Ronald Reagan Movie Beats Box Office Expectations

[Dutch Uncle]

I’m just ií

i read that it’ll be quite some time before it streams. I saw it at a regal cinema where they give a good sr. discount. Only paid $6.

How much for popcorn and a coke?

I suspect it'll be on streaming late next year sometime. I'm patient. The last time I waited in a long line to see a movie at the theater was Jaws. After that, I just wait a few weeks. My wife and I saw Top Gun: Maverick at a weekday matinee a few weeks into its run. We were the only two there and talked as much as we liked.

 

[anonymoose]

How much for popcorn and a coke?

Around $50 - $60 I suspect. Maybe $100. I don’t buy food at movie theaters.

 

[Nordberg]

What were the expectations?

 

[NiftyNiblick]

"Reagan" was well-received by audiences giving it a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes as of Tuesday.
Hollywood critics have a mass meltdown.

Ronald Reagan movie beats box office expectations

The film, which depicts the life of the actor and politician, stars Dennis Quaid as the 40th president.

www.newsweek.com

I'm not interested in seeing the film,
any more than I was interested in the B-actor becoming POTUS in 1981.

Compared to Trump,
Reagan certainly looked and sounded great as POTUS,
but his right-wing ideology was still shit imo.

 

[anonymoose]

I'm not interested in seeing the film,
any more than I was interested in the B-actor becoming POTUS in 1981.

Compared to Trump,
Reagan certainly looked and sounded great as POTUS,
but his right-wing ideology was still shit imo.

Has nothing to do with the movie.
Actually the movie did acknowledge his detractors.
Any president will have them.

 

[anonymoose]

What were the expectations?

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[Dutch Uncle]

Around $50 - $60 I suspect. Maybe $100. I don’t buy food at movie theaters.

I like popcorn and a soda with my movies. Some movies are clearly worth the "cinematic" experience, but "Reagan" is fine on a large screen TV and a sound bar.

The upside is all the popcorn and soda I want and no fucking morons chit-chatting or on their cellphones.

 

[Lionfish]

What were the expectations?

From the alt lefties or the normal people?

 

[archives]

Comical, MAGA celebrating a film on Reagan who they would if alive today vehemently label him a RHINO

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I'm not interested in seeing the film,
any more than I was interested in the B-actor becoming POTUS in 1981.

Compared to Trump,
Reagan certainly looked and sounded great as POTUS,
but his right-wing ideology was still shit imo.

What about the pot-smoking, draft-dodging adulterer and sexual predator who became President in 1992? Would you want to see a movie about him?

Reagan abided by his oath and did what was best for the nation, not himself or his friends. GW Bush's problem was that he believed the opposite: GW put loyalty to friends above his loyalty to We, the People.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Comical, MAGA celebrating a film on Reagan who they would if alive today vehemently label him a RHINO

Gotta love Irony!

 

[Dutch Uncle]

From the alt lefties or the normal people?

From normal people, Legina, not triggered psychos like this:

Fuck you asshole, you supported the assassination of your political opponent so, fuck you!

 

[Taichiliberal]

What did you think of the movie?

Pure one sided PR fluff that wouldn't do a damn thing to make the current generation question what that stooge actually did. GMAFB! For anyone interesting in a dose of reality, got get a copy of "There you go again! Reagans Reign of Error!" - 1983. A collection of Reagan quotes put up against documented fact checking.

What was it specifically that YOU found so endearing?

 

[anonymoose]

Comical, MAGA celebrating a film on Reagan who they would if alive today vehemently label him a RHINO

Which MAGA are you talking about?

 

[anonymoose]

From the alt lefties or the normal people?

Yeah, good question. Interesting how nerdberg hasn’t answered yet.

 

[anonymoose]

Pure one sided PR fluff that wouldn't do a damn thing to make the current generation question what that stooge actually did.

So I guess you didn’t like the movie. So you thought the part where they showed RR floundering against Mondale in their first debate was one sided? What about the part where they showed the protests against him? Or the music video from that time ridiculing him?
What did you think of the last 5 or 10 minutes? That was a tear jerker.

For anyone interesting in a dose of reality, got get a copy of "There you go again! Reagans Reign of Error!" - 1983. A collection of Reagan quotes.

Doesn’t exist on Amazon, B&N Nook, Playbooks or Apple Book.
Maybe you meant this :


Or this?

 

[anonymoose]

I'm not interested in seeing the film,
any more than I was interested in the B-actor becoming POTUS in 1981.

Actually he went from B-actor to doing commercials and hosting clorox 12 mule team to basically full time as Screen Actors' Guild admin positions.
He became far more interested in politics than acting:

NIfty: but his right-wing ideology was still shit imo.

As president of SAG, Reagan toured Hollywood and the country delivering speeches about the movie industry and the need to protect small actors working their way to the top. He also made speeches against what he believed to be a growing fascist movement in America. After seeing the atrocities of World War II on film while in the First Motion Picture Unit, Reagan was convinced that Americans needed to protect against racism and other forms of prejudice. https://www.sparknotes.com/biography/reagan/section4/

So the bolded is too right wing for you? Interesting. I never considered you to be a fascist or racist. My bad.

 

[anonymoose]

but his right-wing ideology was still shit imo.

And I'm sure this ideology is too right wing for you too...

As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for it, now or ever.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. We will maintain sufficient strength to prevail if need be, knowing that if we do so we have the best chance of never having to use that strength.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/inaugural-address-1981

 

[leaningright]

Reagan was a racist asshole. Worst president ever. He set the mold for Trump.

Reagan was the last president we had that made me proud to be an American. I happily voted for him the year I turned 18.

 

[leaningright]

Wow who would go see it? old half dead reagan supporters