Box Office: Democrats Go to More Movies Than Republicans

Hollywood Reporter ^ | August 15, 2019 | Pamela McClintock

[EdnaMode]

Democrats go to the movies twice as much as Republicans, a new study finds.

The statistic was among many tidbits included in a seven-year survey celebrating the 1,000th movie surveyed by industry leader PostTrak, the exit-polling service founded by Rentrak (now owned by Comscore) and Screen Engine.

During that time period, Democrats frequented the movies far more than Republicans, or 12.4 percent versus 5.5 percent. Ditto for Independents (7.2 percent). The same also held true for ticket buyers who identified themselves as liberal and conservative (10.1 percent vs. 5 percent). Nearly 10 percent of moviegoers didn't state their political affiliation.

The PostTrak survey — touching on everything from streaming preferences to demo breakdowns to religious affiliation — includes information drawn from 1.25 million interviews.

[SMARTY]

Of course. It’s where they get their ‘education’

[Yaelle]

Someone got a federal grant for this “study?”

Facepalm/

[Yaelle]

If Frozen 2 has Elsa stop, turn to the audience, and say, “(BLEEP) Trump!”,

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I’m pretty sure that’s in her dialogue. During the reading all the actors playing all the characters fought to get to say it.

[wally_bert]

I listen to a lot of OTR shows.

[HamiltonJay]

Of course they do... Movies and TV any more are nothing more than left wing indoctrination garbage for the most part...

[wally_bert]

TCM is probably my favorite channel.

Comet, ME-TV, and Antenna are about it for the ones I watch.

[bankwalker]

do lefties go or do people that go get turned into lefties?

[SisterK]

In the last 20 years, the only movie I saw at the theater was American Sniper.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Well - that scene did come from the book, as written by Tolkien. If you ask me, it was one of the few scenes that was actually faithful to the books. Those movies while well done, were a disappointment for me - too much emphasis on action and fighting while leaving out a number of rich story elements, mangled some others. Like the Ents for instance - in the movie they were a bunch of clueless idiots who had to be led by the hand by a couple of hobbit youngsters - in the books, they knew exactly what was going on - they didn't live to be that old by being fools - and had ways of keeping tabs on events out in the world. The question they had to grapple with was whether they wanted to get involved in those events or not. An important facet of the story that got written way different from the books. One of many disappointments. Was also expecting to see the moment when Aragorn leaped up on the wall to parley - more like talk trash - with the attacking orcs during the battle of Helm's Deep. The orcs quickly tire of him, the arrows start flying again and shortly after the assault resumes worse than ever is when the Riders of Rohan finally appear. The very sort of dramatic scenery you would expect to find in such a movie, but inexplicably didn't make it in. They could have cut time out of showing all the redundant hacking, slashing & killing to have fit it in, but didn't. To me decisions like those made the quality of that production fall short of what it could have been.

 

 

[GingisK]

Well, where else could they have gotten their science and morality?

[x]

Movies are more of a young urban date thing.

Especially now.

[a fool in paradise]

So the boycott is solid then?

[YogicCowboy]

Yes, that scene was more faithful than most. I have read the trilogy over 24 times.

Glorfindel, Noldorin Elf Lord, prophesied in 1974 TA to Earnur, the last king of Gondor, that “not by the hand of man” would the Witch-King of Angmar, the Lord of the Nazgul, die.

This made the Witch-King, who knew that Glorfindel was one of the First-Born, and therefore very powerful, and to be believed, think that he was thus invincible with respect to all humans. Eowyn was a woman, not a man.

The movies were quite disappointing, in that they secularized the tale, and removed most of Tolkien’s implicit monotheism and explicit philosophy. They also changed the personalities of key characters too much. Elrond Halfelven, the ultimate great uncle to Aragorn (via Elrond’s beloved twin brother, Elros), and his adopted father who LOVED him like a SON, was turned into a bigot against humans. Aragorn, who never rejected his heritage after he learned of it at age 20, was turned into the reluctant hero stereotype.

It is not surprising that Christopher Tolkien disowned the Peter Jackson movies.

The Howard Shore score is my favorite aspect of it all. I sang it live in The Lord of the Rings in Concert on the west coast.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

The movies were quite disappointing, in that they secularized the tale, and removed most of Tolkien’s implicit monotheism and explicit philosophy.

 

Yep, which fits right in with the topic of this thread. Grumped me that most everything I was looking for and expecting from the books was purged away in the movies.

 

What really bombed it for me was the absence of The Scouring of the Shire - that was the ending that neatly wrapped it all up in a bow, with a cherry on top. Events came full circle, where the hobbits who had left as a bunch of scared kids returned as experienced and capable matured adults who knew how to take care of business in saving their own country - which is where it all began as well as where the very last battle of a war they thought had ended fell. Saruman getting the comeuppance he did was gratifying - for all his supposed knowledge & wisdom he was prone to miscalculations that brought him catastrophic results. When he thought he could move in on and take over the Shire, bully and enslave the inhabitants and get away with it was the last mistake that arrogant asshat ever made. When I saw Saruman buy it outside his tower in the movie, I was bummed knowing the Scouring was not going to happen.

 

The Howard Shore score

 

Got the soundtrack. Makes for awesome mood music. Some of it gives me goosebumps every time I play it.

 

 

[Lean-Right]

The last time I had the pleasure
of going to a movie theater, I
sat down in a seat that had a coke
spilled in it, the kid sitting
behind my wife kept stepping on
her long hair, and after the movie,
we went out to the parking lot to go
home, only to discover someone had
stolen my pickup. 2005 in Katy, Texas.

[humblegunner]

I have read the trilogy over 24 times.

[marktwain]

This does not surprise me.

Democrats live in fantasy far more than Republicans.