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Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand! You Get a Crappy Sequel.
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I wouldn't actually be too surprised to learn that Part 1 is slowly making money on DVD; I know a lot of liberals who would never be caught seeing it in a theater who just wanted to know what sort of madness was being peddled.
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In Hollywood-speak, "if the folks at ______ have their way" = "the folks at ______ will never have their way"...
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Speaking of Big Hollywood, I was saddened to learn that Adam Baldwin writes for them and is an all around right wing douche.
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A four month schedule, from the start of principal photography to distribution? Does that strike anyone else as exceedingly fast (or rushed)?
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@#1
It cost at least $20 million, plus promotion and distribution, and the gross at the box office was $5,000,000, suggesting that the film makers were at least $20,000,000 in the hole when they went to DVD. It's about ten bucks to buy the DVD at Amazon; if even half that is going to the moviemakers, to break even based on DVD sales they'd have to sell 4,000,000 DVDs. Granted that's only 3% of households buying the DVD, but somehow I have a hard time seeing that happening.
It cost at least $20 million, plus promotion and distribution, and the gross at the box office was $5,000,000, suggesting that the film makers were at least $20,000,000 in the hole when they went to DVD. It's about ten bucks to buy the DVD at Amazon; if even half that is going to the moviemakers, to break even based on DVD sales they'd have to sell 4,000,000 DVDs. Granted that's only 3% of households buying the DVD, but somehow I have a hard time seeing that happening.
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@4&6: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone erase this knowledge from my brain!
Someone erase this knowledge from my brain!
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@1:
A TRUE liberal would bit-torrent the movie; not that I advocate bit-torrenting, mind you, but I think I could make an exception in this case.
A TRUE liberal would bit-torrent the movie; not that I advocate bit-torrenting, mind you, but I think I could make an exception in this case.
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@11 ok, then: "I advocate Bittorrenting and I suggest you do..."
Honest, I managed about half an hour of movie before just... dying a little on the inside. But in all fairness I got about as much out of the book - which, I suggest, you DON'T read. Read an abridged version or something if you have to but the whole book. It was just... well it was awful, thats about it.
Honest, I managed about half an hour of movie before just... dying a little on the inside. But in all fairness I got about as much out of the book - which, I suggest, you DON'T read. Read an abridged version or something if you have to but the whole book. It was just... well it was awful, thats about it.
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Using TAXPAYER FUNDED materials (the Public Library), I listened to the audio book of A.S. for free, just so I could tell Libertards, "Yeah, I read it." It was like the longest, weirdest, most politically silly radio show ever produced. 47 hours.
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#7, yeah, four months from start of shooting to distribution, it's going to be great.
-That cardboard headstone tipped over. This graveyard is obviously phony.
-Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
- The big picture?
- Yes.
- Then how 'bout when the policemen arrived in daylight, but now it's suddenly night?
- What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
-That cardboard headstone tipped over. This graveyard is obviously phony.
-Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
- The big picture?
- Yes.
- Then how 'bout when the policemen arrived in daylight, but now it's suddenly night?
- What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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#7 Trey Parker and Matt Stone could make it that fast.
Atlas Shrugged: South Park 2 couldn't possibly bomb as badly as the first one, and the director's comments on the DVD version might be worth buying.
Atlas Shrugged: South Park 2 couldn't possibly bomb as badly as the first one, and the director's comments on the DVD version might be worth buying.
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@7: Well, since the script is rock fucking solid and already in the can, they can move full steam ahead on everything else.
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