Maybe movie-goers are getting tired of being preached at by the super-wealthy hypocrites, or maybe Leonardo DiCaprio is just an awful documentary filmmaker. Whatever the reason, Fox News tells us his global warming sermon, “The 11th Hour”, is fading faster than an arctic glacier.
After 18 days in release, the film has grossed only $417,913 from ticket sales. The 90-minute snore-fest is playing on 111 screens this week, but that number is likely to be reduced this Friday. The film will be sent to DVD heaven after that.
By comparison, Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim’s similar but far more engaging “An Inconvenient Truth” had already made $3.5 million by its 18th day of release.
Moreover, this latest global warming alarmist vehicle took in a paltry $240,000 over Labor Day weekend. Obviously, movie fans were much more interested in being scared by the remake of the horror classic “Halloween,” which raked in over $30 million during the same period (and which my teenage daughter highly recommends).
“The 11th Hour” finished 34th in box office receipts for the weekend, behind such, uh, notable films as “Once,” “Resurrecting the Champ,” “2 Days in Paris,” and “Underdog.”
Why such a flop? The Fox news story gives these insights:
I hesitated to say before “11th Hour” actually opened how mind-numbingly dull it was for fear that I would ruin it for those interested in the subject of global warming. But at Cannes, when the film by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen was shown to journalists, nearly the entire room fell asleep.
A Russian filmmaker told us afterward that she was the only person in the room who was awake at one point.
I can believe it. “The 11th Hour” is grindingly boring. Basically, a series of scientists, one after another, warn the audience that the world is coming to an end. These talking heads are interspersed with stock footage of melting glaciers. The film has the effect of Ambien — with no hangover post-nap.
Maybe Leo should go back to playing pubescent looking characters who make young girls everywhere swoon. He’s obviously better at that then lecturing us, since most of us didn’t ask for his opinion anyway.
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Looks like a race between the interest on the production loan and the box office reciepts
Awww
receipts, sorry
Oh No!! We’re gonna die…. yawn.
http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/chickenlittle/main.html
I have always hated it when so-called famous actors or actresses use their notoriety as a platform to tell us that they are smarter then us and we should listen to whatever B.S. they spew out. If they are that smart then do what Reagan did and run for office to make a difference.
Another thing that bothers me is when famous people, with more money then they know what to do with, asks me for contributions.
Leo Fun Facts!
Education: Listed as “unknown” (translation: he’s a high school dropout)
Exposure to environmental studies: Got baked on a Thai Island during filming of The Beach
Other scientific qualifications: Swam in the Atlantic Ocean during Titanic filming
Contributions to scientific theories related to atmospheric chemistry: “Dude, did you ever think that our solar system might just be a single molecule in the big toe of some gigantic creature that’s like as big as the whole universe and it’s so big that we can’t ever see the whole thing. Whoa!”
Credibility: None
A follow-up to No. 5: To all actors, just because you played that particular role in a movie and memorized a few lines does not make you an expert in that field. So, quit “ACTING” like you know it all!!!!!!
7. Robert
Remember when some stupid Congressional committee had Jessica Lange testify before it because she had played in a movie about a family trying to save it’s farm?
I couldn’t decide which was more offensive - the committee’s decision to invite her to testify, or her acceptance of the invitation.
Leo, Tim Robbins, Alec Baldwin, Seah Penn, shut up and act.
Aw, tell them to just shut up and leave this country. They are all just dying to leave. Let ‘em leave!