{"id":44,"date":"2006-11-17T20:47:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T10:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/keep\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-11-17T20:53:33","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T10:53:33","slug":"possible-reasons-a-good-year-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Possible Reasons A Good Year Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/images\/agy2.jpg\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I saw <i>A Good Year<\/I> before it saw wide release, but things got the better of me and I didn&#8217;t get around to writing of it. Since then, it has been considered a major flop &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/business\/murdoch-slams-broadband-and-crowe-film\/2006\/11\/15\/1163266603870.html\"> by Rupert Murdoch himself<\/a>. Let us consider why, in list form, this is:<\/p>\n<li>Russell Crowe is no longer a marketable actor.\n<ul>Rather like Michael Jackson, people have found it hard to separate the &#8220;art&#8221; from the &#8220;artist&#8221;. Crowe isn&#8217;t a pedophile, but his temper is more famous than himself. This is why <i>Cinderella Man<\/i> failed at the box office, despite being quite good (it did the sort of business that <i>The Da Vinci Code<\/I> deserved).<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hating the French has become one of America&#8217;s favourite pastimes in recent years.\n<ul>Americans love hating the French; why an American would want to see Russell Crowe fall in love with France and a French woman boggles the mind. If you applied the mindset to the British, the movie is essentially about forsaking Queen and Country for Sunshine and Sand.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Young Australian film enthusiasts still hate Abbie Cornish for <i>Somersault<\/i>.\n<ul>Also she speaks with a Scarlett Johansson accent. It&#8217;s scary.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rabid Gene Wilder fans blame Freddie Highmore for Tim Burton&#8217;s <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/i>.\n<ul>Hey, it could happen &#8211; just look at the point about hating the French.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw A Good Year before it saw wide release, but things got the better of me and I didn&#8217;t get around to writing of it. Since then, it has been considered a major flop &#8211; by Rupert Murdoch himself. Let us consider why, in list form, this is: Russell Crowe is no longer a marketable actor. Rather like Michael Jackson, people have found it hard to separate the &#8220;art&#8221; from the &#8220;artist&#8221;. Crowe isn&#8217;t a pedophile, but his temper is more famous than himself. This is why Cinderella Man failed at the box office, despite being quite good (it <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1HLZ6-I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}