Umm, no, actually, it's not, and you obviously don't know what you are talking about.
$11,000 per theater, especially the arthouse theaters where a movie like that is likely to play, is probably a sellout audience at most theaters.
The opposition to this film on FR really surprises me. I thought we took a 'live and let live' position. Who cares if it's about gay cowboys? I'm sure there are gay cowboys somewhere out there. If they want a movie, good for them. Might actually be good. I'm not gonna take kids to see it, but its stupid to say that there shouldn't be a movie on that topic.
The elitists have embraced this movie as a kind of Passion of the Christ of their own, and it's being (so to speak) forced down our throats in a number of ways; in spite of being (from most accounts) an overlong, boring, unpleasant film, it's going to win all the awards just to show the "fundies" who's in charge of the culture.
That's why it's not going to be popular here.
>> especially the arthouse theaters where a movie like that is likely to play <<
There's the mistake in your logic. This is being shown at most of the largest theaters in the nation. The sort of movies that are shown in "arthouse" theaters in mid-America are shown in flagship theaters in downtowns of major cities.
No true conservative take a 'live and let live' position when under attack.
I smell troll.
No, we are conservatives not libertarians. We actually care about the moral fiber of this country know as our founders new with moral decline comes the loss for freedoms because an immoral society is one that preys on each other.
I can't think of a single gay cowboy. Sheepherders have a particular smell. I can't speak for there proclivities, perverse or otherwise.