OT: First Man
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What the heck, we have serious coaching issues in Happy Valley and you are on here polling for a movie. Blaspheme.....
Box Office Fail:
Flag-Free ‘First Man’ Flops
Daniel McFadden/Universal Studios
14 Oct 2018
6:00
First Man tanked at the box office, coming in well below expectations, with just a $16.2 million opening weekend.
At worst, the story of Neil Armstrong’s historic trip to the moon was projected to do much better, anywhere between $19 million and $21 million. Keep in mind, though, that those projections are usually downplayed as a means to save face and to inspire free publicity when a film over-performs.
In other words, $16 million is a catastrophe for a movie that probably cost $100 million to $125 million to produce and publicize.
P.S. Check out Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff,
his 1983 masterpiece about the Mercury 7 astronauts
and a reminder that Hollywood used to be great. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2013/11/14/top-five-reasons-right-stuff-is-a-masterpiece/
Flag-Free ‘First Man’ Flops
Daniel McFadden/Universal Studios
14 Oct 2018
6:00
First Man tanked at the box office, coming in well below expectations, with just a $16.2 million opening weekend.
At worst, the story of Neil Armstrong’s historic trip to the moon was projected to do much better, anywhere between $19 million and $21 million. Keep in mind, though, that those projections are usually downplayed as a means to save face and to inspire free publicity when a film over-performs.
In other words, $16 million is a catastrophe for a movie that probably cost $100 million to $125 million to produce and publicize.
P.S. Check out Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff,
his 1983 masterpiece about the Mercury 7 astronauts
and a reminder that Hollywood used to be great. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2013/11/14/top-five-reasons-right-stuff-is-a-masterpiece/
The movie was excellent and mostly accurate. And, despite rumors to the contrary, very pro- American.
When you leave out the most iconic defining event of the story being told, having the rest be "mostly" accurate doesn't make up for leaving out that defining event.
