I’ll betcha more than one liberal has stumbled into this movie thinking “Oh, I’d love to know more about this wonderful man” and then after the movie saying “Holy Shiite, what the hell was I thinking in 2008?”. LOL
Playing here in Asheville now. I hope to get a chance to see it.
‘2016’ is expanding to 1100 theaters effective today...this could bring in some serious box office numbers this weekend; especially with the weak releases it is up against...Fandango reporting on-line ticket sales TRIPLE that of the nation’s #1 movie, ‘Expendables 2’.
This movie will just make me hate obama even more than I already do.
I wonder if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
We plan on seeing it Sunday
They are smart with their advertising and trailers. It does not come off screaming as an anti Obama film. Great strategy.
Hope it can be shown on cable before the elections. If Donald Trump wants to do something worthwhile have him work on this.
Taking my wife, son, and daughter-in-law on Sunday. It will be the second time I’ve seen the movie. Excited that my kids want to see it before they vote.
I’m going to see it with the family. (It will be a home school project for the kids!)
I just got back from seeing 2016. It is a very chilling reminder of why we have to fight with all our strength and mind and heart and pray for victory.
My wife and I saw the movie Friday night in the AMC 22 screen complex in Alexandria, VA. We went to a late night showing, and the auditorium was less than half-full.
My first reaction is that it is grossly unfair to call this an anti-Obama movie. Dinesh D’Souza accepted the premise that Obama was born in Hawaii and stayed away from many of the hot button topics that are discussed on conservative sites on the internet, particularly how he got into Pakistan and how he got into the universities he claims he attended. It is a sad commentary on life in America when someone attempts to bring out facts about a topic and then lets the facts speak for themselves, and the attempt is labeled derisively as “anti-” something. This movie was not a collection of red meat one-liner insults. It was a serious attempt to explain why Obama believes what he believes.
D’Souza clearly explains the perspective from which D’Souza developed his own world view, clearly admits to being a conservative, clearly admits to being a Reaganite.
The whole point of the movie was to try to get at the intellectual underpinnings of Obama’s political and economic philosophies. Much of what D’Souza reported in the film all of us on here know. Some things, particularly his interview with George Obama and another segment with an older Kenyan gentleman who studied in the USA and was an adherent to Marxist views in his younger days, were new and very revealing. It brought out that, at the time of Kenyan independence (just after Barack Obama’s birth), Kenya was the economic equal of Malaysia and Singapore and was ahead of South Korea. Kenya adopted Marxist policies, while Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea chose different paths (largely based on capitalism); look where these countries are today.
D’Souza spent time on the Frank Marshall Davis connection with Obama’s intellectual development. He interviewed the Grove City College professor, Paul Kengor, who has written a biography of Davis called “The Communist”; while the segment was extremely factual and informative, D’Souza did not once refer to the title of Prof. Kengor’s book. Davis was, however, clearly labeled as a card carrying member of the Communist Party USA, and the film even included his card number.
If anything, D’Souza’s predictions for what Obama’s America would look like in 2016 if he were to be re-elected were tepid: (1) the USA would engage in unilateral nuclear disarmament, to reduce our nuclear arsenal down to the size of Red China, and perhaps even India or Pakistan; (2) the Arabic-speaking countries would unite into a “United States of Islam”; and (3) the USA would be greatly diminished in economic power and world influence through an escalated debt crisis. He stayed away from an area where I have a personal concern—that persecutions of believing Roman Catholics particularly and believing evangelical Christians generally will commence in his second term. He also laregely stayed away from the substantial political corruption and crony capitalism scandals which are endemic in this administration (although there was a visual of Warren Buffett receiving a medal from Obama). He did not get into an expose of Valerie Jarrett, Van Jones and the people he surrounded himself with.
For a film which came in at less than 90 minutes in length, it was awfully good, and was professionally put together, with high quality pictures and an interesting musical score.