Proud American, an uber-patriotic movie that was advertised exactly nowhere and sponsored by, I shit you not, Coca-Cola, MasterCard, Wal-Mart and American Airlines, just had the worst opening of all time for any wide-release movie ever.
There is a God.
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Unpossible!
There’s a huge market for good, uplifting stories of American pride and Patriotism! I know because the wingnuts say so! It must be true, because they are in touch with Real Americans from America’s Heartland! Not like those Hollywood People and their San Francisco Values…
“... advertised exactly nowhere…”
If it was advertised nowhere, then how would people know to go and see it…..
$180 per site? What is that, 20 tickets? Hell, we had six people at a single afternoon showing of I.O.U.S.A. yesterday, in the middle of a storm that dumped 6 inches of rain on Chicago, and the movie has been out for a few weeks with minimal media attention, unlike Proud American.
I.O.U.S.A. is in very limited release—a documentary? on an extremely wonky topic? Yeah, that’s not playing wide. But if it’s near you, I urge you to see it for a gripping telling of how the national debt got so huge and how catastrophically huge it’s going to get if we don’t do something about it. Clinton balanced the budget, while Bush has destroyed all fiscal responsibility and put the nation on the road to financial ruin and dependency on China and the oil-exporting nations that own our debt. Corporate and rich-people tax cuts? Irresponsible. Middle-class tax cuts? Also irresponsible. If you don’t want your kids and grandkids to pay 42% income tax to service our generation’s debt, wake up now.
Sorry for the thread hijack, but this is (a) important and (b) hey, still about movies.
This is the first I’ve heard of Proud American.
Unless it’s that thing with George Washington slapping Michael Moore or whatever.
I guess that goes to show how effective their marketing was!
Bagley, the idea was probably that they’d distribute mainly to small towns with one one single or double screen theater, where the film’s poster in the “Coming Soon” box would be enough to at least pull in people who are going to go to whatever is in town, and possibly some people who came to see X summer blockbuster and saw that a patriotic looking Real American Movie was coming to town next month.
I’d also guess that they’re expecting it to be picked up on video in similar rural areas—I used to work at a small-town video store, and the owner stocked a lot of obscure flops. People came in looking for it, too, don’t ask me how they even knew about these movies or why they wanted to watch them. My main question is why they even bothered with a theatrical release. The same kinds of mouthbreathers who came into the store looking for the shitty flops would usually also end up getting a bunch of straight-to-video junk, too.
Well, it wasn’t exactly advertised nowhere—O’Reilly pushed it on his show, which has to count for something. Not much, apparently, but something.
“If it was advertised nowhere, then how would people know to go and see it…..”
Good question. It probably proves that Hollywood hates America, don’t you think?
Or maybe there just wasn’t enough anti-gay bigotry to bring bigots like yourself out for some rip-roaring entertainment in support of all that’s good and holy about America…
If it was advertised nowhere, then how would people know to go and see it…..
You should be asking the film’s distributors that question. Ads don’t magically appear out of nowhere—you have to actually buy them. Praying real real hard that your movie is successful is not a substitute for advertising.
“Praying real real hard that your movie is successful is not a substitute for advertising.”
This is true. A dumb move on their part: perhaps it should have gone “direct to video.”
I have no interest in it…..Sunday night football is on….GO STEELERS!!!!!!
I wouldn’t bother engaging the TeaBagger - he very frequently trolls The Left Coaster, and lives for Krauthammer-esque one liners and heaps of abuse.
The real crap that’s been advertised as the Conservative film, is An American Carol, out the first week of Oct.
the worst opening of all time for any wide-release movie ever
That sound you hear is Kevin Costner breathing a sigh of relief.
Don’t get all lefty-triumphal—that list you linked shows that what sounds likes a documentary about Bush’s invasion of Iraq (My LittLe Pony) did about 5 times better!
Just took a look at the list of fifty worst opening weekend releases. Is it disturbing that I seem to have watched a good number of those films?
As for Coca-Cola sponsoring this thing, they probably did better with the product placement in “And God Spoke…”
Having never even heard of this pathetic excuse for a film, I just clicked on the NYTimes link provided, and got a peek at the cast list. Talk about your sad collection of has-beens and never-weres. (Yakoff Smirnoff is in it!!!) Methinks this is a transparent attempt at grabbing some of the same unexpected Boffo Box Office tapped by Madman Mel Gibson and his religious snuff film from a few years back, but that’s going to be easier said than done. There were specific factors leading up to that film’s surprising success, and they can’t just be replicated out of whole cloth.
The upcoming “Reactionary Movie” (i.e. American KKKarol) might have an easier route, what with it’s being marketed as a “wacky comedy” and all, but it has a similar cast of losers populating it. Times are tough, and I doubt people are going to be willing to shell out actual money for such obvious sub-par ‘entertainment’. But we’ll see.
Wait, wait, wait. Hold it right there.
Yakoff Smirnoff is a PERSON? And not a nickname for my favorite vodka?
You learn something new every day…
Actually, there isn’t. But it’s nice the movie bombed.
(Note that the “Post” button here on Pandagon says “Blaspheme”....)