Posted 1:45 PM by Gene

Last week I wrote, "[W]hen do Christians (known in Hollywood as the Root of All Evil -- except when they spend) come to realize the movie hacks are patronizing them? When will they come to realize their pious holy offerings are a false front for junk? When do they refuse to play the game?" It appears they've done so now. Not only has THE CONSPIRACY's mainline Christian movie bombed, so has an independent one with a $3 million budget and $8,000 at 41 popcorn restaurants in its first weekend (not to worry, BoxOfficeMojo says it's 7,813 in "All-Time Domestic", which proves how full-of-it movie numbers are). It's not just the Christians, of course; two other movies designed solely to lose their backers' money have bombed. No, for all the PR we'll get at the end of the month about upupUP (which is like outoutOUT except it's good news) the movie marketplace is a glorified theme park, and the only attractions that draw a crowd are CGIs and fantasy flicks for stupid blind teens. The rest is a tax writeoff.