Apparently a remake of the movie "Alfie" opened this week and it's been in the tank since they attempted to sell the first tickets. Now you might think the reason for this is because the movie is poorly filmed, poorly acted, poorly re-written, or any combination of those. Well, you would be totally wrong! This is the reason that the movie tanked...

Wayne Llewellyn, the president of distribution at Paramount, said that the conservative ethos reflected in last week's election results might have hurt the film.

"It could be the mood of the country right now," he said. "It seems to be the result of the election. Maybe they didn't want to see a guy that slept around."

See it's really simple - we just don't know what constitutes a good movie - cretins that we are. Paramount released it... so it MUST, by definition, be a good movie right? It's got Jude Law!!! There was a large budget!!! What could we have been thinking by NOT going to see it?

Note to Paramount... what was new and fresh in the 60's is a bit stale in today's world. How about you find new stories to make into movies. Just a thought - you may want to give it a try.

Posted by: Teresa in Film at 04:27 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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