Figuring out why Hollywood's disappointed isn't hard. They keep churning out left-wing "message" films and America just ignores them.
The latest examples are The Lone Ranger, White House Down, and Pacific Rim.
Just watch, Elysium will stink up the box office as well, as it looks like the most in-your-face liberal fantasy of the bunch.
Let the Lone Ranger actually be a hero and Tonto an actual Comanche who becomes the Ranger's best friend and partner and more people might have shown up.
Making Conservatives the terrorists who take over the White House and trying to portray Jamie Foxx as a heroic stand-in for Obama is just too much to take.
OK, I really have no idea what Pacific Rim is about. So I'll fess up that it may or may not be fairly stuck in this group. But I don't plan to see it either.
But the trailers for Elysium make it clear that it's a liberal fantasy about what could happen if they fail in their incessant efforts to cut the rich down to size. Here's an idea - portray the government living on Elysium while the regular folks suffer down on Earth. That's more believable, and I might just go see that version.
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