I have a friend who works at the local movie theater.

[Archae]

It's one of those mega-multiplex theaters, and it's the only one here in Sheboygan that's not an "arts" theater like the Weil Center.

Anyway, he told me they've done something in one of them they've never done before.

Cancel a showing of a movie. 3 times now.

Why?

Because literally NO ONE has shown up for the movie! Nobody!

The movie?

Atlas Shrugged, Part 2.

[cyberswede]

1. That makes me sad

...NOT!



It couldn't happen to a more deserving project.

[LynneSin]

16. *** hands cyberswede a tissue for his tears ***

...NOT!

[Incitatus]

2. LOL

The first one was a FLOP too.


Box office

The U.S. release of Atlas Shrugged: Part I was regarded as a "flop".[25] It opened on 300 screens on April 15, 2011, and made US$1,676,917 in its opening weekend, finishing in 14th place overall.[26] Producers announced expansion to 423 theaters several days after release and promised 1,000 theaters by the end of April,[27] but the release peaked at 465 screens. Ticket sales dropped off significantly in its second week of release, despite 165 additional screens; after six weeks, the film showed on only 32 screens and total ticket sales had not crossed the $5 million mark, recouping less than a quarter of the production budget.[28]
Home media

Atlas Shrugged: Part I was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on November 8, 2011 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.[29] More than 100,000 DVD inserts were recalled within days due to the jacket's philosophically incorrect description of "Ayn Rand’s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice."[30]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged:_Part_I

[Systematic Chaos]

4. Oh, wow. That DVD insert thing is just too freaking funny!

Talk about "can't win for losing!"

[Firebirds01]

15. insert

"More than 100,000 DVD inserts were recalled within days due to the jacket's philosophically incorrect description of "Ayn Rand’s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice."

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Someone needs to hurry up and record it to post on 1ch!

I wanna let the free market show me this piece of shit for free, like they did the first one!

[ellisonz]

24. Why would you want to endure such torture?

You're Quagmire!

[Systematic Chaos]

25. Trust me on this -- the first movie was so horrible it was hilarious!

You have to see it to believe just what a steaming pile of poop they made.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Prospective moviegoers shrugged

[Lasher]

7. Har de har.

When part 1 bombs like this, you don't make a part 2 unless somebody's bankrolling production.

[Archae]

8. It's only an ego-trip from some rich ditwit.

[Cha]

6. mittglove haz a sad.

[sharp_stick]

9. I showed up to a weekday matinee

of Battlefield Earth about a week after it debuted. I went because I was told that it was quite possibly the worst movie ever put on film.

I was the only one in a theater of several hundred seats, that's a weird feeling. Just before the movie started some guy from the theater stuck his head in and said. "Oh wow someone's here". They canceled the other shows that day because it was empty. I told him that I was there to see the "worst movie ever put on film" and his reply was. "Then I don't think you'll be dissapointed".

I think Atlas Shrugged Part I or II could give Battlefield Earth a run for it's money.

[Archae]

10. Another movie made by a cult.

"Atlas Shrugged" 1 and 2 are from the Randians, and "Battlefield Earth" was from the Scientologists.

BTW, was "Battlefield Earth" as bad as they said?

[sharp_stick]

11. It was bloody horrible

The book was bad enough, I thought it was the pinnacle of Science Fiction when I was a young teenager, but the movie was even worse. The plot line moved around so much by the time you were 45 minutes into the thing you really had no idea what the hell was happening and I had read the damned book. The writing and direction was so simplistic that even though they had a decent cast of cultists... oops I mean actors even the acting looked horrible.

I think that movie single handedly destroyed Barry Pepper's career.

The special effects, with the exception of the really weird Psyclo costumes, were pretty good but the rest really was terrible. I think it could make a pretty good MST3K episode.

[Archae]

13. I just remembered one more movie made by a cult.

"Inchon," a war movie about MacArthur's invasion of South Korea during the Korean War.

The Moonies financed it.

[sharp_stick]

14. I'd considered going with

The Passion of the Christ but not everyone shares my atheistic sense of humor.

I hadn't heard of Inchon, is it bad?

[Archae]

21. Never saw it, but heard it was pretty bad.

[SteveG]

22. I've seen part of Battlefield Earth on TV

and yes, it is very bad - much worse that the worst 1950's Sci-Fi or horror movie. It was much worse than the book, and the book was crap.

[Systematic Chaos]

19. You should try and find a way to watch part 1. Get it from your library or stream it from 1ch.

I can't repeat enough times how hilarious it is if you put yourself into a comedic mood and start cracking jokes on the fly as you watch, the way they do on MST3K. Seriously, it's a gift that just continuously gives and gives from start to end!

[Taverner]

12. Why oh why did they want a theater release?

They must be stupid parasites if they think a sequel of a movie that made less than a million deserves screen time.

If the producers were really "Titans among men" they would have gone direct to video.

Ayn Rand herself would have wanted them to kill themselves to save the human race

[LynneSin]

17. I'm guessing they thought because that Obama 2016 book did so well that so would this

I'm guessing even the fundies have better taste in movies than we expected.

[MicaelS]

18. "Can it change the election?"

I shit you not, I saw an ad on TV the other day for AS2, and that was one of the lines they used in the ad.

[jmowreader]

20. Why, yes it can

Studies show that 47 percent of the people who watch that movie vote early for Obama.

[Arugula Latte]

23. The market has spoken. It said: "Hey Ayn, fuck you."

[Archae]

26. The crowds that DO show up...

Are usually bused in by different conservative groups, including church groups! (!)

Don't they know how viciously atheist Ayn Rand was?

[mucifer]

27. you should post this in General Discussion. As many people as possible need a good

laugh these days.

[AllenVanAllen]

28. One of my facebook actor friends had a part in that movie.

She's had roles on several tv shows and movies. She's not a right-winger as far as I know but I guess she needed the work.

[coldwaterintheface]

29. WTF???? What happened to the mighty Freep Army?

They were going to turn out in HUGE numbers and stick it to the libtards and hollyweird!


I was waiting to see fat AWG’s coming out from their basements with Cheetos stained hands all jacked up on Mountain Dew showing their support for Ayn!



WTF happend?????

It is really simple to make a great money making and Oscar winning movie…just do one having Nazi’s and titty/nudity…simple.

Just look at all the big movies and they all have the same common element, Nazi's and or boobies.

[Archae]

30. Actually, you know which movies make the most money?

The G-rated ones, mostly.

A few of the PG-rated ones do too, especially the "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones," "Pirates Of The Caribbean," and superhero ones like "The Avengers."

But "Atlas Shrugged" is a beautiful example of the old saying some movie mogul said many years ago, "If you want to send a message, call Western Union."

[coldwaterintheface]

31. Indiana Jones had Nazi's

Yes I know that about G rated movies but those don't win best picture Oscars either or not very often.

[Archae]

34. Half the time "Best Picture" goes to some boring or crap movie.

Like "Rocky," or didn't "The English Patient" win a "Best Picture?"

[Quantess]

32. Haha. Welcome to DU.

[rurallib]

33. they did take up a collection and sent one guy.

[krispos42]

35. On occasion, the free market works! n/t