the sworn lawmen (and women) investigating the slaughter of families playing softball are no better than the murderers.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...k/5290900.html

[Hagbard Celine]

Oh yea, he spends millions to lose millions

It is another attempt to smear the war, the troops, and the President that is blowing up in the kook lefts face

It'll do well abroad. Like the prototype conservative you are, you seem to have forgotten that there is a world outside our borders. How mundanely typical.

[red states rule]

It'll do well abroad. Like the prototype conservative you are, you seem to have forgotten that there is a world outside our borders. How mundanely typical.

Hey, if the folks are so opposed to the war and Pres Bush, the lines to see this movie should stretch around the block

[retiredman]

op-eds from others.... another typical offering from RSR!