Wake Up Hollywood - We Want More!!!
The movie industry should take the past two weeks as a wake up call. The call is coming from a solid number of people like myself who would love to see more clean content on the big screen. I am not talking about revved up cartoons chocked full of adult humor either. I am talking about pure entertainment that you can walk out of without feeling violated or wondering if you have just committed a sin by paying for the filth that just filled your eyes and ears for the past 99 minutes.
Let’s take a closer look at this weekend’s wake up call. It was the opening weekend for One Night with the King. I actually got to see this movie and loved it. This movie is a dramatization of a true story. The movie is made after a very popular book titled Esther. A copy of Esther can be found in a very large number of American homes, on the Internet in written and audio form, in most hotel rooms, and in all churches who worship the one and only Almighty God. The book of Esther can be found as a small part of the best selling books in history. The book is titled The Holy Bible, also know as God’s Word. The movie is predictable if you have read the book, but like any good movie this one has been jazzed up a little to make the story more interesting.
The most notable thing that stands out about One Night with the King is that the movie busted into the top ten (9th) this week even though it was shown in only 909 theatres according to Yahoo! Movies. The average exposure for the other nine movies in the top ten this week was 2861 theatres. That means that every other movie in the top ten was viewed in at least three times the number of theatres on average. Not a single one of the other movies in the top ten was shown in less than 2300 theatres as reported by Yahoo!.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:47 am
I’m with you, Ozz.
I would think that after Mr. Gibson hit it big with “The Passion” the producers in H-Wood would have got the hint. But no. It doesn’t appear that way.
At least this one is out there. Perhaps it is just a humble beginning, a sign of good things to come. But I’ll not hold my breath. (I like breathing.)
FYI: I did a survey a year ago for college and found that 90% of the people polled were also in favor of bringing back the classic American musical. But H-Wood didn’t listen to that either. (Hmmmph!!!)
October 18th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Hollywood seems to simply ignore trends and make whatever they want. Both Moulin Rouge and Chicago were successful modern musicals. Then they made the atrocious film version of The Producers (which had a lot of problems), it flopped, and thus Hollywood decided that musicals don’t work on screen.
The Passion of the Christ made boatloads of money, but no one in Hollywood will get behind any more religious-themed pictures.
Yet they churn out action blockbuster after action blockbuster and the vast majority of these utterly tank.
It makes no sense.