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To: tejek who wrote (377721)	4/11/2008 1:20:21 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576177

The applause for antiwar movies bombing is because we don't appreciate seeing our soldiers and our country being put down. Apparently most people in America feel that way or the antiwar movies (and there h/b a bunch of them) wouldn't be bombing. Hey, even overseas the smear-the-troops movies don't sell: Overseas: Anti-American Doesn’t Sell — Dirty Harry @ 3:15 am In defense of their string of anti-American films and a refusal to make pro-American films, Hollywood tells us the following: 1. The film industry is money-driven. 2. There’s a global market to think about and pro-American doesn’t sell. Lies, lies, damnable lies. First off, have a dozen and counting pro-terrorist films humiliated at the box-office finally quashed the money-driven argument? Can we please get past that nonsense? Especially knowing more are on the way… Thank you. Now we can move on to this “global market” nonsense. Here’s the foreign box-office for three unabashed pro-American films. 1. National Treasure (2004) - $174,503,255. — 50.2% of revenues for a film deeply in love with America and her traditions came from overseas. 2. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) - $230,464,175 — 51.4% of revenues for a film deeply in love with America and her traditions came from overseas. 3. Transformers (2007) - $388,429,551 — 54.9% of revenues came from a film that reveres the American military. These are open, unapologetic America-loving films that kicked unholy butt overseas. The “jingoism” certainly turned no one away. And yet we still have to hear nonsense about a global market that doesn’t want to see American patriotism. We still have to read about how Spielberg took a shot of the American flag out of the overseas trailer for the new Raiders film. This is delusional thinking. This is projecting their own dislike of America onto a foreign audience in opposition to the cold, hard facts. redacted.jpg I’m not saying American “jingoism” sells overseas, but to say it hurts is whachoocall a lie. But how does Anti-Americanism sell overseas? Every time we Wal-Mart shopping, flag-waving, God fearing, gun owners gets angry at Hollywood trashing our country and troops they hide behind the global-market argument. And yet… Overseas revenue for anti-American films: 1. In The Valley of Smear The Troops - $18.9 million — Total BO: $26 million 2. A Mighty Flop - $9.7 million — Total BO: $19 million 3. Redacted - $663 thousand – Total BO: $729 thousand 4. Rendition - $15.1 million — Total BO: $25 million 5. Lions For LAMBS - $42 million — Total BO: 57 million 6. Grace Is Gone - $7 thousand – Total BO: $58 thousand 7. Home Of The Brave - $364 thousand — Total BO: $416 thousand 8. Taxi To The Dark Side - Zero — Total BO: $195 thousand 9. No End In Sight - Zero — Total BO: $1.4 million 10. Road To Guantanamo - $1.2 million — Total BO: $1.5 million Other than Lions For LAMBS, which did respectable business, films critical of America and our troops are financial catastrophes overseas — at a 90% rate. On the other hand, films respectful of our military and country rake it in in foreign countries. And that other War on Terror film — the one the liberal media won’t talk about? The single film about the war that’s a hit? The pro-American one? It’s made $61 million overseas in just six-weeks for a worldwide total of $130.5 million and counting.[He's talking about Vantage Point] You can damn the facts, but you can’t change them. libertyfilmfestival.com Message 24459211 Some big names in some of those movies and they bombed big time.