I am delighted that this movie went down the tubes. This had to be the worst weekend for Box Office this year.
Hollywood Mining Disaster 2005
By Ed Driscoll · October 24, 2005 07:02 PM · Hollywood, Interrupted
(With apologies to the Bee Gees for paraphrasing their title.)
On Saturday Night or Sunday Morning (to paraphrase yet another title), we mentioned North Country, the Charlize Theron film opening this past weekend, and linked to Libertas' take on it:
What we have here essentially is another earnest, humorless attempt from Hollywood to ennoble audiences who probably would prefer being entertained. Who is going to go see this film? Women won’t see this. If I may be so bold, most women out there do not want to be coal miners. They do want equality in the workplace, but it’s fair to assume that women are happy leaving the coal mining duties to men.
Men will not want to see this film, with the possible exception of liberal, urbanite males with a masochism complex. Why? If men want to see Ms. Theron in a movie on a Friday night, it’s not to see her slug coal around, or harangue us in a courtroom. Trust me on this one.
Why can’t the industry understand this stuff?
I wrote in response:
Understand it? Heck, they're proud of these sorts of celluloid pedantry, as this recent, glowing USA Today article illustrates.
That article's titled, "Movies Sound A Call To Action". Evidently, it's an action properly defined as "Stay Away From This Movie At All Costs"; Debbie Schlussel notes, "Overhyped Feminist Movie North Country Huge Flop":
Not even two thumbs up by Ebert & Roeper fooled who didn't want to see another "fiction based on fact" liberal propaganda film--Charlize Theron or not. The movie--about a female coal miner who sues to stop alleged discrimination against female miners--came in 5th, bringing in less than $6.5 million.
We're happy to report that even a much bally-hooed "Oprah" show on the movie did not help.
Even more embarrassing, "North Country" trailed awful movies such as "Doom" (starring former wrestler "The Rock," Dwayne Johnson), which was #1 and bad remake, "The Fog," which came in at #4. Even more appropriate, kiddie movies, "Dreamer" and "Wallace & Gromit," were ahead of "North Country," at #2 and #3, respectively.
All evidence that Tinseltown may offer liberalism up, but movie-goers aren't having it. Maybe Hollywood will finally realize it's time to get out of the leftist propaganda business. Wishful thinking.
Indeed. Talk about life imitates art: Hollywood risks this Onion satire becoming reality sooner than they think if they keep making films like this.
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