Well, who knew?!
Actually we did ’cause last week we reported that momentum for “2016: Obama’s America” was building and this weekend prior to the opening of the Republican National Convention, the film is doing extremely well at the box office.
“2016: Obama’s America” raked in $2.2 million on Friday, outperforming other openers “Premium Rush” and the indie comedy “Hit and Run.” The earnings also make it the top-grossing documentary of the year.
The surprising numbers put the film in fourth place overall on an otherwise sleepy box office weekend. It follows the cast-ensemble pleaser “Expendables 2″ at No. 1 at $3.7 million, and the Jeremy Renner-anchored “Bourne Legacy,” which secured the No. 2 spot at $2.7 million. Animated flick “ParaNorman” snagged third place at $2.3 million on Friday.
The documentary expected to bow down with a total earning of $6 million for the weekend. Exhibitors are reporting busloads arriving at theaters around the country in pre-organized trips. It also employed much of the same marketing techniques used to garner attention and support for faith-based films, understandable since the audience is overlapping.
Read/learn more at Deadline.com.
Meanwhile, if you haven’t seen “2016: Obama’s America,” you may be wondering what the critics have to say about it. Here’s a taste of what the Washington Post’s Michael Sullivan wrote:
Why is the film called “2016”? D’Souza’s one-sided argument ultimately stoops to fear-mongering of the worst kind, stating in no uncertain terms that, if the president is reelected, the world four years from now will be darkened by the clouds of economic collapse, World War III (thanks to the wholesale renunciation of our nuclear superiority) and a terrifyingly ascendant new “United States of Islam” in the Middle East. These assertions are accompanied by footage of actual dark clouds and horror-movie music.
The real bogeyman isn’t Obama, who D’Souza acknowledges can come across as an appealing and charismatic leader. That honor is shared by several men D’Souza refers to as Obama’s “founding fathers,” in an unsubtle dig at the president’s patriotism. It’s a group that includes communist Frank Marshall Davis; former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers; academic Edward Said, whose views are described as anti-Zionist; liberal Harvard professor Roberto Unger; and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a proponent of so-called black liberation theology.
None of the names of these putative villains is new, which gives “2016” the air of a “Nightmare on Elm Street” sequel, pandering to the franchise’s hard-core fans, while boring everyone else.
Read the rest of the review at The Washington Post.
Watch the trailer for “2016: Obama’s America”:
Merely the reflection of just how unintelligent these people & some of this “country”, has become. To think that they feel what POTUS is trying to do, is a “negative”!!!???, let’s Us know the extent of this ….”retard epidemic”! And all due to the “true” fabric of this country……racism. Without “it”?, this country would not have had the advantage it had, or now the “self destructing DISadvantage”, it’s reflecting & holding on to. Let Us all hope that “the dumb”?, are…..outnumbered! Chuuuuuuuuch!
It is interesting that a man from India, who is darker than Barack, is the one who made this documentary based on his own books.
Exaaaactly! The view point of a “well funded by the Repubs/super pack”…..”self absorbed STUpid”!! But see?, …..you can be ANY other race BUT “BLACK”, & get respect & support. And that’s b/c YT knows there’s a HELLA debt they owe “to Us”!!!, & really?, FEARS Us rising up to “collect it”. Just another episode/installment of the weakness, insecurity & treachery of…YT. They would rather “end the game”, then..”play it fairly”, b/c they know they “suck at competing” & could/would NEVVA win without…..”cheating”. Chuuuuuuuch!
I’m not surprised this guy is of Indian descent, in fact, most non-Blacks understand what they have to do in order to curry favor with whites. Also, this film has slipped off the map dramatically from what I read this morning.
Went to two movies this weekend – Campaign and Possession. 2016 had far more people in the theaters than either of these. Most americans know Obama is a horrible president!
These Indians are quite dangerous, just look at the ideologies of the South Carolina gov and The Louisiana gov Jindal. Both are ultra conservative. White folks love them.
can’t get more racist than that. wow.
What’s most disturbing about this, is the nonchalant, almost don’t give a phuck attitude among the Democrats. Are there no longer any activist groups affiliated with the Dems, like MoveOn.org?
You would think that they would make a movie on Romney, highlighting his Swiss accounts and practice of running American Companies into the ground just to outsource them.
Are these groups they that turned off by what the Obama admin turned out to be? Escalating Bush’s wars, prosecuting more whistle blowers than any other president, signing the NDA act, going after Wikileaks for telling the truth about the evils our military was perpetuating abroad,…?
Consider this. If it wasn’t for Wikileaks, the Iraq war wouldn’t have ended. Obama was determined to continue with that war to appease the radical right, even though its only purpose was to support the military industrial complex. If Wikileaks didn’t reveal the information about the Iraqi family whose house was bombed after the whole family was slaughtered by American troops, the Iraqi government would still allow them to stay.
I have reached the conclusion that….there IS no more …”Left”! All there is, is a Right & a “far” Right! This explains why the so called “Left” NEVVA defends the attacks made by the Right, even though they have SO much amo against the….Right! The system is ran by a small “Rightwing” group of greedy azz racist, who don’t give a shyt about ANY thang but…..gettin that money & oppressing everyone who isn’t a White “male”! After all, “that” is the “insecure demographic” that keeps this racist shyt poppin off, & see a Blaxk man’s dream as a White man’s….”nightmare”. No one BUT White men have a “prollum” with tolerance except White men!!, & that’s b/c they fear ….”genetic cancelation”. They know they are the “weakest/lowest link” IN the “totem pole of ethnicity”, which is where all the “White supremacy” BS comes from! And why they cheat, lie & steal b/c they know “they are not qualified” to fairly……”compete”. But I digress…..there isn’t a Left, & Obie or any other finds that out, AND who’s “reeeeally” in charge, in that looooong azz “breafing” they all get, AFTER being elected. The only way outta this?, is for “We The People”
who have been “dumbed down with all this BS reality TV/voyeurism, insecurity,bigotry & fear”, to wake the fk up & act like/realize We are too intelligent to let a few stupid muthafkahs “navigate this thang” & make Us feel like “We” are the….stupid. Well actually?, if We don’t stand/wake up to all this OBVIOUS BS?, then we arrrrrrrrrre……”the stupid”. Chuuuuuuuuuch!
Simply put?…..”We” are the “last OF….the Left! And contrary to WTF “they” say/act like…”We control them”!!!!! If only We would “pick up the remote” &…..change the fkn channel. Beleeeeedat!!!!
Sum moe…..and if an HIGHLY intelligent man like Obie “doesn’t” go in harrrrrrrd ‘on “Willard” & embarrass the FK outta him (the way we ALL know he can!!!) & attack his azz like they have attracted him!!??, then “my case”?, will be rested.
Sorry….”the way they have “ATTACKED” him etc…!
Whites are never likely toproduce any rational criticism of a Black, so the content of this film is hardly surprising.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a proponent of so-called black liberation theology, Are you kidding me. It amazes me that people try to rewrite history. Jeremiah’s church website specifically states on the church’s charter page that it is based on black liberation.
Quite making excuses for this horrible president.