Gore movie reaching the red states, too

SF Chronicle ^ | 7/8/06 | Joe Garofoli

[pissant]

Since the Al Gore global warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth," opened in the Bay Area five weeks ago, approving audiences have left the theater murmuring a similar refrain: "I hope the people who need to see it, see it."

In the region's politically blue vernacular, that translates as "red state audiences." And so far, those audiences are seeing it. The film is playing in the nation's top 185 markets, getting off-the-chart audience recommendations in conservative bastions like Plano, Texas, and Orange County. "Truth" is the third-highest-grossing political documentary of all time, behind Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" (which grossed $119 million) and "Bowling for Columbine" ($21 million).

And a key to making "An Inconvenient Truth" accessible to a wide range of audiences started with the first conversation Gore had last summer with director Davis Guggenheim in San Francisco's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Each had a demand.

Gore wanted the science to be handled correctly, not trivialized. Guggenheim, director of Fox's breakneck TV hit "24," wanted to tell the story through Gore's life.

[pissant]

A man that hires Naomi Wolfe to help him become an Alpha male does not belong in this country. Let's check Box office Mojo from last weekend:

An Inconvenient Truth

Place: 13

Last week: 14

Weekend gross: $1,690,035

Percent change: -16.2%

Number of theatres: 587

Change of theaters from last week: +73

Total Gross: $12,452,038

Weeks since release: 6

So this buffoon author thinks that when you add 73 theatres from the previous week, and yet you drop 16.2% in revenues, that that is success. It's a embarrassing flop. Period. And a work of fiction as well.

[GOPRaleigh]

These people are too stupid for words to describe them.

[pissant]

That is the definition of a liberal. Too stupid to describe.

[Vigilanteman]

Gee, so impressive. Ranks third after Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" (which grossed $119 million) and "Bowling for Columbine" ($21 million). We all know what box office bonanzas those crockumentaries were!

[jetson]

Al Gore's global warming movie or terrorist training movie? Sounds like the terrorist like his ideas.

[Common Tator]

If each theatre is showing the Al's flick 2 times a day it is drawing about 26 people a showing.

Since most of today's theaters seat about 150 people, 26 people a showing ia a pathetic response.

[Sam Cree]

I'm starting to gather that, except for us Freepers, a good bit of the general public seems to have reached a critical mass in accepting as proven fact even the more radical anthropogenic global warming theories.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

facts mean nothing when the MSM is trying to drive home a point by spinning it to be a success..

[BenLurkin]

Not only that . . . moviegoers in the 'red states' may only going so they can laugh at algore, jeer at the screen and mercilessly mock the entire thing.

Nobody with any sense would take anything algore says seriously.

[Jakarta ex-pat]

They do have "Education" on their side.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Bingo. The good news is nobody really thinks it's that big a deal, or there'd be a lot more call for action.

[pissant]

And to classify any of those as a documentary shows the absolute fantasy world hollywood lives in.

[Lexington Green]

More people have seen South Park's 'Pigbearman' episode. I'm cereal.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

How can anyone call "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", and now AlGoreBore's POS "A Convenient Lie", DOCUMENTARIES? WTF?

doc·u·men·ta·ry Audio pronunciation of "documentary" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dky-mnt-r)
adj.

1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents.
2. Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.

All three are LEFTIST WACKO *PROPAGANDA* CRAP, and nothing more.

Anyone have some duct tape? My head feels like it's going to explode? My eyeballs are alrteady filling-up with blood!

[pissant]

Well, Al certainly is on the terrorists side in this war of civilization.

[pissant]

LOL!

[roses of sharon]

While the left sucks on its pacifier propaganda films the Commie-Vampires continue to suck the lifeblood out of everything good in this country.

[BigFinn]

Just the fact this was reported by the San Francisco Chronicle should give no credence to this story. Move on...

[Maelstorm]

I really loved it when the left was out pushing Michael Moore saying you just need to see the movie to have a leftist epiphany. The left operate on the flawed assumption that if conservatives only had all the "facts" we would bow down and worship the trough of liberalism. Only someone who picks and chooses convenient facts arrives at Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth".

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

"I hope the people who need to see it, see it."

Liberals are such arrogant, out-of-touch, smug little...