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SUNDAY AM: After an embarrassing summer season with few big movies to speak of and a lot of bombs that every other studio made fun of, Fox Filmed Entertainment is dominating this autumn weekend with the No. 1 and No. 3 movies. Very early weekend numbers showed that 20th Century Fox's video game-turned-motion picture aimed at males, Max Payne, opened with $7.1 million Friday and $6.5M Saturday from 3,376 North American theaters for an $18M weekend. That's about what the studio projected for Mark Wahlberg's PG-13 starrer. "It's a good start," one analyst told me. "But this is a film that will drop like a lead balloon. Is Fox going to be happy with a $38 mil domestic box office on this film?" Coming in at No. 3 was Fox Searchlight's female-skewing we-are-family film based on the bestselling book The Secret Life Of Bees that's playing in only 1,591 venues. It opened with $3.5 million Friday and $4.4 million Saturday for an $11M for the weekend and the best per screen average of all the movies in the Top 10. But I told you not to count out Disney's dog pic Beverly Hills Chihuahua which made $11.2M due to crowded matinees and slipped into No. 2. Its new cume is $69M.
Yet the real surprise this weekend was Oliver Stone's W. There was tremendous curiosity not just in Hollywood but also in political circles nationwide surrounding the George W Bush biopic's North American weekend gross, with predictions ranging wildly from a low of $5 million to a high of $12 million. On Friday, it opened No. 2 with $3.8M from 2,030 theaters, then on Saturday fell to #4 with $4.1M for a $10.5M weekend. That's what its producers' projections.
EXCLUSIVE: *I've learned that the exit polling showed that among W. filmgoers, 89% disapprove of Bush. In addition, 78% are voting for Obama, 6% are voting for McCain, and 6% don't know. Moviergoers were 52%/48% male vs female. And a whopping 47% were over age 40. The audience was overwhelmingly liberal at 55%, followed by moderates at 31%, conservatives at 10%, and those who don't care about politics 5%. The audience was primarily white at 66%, with African Americans at 10% and all other ethnic groups less than 10%. Most attended because of the prospect of making fun of Bush (42%), or because of Oliver Stone as director (41%), or because the preview looked good (39%), or because of the prospect of humor (33%). In terms of expectations, only 27% felt the movie was better than expected, with 38% feeling it was not as good as expected (this was consistent across all groups, especially liberals), and 35% felt it was as good as expected. Those who disapprove of Bush felt very strongly that the movie was not as good as expected.*
W.'s on-target debut still doesn't mean the movie will recoup its $30M mil budget, plus $25M marketing costs that included a surprisingly aggressive TV ad campaign emphasizing the script's humor. True, Hollywood never bets the farm on political fiction pics because they usually don't attract crowds. Small budget Wag The Dog and Bullworth receved a lot of attention but not a lot of business. Studio pic Primary Colors disappointed. Stone's own JFK was wildly successful, but his Nixon underperformed. Of course, none of these pics were biopics about a sitting U.S. president. It also served the pic well that Lionsgate had experience with this kind of controversial film: it released Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 which went on to open with a $24M weekend from just 868 theaters, and an eventual worldwide total of $222M. W. won't be in that league.
Forget Summit Entertainment's Sex Drive because everyone else did (and should have). The umpteenth rauchy teenage sex comedy opened the weekend to just $3.5M from 2,421 dates for 9th place. "It's a huge disaster," one film financing source told me. "They spent close to $25 mil and the film won't break $7.5 million box office when all is said and done. And given its subject matter, I'm sure they did not sell this well overseas. So this has to be a major, major writedown for Summit."
Neck and neck were DreamWorks / Paramount's Eagle Eye, whick placed 5th with $7.3M and a new $81.3M cume, and Warner Bros's Body Of Lies, which finished 6th with a $6.8M FSS and still anemic $24.4M cume. I was very hard on costly Body Of Lies last weekend because rival studios told me it should be retitled "Body Bag" when it didn't live up to expectations despite the talented moviemaking team of Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott. But the war-on-terror spy thriller was #1 at the box office Monday through Thursday. "Just maybe the Body sat up in the coffin," one of the studio's bigwigs emailed me.
The rest of the Top 10 were veterans. In 7th place, Screen Gems/Sony's horror flick Quarantine was good for a $6.3M weekend and fresh cume of $24.6M. And Sony's tween/teen comedy Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist snagged #8 with a $3.9M weekend and new $26.7M FSS. Finally, in the 10th spot, Warner Bros' mature romance Nights In Rodanthe earned $2.6M for the weekend and new $36.8M cume -- just edging out Provident/Samuel Goldwyn's faith-based firefighter saga Fireproof which continues to surprise with its $2.6M FSS and new $20.7M cume.
It's looking like another $104M total box office weekend, up 7.8% over last year.
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Max Payne should easily beat W at the Box Office. Now ten to twelve mil for W sounds like that this one could be underpreformer. Factor in the fact that W could easily flop. Becouse of BEES and Max Payne strong showings and even Body of Lies could beat W.
Couldn’t movie goers be confused and think Body of Lies is about the Bush presidency? Just askin…
Max Payne is bombing at my theatre. I think folks are assuming that PG-13 = Ca$h. W. is skewing older. Hey, they made Bucket List a hit last year. Why can’t they do it again?
Go easy on W. Nikki’s making a bit of a fuss over a 55 mil budget. 12 million in one weekend with at least 2 other new releases for a political film isn’t bad. The issue with Body of Lies, which opened in 1000 more theaters and did around the same business, is the negative cost of over 100 million. You pay guys like Russell Crowe, Leonardo Dicaprio, and Ridley Scott – you expect people to show up. So it’ll be good for W if it gets 15-20 mil on a TOTAL budget of 55, compared with Body of Lies negative of over 100.
I saw “SEX DRIVE” …. funny as hell. Nothing new and very raunchy but still funny.
I’d keep watching the tracking on W as I think it’s going to surprise a lot of people. I know for a fact Max Payne didn’t do well this afternoon playing at the Arclight Cinerama Dome while at another wellknown area theater, Max Payne was pulled from the larger capacity auditorium in favor of W, which has been drawing the larger crowds. I saw W last night, and while I can’t stomach the real-life version or his policies, I have to admit the film was a lot more enjoyable than most current releases.
Well, our local critic in our city rated “W” as “boring” with some horrible performances, so it looks like this will be just another masturbating Hollywood Liberal Jerkoff getting off on bashing George W. Bush and probably viewed by like minded jerkoffs. So what else is new. I would recommend “Appaloosa” and “Body of Lies” as films to see this weekend and films that deserve bigger boxoffice. Both films are the two best of the year thus far and definitely worth seeing.
“W” isn’t great, but doesn’t deserve the overly partisan dismissal, “jdls08.” I think there is a lot for Conservatives to like about the film and the portrayal of Bush himself, at least in the sense the film humanizes him greatly.
Dear JDLS08, what year are you living in?
A has-been director with a has-been story of a has-been character who is well known for giving the country a big Recession as a parting gift.
And a number 2 movie of the weekend..wow! You have spoken…spoken unintelligently!
This movie is another in a long line of anti everthing films brought to us by the liberal film maker Oliver Stone. I left the movie.. it was just as bad as all of the Oliver Stone movies I have tried to stomach.
Where are my tums?
Noticed when I went to the movies last night with my 2 kids and 4 of their friends, all our tickets said “W” instead of Bees, didn’t think much of it until I read this. Are theater employees trying to give “W” more credit than it deserves and to downplay a family movie?Or maybe the theater operator set the ticket computer that way. Maybe it could be as innocent as it costs less to show “W” than Bees and the operator of the theater just wants to save money, because I can’t imagine anyone opposed to the President wanting a movie against him to succeed.
I won’t give Mr. Stone a single penny of my money to watch his piece of garbage film.
Let’s see if this movie has any staying power. I’m willing to bet that it won’t.
W –another in the load of cra* generated by the left wing elite (?) ivory tower knuckleheads !!!!!!!!!!Jim
Saw it. I am a Republican, but I enjoy a well-crafted film no matter the point of view. Wasn’t quite the hatchet job I thought it would be.
W may do well this weekend due to curiosity, but will probably drop off big next week. Don’t know if word of mouth will keep it strong. Wonder how many screens it will drop as newer holiday fare starts coming out?
Dear TheInSneider, once again showing liberal hypocrisy. It’s ok for liberals to say all they want, but nobody DARE NOT have another opinion. An open mind only is approved if you have liberal views.
Get over yourself.
Of course W will do quite well.
Bush haters will want to make a final statement.
O. Stone thinks he is a smart guy (little does he know!) He is no smarter than the rest of the Hollyweird effete.
I saw this movie because I sneaked in–yeah–I admit it. I paid to see another movie, though, so it isn’t like I cheated. The acting is awful, frankly. Caricatures–cartoonish. In fact, one day, when all the hysteria has calmed down, people will just roll their eyes if they bought tickets to this turkey. It reminds me of the huge popularity of a song MacArthur Park back in the day. AWFUL lyrics with my friends waxing rhapsodic over words like “someone left the cake out in the rain…and it took so long to bake it..” oh, my head hurts just thinking about it. W is a wet dream for Oliver Stone who hasn’t learned anything over the years except to lie about his intentions. Be honest, Ol, like Michael Moore–at least don’t be ashamed of your hatred. It’s sad.
While I can’t wait to see “W”, there is nothing human about the guy, other than him being stupid.
I guess there really are a bunch of left wing nuts out there that will pay $12 to see pseudo reality Bush when they can still turn on the tube and see him for free.
Another drugged up Hollywood leftist bashed Bush. As though the lives the Hollywood actors lead is anyhthing to look up to.
Please.
We are supposed to form our opinion about our president based on what some drugged up, boozed up, divorced up and messed up Hollywood nobody says ??
I think not
“Appaloosa” is a terrific film; the best I’ve seen this year so far. If you like Westerns, it’s a must-see.
Why do people still defend Bush 43? He has been a disaster and you morons put him here. Thanks for ruining the world.
Only a liberal could call Oliver Stones latest boondoggle an ‘over-performer.’ It will be long forgotten by Sunday.
it’s hilarious that a movie based on a video game trounced the “serious” bio-pic from revisionist-history master(bater) stone and mutant spawn of lib. loins – brolin
Hey, TheInSneider. JDLS08 got it right. Since when is Hollywood NOT starstruck with Liberals? Wait I couldn’t hear you because Babs (Barbara Streisand is calling and said that there will 200 Hollywood insiders at the private fundraiser.
What year are YOU living in? Cronkite ain’t doing the news anymore. And John Wayne isn’t making movies. Now it’s Leo DiCaprio. . . . . who still looks like he should be on “Growing Pains”. Tough guy he is not.
Media Bias is not a conspiracy theory, there are facts and 20 years worth of data to back it up. http://www.mrc.org Get yer head out of the san Sneidey!!
Hello!? W doesn’t deserve an overly partisan dismissal?
THE MOVIE is overly partisan! Hell, it’s overly the cliff partisan, wake up and smell the bullshit.
It’s made by a director and actors who totally hate Bush, screenplay written from material taken from books without accreditation. The trailer looks like something Stone (what an appropriate name) edited while on acid.
Thanks for the laughs, “Woop Woop”.
just another masturbating Hollywood Liberal Jerkoff getting off on bashing George W. Bush and probably viewed by like minded jerkoffs.
Quoted for Truth
“W” is another DVD discount rack sitter. What a waste of time and money, to push forward Oliver Stone’s distort view of history. What about a movie on Carter! Maybe an “X” rated Bill Clinton movie on Democratic Morals.
Does anyone watch movies anymore? The idea of great flicks is over. It is a time of stupid movies headed for DVD in two weeks.
Stone is a loser.
Even the trailers for W seemed amateurish. Too bad the theaters can’t just charge by the pound or Michael Moore and his friends would be breaking all records for box office receipts this weekend.
Dear Woop Woop,
Are YOU KIDDING ME! “overly partisan” review???? Have you heard anything Stone has said? Or is your hatred for all things RIGHT so horrible it makes you insane?
W. was sold out where I went Friday night. I agree that this movie is a very sympathetic and human portrayal of GWB, I don’t see any reason for conservatives or the Bush family to be angry. It could always be worse and this was not in that arena.
Yeah, Bush is an idiot that somehow graduated from Yale and then Harvard Business with an MBA. And Condi Rice said he is the only person she ever met that more than keeps up with her on reading. Check the president’s reading list on whitehouse.gov and then, if you ever finish ONE of the books he devours, tell me again how stupid he is. He will be ranked by history with such imbeciles as Churchill, Lincoln and that other uncouth cowboy Theodore Roosevelt. The left prefers cultured folk like FDR who turned a two year banking panic into a 10 year depression. Well FDR2 is about to hit the whitehouse with the SAME economic plan, government jobs for the poor and 70 percent taxes for the rich. DUH!
I didn’t understand what W was about.
Dear JDLS08, what year are you living in?
Why 1984, obviously…….
How can a fiction movie about a sitting president be interesting to anybody? I have seen some trailers that show W. and Cheney alone in the oval office having a conversation, and I doubt either one of them told Stone what they were discussing. Comlpete fiction, but they are playing it off as some sort of documentary, like Fahrenheit 911.
I’m not bashing W because as an independent, I just want to see the real one go home to Crawford in peace. I do, however, question the accuracy of a film when the same filmmaker gave us the wildly historically accurate “Alexander”. Did Josh Brolin bleach his hair blonde and wax his legs like Colin Farrell? Just wondering since I’m not going to see it.
The acting was sub par & anyone can see that Bush does not act like the character in the movie. Overall it is a typical hate bush hate America movie by an unhappy Hollywood class of Elite snobs
speaking of lies, if you repeat that bush lied for years, I guess the idiot lemmings will eventually believe it. bad intel is what it is. congress authorized the war based on said intel. totally legal. hillary believed it, bill believed it. doesn’t matter. we killed a mass muderer who eventually would have done much worse. the world is a better place for it, joe.
jdls08, I’ll have to agree with you on that one.
I give Stone credit for ginning up a modicum of interest in a subject most people at this point have zero interest in. But it really says something to me about what a lousy idea ‘W’ was in the first place that people are excited about the possibility of it recouping its cost!
I guess if you lower the bar enough, ANYTHING can be considered a success.
The lefties just can’t get enough of Bush, they keep going back to the well for more.
Just bc you don’t care about Sex Drive, doesn’t mean everyone should forget about it. It’s bc you’re old. Plain and simple.
W will do will its first week, not too bad its second, and then fall off the map. You can’t create a movie for half of the audience and be biased about it and expect it to do well. This time next month it will be #10 or less.
Hmmm… $3.8 Mil, 2030 theaters, for Fri only, 5 shows, say $8 per ticket, is about 50 per showing. Not exactly a packed house…
I’m hoping that Obama will win, and that he comes to see just what a goldmine the “entertainment” industry is. By taxing all forms of “entertainment”, say, 20% on movie tickets, 20% on cable/satellite bills, movie rentals, CD/DVD/Video Games, etc., the government could get constant income from something that is simply “entertainment”, a complete luxury. Nobody “needs” these products, anymore than they “need” jewelry, limos, private jets, etc., and therefore all such items should carry a substantial tax. How better to create fairness in our society, than to take money from people with time and money to waste, and put it toward people who don’t, through creating jobs for the homeless and handicapped.
Regarding the movie W……I just consider the source. Oliver Stoned. Funny isn’t it, that he passed on making the movie Jefferson. The Clinton presidencies provided enough material for 10 movies! Problem was, they couldn’t figure out a way to bring it down from an NC-17 rating and still keep it halfway truthful/accurate.
Oliver Stoned is just one liberal among many in the movie industry cesspool who finds no joy in life unless he is either worshipping fellow liberals or castrating and misrepresenting conservatives.
When you look at Stoned’s life-long body of work, what do you find? I find a frustrated, angry, paranoid movie-maker who hasn’t figured out a way to make two decent movies in a row, and whose films have to be taken with a grain of salt because they are all reality as seen through the eyes of Stoned, and reality is not one of his strengths. His form of reality seems very much medicinally-enhanced.
NO! W is awful. Tries hard but it’s just boring. Waste of time unless you absolutely detest Bush. I must ask JDLD08…”what year are YOU living in?” Max was fun and so was “Eagle Eye”. “W” isn’t worth your time..even on a rainy evening. Just a bad atttempt to smuggle politics into a terrible movie. Stone’s out of ideas. He does this type of “para-reality” approach over and over and it always fails. Somebody seend poor “Oli” a note.
Got to love liberals who hate America. After all who’s going to ask you if you want fries wit dat? The mass of the ass of the donkley; liberals.
I hope I’m wrong but I predict Bush will continue to get the blame when the Dem congress and Obama really bungle our country. I’ve never seen such hatred and lack of willingness to look at both sides of our issues.
…I wonder what Oliver Stoned’s movie would be about if the next big terrorist attack was in Hollyweird?
Well they low balled the possible income for the first weekend to around 9 mil so naturally it did better than expected. If there’s so many hate Bush people out there it should do 40 mil in the first weekend.
I think W has been purposefully mis advertised. I saw it with the most LIBERAL crowd you could imagine. Marin County California, white, over 40 years old. Before show time it was like a party, when I sat down the people in front of me told me that if I was for McCain I couldn’t sit in their section. GEORGE LUCAS was even in the audience. The mood was LIBERALS payback time. But you know what, there was silence througout most of the movie, with a few laughs at some obvious places. WHY WAS IT SO SILENT> I think because this was a very humanizing portrait of Bush. He was the center protaganist and it gave him some respect and understanding. AS A PERSON, he came off quite well and that is what most of the movie concentrated on. HEY I AM A LIBERAL TOO and I went in for a hoot, and had to admit that I sort of liked the guy, I mean how he was protrayed. even (choke choke) a bit of admiration. SOOOOOOO all you conservatives who think it is a smackdown job, you should go see it. really its not that bad
How well can a film portray, or humanize, someone when the story relies entirely upon second and third hand sources for all accounts of said person’s life, while also refusing to even attempt to speak to first hand sources?
George Bush does not need to be bashed….he has done that to himself quite nicely.
strange…i saw Max Payne but they made a mistake and gave me W. ticket
Hey “TheInSneider”,
Im assuming living in 2008 along side all the Obama lovers like you. At least they havn’t got $hit for there brains.
I just wish I could vote for Bush one more time!!!!!!
Just wondering if all the over-paid, no-talent, entitled, self-important red-carpet Hollywood twits who’ve soaked-up millions in excreting…sorry, producing…this piece of vile, revisionist crap will be willing to “spread around” everything more than a basic $250K to the rest of us. Or maybe, just maybe, you’ve already got all your tax dodges already set up…? Just make sure you correctly spell Obama’s name on the check for what’s left over.
I won’t see “W” even if they gave away free tix. Not because I love GWb but because Oliver Stone is reprehensible. His so called true stories never are. This might have one good weekend but lets see how it does next week.
I can’t wait until someone writes a movie about Oliver Stone. I can see it now on the big screen. Al Gore stars as Oliver Stone in this summers biggest movie since Platoon,The Day after Tomorrow Next Week. This movie is set during the Fall of 2009 Fall when temperatures in Alabama raise to 88 degrees. People are sweating when they should be wearing sweaters. Pandemonium ensues when the liberal who vowed not to live in the USA if a Republican won the White House in 2008, blames all of these troubles on McClain and Palin and moves to Siberia with a Russian woman named Mish Mish. He has started his next movie which will be titled “I” in which he will talk about his own ego and how he would rule the world. Can’t wait to see it! Goofball!
As all of you are sitting on the Internet bashing Oliver Stone and his film he is getting his opinion out to millions and pulling in a few million at the same time.
Now what have you really done for your country lately besides bitch on the Internet?
I’m glad to hear this “W” movie was humanizing Bush and not blaming him for any and everything in America. Liberals seem to think this man created hurricane katrina..you know, he just decided he wanted a hurricane that day and pressed the button. Gone is personal responsibilty in this country with evacuating, with chosing to live somewhere, with buying a home you can’t afford, etc. Handouts are the reason we are in this mess, and I don’t blame 1 president, but would blame a large group of liberals with even more power called CONGRESS. nancy pelosi is horrible.
The # 2 film raked in 3.2 million? WOW. The headline should be “hardly anyone went to the theatre this weekend”. I saw only a few movies all year: Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Wall-E, Expelled, & Dark Knight. I skipped everything else until this week. I saw 4 movies; Chihuahua, City of Ember, American Carol, and Fireproof.
Clearly the only people going to W. are lefties. They are being shown a fantasy that they want to believe in. Hollywood really does not care if their lefty movies make money. They take the profits from G films and then fund loser R rated films.
What is so republican about Bush? He is turning the US into communism..
your left vs right debate is insane..
Was this linked on Fox news? Lotta nut jobs on here.
I guess it’s easy to “Exceed” everyone’s expectations when expectations are SO low.
Consider the following:
3.8M divided by 2030 = $1871.92 per Location
Average Number of attendees: 195 per location
So roughly 395,850 people went to the Movie, in a Country with a population of 300,000,000. That’s less than 1%.
THAT IS PATHETIC.
Big whoopee, another leftwing socialist making a movie about republicans. Come on Hollywood, why don’t you be a little original from time to time. How pathetic.
After reading the above post about the theater ticket saying W when they saw a different movie I went and took the stub from my back pocket. My husband and I went last night to see a different movie. It said W! We did not by a ticket to that movie! Didn’t even think to look at it. What is going on.
I was disgusted by W. It was a terrible movie, boring, and an obvious unfair hatchet job on all the Bushes. As a Democrat, I am embarrassed by how low Hollywood stoops so low to hurt someone.
Oliver Stone is a piece of shit!
Old liberals need to reinforce their hatred so why not take in the latest Oliver the Kook Stone movie.
WOW, I didn’t know the public was so nice to Presidents who gave so many years of their life to serving the public. I am so impressed, I think I will run for president. Maybe they will make a movie about me. No wonder we have such a sparkling bunch of great Americans standing in line to be President and receive this king and thoughtful accolades.
I have lived through 8 years of W. That’s enough. Wouldn’t pay a nickel to relive national hell. Joe six pak should be cleaning brush soon! You betcha. (Wink wink)
Our movie theatre gave us tickets for “W” when we took the kids to see “Bees”…. my husband noticed it and DEMANDED that they be voided and that the thatre give us the correct tickets. I think there is a scam going on to bolst up the ratings of “W” so it doesn’t look like a flop. There were only a few people inside the “W” showing at 9pm on a friday night. “Bees” was FULL… does that tell you anything????
Stone’s movie allegedly cost $20 mil or so and was shot in 5 weeks. But they’ve been advertising it with at least that much budget again and (amazingly) on Foxnews about ever other commercial break. Makes you wonder if the first weekend will be the rise AND fall–the committed political types who hate Bush going to laugh and, when they’re done, so’s the movie. No legs, no glory. But I seriously doubt the upfront ad/pub money will pay itself back overall–which makes ME wonder if THAT wasn’t more a campaign/election buy than a genuine attempt to see a profit on this pic.
…Yes indeed, Body of Lies would be a great title for the Bush Administration and for the pile of crap Barack Obama and John McCain are telling us. Remember, for a leader, ignorance about what you’re saying is not an acceptable excuse…
Fooled you didn’t I? Just don’t see how anyone could be “excited” about a pretty good speech reader (BO) with VP choice who said BO isn’t ready to lead but yet himself doesn’t know JOBS is a 4-letter word. Or be excited about an long time appeaser who crosses the aisle even when it’s the wrong thing to do (JM)…
…just sayin’
Just another anti-American liberal view of President Bush. Just like Reagan, the anti-American Democrat liberal losers hate Bush. Just like Reagan, history will be kind to Bush for keeping us safe after 9/11 when the doom and gloom retard Dems said we would get hit over and over. History will also remember that President Bush liberated Iraq and Afghanistan, creating two pro-American allies in an unfriendly part of the world. That will come in handy 20 years from now when we’re fighting Iran/Russia. Thank you President Bush. The reason I know you have done a great job is because liberal Democrats hate you. Anything or anyone that is hated by the anti-American liberal left is truly something good. To be a Democrat is to be retarded. Oliver Stone is retarded.
Now that he’s done with this piece of trash movie he can go back to rooting for Al Qaeda with all the other anti-American Democrat garbage.
I agree that the Bush of the film was a sympathetic character. Brolin’s performance was great. On the other hand, Thandie Newton’s Condoleeza Rice might be the single worst performance in a major Hollywood release since Sophia Coppola in Godfather III. At least Sophia’s poor job can be excused by her youth and inexperience at the time.
Max Payne appears to be getting relatively lame reviews, but the audience it is aimed at will show up regardless. So the opening weekend is a no brainer, it is more a question of if it has legs to last through thanksgiving or if it is going to be 2 – 3 weekends and gone. W on the other hand almost certainly has a short shelf life, but it might also do well on word of mouth. Some of the conservative reviewers are piddling on it, but it appears to be a relatively amusing film that tells more of the truth than most want to know.
Speaking of movies with a political point of view, how’s that Michel Moore satire doing?
For the record, Bush is not America, and it is possible to love your country, and hate your President. We can do that, because this is America, and we are free.
Also, Regean was a member of the “effete, Hollywood, elite.” Just sayin.
I like how all these people have all these strong stereotypical opinions on a movie they haven’t even seen.
Oliver Stoney?
Ya gotta be kidding…you are kidding aren’t you?
Anyone with an IQ above room temps wouldn’t waste their time on any flick directed by Mr. “J.F.K”…
hey, Oli, are ya still looking for who was responsible for the assassination of J.F.K.? LMAO
I would like to see W but ony because I wonder why Oliver Stone keeps putting out left slanted movies that don’t fare well at the box office. I’m hoping this one is better than his other movies
It’s good to know that when I turn 36, I’ll be considered a “very old” moviegoer by Hollywood.
I just saw W, and was really disappointed. Josh Brolin doesn’t look, sound or act like Bush. And the entire movie moves at a slow pace. Also, it’s really quite mean spirited and hateful. I can’t reccomend it.
No, Nikki, you were not too hard on Body of Lies. A $100+ million movie that doesn’t even make $20 in its first 7 days of release is a BOMB!
Oliver Stones film JFK was a work of malevolent fiction about the Kennedy assassination. I have no doubt that his film about President Bush is equally defammatory and fictional. After all, this is what Hollywood liberals do. The make lots of money lying and they call it art.
Well I’m just glad that “Beverly hill chihuahua” isn’t #1 anymore. I mean come ON! How embarrassing is it to cal yourself an american when THAT is the type of drivel people flock to see in the theater here?
“Check the president’s reading list on whitehouse.gov and then, if you ever finish ONE of the books he devours, tell me again how stupid he is.”
Yes, and the fact that a list of books appears on his website is conclusive proof that he read and understood all of them.
Give me a break. You really believe that W. was reading Camus and Shakespeare (as he claimed) when he wasn’t clearing brush on his Crawford villa? Bush himself has even joked about having been a terrible student and having little interest in intellectual pursuits. He built his whole persona around being a “regular guy” and not some pointy-headed Ivy League elitist.
There is, however, one book that we *do* know he read: “The Pet Goat.”
I just got back from the matinee ($5) showing of “W”. A boring movie filled with the democratic party talking points,filled with made for TV actors,even worse than the CBS made-for-tv movie “Reagan”. , I am afraid people will confusr this garbage with history. I want my five bucks back.
I’d have to say…. that after seeing this “film” it is my second most proud moment as being an American, or something like that.
The right wingers who hate our country and its freedoms won’t see W. because they’re still in a state of denial about a president who lied us into a war about non-existent weapons of mass destructions in a defenseless Third World country and a near Depession his opportunistic maga-rich cronies have brought our country.
I-like all loyal Americans- am just looking for the day he just goes back into private life. Shed no tears for Bush. While average Americans loose their 401K’s, civil liberties and home equity because of his dishonesty and incompetence, like his parents, he’ll make tens of millions reading speeches written for him by someone else to collections grateful wealthy people for whom he has done so much.
I have read reviews by proffessionals who’ve actually seenW. that it is a sympathic portrait of Bush. History will not be so kind.
All you Hollywood degenerates that get wood making films for each other. You guys really showed’em alright, don’t mess with you guys…the thinking part of America sees your intellectual bankruptcy….snoooozville on this O.S. stinko reel.
I hope Stone put GWB in the end credits — maybe a credit like “Special thanks to the real W for keeping the country safe since 9/11 so I could make money off liberal propagandist movies like this”.
Wanna see W’s legacy in action? Just go to any 7-11 in the morning and try and get a coffee in a decent amount of time.
Thanks, George! And thanks for the endless war, the lost lives and billions, the dreadful state of our schools, the tanking economy, but most of all, for your continual absence at the ship-of-state’s helm.
Wow…you can always tell when Drudge is linking to DHD.
W should have done well with the non-stop hype it’s gotten for months. What a ridiculous movie.
Bush Derrangement Syndrome on full display. Not a ducumentary, not a biography. W is a hitpiece on Bush (and McCain by association) 2 weeks before an election. W wasn’t made in order to make a profit. It’s purpose is to influence the election.
The comments here about people getting ‘w’ tickets when they paid to see another movie is just a glimpse into the M.O. of the left. Gaming the system is a perfectly acceptable tactic for people who know what’s best for the masses.
Everybody likes a little bush, but nobody likes president bush.