Posted on 04/28/2008 12:01:40 PM PDT by Delacon
What was prod and promo? Most docs don’t have more than $1 million prod costs and I never saw a TV ad, which the the majority of promo costs.
Sorry, atheists don't qualify as "paleocons."
My thoughts exactly. Pretty much stopped reading there.
FMCDH(BITS)
By the way, it was number 9 on the list I saw. Guess it depends on who complied the list and what criteria they used.
Because there was no Western Civilization before Darwin.
Michelangelo was an evolutionist. And so was Bach. Or so you would have us believe.
I liked the original version of this column a lot better...
Eric ‘Otter’ Stratton: Point of parliamentary procedure!
Robert Hoover: Don’t screw around, they’re serious this time!
Eric ‘Otter’ Stratton: Take it easy, I’m pre-law.
Donald ‘Boon’ Schoenstein: I thought you were pre-med.
Eric ‘Otter’ Stratton: What’s the difference? [Addressing the room] Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests — we did. [winks at Dean Wormer] But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg — isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
[Leads the Deltas out of the hearing, all humming the Star-Spangled Banner.]
13 10 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed RM $1,379,000 -53.6% 1,041 -11 $1,324 $5,282,000
It was down by 56% this weekend ower last weekend. Heres the numbers just like I said
TV ads were all over the History and Science channels. Opening a thousand theaters is not cheap. Just the prints will run 1.5 million, and then there’s money to guarantee a minimum two week run.
Plus the cost of dozens of pre-release showings.
One of the producers is on record hoping for a 12 million opening weekend. I’d say they will be lucky to get that with DVD revenue combined. If there is a DVD.
I think they do have something to do with it. However, I don't see how that's relevant to Expelled or Derbyshire's article.
They will see $12 million with DVD, but that is ridiculous to hope for on an open with a doc. Moore can do it, but he has a built in promo machine and 3 or 4 docs under his belt.
They will make a little money, but it won’t make anyone rich. But they won’t take a bath the way it’s been suggested.
It is exactly as you describe it -- NOT pro-creationism.
It is, rather, anti-evolution-establishment.
People really -- REALLY! -- should go see this movie before attempting to discuss it.
You got to help me out. If I believe that “in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,” I am attacking Western Civilization?
I went to National Review and read the archives of Mr. Derbyshire - particularly the Q&A about his beliefs in God.
After reading that article, I want to amend what I said earlier. Mr. Derbyshier is jus a tired old guy who’s Christian beliefs were actually “whittled” away. I mean, born an Anglican (a really hollow form of Christianity) and then going through life misreading all the cues (describing your kids in bio-terms is ok, but I’m particularly amazed at the differences in my three kids).
Mr. Derbyshire is still a wishy-washy believer in God. He’s just not a Christian any longer. If he were a convert to Judaism, that would be an entirely different thing. However, his snarky article shows that he sides with the evolutionists and mocks the creationists. Is Mr. Derbyshire also pro-abortion? I didn’t read all of his articles in archive.
My biggest disappointment is his open animosity toward Ben Stein’s documentary. Mr. Stein isn’t arguing in favor of ID, he’s highlighting the intolerant Stalinism of the pro-evolution academics.
Hey, the real target is our freedoms. If the evolutionists are right, then there is no God. If no God, no God-given rights. No inalienable rights either. Rights then become “permission slips” which can be rescinded.
It’s another topic, but I am distrustful to the point of despising the term “civil rights”. How does a civil right differ from a natural right? I’ll tell you. A civil right is a government given right and can be taken away or modified at will.
The Marxists had to replace something with something so to trick the freedom loving people of America they invented the term “civil right” and we now all use it.
Yours truly,
The Woim
P.S. - Who cares if you’re a religious believer? As long as you don’t start advocating socialism we’ll get along just fine. However, too too many atheists lose their religious belief in God and replace it with a childlike belief in the omnipotence of government. And for the record, all government is coersion.
Read.
Ummmm, it’s not so much about evolution/ID as Godless liberals shutting down debate at universities.
Just like the so-called ID posters (masquerading) here.
Ben Stein knew, when making this, he was sticking his neck out for yahoos like this guy (who hasn't seen it) to break the movie & Stein apart and kick them to the curb.
I have great admiration for Stein's courage....!!!!!
It's a must see movie.
“America has the most creationists in the world. They don’t exist in any numbers in Europe or Asia.”
Do you have stats? Like Derb said, “the Wahhabists are, like all fundamentalist Muslims, committed creationists.” There are lots of them all over the world. You have to do a double take when you are in common cause on anything with that crowd btw.
LOL, a guy that gets it. You take care bud. Good for you.
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