2016 movie---coming to a theatre near you----scary (weapons, solution, how much, Sacramento)
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Well, fancy that. From 10 to 61 theaters, somebody has faith. It will be jolly interesting to see the box office figures tomorrow. The prelims aren't exactly promising - per-screen take down an estimated two-thirds - but we shall see.
So, is film creator Dinesh D'Souza "fair and balanced?"
Can the movie-goer expect documentary or demagoguery?
Dinesh D’Souza knows the value of a good controversy. After all, he has made a career of lobbing ideological hand grenades. In 2010, for instance, he published a book and an article in Forbes arguing that Barack Obama had embraced his father’s anticolonial fervor and was intentionally squandering America’s influence to put it on equal footing with the developing world. Critics were aghast. The Columbia Journalism Review called the Forbes piece “a fact-twisting, error-laden piece of paranoia” and a “singularly disgusting work,” while the conservative Weekly Standard assailed D’Souza’s “misstatements of fact, leaps in logic, and pointlessly elaborate argumentation.” Former Bush speechwriter David Frum weighed in, too, branding D’Souza’s book a “brazen outburst of race-baiting.”
Do people still enjoy going to the movies these days? I always wait until whatever it is comes out on DVD. Between the threat of bedbugs hiding in upholstered seats that might hop a ride home with you..and high costs for something that might turn out to be mediocre, I wouldn't think there would be a tremendous amount of movie goers these days.
Do people still enjoy going to the movies these days? I always wait until whatever it is comes out on DVD. Between the threat of bedbugs hiding in upholstered seats that might hop a ride home with you..and high costs for something that might turn out to be mediocre, I wouldn't think there would be a tremendous amount of movie goers these days.
The aggregate box office for 2012 is only $7 billion or so - hardly worth the bother, really.
Salon.com? Really? They bash anything that isn't far progressive like them.
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Originally Posted by wade52
So, is film creator Dinesh D'Souza "fair and balanced?"
Can the movie-goer expect documentary or demagoguery?
Dinesh D’Souza knows the value of a good controversy. After all, he has made a career of lobbing ideological hand grenades. In 2010, for instance, he published a book and an article in Forbes arguing that Barack Obama had embraced his father’s anticolonial fervor and was intentionally squandering America’s influence to put it on equal footing with the developing world. Critics were aghast. The Columbia Journalism Review called the Forbes piece “a fact-twisting, error-laden piece of paranoia” and a “singularly disgusting work,” while the conservative Weekly Standard assailed D’Souza’s “misstatements of fact, leaps in logic, and pointlessly elaborate argumentation.” Former Bush speechwriter David Frum weighed in, too, branding D’Souza’s book a “brazen outburst of race-baiting.”
Well, fancy that. From 10 to 61 theaters, somebody has faith. It will be jolly interesting to see the box office figures tomorrow. The prelims aren't exactly promising - per-screen take down an estimated two-thirds - but we shall see.
The actuals show a pretty respectable $317K week-end take, that's more than $5K per theater. If this thing has legs, it may approach Michael Moore territory in the political documentary genre. Next week-end will be interesting.
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Well, the preliminaries were wrong...
