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to contrast, paranormal activity, a film that was made with a handicam and $15,000 eventually found its way into 2,700 theaters. that's not to say PA was better than hurt locker, but it is to say that no matter how low budget a film is, if it connects with audiences it will get opened on more and more screens. hurt locker did great on a handful of screens in L.A., got a wider release and failed. that's why it only made it to 535. again, nobody outside of hollywood cares about hurt locker. it has no significant following whatsoever outside of hollywood critics and insiders. it can't even find a steady audience among veterans because it's so sloppy and unbelievable. this would be like obama not being able to get votes on the south side of chicago. L.
you're pointing out the fact that hurt locker is 4th in dvd rentals right now like that's some kind of success. dawg, in the last month, it's gotten a TON of press, a TON of awards, it's nominated for best picture and eight other academy awards. it is arguably the IT movie of the moment, the david to avatar's goliath. and the best it can do in its second week of DVD release is FOURTH?! yep, fourth. behind surrogates, whip it, and gamer. GAMER, dawg. remind me again, are you arguing for or against this movie? there is zero way to spin this. you can argue for the artistic merits of hurt locker, but it has been an unmitigated FLOP by any and every measure.
as for the myth that the academy ignores box office and votes for little known films... oh, wait, turns out they never do that:
http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=6&topic_id=500740&mesg_id=500740&listing_type=search#501101
"the last best picture winner to make less than $50 million was the last emperor in 1987 ($43.9 mil). before that, it was the deer hunter in 1978 ($49.0 mil)." google it.
if hurt locker wins best picture, it will be the least successful film to do so since, what, the silent era? this is a film that has performed so poorly at the box office, that you and nikki finke consider a $123K weekend (K as in thousand, not million) to be a positive. there are people-- individual people-- who made more than $123K last weekend. YOU LOSE. "i smack clowns with nouns, punch herbs with verbs..."
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