Posted on 12/23/2016 6:11:25 AM PST by richardb72
With public broadcasting (PBS, NPR), we pay for it anyway, at the point of force. I want to shake leftists until their empty heads rattle, when they go on about right wing talk radio and Fox News. Those two small inroads, plus the internet, are all the right has, and none of it is taxpayer funded, yet on sites like DU they still go on about how they need to shut down the “bast right wing propaganda network). Not just oppose it, not just build their own market-based talk radio, etc (I know, they’ve tried, and keep bombing), but shut our few little inroads down. And Fox isn’t even conservative.
That just shows that they know that their ideas aren’t winning, or they wouldn’t try to shut down opposing ideas instead of trying to counter them, and they already have all the msm and academia. Plus, as I said, taxpayer-funded sources. That irritates the crud out of me. Those need to be taken off the government teat, since they are biased to the left. Why should conservatives have to pay for our own opposition?
Because we always have, I guess. We even elect them at times, especially in the most conservative states. Go figure.
From the articles I have seen linked from here on FR the actual movie production costs were just over $13 million so the entire budget was somewhere near $29 million.
They are taking a bath with this propaganda stinker.
KRAMER: Yeah, went straight to video.
KRAMER: That makes me the premiere.
Oh gosh, don’t remind me of the Thad Cochran MS fiasco this morning. I need to begin my day with calm, acid reflux is acting up.
Budget $13m, box office $3.3m.
Rotten tomatoes: critics: 69%, fresh; audiences, 57%, rotten.
Funniest public reviews:
“1/2 star. This was quite the pantload of crap. I would have been better off burning my money. At least the resulting fire would give me something interesting to see.”
“1/2 star. One of the worst movies I’ve seen...do not waste your time or money. What a terrible propaganda movie against the 2nd amendment.”
“1 star. Not today Bloomberg.”
“1/2 star. Third rate propaganda where a bunch of inadequates tell the rest of us how to think. Makes you wish you had voted Trump.”
“1/2 star. The antagonists in this movie might as well be twirling their mustaches and putting Ms Sloane on railroad tracks.”
“1/2 star. Maybe Hollywood should stop pushing its liberal ideologies and just make entertaining movies. Hopefully this bomb hits them deep in the pocketbooks.”
“1/2 star. Political propaganda poorly disguised as entertainment. May as well read Das Kapital.”
“1-1/2 star. Wow the dialogue is bad. Like laughably-Jar-Jar-bad-lines in so many places! People were walking out.”
They seem to have imposed restricted 'tub capacity already:
Nothing bad can happen there.
Even more better!
When the dust settles, they’ll claim it was due to its opening so close to “Rogue One” that led to its poor performance. Hollywood’s answer to the Russians hacked the election.
How’d ‘Before the Flood” do?
Next up: ‘An Inconvenient Truth II’
Like slots players that hit once in a while, they’ll keep pushing and pushing and pushing that button, until they’re broke.
From the articles I have seen linked from here on FR the actual movie production costs were just over $13 million so the entire budget was somewhere near $29 million.
Even more better!
All that said, I’m betting this was made to be shown to indoctrinated high school students...kinda like Broke Back Mountain was. Poor kids.
The ChiComs just watched the government they bought here lose the elections; time for plan B.
But your kids will see it. This will be shown over & over again at colleges, high schools, maybe Jr Highs. Yes, your taxes will pay for this movie to be used to propagandize your children & grandchildren for years to come.
The Contender. Yeah, I remember that POS movie.
Wife and I tried to watch it on TV until she said, “Stop yelling!”
“Gary Oldman as Rep. Sheldon Runyon (R-IL). Runyon is a conservative Republican who leads the attack on the nominee, namely by leaking rumors on the Internet, overseeing accusations of prostitution, and challenging the nominee’s liberal position on abortion. He is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee that oversees Sen. Hanson’s confirmation.”
Jeff Bridges and Gary Oldman joined my Hollyweirdo list.
Too bad that actress now has such a loser on her resume after doing a good job in the Bin Laden movie.
“Hopefully, people will feel some catharsis,” Ms. Chastain said. “I see this movement happening now of women, minorities and other people who were surprised by the election’s outcome, and the film works very well for them. It’s like their fantasy world of D.C.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/movies/jessica-chastains-miss-sloane-echoes-campaign-rhetoric.html
I’ll pass. I’ll also pass on any of her future movies. Of course, odds were good I would anyways, since my last trip to a movie theater was to see “The Hobbit in the Temple of Doom”. Not sure if that was its title, but that is what I remember...
Got tired of giving my money to liberal buttwipes.
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>> “I like John Lott’s writing, but he often comes across as clinical and analytic...” <<
He’s a statistician, and knows no other way to be.
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