Posted on 07/15/2011 1:56:15 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
Independently produced Sarah Palin documentary "The Undefeated" is out - playing now in limited release today - just got back from watching it.
Don't want to spoil the ending for anyone, but ... if you admire *spectacular* panoramic cinematography of Alaska; if you like fiery pro-American speeches, the tea party, Ronald Reagan, Andrew Breitbart, Mark Levin, Tammy Bruce. Tea party rallies. Gratuitous Obama bashing. Heck, if you like FR.
If you were deeply inspired by Vice Presidential candidate Palin's acceptance speech...
I bought 3 tickets the day they went on sale. Drove 7 hours from Albuquerque yesterday to see the show at the Highlands Ranch theater in Colorado (tonnight at 7:15). Mysle, wife and a friend who is on the fence about Palin will attend.
Wish it was playing in Oregon Bump....
I saw it in Grapevine, Tx this morning. I hope the ones that need to see it will see it.
There is no such thing as ‘gratuitous 0bama bashing’. He deserves much more than the tongue lashing he gets.
One of my pet peeves throughout my adult life has been “high level decision makers” and some of the decisions they make.
The most recent being the distribution plan for this film. It is glaringly obvious that Pennsylvania is considered flyover country and unimportant. Maybe they’ve written off The Keystone State since it went for Obummer in ‘08.
But like Chakey Stoltzfus shouted when he saw two locomotives crash into each other: “Nah ain’t that a hun of a vay to run a railroad?!” I agree with Chakey!
John McCain wouldn’t be in charge of this deal by any chance, would he?
Wish it was playing in Northern California! Patience....
I searched on the movie title “The Undefeated” and found a reference to a 1969 movie with John Wayne, set just after the Civil War.
Confederate soldiers have decided to join up with French Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.
Wikipedia says: “As the Juarez government had never fled Mexico during the intervention, and consistently insisted it was the lawful government, no loyal Mexican would consider the war a revolution; it was the expulsion of a foreign invader.”
Did Sarah Palin have that in mind when she chose the title of her new movie?
There is a report online that it played to a literally empty theatre - except for the reporter - in Orange, CA. Not that anyone but a rat would ever take CA again anyway...but still, you’d think people would be curious.
The leftwing bastards did one thorough job on Sarah.
Link to the report, please?
From the looks of the schedule, there’s one or a few prints being bicycled around in the same manner that surf films used to be distributed. In a normal feature deal, the ticket revenue goes almost entirely to the studio, and the concessions go to the theater. This kind of thing is uaually a so-called “four wall” deal, where the distributor pays rent for the theatre, then keeps all the revenue. Thus the need to have just a few showings per town. In the surf movie days, you also wanted to get out of town before the word of mouth about your film got out, not a problem here.
Which city did you see it in?
We Freepers will be there tonite. In Orange, planning a little get together...and dinner afterwards.
I was at the 10:15 show today in Orange, which was according to the ticket window at the theatre, the first showing. The theater was far from empty.
I noticed the “report” online of the empty theatre was published at 7:52 AM. That’s the time on the article.
7:52 AM ... Eastern.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/sarah-palin-movie-debuts-to-empty-theater-in-orange-county/241983/
That said, "Harry Potter" packed it out next door.
Orange. AMC theater at “The Block”.
It’s one of the ten theaters showing the movie, in America this weekend.
It was a midnight showing that not even the promoters and marketers of the film knew about. http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/07/media-brews-phony-%e2%80%98undefeated%e2%80%99-narrative-on-opening-day.html
I have my doubts about a few.
I call bull. Conservatives are driving great distances to see this movie, and Orange County, California is practically home base to the California Republican party.
I'm going on record right now to say that that report is false.
Thanks for the clarification — how the media skews things!
Figures that a liberal reporter would attend the movie at a time when most conservatives are asleep, and then splash a big announcement that "the theater was nearly empty". All to try and give the impression that not many are interested in seeing it. Scum...
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