#frightening - A well trained and under educated US public, Hollywood will only respond by giving them more of this... Americans showed up en masse for a patriotic, pro-family picture that played more like a summer superhero blockbuster than an R-rated war drama with six Oscar nominations ... a conservative, heartland crowd that surprised Hollywood in its size. “Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico — all absolutely massive” ... So-called “sand movies,” the term Hollywood sometimes uses for films set in Afghanistan and Iraq, have a terrible box office track record. To overcome that stigma, “American Sniper” was positioned as equal parts war thriller (attracting men) and emotional family drama (luring women).
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:58:12 +0000
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