The best they can possibly hope for is a "Shattered Glass" type response; a movie about a media scandal that was big on the Upper West Side, but unknown elsewhere, that tanks at the box office but does well critically.

Otherwise, what the Hell are they thinking?

Thinking? Who says they're thinking at all?

The great movies of the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties, up through the Sixties, were made by people whose experience was that of relatively normal life. The actors, producers, and directors all came from places where they had encountered the real world, and there were readily available advisors with direct experience -- the first cowboy movies were made by people who'd lived the life, and the directors and producers of WWII movies had actually been acquainted with soldiers, the military, and life in general. It's unlikely that either Humphrey Bogart or Claude Rains had ever been to Casablanca, but they had plenty of experience of dives.

None of that is any longer the case. Oh, they occasionally vacuum up young actors and actresses from the hinterlands, but the writers, directors, and producers don't have any experience except watching other movies, and most of them come from academia where they studied -- you guessed it -- other movies. They have no acquaintances except one another, everywhere they go they have escorts and security, and the lowest dive they're likely to enter is one that's in Santa Monica because the owner can't pay the rent on Rodeo Drive.

It shows, big time. Regardless of what the movie is purportedly about, it ends up being about the movie business and the people in it rather than depicting any other experience. The result is a perfect mirror: superficial, egotistical, divorced from the experience of 99.999% of the human race, and ultimately boring.

Regards,
Ric

So, who's gonna play Crazy Mary?

I'm guessing...Robert Redford.

Behind the string of anti-American boxoffice bombs that Hollywood has churned out for the last 5 years, there is some kind of financial shenanigans going on. Not even moonbats are dumb enough to make a hobby out of losing tons of money.

The question is, who is making it possible for this to continue in the face of absolute disinterest on the part of the theter customer?

It may just be us, through tax law. But it may also be someone or something far more sinister, and illegal. Too bad the reporters of today are owned by the same forces who are probably behind this, or we might find out.

OMG, that one comedian on Saturday Night Live has Nancy Pelosi down PERFECT...

...PALOMINO!

Amy Winehouse for the Mapes role..

They'll continue to make these movies, and most of the public won't watch them. I don't mind really, if they want to spend their money on their own righteous indignation on movies that will salve their egos. I won't complain, it'll keep those behind the scenes with a job at least. Camera-persons, extras, carpenters, grips (whatever that is :), etc. I'm sure the strike hit those working class harder then most, they'll appreciate the work.
I'll eat my lower lip if "Swing Vote" does better then 10 million in it's first weekend.