If you mention “box-office bomb” to anyone, more often than not you’ll hear “Waterworld.” However, the real movie bomb was “Cutthroat Island,” a pirate movie starring Geena Davis and Matthew Modine.
Lets look at the similarities. Pretty face, fancy costume and scripted lines that were repeated over & over again. The title “Cutthroat” needs no explaining as to the similarity. Pirates that loot and pillage, Pirates that derive power through theft and feel very cavalier in the process.
I’m sure that the screen writers and directors sold this Box Office Bomb to the Producers as a production that would bring great earnings to the company, just like President Obama and his crew sold this fiasco as a “cost saving” program to the American people.
Here are the numbers for “Cutthroat”….I wonder how this would be scored by the CBO?
Budget: $92,000,000
Gross (Worldwide): $10,017,322
LOSS: – $86,991,339
We have been sold a “Box Office Bomb” and my guess is that the price of popcorn will triple and you will have only one flavor of soda to choose from.
Jeff Anderson – Aspiring Rabble Rouser
