On Sticky Floors and Stale Popcorn

So I've been reading about what a difficult summer it's been for Hollywood studios and their big block busters crashing and burning for a few weeks now.
It seems the latest one looking to crash and burn is "Elysium".

REPORT: MATT DAMON'S 'ELYSIUM' IN TROUBLE

One way to get a handle on how a film will do at the box office its opening weekend is the Thursday midnight screenings. Early reports show that Elysium made $1.6 million, which Variety called "modest. This is better than the outright box office disappointments "After Earth" and "Oblivion," but nowhere near the blockbuster Sony had hoped for.
Two weeks ago, the box office disappointment "Pacific Rim" opened to $3.6 million on the Thursday night before its release."Man of Steel" enjoyed a $9 million Thursday night haul.
Sony is predicting a $35 million opening, which is considered lowball for this kind of big-budget summer sci-fi tentpole.That kind of prediction shows a lack of faith in the film's box office prospects and a studio terrified of bad publicity should they shoot higher and miss.

In Sony's defense, though, "Elysium" is not a franchise or sequel, and as of late original films have been faltering.
"Elysium" cost Sony in excess of $100 million to produce. With promotional costs, that is likely closer to $175 million. In order to break even, Sony will have to clear at least $400 million worldwide.
"Elysium" received okay reviews, but the film's overt left-wing (and some would say, hypocritical) political message has already made it a punch-line among conservatives -- who make up about half the audience Sony had hoped would buy tickets.~snip~

I've read all kinds of reasons for why this one will under perform, mostly about it's left leaning preaching about the "haves" and the "have nots", which if you really think about it has been pretty standard fare for a while.
Personally I haven't seen a movie in quite a few years that I was ready to rush right out and see in a theater on opening day.
I never really cared for the indoor movie experience being old enough to have gone to drive-ins, first with my family and then as a date alternative and then for a while with my own family.
Drive-ins were great, instead of having to pack into the theater shoulder to shoulder and sharing armrests with who knows who, we could park a car, push the seat back or pull lawn chairs from the trunk eat snacks from home and enjoy a movie with some personal space.
But I digress, the thing that keeps me from going to an indoor theater now is if I wait a few months (weeks in some cases) I can stream a movie to my TV through Amazon or my cable/satellite provider and watch what I want from the comfort of my own couch. And much cheaper also.
Add to that the ability to pause for a bathroom break so I don't have to miss any dialog or action and I can't see any reason to over pay for a ticket, soda and popcorn in a crowded theater.

Technology has made going out to movie a non-event, a hassle and a colossal waste of money.
That's why the box office is dying.
Nowadays, in the Obama economy, people need to make decisions on how to spend their entertainment dollars and if the studios continue to offer dreck at the box office then where is the incentive for people to pay more to watch it?
  

O’Reilly Goes Full RINO on Immigration

Laura Ingraham tries to school the obtuse pinhead but O’Reilly ain't having none of it, as always his version of "looking out for the folks" is pandering to the insufferable group of RINOs in the party who are looking for a way to get positive strokes from the liberal commie media.

I don't know about anybody else but I'm getting sick and tired of every time these clowns try to push an immigration bill they "promise" they're going to be really tough on the border.... honest!!!
The politicians have never shown an inkling to want to do that so why would they think that anyone could believe that they would enforce any new laws?
Also legalizing the criminals already here is not going to stop illegal immigration, it's been a problem for decades and unscrupulous businesses have always put pressure on politicians to turn a blind eye so they would have a workforce to exploit and underpay.
Every job I ever got after Reagan's last amnesty I had to show several pieces ID to prove that I could work in this country.

So if there are illegals working now then it has to one of three things.
Either employers are ignoring the law, illegals are buying stolen or stealing ID or the federal government ain't enforcing it.
Personally I think it's all three.

Each group has it's own motivations for legalizing millions of invaders across our borders, and they don't care if it's at the expense of the workers here already suffering under the Obama/democrat economy.
Don't buy the bullshit they're slinging our way.