{"id":1510,"date":"2007-10-26T05:04:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T10:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2007-10-26T05:04:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T10:04:06","slug":"voting-with-their-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Voting With Their Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent, heavy-handed anti-war films <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071025\/NATION\/110250083\/1002\">turned into IEDs at the box office<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both &#8220;In the Valley of Elah&#8221; and, more recently, &#8220;Rendition&#8221; drew minuscule crowds upon their release, which doesn&#8217;t bode well for the ongoing stream of films critical of the Iraq war and the Bush administration&#8217;s wider war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rendition,&#8221; which features three Oscar winners in key roles, grossed $4.1 million over the weekend in 2,250 screens for a ninth-place finish. A re-release of &#8220;The Nightmare Before Christmas&#8221; beat it, and it&#8217;s 14 years old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both of these movies received intense media coverage and slaving critical praise &#8211; as, predictably, will pretty much any movie that attacks the idea of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Is America looking for a feel-good hit, or is the movie-going public just not buying it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent, heavy-handed anti-war films turned into IEDs at the box office: Both &#8220;In the Valley of Elah&#8221; and, more recently, &#8220;Rendition&#8221; drew minuscule crowds upon their release, which doesn&#8217;t bode well for the ongoing stream of films critical of the Iraq war and the Bush administration&#8217;s wider war on terror. &#8220;Rendition,&#8221; which features three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}