Posted on 07/15/2014 10:01:31 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
My wife and I are avid movie attendees — dinner and a movie every Friday for more than 50 years. This past Fourth of July was no exception.
In the movie guide that day, the PG listed “America: Imagine the World Without Her” (not reviewed). This seemed to be the perfect movie for us, so off we went to the Galleria theater. It started out pretty well, and then George Washington was shot by a sniper and the colonies supposedly lost the American Revolution. That is where the premise of the title ends and the growth of America was described.
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First, the movie portrayed him as a disciple of a well-known communist — then it started to describe the Affordable Care Act as a failure along with the charge that large insurance companies orchestrated it (total garbage). It is working very well and is very popular with the American people. The Republican House has voted more than 50 times to repeal all or part of it with no success.
At this point, I began to boo in the theater and make unkind comments about the movie. My wife and I got up and left. As we were leaving, the movie was attacking Hillary Clinton (how desperate is the right wing?).
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
The audience disagrees. This movie is a winner at the box office.
How can you tell? Look at the box office total for its second weekend.
A movie’s opening weekend is often the most money it will make in a single weekend during its theatrical run. When it opens well, it looks like a hit. But to figure out whether a film is a true hit for the long haul and didn’t just open well, look at the box office total for the second weekend. If the film has dropped more than 50% between week one and week two, it’s over. Your film has flat-lined.
A good example is of a 2nd week death drop is “Noah,” which came out earlier this year. Good opening, but it dropped 60% its second weekend. And it got worse from that point on. So “Noah” goes down as a box office failure.
“America: 2014” dropped only 12.8% between week one and week two. That’s a hit movie.
These “progressive” jerks probably had no idea what the movie was about and assumed, hoped the title would reflect their America hating views.
Firstly, I already had my doubts about this guy’s brain when he wrote he’d gone to the movies every single Friday night for the last 50 years. Just imagine the brain rot that must have set in from the 1990s alone!
Then, he boos during the film - not afterwards in the accepted, conventional manner - thereby disrupting the concentration of the audiences members who may have liked the movie.
Lastly, while I guess he’s entitled to a refund (where’s mine for all those horrible movies I’ve watched??) he actually demanded that the film not be shown! He called for the theatre to withdraw it. What gall!
He also rolled himself up in the flag claiming to be a Korean War Vet - using patriotism as his last refuge.
$8.2 mill as of Monday
The movie is the 20th documentary of all time and the 7th political documentary.
I would expect it will move up a couple of spots before it fades out.
Both Rudy M. Kuchta and his wife are minor Democrat politicians who run for county office. This being the case, I wonder if they actually paid admission, or just decided to slam the movie based on what they could find out about it on the Internet.
Some characters simply cannot surrender the Obama fantasy.
Please don’t forget it’s selling very well on Amazon as a pre-order DVD.
I ordered two copies. I’m donating one to my local library.
Absolutely. A negligible 12.8% drop means it’s going to keep making money and stay in the theaters for the foreseeable future.
This coming weekend will be interesting. Could be the rare case of a film that actually builds audience over time by word of mouth, and the percentage change is an increase, not a decrease.
Throwing my $8 in tonight
Thanx. Didn’t know that.
This internet thingie is something.
Evidently Rudy M Kuchta is an octogenarian, retired high school teacher, and is/was an Allegheny County Democrat Party Committee member.
He likely was in the Army during the Korean War-——an RMK was conscripted from that county in 1951.
I’d guess that he already knew the basics of the film prior to viewing and that this letter was generated now since the film does not seem to be quickly vanishing.
No worries. I didn’t know it either. It was serendipitous I saw the pre-order form.
I know a few people who can’t go to the movies and want to see it, so I hope it sells very well on DVD. As for donating a copy to my local library, it’s going to be a pleasure. If it can make one person who will take it home, think, really think, it will be worth it.
He is a Marxist political hack so he knew all about the movie long before it was released. This event never happened unless the theater manager can vouch for him.
Pray America wakes up
good idea!
The film is very worthwhile for any American who cares about the nation's core values and history, and who is concerned about the threats to its continuity imposed by the current regime in Washington. It rebuts the standard leftist misinterpretations of American history, which readily explains why this op-ed writer is so teed off.
There are interesting techniques used to get the messages across, including re-enactments of historical events, with actors doing good jobs in portraying important historic figures, both heroes and villains. There are interviews with currently prominent individuals, both right and left, with Dinesh D'Souza himself doing some of them, plus archived film footage of some major leftists of the recent past.
When I saw it last week, there were only cheers from the audience when the film ended, and absolutely no booing nor heckling nor other open signs of discontent, although I'd have to admit that the crowd was kind of sparse on a weekday afternoon.
To all FReepers and other friends: please make it a point to see "America" if you haven't already done so. You won't be disappointed. (Full disclosure: I have no financial interest in the film.)
Thanks justiceseeker93.
laughing so hard at your “well, bye”...made my night, thank you...
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