{"id":1201534,"date":"2022-01-09T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201534"},"modified":"2022-01-09T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:49:30","slug":"nolte-the-355-is-another-woketard-box-office-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-the-355-is-another-woketard-box-office-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: &#039;The 355&#039; Is Another Woketard Box Office Flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-the-355-is-another-woketard-box-office-flop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">\u201cRegistering one of the worst-ever openings for a film its size\u2026 [the] globe-trotting spy movie&nbsp;<em>The 355<\/em>&nbsp;is expected to make $4.3 million in its debut weekend,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/the-355-box-office-opening-friday-no-way-home\/\">reports<\/a> Collider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConservative estimates had put the film\u2019s opening at between $5 million and $7 million, but this is a terrible result for a film playing in over 3,000 theaters and featuring the sort of cast that it does.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Yeah, well, conservative estimates said $5 to $7 million in the hopes of spinning a $9 or $10 million opening a success.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline accidentally points out the one big reason why this movie tanked. &nbsp;\u201c<em>The 355&nbsp;<\/em>seemed like a perfect title for Universal to acquire a domestic [opening of] $20M, the movie fitting in its theatrical slate, which is about diversity and representation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Diversity and representation. <\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Oh, yeah, that\u2019s why we go to the movies, for two hours of <em>diversity and representation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Good grief.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an action movie that offers five fairly big stars \u2014 Jessica Chastain,&nbsp;Lupita Nyong\u2019o,&nbsp;Pen\u00e9lope Cruz,&nbsp;Diane Kruger, and&nbsp;Fan Bingbing \u2014 and with no serious competition at the box office, it dies a humiliating $4 million death.<\/p>\n<p><em>The 355<\/em> does deserve credit for not pulling a <em>Ghostbusters<\/em>, for coming up with an original franchise and not hijacking a male-driven one, but does a single second of this trailer make you want to go out in the cold, drive to a movie theater, and plunk down $40?<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Who in the world is this movie made for?<\/p>\n<p>The liars in the entertainment media will tell you, <em>It\u2019s about time we had a female-driven action movie! <\/em>How long are we going to continue to buy into that con? Women have been kicking butt in movies for 50 years. Ask Pam Grier about that. The problem is that the whole idea of 85-pound women taking down 210-pound men is becoming a tired clich\u00e9, but nowhere near as tired as the propaganda that says this is something new.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>On top of being nothing new, there\u2019s also the fact that anyone eager to watch 85-pound women kicking 210-pound man-butt can watch that nonsense all day at home on dozens of lousy Netflix shows.<\/p>\n<p><em>Well, <\/em>the fake media will argue, <em>this movie offers something Netflix doesn\u2019t: Big Movie Stars!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fair enough, but take another look at that trailer. Where\u2019s the charm? Where\u2019s the charisma? Where\u2019s that whole movie star thing?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>What\u2019s more, where\u2019s the humor, the fun?<\/p>\n<p>Who would want to spend two hours with five grim, joyless, smug women?<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, where\u2019s the sex?<\/p>\n<p>You cast five beautiful women in a grab-ass spy movie and there\u2019s not a single shot of T&amp;A? Are you insane?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19417538\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/the-355-still2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19417538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/the-355-still2.jpg\" alt=\"Universal Pictures\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane Kruger, Jessica Chastain, and Lupita Nyong\u2019o in \u2018The 355.\u2019 (Universal Pictures)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Plus, the whole vibe is stridently anti-male, so there goes half your audience.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, remember when movies like this were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RFuZhw5b1KA\">fun<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gOW_azQbOjw\">sexy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RFuZhw5b1KA\">liked men<\/a> and were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RFuZhw5b1KA\">desperate to entertain<\/a> and went on to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt0160127\/?ref_=bo_se_r_3\">$125 million<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><em>The 355<\/em> will be lucky to clear $15 million \u2014 a movie that likely cost $60 million to produce and at least that amount to promote probably won\u2019t clear $50 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the godless liars and suck-ups in the entertainment media \u2014 even as <em>Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em> racks up an astonishing $667 million domestic \u2014 are blaming this failure on the China Flu\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBox Office: Female Spy Action Pic \u2018The 355\u2019 Struggling Amid Omicron Surge,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/the-355-box-office-struggles-omicron-1235071821\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">lies<\/a> the <em>Hollywood Reporter. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, that must be it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/13\/nolte-west-side-story-keeps-wokes-box-office-failure-streak-at-100\/\">Over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/06\/14\/nolte-in-the-heights-is-hollywoods-umpteenth-woke-box-office-fail\/\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/07\/25\/nolte-woke-dies-box-office-including-lebron-james-space-jam-sequel\/\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/01\/11\/nolte-woke-wonder-woman-1984-flops-worldwide\/\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/08\/08\/nolte-pro-blacklist-director-james-gunns-suicide-squad-is-a-box-office-catastrophe\/\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/02\/08\/birds-of-prey-is-sixth-woketard-franchise-to-die-at-box-office\/\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/07\/14\/toxic-masculinity-comedy-stuber-dies-at-box-office\/\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/06\/15\/four-mega-franchises-and-a-woke-lecture-die-at-the-box-office\/\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/11\/02\/woke-terminator-tanks-at-the-box-office\/\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/06\/13\/late-night-projected-to-be-latest-woke-comedy-to-flop-at-box-office\/\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2018\/05\/26\/go-woke-go-broke-solo-crash-lands-at-box-office\/\">over<\/a> we see Woke = Box Office Death. Did the people behind <em>The 355 really<\/em> look at that dreadful 2019 <em>Charlie\u2019s Angels<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt5033998\/\">flop<\/a> and think, <em>Hey, let\u2019s do that again!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does Hollywood think happened since <em>Charlie\u2019s Angels<\/em> flopped? That basement-rated CNNLOL had succeeded in brainwashing enough of us into Woketards that this time something as sexless and humorless and antagonistic and clich\u00e9d as <em>The 355<\/em> would make money?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m telling you right now that had <em>The 355<\/em> offered one bikini shot it would have doubled its gross. If it had exuded anything close to a sense of fun, it could have been an actual franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Hollywood: There are enough uptight women in the real world. No one\u2019s gonna pay money to see them on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>Idiots.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRegistering one of the worst-ever openings for a film its size\u2026 [the] globe-trotting spy movie\u00a0The 355\u00a0is expected to make $4.3 million in its debut weekend,\u201d\u00a0reports Collider. \u201cConservative estimates had put &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}