August
15
Brothers: Where's the Love?
[Posted by Steven Gaydos]
This week's boxoffice reporting in Variety, Hollywood Reporter and L.A. Times talked about nearly every film in the top 10, EXCEPT the one that had hung in the top five for weeks, after opening to $31 million. It's on track to bust through $100 million and will outperform Don't Mess with the Zohan at a lower cost of any hit comedy this summer outside of Pineapple Express. So it had a bigger opening weekend gross than Pineapple and Thunder (if projections hold) at half the cost of Thunder and still, it's like the crazy uncle in the attic - no one wants to acknowledge its presence in the marketplace, let alone its success.
All this hate and just because of a little brother skin on the ol' drum skins!??!
There's been a lot of talk about insensitivity and discrimination. Thunder has gotten heat for maligning minorities and the developmentally disabled. But far more insidious is the root cause of this news blackout on Step Brothers.
I blame this on anti-brother descrimination.
As the youngest of four brothers, and someone who has experienced the heartbreak and pain of stupidity, selfishness, immaturity, greed and infantile acting-out behavior on the part of grown men, I am looking for others to join my cause and meet me on the picket line.
I will be out there as soon as I finish watching this John Stamos STV pic I've been looking forward to.
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