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2022-12-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Climate Change Doc Opens to Humiliating $81 Per Screen
[Breitbart] *Snicker*
Did you know Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Lunatic) has a new movie out? Don’t feel bad. Neither did anyone else. Her Climate Change (which is a hoax) documentary grossed just $81 per screen.

Director Rachel Lears’ To the End screened at Sundance, features AOC and made its weekend debut on 120 screens.

On those 120 screens, it grossed just $9,667, which averages to $81 per screen.

If you do that math, To the End probably played four or five times daily on those 120 screens. So you’re talking about an average of two people per screening… You’re talking empty matinees.

Had this been a movie where AOC opened her blouse instead of her mouth, I see much better box office results. But what do I know? I’m no hotshot producer.

Is anyone else shocked that in a country of 330 million, only about 900 were willing to pay to be lectured and shamed by a grifting dimwit who didn’t know what a garbage disposal was until she turned 30?

Maybe the problem was the critics? Maybe America’s critical class found AOC’s anti-science fearmongering trite and condescending and— oops, nope, critics loved it.

Here’s an example of the kind of movie review that encourages people to pour into theaters:

While “Knock Down the House” provided us with some fascinating portraits that might have interested even those averse to politics, “To the End” is a little less precise. Over the span of four years, Lears introduces us to Varshini Prakash, Alexandra Rojas and Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and all bring evident passion to their endeavors as climate activists. But none quite centers the screen as Ocasio-Cortez can, which leaves us with a diffuse and familiar narrative about advocacy in general.

Of course, eco-activism is a subject that can support any number of documentaries, as long as it remains necessary. (And as this movie makes abundantly clear, movies like this will be needed indefinitely.) It helps that Lear contextualizes each participant’s personal connection to the cause, thoughtfully if rapidly situating it within historic, economic, and political frameworks.


Oh, okay. That sure sounds like an inspiring time at the movies. What was the middle thing again?
Posted by Frank G 2022-12-14 07:03|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Scientists find clitorises on female snakes
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-14 08:12||   2022-12-14 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I'm going to guess that whatever Rep. Occasional-Cortex got paid for this was a money-launder. The studio could absolutely care less how much money it made.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-12-14 11:03||   2022-12-14 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope her advance was in cryptocurrency. I think her only previous film creation was probably a disk for a ViewMaster. I don’t count the starting role as a TicToc dancer. That wasn’t in production or direction.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-14 11:11||   2022-12-14 11:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Yup; the new way to book deal.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-12-14 13:30||   2022-12-14 13:30|| Front Page Top

#5 but its only 1 hour 34 minutes

for comparison Gigli averaged about $1500 per venue on its opening weekend.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-12-14 20:22||   2022-12-14 20:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Gigli's "best" line: Gobble Gobble"
Posted by Frank G 2022-12-14 20:39||   2022-12-14 20:39|| Front Page Top

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