Posted on 07/08/2006 9:04:55 AM PDT by pissant
Since the Al Gore global warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth," opened in the Bay Area five weeks ago, approving audiences have left the theater murmuring a similar refrain: "I hope the people who need to see it, see it."
In the region's politically blue vernacular, that translates as "red state audiences." And so far, those audiences are seeing it. The film is playing in the nation's top 185 markets, getting off-the-chart audience recommendations in conservative bastions like Plano, Texas, and Orange County. "Truth" is the third-highest-grossing political documentary of all time, behind Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" (which grossed $119 million) and "Bowling for Columbine" ($21 million).
And a key to making "An Inconvenient Truth" accessible to a wide range of audiences started with the first conversation Gore had last summer with director Davis Guggenheim in San Francisco's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Each had a demand.
Gore wanted the science to be handled correctly, not trivialized. Guggenheim, director of Fox's breakneck TV hit "24," wanted to tell the story through Gore's life.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
And that movie sucked...
It just started at our nearby AMC multi-plex, with 4 showings. How does it possibly hope to compete with the big entertaining movies out this week though? Who wants to spend $9 or more each to watch this ridiculous "documentary"?!
This is San Fran hoping its liberal infection actually spreads beyond the Bay. Gore's movie is well--about like the Chicks' tour.
"A key challenge to wooing that pickup driver would be overcoming any feelings he had for Gore, who carries a ton of political baggage for a movie star."???
Movie Star??
I also just noticed this was page A-1... Did someone pay for this ad or did the SF Chronical do it for free??
Good point!
The third highest grossing documentary ever is an embarrassing flop? What high standards you must have.
Gore must be delighted with the performance.
I'd like to see the top 20 grosses to compare.
Yeah, that's the ticket! The infection could reach Tennessee. Maybe next time Al will be able to carry his own "Home State".
"What exactly is an "off-the-chart" audience recommendation?"
Such a small number as to be insignificantly different from zero (i.e. of the bottom of the chart)
Me too. Those would be the people who dispose of worthless rubbish.
Global warming really is a serious issue, but it's not going to appeal to people who hear it just because it's Gore saying it. I don't even know if there is such a thing as a celebrity seen as "politically neutral" but I think one at least close to that would've been good or a noted professor.
As unstable as he is, I'd have thought he'd be one of their *darlings*. Guess not, p.
United 93 - $39M world-wide (dramatization, but it contains more facts than any of the three mentioned here.)
"Truth" is the third-highest-grossing political documentary of all time, behind Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" (which grossed $119 million) and "Bowling for Columbine" ($21 million)."
Compared to "The Passion of the Christ" at $370 million."
Better yet, so as to not even compare such a great movie as TPOTC with this garbage, how about comparing them to a movie sequel based on an amusement park ride. I see the new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie opened Friday with the biggest opening in Hollywood history at about $55.5 million dollars. By the end of the weekend it will probably already have left Mikey Moore's crap in the dust. LOL!!!
There must nothing in this guy's head but air. The Gore movie is a flop from the gitgo!!!
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