Al Bores Movie Bombs at Box Office

[red states rule]

Well, Al Bores Global Warming movie is an inconvenient bomb at the box office

Seems not to many people want to see this liberal fairy tale

http://neoconcommandcenter.blogspot.com/2006/05/al-gore-bombs-at-box-office.html

Al Gore Bombs At the Box Office!


AlBore's global warming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," is still being lauded by critics as fantastic, and , "Not only are superheros big right now, but global warming is really hot as well."

The Los Angeles based paper, The Mercury Times, claimed that the film did well at the box office as well over it's opening weekend...

But there seems to be another "inconvenient truth."

AlBore's movie did not even make the top ten, and grossed a mere $365,787 from Friday to Monday. I suppose that's good as far as Power Point presentations go, but for Hollywood... Not so great.

 

[Mr.Conley]

While it is true that the film only made $367,311 on it's first week out. You have to realize that the film was only shown in 4 theatres worldwide. At the theatres where is was open, its average gross per theatre was $91,828, which is actually quite good. Even X-Men 3, which made $122,861,157 at 3,690 theatres on its opening week, only made $33,296 per theatre. By this more accurate comparison, Al Gore wins.

(I got all this information from rottentomatos.com)

 

[red states rule]

While it is true that the film only made $367,311 on it's first week out. You have to realize that the film was only shown in 4 theatres worldwide. At the theatres where is was open, its average gross per theatre was $91,828, which is actually quite good. Even X-Men 3, which made $122,861,157 at 3,690 theatres on its opening week, only made $33,296 per theatre. By this more accurate comparison, Al Gore wins.

(I got all this information from rottentomatos.com)

I am surprised only 4 are showing it. I thought more would take advantage to show it. They could write it off as a tax loss when they lose their ass

Using your numbers, over the 4 day period each made only $22,971 - or less the $6000 per day.

And this is good in your book?

 

[Mr.Conley]

I am surprised only 4 are showing it. I thought more would take advantage to show it. They could write it off as a tax loss when they lose their ass

Using your numbers, over the 4 day period each made only $22,971 - or less the $6000 per day.

And this is good in your book?

They slowly rolling it out. Not the usual everywhere at once that Hollywood usually does. This is usual for the lower budget productions. Smae thing happend with My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Well, the movies is basically a powerpoint so I doubt they are going to lose money. That's just fanatical partisan talk.

Edit: Removed section using the wrong system of math that rsr used.

 

[KarlMarx]

Well, Al Bores Global Warming movie is an inconvenient bomb at the box office

Seems not to many people want to see this liberal fairy tale

http://neoconcommandcenter.blogspot.com/2006/05/al-gore-bombs-at-box-office.html

Al Gore Bombs At the Box Office!


AlBore's global warming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," is still being lauded by critics as fantastic, and , "Not only are superheros big right now, but global warming is really hot as well."

The Los Angeles based paper, The Mercury Times, claimed that the film did well at the box office as well over it's opening weekend...

But there seems to be another "inconvenient truth."

AlBore's movie did not even make the top ten, and grossed a mere $365,787 from Friday to Monday. I suppose that's good as far as Power Point presentations go, but for Hollywood... Not so great.

I think people get tired of hearing Chicken Little telling them the sky is falling over and over and over again...

I guess we ought to just ask many of those on the Left... instead of trying to scare us into giving them money with threats and warnings about Global Warming, the oppression of women, racism, ecological disasters and so forth


would they consider Hush Money instead?

 

[red states rule]

Bottom line the film has bombed. Like his bid to be President, Al Bore has crashed and burned once again

I guess people had more interesting things to. Like watch a fly go up a drape

 

[Mr.Conley]

But I just showed you it hasn't.

The film did incredibly at the places it was shown, and they have not even begun to distribute it nationwide. I'm going to predict that the movie makes at least 50 million, probably closer to 80 in theatres.

btw, I just realized your numbers are incorrect. When I said the movie pulled in $91,828 per theatre, I meant each theatre, over the 4 day period pulled in $91,828, not all of them. That , means they each earned $22,820.50 per day, nearly three times that of X-Men

 

[jillian]

Bottom line the film has bombed. Like his bid to be President, Al Bore has crashed and burned once again

I guess people had more interesting things to. Like watch a fly go up a drape

"Bombed"? Hardly. Though re-arguing the 2000 election is kinda pointless, isn't it.

As for the movie, you might want to look at real reviews instead of misrepresenting. Start with this one. (Though it is kinda cute that Gore can still put you into spin mode).

Editorial Review
"An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary by Davis Guggenheim, follows Al Gore on his well-publicized world tour, in which he warns audiences that humankind faces dire climatic consequences if it doesn't curb its carbon dioxide emissions. The film also reveals how the near death of Gore's 6-year-old son inspired a personal mission to save the world from greenhouse gases.

We know what you're thinking, but as this surprisingly absorbing film shows, Gore's lectures are anything but dull. For one, they're conducted amid a compelling array of film and video footage, photographs, wall-size charts and graphs, and even animation. And for another, Gore is relaxed and energized in ways that might have changed his failed bid for the presidency in 2000.

Thus he tells audiences -- in earnest, wonkish detail -- about the isotopes trapped in air bubbles under the Antarctic ice. He explains how the emissions have elicited a biblical barrage of typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes and heat waves from New Orleans to Mumbai. If all college courses had presentations this evocative and sophisticated, no universities would hurt for enrollment.

But there's more to "An Inconvenient Truth" than impressive auditorium visuals. Guggenheim intersperses the film with revealing interviews and moments away from that lectern. While Gore's onstage presentation tells us nothing new, it has a renewed -- call it recycled -- potency, in light of a growing scientific consensus about changing weather patterns. There will be those speculators who see, in their organic tea leaves, the stirrings of a presidential run. But for viewers of any stripe, there's something perhaps even more fascinating here. Between the lines, "An Inconvenient Truth" is a quintessentially American story of reinvention.

-- Desson Thomson

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/w...displaySearchLocation=&nm=1&categories=Movies

 

[jillian]

The Tempest

By Joel Achenbach
Sunday, May 28, 2006; Page W08

As evidence mounts that humans are causing dangerous changes in Earth's climate, a handful of skeptics are providing some serious blowback

IT SHOULD BE GLORIOUS TO BE BILL GRAY, professor emeritus. He is often called the World's Most Famous Hurricane Expert. He's the guy who, every year, predicts the number of hurricanes that will form during the coming tropical storm season. He works on a country road leading into the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in the atmospheric science department of Colorado State University. He's mentored dozens of scientists. By rights, Bill Gray should be in deep clover, enjoying retirement, pausing only to collect the occasional lifetime achievement award.

He's a towering figure in his profession and in person. He's 6 feet 5 inches tall, handsome, with blue eyes and white hair combed straight back. He's still lanky, like the baseball player he used to be back at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington in the 1940s. When he wears a suit, a dark shirt and tinted sunglasses, you can imagine him as a casino owner or a Hollywood mogul. In a room jammed with scientists, you'd probably notice him first.

He's loud. His laugh is gale force. His personality threatens to spill into the hallway and onto the chaparral. He can be very charming.

But he's also angry. He's outraged.

He recently had a public shouting match with one of his former students. It went on for 45 minutes.

He was supposed to debate another scientist at a weather conference, but the organizer found him to be too obstreperous, and disinvited him.

Much of his government funding has dried up. He has had to put his own money, more than $100,000, into keeping his research going. He feels intellectually abandoned. If none of his colleagues comes to his funeral, he says, that'll be evidence that he had the courage to say what they were afraid to admit.

Which is this: Global warming is a hoax.

"I am of the opinion that this is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people," he says when I visit him in his office on a sunny spring afternoon.

He has testified about this to the United States Senate. He has written magazine articles, given speeches, done everything he could to get the message out. His scientific position relies heavily on what is known as the Argument From Authority. He's the authority.

"I've been in meteorology over 50 years. I've worked damn hard, and I've been around. My feeling is some of us older guys who've been around have not been asked about this. It's sort of a baby boomer, yuppie thing."

[MORE]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305.html

 

[Gunny]

:rotflmao:

@

Dems trying to defend a stupid movie no one wants to see.

:rotflmao:

 

[theHawk]

Yea, not even a half a million dollars. Thats not a bomb!! LMAO

 

[no1tovote4]

Yea, not even a half a million dollars. Thats not a bomb!! LMAO

Considering far more than that was paid by his followers to get the message out, it pretty much is a bomb. His trips across the nation alone pumped out more of the gasses he wants to deny to you than his hot wind ever did....

 

[dmp]

This movie carries as much credibility as Fahrenheit 911.

 

[Mr.Conley]

No you all are failing to understand. Yes, it only pulled in about 300,000 but that was from only 4 theatres. Of course it's not going to pull in tens of millions of dollars from 4 locations. But at the locations it was shown, the movie did amazingly well. If the film had seen widespread release equal to X-Men 3 and seen the same gross per theatre, the n the movie would have pulled in $338,845,320. That would make it the highest gross on an opening weekend EVER. Now that they are starting to roll the movie out nationwide, expect to see it pull it millions.

 

[Gunny]

No you all are failing to understand. Yes, it only pulled in about 300,000 but that was from only 4 theatres. Of course it's not going to pull in tens of millions of dollars from 4 locations. But at the locations it was shown, the movie did amazingly well. If the film had seen widespread release equal to X-Men 3 and seen the same gross per theatre, the n the movie would have pulled in $338,845,320. That would make it the highest gross on an opening weekend EVER. Now that they are starting to roll the movie out nationwide, expect to see it pull it millions.

Spoken like a TRUE liberal.

But of course we don't understand. I never was good at whimsical math anyway.

 

[jasendorf]

But I just showed you it hasn't.

The film did incredibly at the places it was shown, and they have not even begun to distribute it nationwide. I'm going to predict that the movie makes at least 50 million, probably closer to 80 in theatres.

btw, I just realized your numbers are incorrect. When I said the movie pulled in $91,828 per theatre, I meant each theatre, over the 4 day period pulled in $91,828, not all of them. That , means they each earned $22,820.50 per day, nearly three times that of X-Men

Stop bothering them with facts! It just makes them madder.

 

[Gunny]

Stop bothering them with facts! It just makes them madder.

What facts? All I see is a bunch of guesswork.

 

[jasendorf]

Sometimes I think the Republicans play stupid just to lull us into a false sense of security. I mean, can this many Republicans be so dumb as to not understand that a movie which is only being shown in 4 theaters isn't going to pull in $20 million in 4 days?

I think they do this just so we'll keep thinking they're dumb.

 

[Mr.Conley]

But of course we don't understand. I never was good at whimsical math anyway.

If the only response you have is that I'm a liberal because people are ignoring the facts, then my respect for conservatives has just been greatly diminished.

Stop bothering them with facts! It just makes them madder.

Your right partisan hacks have no need for something as trivial as "facts" or "evidence"

 

[jasendorf]

You right partisan hacks have no need for something as trivial as "facts" or "evidence"

Well, DUH! Please don't tell me you're just figuring this out!