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The Passion of Christ got what it deserved... absolutely nothing. The Passion of Christ was a sadistic horror flick with a 2000 year old story line, and absolutely no redeeming value. Plus, the abomination called the Passion of Christ was a foreign film and ineligible.

On the other hand, Brokeback Mountain is not your standard Hollywood shoot-um up Cowboy film as some think, its a tragic love story about a love denied by hatred, and insensitivity of a society that hasn't a clue what the words "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" in our Declaration of Independence really mean.

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And all the time I thought it was about a couple of cowboy queers.

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"I would have been really happy with $6 million," said Focus' head of distribution, Jack Foley. "Our testing showed that [Something New] was favored very intensely by the African-American community. We did put it out there in suburban situations across the country, hoping it would crossover into other cultural categories, but it was firing on one cylinder [demographically]. I always hoped it could cross over to women everywhere."


Focus also had the leading horse in the Oscar race, Brokeback Mountain. Going into the weekend, though, the group of Best Picture nominees were collectively the least popular with audiences on record, with two barely over $50 million at announcement time last Tuesday—Crash and Brokeback Mountain. It's the second year in a row that the Academy's selections diverged wildly from the public's, and the resulting boost did little to assuage the Oscar's continued wane.

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With $60.1M in its purse, Brokeback is the highest-grossing film ever in the four-year history of Focus Features and is the second biggest grosser for the company when including releases from other distributors that were folded into it over the years including USA Films, Universal Focus, October Films, and Gramercy. Only 2000's Traffic, which was a high-profile Oscar contender taking home four statues, performed better taking in $124.1M for USA Films.

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Foley expects Brokeback Mountain to climb past $80 million at least and more if it wins Best Picture. "[$100 million] always necessitated a win," Foley said.

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"I would have been really happy with $6 million," said Focus' head of distribution, Jack Foley. "Our testing showed that [Something New] was favored very intensely by the African-American community. We did put it out there in suburban situations across the country, hoping it would crossover into other cultural categories, but it was firing on one cylinder [demographically]. I always hoped it could cross over to women everywhere."

Justine

Feb 6 2006, 05:53 PM

Some consider the Passion of Christ a love story also. Selfless love. Sacrifice. the violence and gore in it is not to be the attraction( like in slasher flicks etc), but to show the sacrifice made on our behalf, willingly. Selfless love .

Hatred and denied love? This is the original.

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Two hours of nothing but whippings and flesh being torn off of Christs body is not a love story in any sane mans eyes. The Passion of Christ is nothing more then a circus side show based on nothing more then the sick mind of old "blood and guts Gibson". What amazed me most were the people munching on pop corn, peanuts, and soda pop as they watched that abomination. Wow, if one has to watch that crap to get religion then something is very wrong.

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Wow, if one has to watch that crap to get religion then something is very wrong.

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The poll also determined that the film, which portrayed the final 12 hours of the life of Jesus, failed to have an impact on people’s determination to engage in evangelism, with less than one-half of one percent of the audience saying they were motivated to be more active in sharing their faith in Christ with others as a result of having seen the movie.