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(Vanity) Brokeback Mountain, a Curious Attendance Story
Michael Medved Radio | 1-6-06 | Vanity

Posted on 01/06/2006 3:31:19 PM PST by Balding_Eagle

Did anyone else hear this on the Michael Medved talk radio today?

A man called in, near the end of the hour. He said he had been taken his kids to the theater, and the kids movie they were waiting to see had a very long line. Brokeback Mountain was also showing at that theater. He said he sat near the ticket booth for 35 minutes, as his kids waited in line to buy tickets for their movie.

During that 35 minutes he never heard one person buy a ticket for Brokeback Mountain. However, during that 35 minutes, the “SOLD OUT” sign came on for Brokeback. Out of curiosity, he went in to the Brokeback theater, and only saw 4 people in there. The theater manager refused to comment when the man questioned him.

Is this how all those theaters are getting such high attendance for Brokeback? Imaginary theater goers?

Perhaps other theater goers can investigate for themselves this weekend.

I can only vouch for the fact that this man called in a related the story as I presented it here, not if it’s true. Callers can make up stories too. It peaked my interest though.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; brokebackmountain; hollyweird; homosexualagenda; medved; piqued; pudding
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To: bulldozer

Follow his reply...in that post he's talking about "Walk the Line"


161 posted on 01/06/2006 4:53:22 PM PST by FreeperinRATcage (I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do. - R. A. Heinlein)
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To: Darkwolf377

It's a politcal forum. Brokeback is a political film. Narnia isn't.


162 posted on 01/06/2006 4:54:16 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I don't know how many in Hollwood are "always" seeking to change the culture. I know people who work in movies, and they want to make a good movie, tell stories, etc. Where's the evidence that a movie supposedly no one is seeing is somehow changing the culture? Are people saying "Hey, this movie I haven't seen says gay love is cool, I'm gonna turn gay"?


163 posted on 01/06/2006 4:54:53 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. --Elmer Davis)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

In case you haven't noticed there's a lot more than politics discussed on FR. Football isn't a political topic, yet I seem to recall seeing a few threads about it.


164 posted on 01/06/2006 4:56:00 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. --Elmer Davis)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
 
I knew there was someone lurking around out there that could more eloquently say what I was thinking. Thanks ;)
 

165 posted on 01/06/2006 4:57:58 PM PST by HawaiianGecko (Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
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To: Darkwolf377
The Passion was a huge success had an enormous pre-release publicity push, targeted at the likely viewers

The Passion also had the most vindictive press of any movie release I have ever seen, while BM has had the most fawning.

I think most people on FR see through hollyweird's marketing ruse and think you are a hollyweird sycophant for pushing that ruse and saying it is s a success, when it really is not, and if anything shows hollyweird's declinging clout in the culture wars.

166 posted on 01/06/2006 4:58:34 PM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Dane

A movie will remain exclusively in the cinema circuits anywhere from two weeks to 4 months - although they may continue to run in cinemas long after the initial exclusivity has been withdrawn.

Of the revenues generated at the box office, the studio ultimately will take home 50-55 percent, leaving the balance to the cinema-owners. During the early weeks of a film's release, the studio's cut can be as high as 90 percent in some cases; at the end of a long run, this ratio can inverted, providing 90 percent to the cinema-owners and only 10 percent to the studios. This may be one of the reasons the length of the theatrical window has declined in recent years, as studios have determined that it may be friendlier to the bottom line to move their films more quickly to the retail sales / rental market.

http://www.factbook.net/wbglobal_rev.htm


167 posted on 01/06/2006 4:58:40 PM PST by razorback-bert
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The data is from the theatre manager, not the pimply faced usher. Not that the manager might not have a few pimples. Also, spot checks are made on the theatres. These checks are made by independant companies paid by the studios. The checks include head counts and checking the ticket sales. There are also covert checks, where someone goes to see the movie and gets the count on that particular show in that theatre.


168 posted on 01/06/2006 4:58:49 PM PST by magslinger (At the end of the day the only truly educated people are autodidacts.)
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To: Borges
Ang Lee makes tedious, watered down, middlebrow piffle. This movie looks like more of the same along the lines his 'The Ice Storm' all from the devilish spawn of ersatz pseudo art like 'Ordinary People'.

I'm sorry, I just liked those sentences.

169 posted on 01/06/2006 5:02:20 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: Darkwolf377

I understand that, and Narnia has been discussed along with other secondary topics. You asked why Brokeback was getting so much attention here, that's the reason. It's a film with a political agenda. And this is a (primarily) political board.

I'm not entirely sure why you're splitting hairs here. The answer to your question is fairly obvious.


170 posted on 01/06/2006 5:02:45 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: daku
"only saw 4 people in there"

... er... possibly eight

To paraphrase another poster on one of these ButtBuddy Mountain threads: That's b-a-a-a-a-a-d!

171 posted on 01/06/2006 5:02:52 PM PST by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
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To: Dane
The Passion also had the most vindictive press of any movie release I have ever seen, while BM has had the most fawning.

No argument there.

I think most people on FR see through hollyweird's marketing ruse and think you are a hollyweird sycophant for pushing that ruse and saying it is s a success, when it really is not, and if anything shows hollyweird's declinging clout in the culture wars

Yeah, whatever, pushing the ruse, blah blah blah.

Funny how you can't even admit that I just praised The Passion to high heaven, and have been pointing out the success of BBM only as money-making ventures. Unlike you, who get pissy because I refuse to lie as you are, I deal in truth, I know about the economics of the movies, and I am providing actual information, as opposed to your bizarre lies. And of course, you don't like the truth so you use a smear.

If you can quote a single sentence in which I say a single positive thing about the actual movie BBM, post it. But you can't, because I haven't said any such thing, because this is a discussion of money, pure and simple.

But your ignorance of the financial facts has been shown up, and you pout and insult. Boo hoo, poor baby. Grow up and stop talking about things you know zero about and stick to the topic at hand, and stop throwing mud when you've been show up to be an ignorant jerk.

172 posted on 01/06/2006 5:03:27 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. --Elmer Davis)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Not splitting hairs, just wondering. The answer to my question is not obvious, because people post about movies and books they enjoy all the time, with no political content--ever notice the "Bloggers/Peronsal" and "General/Chat" links on the side? I don't find many discussions about a movie people here love, only endless false info about the finances of a movie they hate.


173 posted on 01/06/2006 5:05:07 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. --Elmer Davis)
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To: Balding_Eagle
Here's what some theater managers were found to be doing when Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" was so controversial.

They were selling "Passion's" viewers tickets that upon examination, were actually to other movies (as reported here on FR at the time).

They get away with it on the probability that 99% of moviegoers probably never look at their tickets. They just hand it to the ticket-checker, and go in.

Those who do notice and question it are either told it's just a mistake, or "stonewalled" (pun intended).

Ask yourselves. If they are willing to do that to suppress sales of one movie, aren't more than likely willing to do the same thing to inflate the sales of another?
174 posted on 01/06/2006 5:06:10 PM PST by conservativeharleyguy (Democracy can withstand almost anything, except Democrats!)
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To: dangus
Theater's take is typically 45% of the cut.

And if one movie allows the theater to keep more money than another movie, it would be in the theater manager's best interest to sell tickets for the latter in the name of the former.

175 posted on 01/06/2006 5:07:27 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: Borges; Darkwolf377
Ordinary People is one of only four movies I've walked out of in my life (Eraserhead, Notorious C.H.O., Moulin Rouge), and I've seen an average of one a week in a theater for over 30 years.

By the time I'd had all I could stand and got up to leave, I wanted all those horrid "Ordinary People" to be dead in horrible ways.

176 posted on 01/06/2006 5:07:34 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: don-o

How about this to top it.

All the while his people were taking calls (and giving him updates on the giveaway numbers), he kept bitching about how the theater gave them a bunch of tickets for Bareback Mountain. Did they give them tickets to see the last Starwars? NO. Did they give them tickets to see King Kong? NO. Did they give them tickets to see (fill in the blank with every popular movie in the last year)? NO. All they ever gave them was a bunch of tickets to see a couple of gay cowboys. It was hilarious.


177 posted on 01/06/2006 5:09:21 PM PST by jim_trent
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To: Borges

Bullhonkey! Michael Medved said `Brokeback Mountain' is not only pro-homosexual, it's anti-family as well! Two married men leave their wives and families to bugger each other in the Hollywood Hills.

`Liked the movie'. Yeah, right.


178 posted on 01/06/2006 5:10:02 PM PST by elcid1970
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To: Darkwolf377

Endless false info about "Brokeback Mountain"?

Is Free Republic sullying this fine film's good name?


179 posted on 01/06/2006 5:10:14 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: magslinger

Well, now I know. I guess the book biz is more corrupt than the movie biz, LOL!


180 posted on 01/06/2006 5:12:10 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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