Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

The National Guard is not Batman.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

We will not go back.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Everybody saw this coming.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

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  2. 2.

    BGinCHI

    The Liar (Gingrich), the Witch (Palin), and the Wardrobe (Marcus Bachmann).

    Coming soon to an election near you.

  3. 3.

    PaulW

    You see the problem was, the guy went to the midnight showing. And anyone who’s been following the teabagger crowd ought to know that seniors get to bed by 11 pm… tsk tsk.

  4. 4.

    Loneoak

    I particularly liked this line: “Shortly before the end of the film, a young couple entered, walked to the back row, started making out, then interrupted their session and left (spoiler alert) as Andrew Breitbart, who made one of several guest appearances, started talking about eunuchs.”

    Young Conner does the dry humor well.

  8. 8.

    Mike Goetz

    And Rick Santorum has collected a grand total of $600,000 for his ineluctible march to the White House.

    Ah the free market, voting with it’s cheddar again. Ass-faced, liberally-biased free market.

  9. 9.

    Culture of Truth

    That was totally unfair because you can’t expect anyone to go to a movie at midnight.

    I mean, except for 10 year olds reading an 800 page book.

  10. 10.

    Loneoak

    @Hunter Gathers: Not sure who would pay for it, but the sample we have indicates that it is not an aphrodisiac.

  11. 11.

    fasteddie9318

    There’s a joke here about how one of these movies is about one of the most despicable super-villains ever put on screen, while the other is about Lord Voldemort, but I can’t pull it off.

  14. 14.

    JGabriel

    If Friedersdorf really wanted to interview Palin fans, why did he go to a midnight showing? Wouldn’t her fans mostly be among the matinee/early evening viewers?

    .

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    OT but in the same magazine: McSuderman actually comes up with a decent idea. I think there’s issues here but it sounds workable.

  16. 16.

    fasteddie9318

    Why anyone would pay money to see Andrew Brietbart talk about eunuchs?

    Well, for all we know it might be his one area of expertise.

  19. 19.

    slag

    As enthralling as the topic of Sarah Palin is, I thought Kay might enjoy this article on why Rhode Island needs a Voter ID Law:

    The bottom line is this: Rhode Island elections need to be safeguarded from progressive sleazebags.
    __
    ———————————————————–
    Travis Rowley (TravisRowley.com) is chairman of the RI Young Republicans, and a consultant for the Barry Hinckley Campaign for US Senate.

    Kids these days!

  21. 21.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The reason he went to the midnight showing is that is where you’ll find the RFO’s (Real Frantic Ones…refreshing fizzy beverage to those who get the reference).

    There are apparently are no Sarah Palin RFOs. Compare and contrast with the Potter crowd…

  22. 22.

    artem1s

    @Davis X. Machina:

    there’s an old joke … ‘how do you tell the difference between Limbaugh and the Hindenburg’

    one’s a N@zi gas bag, the other is a dirigible.

  25. 25.

    JGabriel

    @fasteddie9318:

    There’s a joke here about how one of these movies is about one of the most despicable super-villains ever put on screen, while the other is about Lord Voldemort, but I can’t pull it off.

    [Sigh]

    Apologies to John Rogers (yes, he of Leverage-producing fame):

    One advocates for belief in a world ruled by magic and superstition leading to a stunted adulthood marked by the inability to deal with a rational reality, and the other is about Death Eaters.

    .

  27. 27.

    El Cid

    This too is evidence of the liberal Hollywood elite’s hatred for Sarah Palin, and it will turn out that a number of decisions made by the librul elites made people stay away and also misreported how enthusiastic the turnout was.

    Sarah will show you libruals how strong she is and she will withstand your elite attacks and emerge even stronger and someday you will be forced to admit what a success this film was over the long term.

  28. 28.

    Martin

    They showed it at The Block? Yeah, I’m sure all the 17 year-olds were eager to rush out of the Vans Skate Park to go pay $11.50 to see grandma talk about herself for 100 minutes.

    They need to put it at the Big Newport at 3PM on a weekday, and serve a buffet dinner in the lobby. Then they’ll get people to show up. Lead in with an episode of Death Valley Days.

  29. 29.

    El Cid

    Of course, ‘box office flop’ is always a relative standard.

    Take for example Uma Thurman’s movie “Motherhood” upon its UK premiere in March of last year.

    Over its opening weekend, no more than a dozen people went to see Motherhood, a semi-autobiographical account of stressed-out Manhattan parenting written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann.
    __
    The film made just £88 on the weekend of Friday 5 March. On its debut Sunday, box office takings were £9, meaning one person bought a ticket.

    Those aren’t the figures for one theater or one district or London. Those are the box office receipts for the entire UK.

    I’m pretty sure the Palin bio-fapic made more than $200 its premiere weekend.

  32. 32.

    slag

    @Davis X. Machina:

    but it’s almost always on the ballot, not in the booth. (Mandatory Buddy Cianci Jr. marinara sauce shout-out).

    See also: Barry Hinckley Campaign for US Senate. Apparently.

  33. 33.

    Martin

    So, is the movie going to quit halfway through its theatrical run?

    Only after her money laundering operation PAC buys $1M in tickets so that Palin can receive enough from her box office cut to buy some new fuck-me boots.

  34. 34.

    JGabriel

    @El Cid:

    I’m pretty sure the Palin bio-fapic made more than $200 its premiere weekend.

    In ten theaters? Let’s check again on Monday, just to be sure.

    Remember, we’ll need to look at receipts, not attendance. No telling how many complimentary tickets may have been given away to various wingnut organizations.

    .

  36. 36.

    Judas Escargot

    I haven’t met any actual witches who were Sarah Palin fans.

    Her style always seemed more Asatru to me.

  37. 37.

    Lawnguylander

    @Loneoak

    That may indeed be the best pun ever. Do you have plans to use that pun as a pseudonym or is it free for the taking? Asking for a friend, you understand.

  38. 38.

    Violet

    @El Cid:

    I’m pretty sure the Palin bio-fapic made more than $200 its premiere weekend.

    Well of course it will. Palin’s got fans who have made it their mission to buy multiple tickets and drag their friends and families to see it. Several of today’s primetime showings are sold out, like in Grapevine, Texas and Highland Ranch, Colorado. Just like Palin’s bots voted their fingers to the bone for Bristol on DWTS, they’re buying up all the tickets to make it look like the movie is having a big opening.

    I’m not making this stuff up. You can read all about it over on Conservatives4Palin. They’re boasting in comments how they’re dragging their friends to see it and how they’re “converting” people, etc.

  39. 39.

    Brachiator

    If Friedersdorf really wanted to interview Palin fans, why did he go to a midnight showing? Wouldn’t her fans mostly be among the matinee/early evening viewers?

    The Palin movie opened at midnight. Somebody thought that there might be Palin supporters who would be hot to see it.

    But yeah, somebody should go to a later screening as well.

  41. 41.

    JGabriel

    Violet:

    I’m not making this stuff up. You can read all about it over on Conservatives4Palin.

    Heh. There’s a reliable source.

    .

  43. 43.

    Chris

    Heh. There’s a reliable source.

    I gotta say, “I’m not making this stuff up. You can read all about it over on Conservatives4Palin” is a Stephen Colbert line waiting to be delivered with a big grin at the audience.

  44. 44.

    Violet

    @JGabriel:
    It’s reliable if you’re looking for what Palin fans are thinking. It’s also got some kind of connection with Sarah herself. Her chief spokesmouth (until Twittergate), Rebecca Mansour came from C4P. She either founded it or was one of its main writers until she left to work for Palin.

  45. 45.

    Brachiator

    OT, or perhaps oddly topical, this Regretsy post has perhaps the greatest pun in human history. (NSFW)

    I love April Winchell. I miss the radio show she used to do here in Southern California.

    And can I resist a Harry Potter/Equus pun? Neigh.

  46. 46.

    Violet

    @Chris:
    Heh. True enough. But it’s definitely got some kind of inside connection to Sarah. See my comment above. And selling out showings of her movie is a verifiable fact. Whether people actually show up to see it is another thing entirely.

  48. 48.

    piratedan

    well msn.com is dutifully posting that the Palin film is showing to sold out audiences somewhere in Texas…..granted many of those seats are probably just place holders for all of those books that she sold

  49. 49.

    Jay in Oregon

    There’s a joke here about how one of these movies is about one of the most despicable super-villains ever put on screen, while the other is about Lord Voldemort, but I can’t pull it off.

    I dunno, the part where Molly Weasley fights Sarah Palin in a duel to the death was pretty bad-ass.

  50. 50.

    Violet

    @piratedan:

    well msn.com is dutifully posting that the Palin film is showing to sold out audiences somewhere in Texas…..granted many of those seats are probably just place holders for all of those books that she sold

    Her fans have made a point of selling out the shows. They’ve been working on it for weeks. C4P has been “encouraging” their bots to buy as many tickets as they can afford, that “it’s essential to show people that Sarah can sell out theaters!”

    And the Palinbots have been dutifully doing as told. They’ll comment how they’ve bought ten tickets to such and such showing, and they’re dragging their family members and neighbors along. “I’m bringing my three neighbors to the show on Friday. They’re not Palin fans, but I know they’ll be converted by the time the movie ends. Can’t wait!” Rinse, lather, repeat.

    Same folks who voted Bristol into the DWTS finals are buying up these tickets. They’re sure that if the movie has a strong opening it’ll encourage Sarah to run for President.

  51. 51.

    Tonal Crow

    First the Free Market (sm) Goes Galt (sm) on Atlas Shrugged (S&M), and then compounds the lieberalism by Going Galt (sm) on Palin’s movie. Why does the free market hate the Free Market (sm)?

  52. 52.

    quannlace

    “The Undefeated” went ‘Unattended.’

    Oh, gulag, thank you. You just gave me a great idea for a cartoon.

  53. 53.

    JGabriel

    Anon Palinite via Vi:

    I’m bringing my three neighbors to the show on Friday. They’re not Palin fans, but I know they’ll be converted by the time the movie ends.

    Yes, they’ll be converted to rabid socia1ist Democrats.

    .

  54. 54.

    Felinious Wench

    We have a crop of “Republicans for Voldemort” stickers around here. A favorite of mine.

  56. 56.

    Chris

    I dunno, the part where Molly Weasley fights Sarah Palin in a duel to the death was pretty bad-ass.

    “Not my Social Security, you bitch”?

  57. 57.

    El Cid

    According to the Google box thingy, I may be the first to have used the term bio-fapic.

    You’re welcome.

  58. 58.

    Mike in NC

    C4P has been “encouraging” their bots to buy as many tickets as they can afford, that “it’s essential to show people that Sarah can sell out theaters!”

    Awesome! This flick is going to be an even bigger blockbuster than “An American Carol”.

  59. 59.

    Southern Beale

    Once again it appears facts have a liberal bias, and crime along our border with Mexico is not, in fact, worse than anywhere else in the country:

    The analysis found that rates of violent crime along the U.S.-Mexico border have been falling for years — even before the U.S. security buildup that has included thousands of law enforcement officers and expansion of a massive fence along the border.
    __
    U.S. border cities were statistically safer on average than other cities in their states. Those border cities, big and small, have maintained lower crime rates than the national average, which itself has been falling.
    __
    The appearance of an out-of-control border region, though, has had wide-ranging effects — stalling efforts to pass a national immigration reform law, fueling stringent anti-immigration laws in Arizona and elsewhere, and increasing the amount of federal tax dollars going to build more fencing and add security personnel along the southwestern border.
    __
    The perception of rising violence is so engrained that 83% of Americans said they believe the rate of violence along the southwestern border is higher than national rates, according to a recent USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of 999 adults.
    __
    The findings “are contrary to conventional speculation that the border is an out-of-control place,” said Steven Messner, a criminologist and sociology professor at the University at Albany-SUNY, who reviewed USA TODAY’s analysis.

    Ah yes, that pesky “conventional speculation,” it always bites you on the ass. …

  60. 60.

    Woodrowfan

    well, to be fair, I would not expect a lot of Palin fans to go to midnight movies, but you’d think in Orange County(!!) there would be at least a handful of true-believers who wanted to see it…

  61. 61.

    PTirebiter

    Whether people actually show up to see it is another thing entirely.

    I’d say the report of paying butts in seats over in Grapevine, TX is credible. Mel Gibson’s Passion was SRO there for months before they moved it to Church bombshelters basements, where it may be still running.

  62. 62.

    Lawnguylander

    The headline to the article is a lie because if the reporter was in the theater how could it have been empty? I wonder if he pulled the popcorn trick on the Invisible Hand.

  63. 63.

    scav

    oh joy joy joy joy joy. M. Bachmann’s defense is that children are barbarians, not gays. I really can’t take much more of this period of triumphs in PR.

  64. 64.

    ET

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    gasp gasp gasp

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

  65. 65.

    Southern Beale

    @Mike in NC

    Awesome! This flick is going to be an even bigger blockbuster than “An American Carol”.

    Or Atlas Shrugged Part 1…. or the Red Dawn remake … etc. etc. etc.

    Does anyone else find it amusing that conservatives are sinking so much cash into that evil bastion of liberalism known as Hollywood? And coming up with very little to show for their efforts, save getting laughed at by the rest of us?

  66. 66.

    geisha gurl

    I would have thought there’d be a dozen or so middle-aged men in raincoats scattered around the theatre.

    oh, wait it ain’t the 70’s….

  67. 67.

    Elliecat

    @42

    Here’s some DougJ bait, Garry Wills pummeling Grover Norquist with an Edmund Burke quote.

    Love it. (Though I’d rather see Norquist pummeled with something a lot more painful.)

    Garry Wills on Congress members who sign Norquist’s no tax pledge:

    Burke makes clear what the real meaning of the Norquist pledge is for those who subscribe to it. They are signing over their souls. This first oath they take, as candidates, makes the next one they take, as office holders—the oath to preserve and protect the Constitution—an empty gesture. That oath, sworn to God, may call for changes of position in a crisis or where better knowledge has become available. They cannot preserve and protect the country if their hands are tied and their minds closed. Their participation in congressional discussion, if that discussion affects taxes in any way, becomes a charade.

  68. 68.

    Davis X. Machina

    @Elliecat: That second oath they take — the one to the Constitution — they take perjuring themselves in the process, but that’s ok. The law is just a congeries of bourgeois norms.

    It’s only an oath to defend the foundational law of a state. The State exists to serve the Party; it, not the State, is the Vanguard of the Revolution; in fact the State is fated to wither away.

    The GOP — the last major Leninist parliamentary party in the West.

  69. 69.

    Jay in Oregon

    Ah yes, that pesky “conventional speculation,” it always bites you on the ass.

    Isn’t “conventional speculation” just a fancy term for making shit up?

  70. 70.

    Martin

    but you’d think in Orange County(!!) there would be at least a handful of true-believers who wanted to see it…

    The Block isn’t where the true believers would go. Yeah, there’s a Nieman Marcus closeout store there, but it’s much more geared toward young people. Like I said, if they show it in Newport Beach, seats will fill better.

    But I’m not really sure how well she resonates here. OC has quite a lot of upscale big-money conservatism going on, and I don’t really know how well the gun-totin knocked-up daughter schtick plays in an area where doing your own nails is an example of ‘shared sacrifice’. It’s a bit anecdotal but I live in a quite modest suburban neighborhood – 3BR house, 2 car garage, yard the size of a 2 car garage, and the wingnut across the street from me has a brand new Lamborghini Gallardo in his garage. There’s a new Bentley the block over also at a wingnut household. That doesn’t really seem to align so well with the Palin image.

  71. 71.

    Chris

    @ Southern Beale,

    Does anyone else find it amusing that conservatives are sinking so much cash into that evil bastion of liberalism known as Hollywood? And coming up with very little to show for their efforts, save getting laughed at by the rest of us?

    They’ve had a Cunning Plan to retake pop culture for decades now. The fact that conservatism doesn’t really lend itself to quality entertainment isn’t something they want to hear, so the money-wasting will continue until profits improve, it seems.

  72. 72.

    stuckinred

    Martin

    I used to love Huntington Beach State Park when I was a kid. And the old man in Laguna that would greet everyone on 101.

  74. 74.

    Internet Dragons

    In response to those who think the Palin debacle movie might have stronger attendance at a daytime showing…if I remember correctly, there was a preview screening in Houston that attracted 50 viewers.

    50. Haha

    Now, I’m a Left-coast Californian type who isn’t familiar with the wilds of Texas, but it seems to me that Houston might be able to cough up more than 50 Palin fans.

  75. 75.

    Chris

    @ Elliecat,

    This first oath they take, as candidates, makes the next one they take, as office holders—the oath to preserve and protect the Constitution—an empty gesture. That oath, sworn to God, may call for changes of position in a crisis or where better knowledge has become available. They cannot preserve and protect the country if their hands are tied and their minds closed. Their participation in congressional discussion, if that discussion affects taxes in any way, becomes a charade.

    Pile onto that the Kansas GOP’s decision to demand loyalty oaths a few years back; “I solemnly pledge to always be a Republican, no matter what promises are made by external forces seeking only to undermine the Republican values I stand for. I can have reasonable disagreement with members of the Republican Party; however, at no point will ‘Party switching’ or quitting of the Party be tolerable.”

    Yeah, groupthink and Party first have completely taken over the GOP. But hey, lots of people are still fine with that. It’s not like we’ve ever had problems with people putting ideology and party loyalty ahead of everything.

  77. 77.

    PTirebiter

    I used to love Huntington Beach State Park

    Ah… but where you around when it was called Tin Can Beach by one and all?

  79. 79.

    Gaardian

    Can I just say that the bestest thing ever about this article is that the only person there was a member of the national media. Is there anything else more symbollic of Sarah Palin than that?

    If she’d been treated like a similarly emabarassing Dan Quayle who after 92 just kinda dissappeared from the news, she would have gone away, and my prayers would have been answered. But no, she’ll likely stick around for two frickin decades like Newt Gingrich. Kill me now.

  80. 80.

    stuckinred

    PTirebiter

    I think that was Balsa Chica just north of the Huntington State Beach that is right across from the power station. We used to take big burlap bags and collect pop bottles for the deposit.

  81. 81.

    artem1s

    @Chris:

    They’ve had a Cunning Plan to retake pop culture for decades now.

    yea, and its working. how many TV shows/movies about liberal/progressive themes? anti-war? civil rights? the economy anyone? chirp, chirp, chirp….OK, so each TV show also has a token gay character as well as a minority now.

    but we also have 24, The Unit, Cops on the law enforcement police state side. a plethora of reality TV shows about everything except reality. And a slew of God Bothering themes, Medium, Ghost Whisperer, Joan of Arcadia, Touched by an Angel. And movies are nothing but comic book remakes now.

    and don’t get me started on NPR’s decent into ‘both sides do it’ and Democrats are just as bad as Republicans.

    It’s not all bad but there has been a shift I think.

  82. 82.

    Chris

    Oddly, this is their cunning plan for America, too.

    THAT’s why it seemed so familiar…

    If she’d been treated like a similarly emabarassing Dan Quayle who after 92 just kinda dissappeared from the news, she would have gone away, and my prayers would have been answered. But no, she’ll likely stick around for two frickin decades like Newt Gingrich. Kill me now.

    Cheer up. If your analogy’s right, fifteen years from now you get to watch her go off and die reviled and forsaken by her own party, their newest RINO target.

  83. 83.

    TooManyJens

    @Chris: Jesus Christ, I was really hoping you were making up that Kansas GOP pledge. Unwillingness to think flexibly and consider new evidence really is a core value with these people.

  84. 84.

    PurpleGirl

    AMC theaters signed an exclusive distribution deal with the Victory Movie Group (distributors of The Undefeated). This opening weekend it’s at 10 screens nationwide — 10 screens! Harry Potter is at several THOUSAND screens. No way The Undefeated comes anywhere Potter in ticket sales, not even at theaters showing both films. And if anybody at Victory Movie had ideas that somehow Sarah Palin could be a big draw in all markets… I’ll have a double dosage of whatever they’re taking.

  86. 86.

    RossInDetroit

    Not since Battlefield Earth has a celebrity so misjudged their appeal.
    Sorry for bringing that movie up. The nausea will fade by dinner time.

    ETA: speling

  87. 87.

    Flugelhorn

    What an asinine piece and even more asinine posting. 12am midnight on a Thursday night?

    “Gee, lets get a sampling of opinion from Sarah Palin movie goers and at the same time gauge how popular the movie is. Why don’t I go see it at midnight on a weeknight! I’m smart!”

    You guys are so easy.

  88. 88.

    PTirebiter

    @stuckinred
    You’re absolutely right. For some reason, I hadn’t thought of Bolsa Chica in years. I do remember that homemade boogie boards and up-to-date tetanus shots were essentials for the full experience.

  90. 90.

    Chyron HR

    Time for Flugelhorn to go to Wikipedia and edit the box office receipts for every movie ever to prove that opening night sales are always low.

  92. 92.

    Martin

    I’ll be damned a video

    I don’t see any onions on his belt. Are you sure that’s the right video?

  93. 93.

    Tonal Crow

    @Flugelhorn: Reading is fundamental. From the article:

    [F]olks were lining up scores deep outside the theater box office…most people present were dressed in costume….

    And the reason for that turned out to be that

    everyone was there to see the Harry Potter movie playing on a majority of the theater’s 30 screens.

    In other words, hordes of people descended on the theater to see Harry Potter at midnight, but only a reporter and 4 others bothered to see The Underbrained at the very same theater at the very same time. And that, you contend, says nothing about The Underbrained’s popularity.

    Right. And cutting taxes always increases tax revenue.

  95. 95.

    Ash Can

    @Chyron HR: And to edit the entry on the movie itself to claim that the whole idea to screen the movie at midnight originated with liberals seeking to sabotage its box office receipts.

  96. 96.

    Flugelhorn

    Don’t you folks get tired of being treated like a large-mouthed bass whenever John or The Atlantic clearly panders to you? Do your pants get all happy when you see stories like this? “Ooo. Palin. He make fun of!”

    No clear thinking, objective or fair-minded person would think to go to a midnight showing of The Undefeated and expect to get a turn-out representative of the number of people who will see this movie. Only a moron would call himself a journalist after doing such a thing. This is so OBVIOUSLY a hit-piece designed and contrived to put the subject in the worst light possible so that he can stroke your lizard-brain and kowtow to his readers basest schadenfreude.

    The fact that you cannot see that speaks VOLUMES. You will believe anything you read and not exercise one ounce of critical thinking on the subject because it fits so neatly into your narrow perception of things that it must be true. So sad.

  99. 99.

    AR

    Flugelhorn, the showing the reporter went to was a midnight premiere of the film. You generally go to a premiere of a film if you want to interview those who are the most excited about the film.

    But keep believing that liberals are out to get you if that’s what gets you through the day.

  101. 101.

    Gravenstone

    @Flugelhorn:

    What an asinine piece and even more asinine posting. 12am midnight on a Thursday night?
    __
    “Gee, lets get a sampling of opinion from Sarah Palin movie goers and at the same time gauge how popular the movie is. Why don’t I go see it at midnight on a weeknight! I’m smart!”
    __
    You guys are so easy.

    Ya know, fucknuts, theaters typically don’t bother with midnight showings unless they have a reasonable expectation they’ll be successful. So yeah, grand failure all around. Just like your inbred ideology.

  102. 102.

    Caz

    Thank god you are keeping us informed about this! I’ve been wondering all week how many people would show up to the movie debut in Orange County, California.

    And congrats on extending your Dimaggio-esque irrelevant post streak.

    I look forward to your upcoming dinner, dogs, and calling [insert conservative entity here] assholes posts in the next several days. Keep up the good work, BJ Clipper!

  103. 103.

    gelfling545

    @AR: Although it does cause one to wonder who the bright star in marketing was who decided that releasing it at the same time as Potter 7.2 was a great strategy. Did they entertain some illusion that they could somehow compete with the long awaited Potter film or that people who couldn’t get Potter tickets would settle for fantasy of a less entertaining sort?

  105. 105.

    James E. Powell

    Although it does cause one to wonder who the bright star in marketing was who decided that releasing it at the same time as Potter 7.2 was a great strategy.

    I have to believe that the timing is neither a mistake nor unintentional.

    The theaters may have only agreed to run the film opposite the Harry Potter opening with the understanding that no one with a decent movie would take that spot anyhow. It may be that the theaters would not otherwise have agreed to run it. They will refuse to run something if the test screenings don’t show promise.

  106. 106.

    PTirebiter

    @stuckinred

    they rented inflatable mats

    I remember the rental mats well, heavy canvas, blue on one side and yellow on the reverse. I misspoke, we actually called our homemade boards, belly boards. At the time, the name Boogie Board was probably roiling around in some ten year old’s head, waiting for him to get a marketing degree. Lot of fun, I too recall the Laguna greeter with great affection. I haven’t been back in years, but I believe Laguna erected a statue of him on his spot there on PCH.

  108. 108.

    Tonal Crow

    As promised, I have checked BoxOfficeMojo.com for the gross on Palin’s movie. As of 7/17, it had grossed the OMG-ginormous Soros-bankrupting figure of…wait for it…$65,132.00. Meanwhile, that lieberal flop (and fop) Harry Potter grossed only $592,483,000 as of 7/19.

    Stick that in your Flugelhorn and smoke it.

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