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'Brokeback' finds a welcome in the 'burbs
The Los Angeles Times ^
| December 19, 2005
| R. Kinsey Lowe
Posted on 12/19/2005 3:56:40 PM PST by jcav
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To: durasell
It's a suburb of Dallas. Income higher than the national average. Got a lot of press when a resident, Darlie Routier, killed her two young sons. (That's when I first became familiar with the city -- heard a lot about it then in realation to the case).
Plano
To: jcav
Sorry if someone has already put this up, but our nick name at work for this is "Bareback Mount Him". None I know will be rushing out to see it. (Although the military doesn't generally flock to these daring entries to cinematic excellence anyway.)
To: tongue-tied
It's the first time the good guys in a Western get it in the end.
To: nhoward14; RedWhiteBlue
Thanks. So, part of the "metroplex area?"
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posted on
12/19/2005 4:26:50 PM PST
by
durasell
To: durasell
To: jcav
Didn't bother to read the article when I saw if was from the LA Slimes.
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posted on
12/19/2005 4:29:27 PM PST
by
KeyLargo
To: RedWhiteBlue
A guy once drove me more than 50 miles to a restaurant from Dallas. People tend to travel long distances there...so it probably got a lot of the city business.
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12/19/2005 4:29:59 PM PST
by
durasell
To: RedWhiteBlue; durasell
A member of the starting five from one of the best Michigan NCAA Division I basketball teams-back in the early '90s-is originally from Plano, Texas.
There's a funny anecdote about how he was recruited in Mitch Albom's chronicle of their near championship season.
To: nhoward14
Now that is funny...scary, yet funny.
To: jcav
"...the film has the attention of suburban moviegoers."
Yep. Suburbanites ARE paying attention; they're avoiding it like the plague around here.
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posted on
12/19/2005 4:31:05 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: nhoward14
According to Fandango, it's playing at the Cinemark Legacy, which is one of these googleplexes. Seems to be showing on 2 screens. It's also playing at Angelika. Which, yes, has a fascinatingly predictable lineup of films:BBM, Syriana, Pride and Prejudice, Shopgirl, Good Night and Good Luck, Capote.
If a town with this kind of theater is considered typical of Red State America, I don't know what the term means. It seems to be showing on two of Angelika's 6(?) screens.
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
This will probably get yanked (no pun intended) but...
Name two people who got shot in theaters.
Abraham Lincoln and the guy sitting in front of Pee Wee Herman.
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posted on
12/19/2005 4:31:30 PM PST
by
nonliberal
(Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
To: jcav
This reminds me of the engineering adage, "you can always get one to work", meaning you can always tweak the engineering prototype to work in a controlled laboratory setting. Trying to get a lot to work identically, i.e. get it into production and crank out thousands of identical units, is the real trick. Likewise, hosting a movie in select theatres and extrapolating success based on a few data points is pure BS.
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12/19/2005 4:32:38 PM PST
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: jcav
Bruck's prediction: all gays will see it, and a good percentage of liberals will, just to show how open-minded they are. This adds up to some pretty big numbers so I don't think it will be a total flop.
Personally I'd rather chew glass, but I think the whole marketing strategy is brilliant. Evil, wrong, and gross, but brilliant.
To: nhoward14
To: randog
It doesn't need a large audience. Heck, I don't know why people are so surprised that people are seeing it. They go to Merchant Ivory films, don't they?
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12/19/2005 4:34:19 PM PST
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durasell
To: durasell
It's also a town in Illinois where they make alot of cool fishing gear and probably won't watch much "Bareback Mountin'"
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To: RVN Airplane Driver
I don't know if saw Oliver Stone's Alexander, but it was totally disgusting.
Alexander the Great was just a homo was all that the movie was about. Probably the greatest leader of all time and this was all Stone could make the movie about?
It bombed. So will this crappy movie.
To: RedWhiteBlue
The venue was chosen to be "strategic" only in that they thought they could spin this as some sort of indication that the movie is doing well with the average American, which we all know is not the case. They're reporting this as if the movie got a huge draw in small-town America. Plano has a quarter million people and it is inside the major metropolitan area of Dallas. Show it in a true small town away from a metropolitan area and see what happens. Pack the theater in some place like Brenham, TX and I'll admit that would be significant, but getting some people to go to the movie in Plano proves nothing. Can't agree with your assessment at all. The title of the article was all about the burbs, with nary a mention of small town America. Plano certainly isn't a small town, but it sure as hell is a suburb in ever definition of the word.
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12/19/2005 4:42:46 PM PST
by
Melas
(What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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