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Audiences reject “13 Hours”: Big blow for the right’s desperate quest for Clinton’s Benghazi
salon.com ^ | 1/19/2016 | Amanda Marcotte

Posted on 01/26/2016 8:19:40 AM PST by rktman

......movie is basically a flop, bringing in only $19 million over the three-day holiday weekend. This is especially disappointing for those who were rooting for this film, because January is, for whatever reason, a good month for movies that pander to military worship and pro-war "patriotism," with previous years seeing movies like "American Sniper" and "Lone Survivor" cleaning up with these crowds. But this movie, which has the hook of the word "Benghazi" - which Fox News viewers are supposed to recite 100 times a day like a rosary - just isn't taking off. What gives?

Part of the problem might just be the movie itself. Perhaps if the movie was called "Hillary Clinton Is A Castrating Feminazi Who Reminds You Of Your Ex-Wife," it would have done a better job pulling in the target audience. But as it stands, the movie is just a rundown of the events that happened that day in Benghazi, and not some expose on how the administration dealt with it or anything like that.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 13hours; commies; conspiracy; corruptions; highondrugs; liars; salon; salonsucks; traitors
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To: V_TWIN

Maybe AMANDA is admitting that her ex-wife was a castrating feminazi.


21 posted on 01/26/2016 8:32:13 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: rktman; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; Perdogg; ...
From http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=13hoursthesecretsoldiersofbenghazi.htm:

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $32,763,829
Domestic Summary
Opening Weekend: $16,194,738
(#4 rank, 2,389 theaters, $6,779 average)
% of Total Gross: 49.4%
View All Weekends
Widest Release: 2,917 theaters
In Release: 10 days / 1.4 weeks

Gadzooks-- These idiots at salon.com cannot get any facts right. The film is not a blockbuster but it is making money without a big dropoff. Must be word of mouth, eh?.

22 posted on 01/26/2016 8:32:20 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

At 33 million dollars, it’s made a LOT more money than any of the “artistic” films promoted by the tens of millions dollars at the “liberally approved” Hollyword festivals like Sundance and France and the Oscars, hasn’t it?

What was its budget?


23 posted on 01/26/2016 8:32:45 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: rktman

I understand the [possibly morbid] sense of impulsive “I can’t look away” voyeurism in stuff like this, but in the end it is still masochistic exercise that benefits no one with a real, thinking brain. Salon? Politico? National Review? HuffPo? NYT? and on and on and on over and over again. Masochistic indulgence to perverted bents in my book.


24 posted on 01/26/2016 8:33:02 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: rktman

Took in $33 million so far... how is that audience “rejection”

It’s not supposed to be the next “Star Wars”


25 posted on 01/26/2016 8:33:54 AM PST by Mr. K
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To: rktman

We need to get venue-counts of the number of African Americans (AKA: Blacks, to everyone OUTSIDE of Rio Linda) attending this film.

Ya’know...jessfurthe record.


26 posted on 01/26/2016 8:34:00 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: V_TWIN
You'd think she would be all giddy the flick doesn't seem to be doing well but it all venom and insults.

Maybe the reason she doesn't think it is doing well is because none of her castrating feminazi friends are going to see it.

27 posted on 01/26/2016 8:34:28 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Gaffer

I am speaking about liberal assessments of the movie. Not the movie itself.


28 posted on 01/26/2016 8:34:29 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Jim 0216

Its a great movie. Ignore the clowns trash talking it. That is part of a manufactured social media drive to protect Hillary. Reading the commentary of the people trash talking, it is obvious they haven’t bothered to see it.


29 posted on 01/26/2016 8:35:35 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
The budget was stated as $50 mil. Advertising and distribution usually doubles the cost so it has a ways to go to make a profit.

But it is a Michael Bay film so it will most likely do very well overseas.

Who knows. It might even do well with the Jihadis.

After all, I'm sure they're just as upset as US patriots about the wrong guy getting credit for causing the Benghazi calamity to occur.

30 posted on 01/26/2016 8:36:54 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: rktman

Maybe Amanda, attended the viewing in her neighborhood theater in the Castro district and based it on that audience? (HA ha ha, even in Marin County it wouldn’t draw.) I believe it will be seen by many, even those who don’t want to be seen looking at it for political reasons.


31 posted on 01/26/2016 8:37:01 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Just an old grumpy guy looking back in time, wondering WTF happened?)
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To: rktman

It premiered in 4th place, and was 7th place last weekend, hard to say its a flop, especially considering last weekends snow certainly hit all movies totals.

I think its made about 32M or so, and cost 50M to make, so, certainly won’t be a financial flop, may not be biggest movie out there, but this woman’s claims are ludicrous after 2 weekends the numbers aren’t flop territory at all.


32 posted on 01/26/2016 8:37:57 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: rktman

“Hillary Clinton Is A Castrating Feminazi”
They got that part right.


33 posted on 01/26/2016 8:38:36 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: skeeter

EEeeewwwww....


34 posted on 01/26/2016 8:38:41 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: rktman

Good movie, although I probably make it to the theater once a year (last time was probably American Sniper).

While exiting, somebody played for the leaving throngs (probably on a phone) an MP3 loop of Hitliary’s “what diff does it make” - what a hoot!


35 posted on 01/26/2016 8:39:14 AM PST by C210N (Supporting the Constitutional Conservative in the race. Constitutional Conservative Cruz.)
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To: CPONav

The movie wasn’t made for the political junkies, like us, who have watched the hearings, read the analyses of the events of that night, etc. This film is intended to reach the Average Joe or Joanne who is only vaguely aware of what happened that night.


36 posted on 01/26/2016 8:39:38 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: HamiltonJay

She is right though: If the title were “13 Hours in Benghazi” or “13 Hours of Hillary’s Leadership” it would draw more people.


37 posted on 01/26/2016 8:40:39 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Year Film Rotten Tomatoes
Overall
1995 Bad Boys 43%[77]
1996 The Rock 66%[78]
1998 Armageddon 39%[79]
2001 Pearl Harbor 25%[80]
2003 Bad Boys II 23%[81]
2005 The Island 40%[82]
2007 Transformers 57%[83]
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 19%[84]
2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 36%[85]
2013 Pain & Gain 50%[86]
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction 18%[87]
2016 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 59%[88]
Average 40%

38 posted on 01/26/2016 8:42:32 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (I shot Schroedinger's cat with Chekhov's gun.)
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To: rktman

salon..... if she is writing for salon, she is pretty much worthless and can’t get a reputable job (if she is a salon intern, she is really bad)

her report is really not worth reading


39 posted on 01/26/2016 8:43:05 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: rktman

Aside from those who seek to ID with the truth about Benghazi, most Americans don’t understand what the whole mess was about and “13 Hours” would just confuse them.


40 posted on 01/26/2016 8:43:18 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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