Gun control at the box office: Do stances of Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis affect
 

Gun control at the box office: Do stances of Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis affect movie sales?

http://media.washtimes.com/media/ima...0066375e0e563f

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis: Three weathered monuments of the blood-drenched action movie genre, three new movies to promote, three different responses to the post-Newtown anti-gun backlash.

In statements to the media, the ex-Governator and the suspiciously ripped Rambo sold out the Second Amendment — despite the fame and fortune each has won wreaking bloody havoc on the big screen wielding the kinds of scary, high-capacity firearms that, yawn, no sportsman needs to fell a deer.

After their comments, both of their (clairvoyantly titled?) new star vehicles — Mr. Schwarzenegger’s “The Last Stand” and Mr. Stallone’s “Bullet to the Head” — promptly tanked at the box office. Coincidence?

But Mr. Willis came out with both guns blazing — Yippie-ki-yay! — in support of Second Amendment rights, while flacking his latest offering, “A Good Day to Die Hard,” which opens Thursday. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine the wisecracking, no-bull Mr. Willis calling for gun control with a straight face while hawking tickets to his new nonstop kill ride of a shoot’em-up. Will the hang-tough messaging translate into the kinds of box-office returns that eluded his two rivals?

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Black Blade: i'm betting that Bruce Willis will do much better than Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

YEAP SHOW GUN VIOLANCE THEN SAY THE MOVIES DOT ENSPIRE .

WE HAVE HAD TV ABOUT 60 YEARS AN GUNS FOR EVER WONDER WHY CRIME IS UP SO MUCH ????????

I DONT BLAME IT ALL ON TV OR VIDEO GAMES BUT IT PROMTES A VETAIN MIND SET IN OUR CULTURE THATIF SOME MESSES WITH YOU DO A MAKE MY DAY MOVE ON THEM.

IF MOVIES DONT AFFECT THINKING THEN EXPLAIN ALL THE 44 MAGS SOLD AFTER DIRTY HARRY????? YET SOME HOW THE SAME MOVIES CANT BE TIED TO VIOLANCE?????

i wouldn't walk across the county road to watch rino/socialist arnold or that fag hollyweird socialist stallone in anything--even if i was being paid!

now i sort of like bruce, maybe because he ain't just a hollyweird wind bag/fag like the resat of um-- i might go see his movie.