mr. right
Our condolences go out this morning to Paramount, whose
sulky, twangy, denim-and-rippling-flesh marketing push for
Stop-Loss couldn't trick weekend moviegoers into checking out yet another Iraq War message movie. At Defamer HQ, the search for answers behind the
disappointing $4.5 million gross — too many muscle shirts?
Ryan Phillippe/Abbie Cornish babymaking rumors peaked too soon? — extended to the conservative journal
Men's News Daily, where crack industry analyst Greg Strange's
devastating Monday-morning hindsight is sharper than ever:
When are these filmmakers going to connect the dots? Do they really think this is what American audiences want to see? It may well be that the majority of Americans wish we had never gotten into this war, but that doesn't mean they want to see the country's finest young people depicted as rapists, murderers or even just run-of-the-mill, psychologically damaged basket cases returning from combat. ...
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