U.S box office has its worst weekend in 15 years!

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Chris Hu said:

bigjon said:
The movie studios should only blame themselves. They, many of their writers, and many of their stars simply could not resist making political statements. Which is really really stupid when you are selling a product that you want as many people to consume as possible.

The political shit can work if it jives with the product you sell (meaning the type of people who enjoy your product would be drawn in by you espoting your political views) an example of this would be a Michael Moore type, the people who watch something he makes would likely be increase by his political activity. Cannot say the same about products intended to go mass market.

?????? You right wingers crack me up.  Take off your tin foil hat please and take your meds.  There haven't been making any political statements in any major movies lately.  The box office is down because we had a bunch of crap movies and uninspired sequels so far this year.

I have a question for you. What makes you think that a political statement inside, or outside the movie proper (of any kind, really) won't make a net negative impact on the total sales of the movie (unless the movie itself would benefit from the additional publicity to its intended audience)?