I went to the 7:30 pm showing last night (Friday). It was a good size crowd. About 75 or 80 per cent of the average sized theater was full. The crowd was appreciative of the whole flick. The most uproarious laughter came when the ACLU zombie-lawyers were being blasted with shotguns and rifles. Also, the bit about the “fanatical Christian terrorists” drew a big response. Bottom line — I liked the movie.
Here is something that both ticked me off and amused me at the same time. Prior to the show, there were only 2 trailers of coming features shown. They were “W” and “Frost/Nixon” — two rabidly anti-conservative hit pieces posing as true-life dramas and not satire or parody. Someone had obviously made a conscious decision to cram such bile down the throats of the audience who they knew would be mainly conservatives. The only response from the crowd was mild laughter at the obvious ploy.
I remember when I went to see Ben Stein’s “Expelled” that I was in the most dilapidated theater in the multiplex, and the previews were some of the most violent and perverted fare Hollywood could ever process through its creative sewer.
I guess the theater owner figured that an audience of Christian and religious Jewish families would enjoy seeing previews for the worst Hollywood has to offer.
We conservatives are targets. But there are more of us than there are of them.