American Sniper Soars, Selma Flounders

http://therightscoop.com/american-sniper-breaks-box-office-records-on-first-day-selma-flounders/

"In a distant second place, Selma expanded to nearly 2,200 locations and earned an estimated $11.2 million. Compare that to Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which dealt with similar issues during a similar time period in U.S. history and earned over twice as much in its first weekend ($24.6 million). Selma instead wound up opening in line with disappointing political dramas J. Edgar ($11.2 million) and W. ($10.5 million)."

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I think this is because Americans in general are tired of a certain political group fixating on events 50 years ago. Most Americans would rather move forward, while the left is focused on living in the past..despite their phony moniker "progressives". This has to worry leftists as it demonstrates that patriotism is alive and well. This is bad news for the left as they are widely viewed worldwide and self loathing Americans who dislike and disrespect our military personnel regularly. I hope this is an indication that America is waking up from its "symbolism" drunk and realizes that we need competence and real ability in the White House, not just some symbolic figure with a certain color of skin, and our social policy dollars should be focused on taking care of our veterans before giving free cell phones to societal leaches.

 

Selma had no audience. The amount of people who would actually be interested in that movie is very very small.

 

What?!? An action blockbuster did better than a historical drama?!?

Everyone stop the (*)(*)(*)(*)ing presses!

 

Although I think Boyhood should win the Oscar, I'm going with Selma - mostly because the Academy members, already feeling some heat from the #OscarsSoWhite thing, are going to vote for Selma as a way of keeping Sharpton from marching on Hollywood demanding money from them, something this klan of leftists wish avoided at all costs.

 

Both movies look horrible, imo.

 

both best picture nominees, one deserved it, the other....well they were scared not to nominate it.

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Have you actually watched either?

 

I may be wrong, but I do not think political history type event movies have topped the box office. Of course I will watch documentaries on the History Channel, Discovery and the like as they are accurate of what actually happened. Films like Nixon, JFK, all have a political slant and are far from the truth which is the producers and writers privilege. What I dislike about them is that most people who go to these types of movies think they are true.

 

Certain people out there want Affirmative Action applied to movies as well....disgusting.

 

Excuse it all you want, it is a stark difference.

 

No, hence why I say " look " horrible. Doubt I will ever watch them, war movies are not my thing.

 

"look" infers you have seen them, you get that right?

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Read more carefully, the stats show this "historical drama" did far worse that similar films in the fairly recent past.

 

Not to anyone under the age of 65 ... lol

"Hey you see that new movie ?"

"No, it looks horrible ill pass"

Had I seen it...

"Hey you see that new movie? "

"yeah, it was horrible "

 

Really? I can think of exactly three movies in the last twenty years that "fixated on events of 50 years ago", or at least the events you are obliquely referring to.

As for wanting to "move forward", it has been my experience here that most conservatives see the future only in their rear view mirrors, and the bigots here say things every day that would not have been tolerated in polite conversation just a few years ago.

Couple that with the ancient demographics (and its lilly white composition), we're not talking about people wanting to move forward at all. No, these people post every day about wanting to go backward.

These people don't embrace the future, they fear it.

They don't tolerate people who aren't the same as them, they fear and resent them.

 

That's a valid point. To be fair, not all historical dramas are that way. Films like Joseph E Levine's "The Longest Day" don't fall into that category, but Oliver Stone's "JFK" certainly does.

When that movie came out, most people were only vaguely aware of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assasination. People who saw it bought the hints that Stone dropped all over the place, and came out convinced that JFK was killed by a conspiracy, and didn't seem to notice that the film didn't identify the genesis of the alleged conspiracy.

 

MLK is and always was overrated as a "great man" he was a less slimy version of Sharpton at best, only reason he is so great is he got shot down. Same reason JFK became this "great" President.... Most people stopped swallowing the liberal bull(*)(*)(*)(*) long time ago.

 

wait a minute, isn't Taken 23 (seems like that many) out in the theaters? The movie where a 60 something year old guy goes around beating up 20 somethings and uses a gun, the same thing he bemoans about in real life?

 

Soapbox 101.

 

Liberals tolerate people by thinking they are too stupid and pathetic to help themselves. Black people are too stupid to get jobs and education on their own, women are too helpless to pay for their own birth control, etc etc etc.

And when is the last time youve ever seen a liberal tolerate a conservative? In regards to your little rant, pot meet kettle.

 

Are you kidding me? If there are two themes for which there is enough existing cinema to address until such time as our sun explodes, it is the black experience in the US and the Jewish experience under Hitler... ffs.

 

Thanks for making my case.

 

Funny how all you have to do is let them talk....and it eventually comes out, huh?

 

Normal Person: Hey Billy Bob Joe, you wanna go see a movie about a macho American guy killing dark skinned foreigners or a movie about black people in the Civil Rights struggle?

True Patriot: Al Sharpton is a race card pimp baiter! And Robert Byrd! Uhhhh...tough choice.

 

Were those films completing against action blockbusters on opening weekend?

 

I did the exact opposite.

 

I was thinking that yesterday as I was watching Selma, an infinitely bad (boring) movie. They might give it the single award it's nominated for just to pacify the community organizers, et al.

So far, I've seen 4 of the best picture nominees. Of the 4, American Sniper is by far the best, but it's still not a very good movie. They just don't much make good movies any more. If Selma wins, it's a fact it will be because of the theme.

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The Selma director admitted to not knowing much of anything about the real history of the subject. I'm sure Oprah filled in the blanks, lolol.