I live in a solidly Democratic locale, but I’m seeing this bit of hackneyed tripe occupying slots in my local theaters as if it were a major motion picture. Who greased the skids here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016:_Obama’s_America
It’s being flogged hard and heavy on every right-wing talk show there is, from Beck to Hannity to Ingram. Something about, “Obama’s vision for a diminished America.”
Perhaps the same ones that got Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 shown in 2004? After all, turnabout is fair play.
Moore had prior popular films, and was already established as a filmaker, duh. But I’m not asking whether or not it’s a fair turnabout for this film to exist or argue about the merits of its content, but whether or not it warrants its placement in theaters without some sort of influence beyond marketability based on its own merits. I’m not seeing it, quite frankly.
Is this the theory that he spent four years as president hiding his true agenda so that he could be reelected as president and get four years to do what he really wanted?
I’m thinking that the theater owners are the ones who pick what movies are shown (after all, they’re the ones trying to make a profit). The movie is probably cheap to lease and if this time of year is dead anyway (with back-to-school and all), maybe they’re using it to avoid closing a screening room or paying more for a real movie.
I’m not sure that would be the case here, where there is practically no market for it. I’m sure it’s fine in Texas or somewhere.
If it draws paying customers that’s all it takes.
Apparently the initial release was in tightly controlled markets and theater owners were selling out and turning away customers. That starts a certain word-of-mouth buzz. Decent marketing approach for a film with little marketing budget.
See above. Never mind the merits; the theaters know some people will pay to see it just because.
According to BoxOffice Mojo it’s fourth in the rankings for all Political Documentaries, with a cume so far of $22,806,295, just a couple of mill behind numbers 2 and 3 (Sicko and An Inconvenient Truth) though still a long way behind the top grosser, Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s still playing theatres though so it could easily make it to No 2. (It’s ninth in the category of all documentaries.)
All this, of course, means that it is indeed a movie that many people out there are seeing, however much this might astonish the Obama groupies.
Bull’s ear, Catnip.
I had the same thought, but I didn’t express it quite as neatly, so I went to the pit.
Well the producer of this movie did produce Schindler’s List; among others. So it’s not all nobodies.
What gets me is the line “You may love him, you may hate him but you don’t know him.” :rolleyes: Uh huh, and the guy who’s brainchild is this movie (the author of the book on which the movie is based) has never even met or spoken with Obama.
Turnabout is perfectly fair play. This “Obama’s America” is also building an argument from historical facts with cited evidence, then? I’d like to see that!
Of course, there cannot be any ideology more quintessentially American than an “anticolonial ideology.” Ask George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. And Lord North and Lord Cornwallis would tell you the same.
Did you bother to find out who produced this film and whether he “was already established as a film maker, duh?”
Not to sidetrack this any futher, but the “producer” of a film is the money guy. He generally has zero to do with content or the artistic process (if any)- just funding.
“From the producer of <famous film>!” is basically Hollywood’s way of saying “This film has no big names able or willing to recommend it.”
I’m not the least bit surprised that there are people out there who’ll gobble it up; and that’s not my point. My point is that there’s no more demand for it here in Arlington, VA than there would be for a homoerotic art flick in small town Utah, and that I suspect there are other factors in play, perhaps.
Did you bother to look at the credits for Fahrenheit 9/11? Moore wrote, directed and starred in it, duh back at you. As TimeWinder stated, Molen is a producer (semi-retired); a money guy, with a hard-on for Obama, apparently.
So, Obama is “anti-colonial”? And that explains why he hates both America and white people? OK, got it.