Saw the 7:30 show last night in a sold-out theater. Great, well-done movie, made even more effective by the writer/narrator’s style and empathy and intelligent insight. Could not have been better.
The audience was also a treat - quiet, polite, well-behaved; and - I think - not typical movie goers, judging from their amused reactions to all the juvenile-targeted admonitions about common courtesy in a theater.
I think this movie may be a game changer. And Lord knows we need a change of game.
Saw it yesterday. 2pm matinee, about 15 people were there. I wouldn’t call it an anti -obama documentary or a pro -obama doc either. It was an effort to shed some light on about what are the life experiences that have shaped obama ‘s values and political beliefs, and what his future plans for the USA might be based on those beliefs. It’s based on obama’s own writings and words. Both liberals and conservatives have misconceptions about what obama is all about. The documentary is just doing what the press should have done long ago. I hope democrats go see it. Every voter needs to see it.
Finished 4th for Friday, per BoxOffice Mojo.
Newmax probably shouldn’t be making up numbers, especially not in the internet age when the real numbers are so easy to find.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/
Expendables $3.8 million Friday, 2016 $2.25 million. The numbers are actually very good, no reason for fiction.
It’s interesting how good the viewers’ reviews have been so far. People seem to genuinely like this documentary.
On one website, a conservative said he took four or five Obama voters (friends of his I think) to the movie, and paid for their tickets. Afterwards, they went somewhere and discussed the movie. He seemed to think it significantly changed the way they looked at Obama.
If this movie is capable of changing minds, it could be a very big deal, and be much more than just another “preaching to the choir” production.
From reading movie reviewing sites, it appears the pros expect the viewership to peak early (due to the advance sales) and then tail off fairly rapidly, but they are surprised that it’s exceeding their earlier expectations.
It came in at 3rd place Friday, Aug 24th and was only being shown on about one third of the number of screens that the 1st and 2nd place movies were shown on.
This is going to be one where word of mouth makes a huge difference, I suspect. Haven’t seen it myself yet though.
My husband and I went today.
Theatre 1/2 full maybe, but It was at Potomac Mills in No. Va.
I was surprised there were that many people! Shouts of “GO ROMNEY” at the end.
My cousin and I drove 40 miles to the next county to catch
the 12:45pm showing. I saw our own county sheriff in the
theater lobby before the start and we had a short chat-up.
He said he would liked to have seen a few Obama bumper
stickers in the parking lot because those folks are the ones
who really need to see the movie.
I hope that everyone gets to see the movie but, frankly,
even though I didn’t read the D’Souza book there was
not a lot of info which I wasn’t already familiar with.
It makes me wonder if I need to get a life outside of
political wonkery.
Just what I thought...FINAL figures for weekend box office tallies were just posted, and it appears that they ‘underestimated’ 2016’s Sunday figures. An ‘extra’ $300,000 bounces ‘2016’ up to a seventh-place finish; ahead of ALL THREE new releases. ‘2016’ also put up nearly $6,000 per screen...the libs are going to go absolutely nuts.