2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe movie "2016"...
my repub friends are all over this and sending emails that it's being "sold out" all over the country.
I know, I know, it's playing to the base, but a swiftboat is a swiftboat.
I'd hoped today was going to feel like a positive day, but so far, not so much.
Googled it and mostly all I get is positive things and where it's showing.
democrat_patriot
(2,774 posts)Is it playing outside of Kansas?
democrat_patriot
(2,774 posts)What a joke.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)And it was an absolute turkey that barely recovered its cost to produce!
Cigar11
(549 posts)when 2016 gets one (1) Emmy
HBO has received 12 nominations for "Game Change," including Outstanding Miniseries or Movie, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Woody Harrelson), Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Julianne Moore), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Ed Harris), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Sarah Paulson), Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special (Jay Roach) and Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special (Danny Strong). It's still one with multiple encore presentations.
Difficult act to follow
but lets see how it compares on the money list.
... and it's still running.
jenmito
(37,326 posts)bin Laden (which put Obama in a positive light) to put it off 'til after the election-and it worked-so they should've done the same to THIS "movie." They didn't.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the asshat or some such thing.
jenmito
(37,326 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)hardly selling out all over the country.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Theres enough idiots out there to fill out a couple theatres.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the Koch brothers stuff the box office to make it seem like its more popular.
ILoveAmericaFirst
(4 posts)It's a very interesting movie. Went and saw it. Completely packed. But it's showing only in 3 theaters in my Metro area. Why? Could be Hollywood doesn't want the message out there? Just sayin. D'nesh Desouza is brilliant.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)we must have lots of trolls who manage to fly under the radar and get on juries.
Sugarcoated
(7,730 posts)Obama's most likely going to win, he's consistently led in a majority of swingstate polls, is professional, together, confident, running a masterful campaign. The Flip Snobny and lyin Ryan are a mess.
2016 is playing to the wingnuts, and wingnuts only, and anyone else can see this propaganda for what it is.
The great thing is, normal people who don't have this crazed hate for the President see, when he speaks, when he comes out and campaigns, shows his comfort and easy way with people, he's obviously not this bizzare caricature the wingnuts want everyone to believe he is and they just look more crazy and dishonest when they go off the rails like this.
That Obama, the one depicted in 2012, is a Repuke fantasy. Being in their demented repuke-bubble, they think everyone will suddenly see the light. They are insane with hate.
drm604
(16,230 posts)Do they really believe that a post like that on here is going to sway anyone (even if they had somehow managed to get the title right)?
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HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)You hot bags of Massengil aren't even trying very hard anymore, are you?
surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)Would that be a prequel?
rock
(13,218 posts)JOKE
still_one
(92,433 posts)FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)<snip>
"Bubbling under the Top 10 at number 13, the anti-Obama documentary 2016 Obamas America expanded from 61 theaters into 169 locations, and increased its gross by 294 percent to $1.25 million. Tellingly, the films per theater average increased from $5,202 to $7,391 this weekend, a rare feat at the box office but especially when a films theater count nearly triples. 2016 Obamas America has grossed $2.1 million in six weeks, and if it maintains this sort of momentum, it could become a major sleeper hit. "
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http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/08/19/box-office-report-expendables-2-paranorman-sparkle-odd-life-timothy-green/#more-79872
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)After six weeks in the theatres it has yet to make back it's cost and to date has grossed less than half of Atlas Shrugged - a true Hollywood bomb.
Still, there are plenty of Teabaggers out there that need a little sloppy propaganda to feel right about really hating America's first black President.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)but I still hate that it's propaganda is out there for anyone to view...and they're PAYING to see it!
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/roots-lunacy_508809.html?page=3
Right you are, Holmes! Except .??.??. Ive read the transcript of the press conference, and Obama didnt make a single reference to British Petroleuma name which, in any event, is commonly used by many people of a certain age (including me) who are sworn enemies of anticolonialism. DSouza makes many errors of this sort, citing facts that arent facts in support of an otherwise unsupported conclusion. He says that Obama, in his memoir Dreams from My Father, never mentions his fathers drunkenness. Obama mentions it often. Indeed, DSouza misreads the entire memoir: Far from admiring his father and emulating him, Obama makes his disillusionment with his father one of the themes of his own life story.
And where facts are missing altogether, faulty reasoning bolsters the case. Wonder why Obama went to Harvard? DSouza slyly asks. Here is a clue: It is the leading academic institution in America. And heres another: His father went there. Forget that neither of these facts is a clue, technically. Surely the first assertion is enough to adequately answer the question without recourse to the second, which is simply gratuitous as well as conjectural. But DSouza always sees absence of evidence as evidence of something or other.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)The Standard doesn't have a good search vehicle and Google kept giving me people quoting it and not the original article.
I saw yours and another thread on it so I thought that we better find the original article, it took me almost 2 hours to find it.
Hope it helps.
romantico
(5,062 posts)I remember when the Sarah Palin movie opened. It was on the same day a big blockbuster was opening. It was at a Loews Cinema in my town. They put it in one of the big size theaters and had about 8 or 9 showings all day and weekend starting at about 11:00 in the morning. I went to a movie later on and overheard a manager on the phone talking about how this film in that theater with that many showtimes is just killing them because they had no more than 5 or 6 people at a showing at one time plus during one of the shows there was no one in there.They played the movie to an empty theater.
This man was pissed,and I don;t blame him. As manager you have to play films the public wants,not just a small percentage of the public.By showing this film that many times in this bigger theater meant they lost money.
Same thing with this film I am sure.Theater managers show what they are told to show by corporate managers and when they lose money those same corporate managers blame the theater managers.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)I heard Laura whats-her-name plugging it on her radio show yesterday.
A few thousand of the AM knuckle draggers will see it during the first couple weeks and then it will fade into oblivion where it belongs.
maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)I'm dreading his impending visit. Not that I can't avoid discussing politics like usual, it's Mrs. Solomon that's the worry. She's irate.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)are probably the same ones, like myself, who are going to avoid it anyway.
Sugarcoated
(7,730 posts)The website lists a bunch of SE PA showings and I'd love to do my duty as a good citizen to combat this propaganda.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)I haven't reached my Rage Limit today. Of course, it's only a little after 2 pm est so the day is still young.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)I'm sure the Republifreaks, however, are Pee Wee Hermaning themselves along with the handful of other idiots who line up in the theater for this tripe.
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