Why Don't They Realize

There's a movie out now called Bombshell which is about alleged harassment of women at Fox News.  It's the latest in the Hollywood moves to make super-liberal movies.  Fifteen years ago, Hollywood started making movies that were anti-military during the Iraq War.  American military people were portrayed as torturers or war criminals or just dumb and despicable sadists.  There were three or four big budget films of that sort.  Each of them flopped badly.  It wasn't that they just broke even or made small profits.  No, those films were total bombs that each lost millions for the studio that produced them.  Then we had films that portrayed Americans as racist or white supremacist caricatures.  These movies did even worse than the anti-military ones.  Despite the movies' putting forth the accepted view of the far left, no one went to see them.  Now we get Bombshell.  It too is bombing.

Notice that Bombshell is about Fox News and Roger Ailes.  It doesn't mention Matt Lauer and his alleged escapades at NBC News.  It doesn't mention other troubles at ABC or CBS.  It's silence about Weinstein and his alleged outrages at his companies.  Nope, here the target is Fox News because the liberals love to hate FNC.  And yet, still no one is going to see the movie.  After ten days in release and only three days in wide release, the movie averaged less than 1000 dollars per screen yesterday.  That's not just bad, it's appallingly bad.

I wonder why Hollywood doesn't realize that far left attacks on institutions like the military or the American people or even Fox News are of no interest to the movie audience.  Nobody cares what the left wing crazies think.