Sarah Palin had a movie out!?

[Silcc69]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/palin-undefeated-tanks-heads-pay-per-view-193115807.html

"The Undefeated," the documentary about Sarah Palin, appears to have suffered box office defeat. The film opened in 10 locations last week and upped its exposure to 14 cities this weekend. But Reuters today reports that even as the number of screening venues increased, box office revenue has declined (http://news.yahoo.com/palin-doc-headed-ppv-ticket-sales-plummet-001216822.html) by more than 63 percent. It grossed only $24,000 this past weekend.
Victory Film Group and distributor ARC Entertainment announced Sunday that the doc about the former Alaska governor will be available via video on demand and pay-per-view starting Sept. 1. "ARC will continue to expand the limited engagement theatrical release nationwide throughout August and September as demand across the country remains high," the companies announced in a press release.
But reports such as the one in Reuters suggest lagging sales and attendance prompted the hasty pay-per-view push.
The film was largely panned by critics, (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/07/palin_documentary_opens_to_mix.html?utm_source=fee dburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag %2Fintel+%28Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine%29) despite invoking cheers from Palin supporters. Reports prior to this weekend indicated a per-screen average of $7,500, a figure Atlantic Wire editor Gabriel Snyder (former box office reporter for Variety) said last week was "not a number that anyone should brag about (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/so-howd-that-sarah-palin-movie-end-up-doing/242124/)."
The companies backing the movie said in their release Sunday that per-screen averages were "above $11,000 in top markets."
Supporters hoped the film (which was made without Palin's participation) coupled with Palin's bus tour (which is currently stalled) (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/sarah-palin-bus-appears-parked-now-161943198.html) would boost Palin's popularity ahead of her official 2012 decision. The potential candidate has stated she will announce her 2012 plans this August or September

*waits for the conservatives to come in*

[Dino Velvet]

Palin is so out of it she's releasing the film on BetaMax August 30, 2011.

I'm a Conservative chiming in.

[Faldur]

Would you want to sit through a Sarah Palin movie about herself? Conservative here, got better things to do thank you.

[Dino Velvet]

We Conservatives don't think all libs have altars to Jimmy Carter either. Just a few.

[arnie666]

Well for one as usual the media are not giving the full story regarding sarah palins movements or indeed anything about conservatives,especially conservatives from minority groups within politics, blacks women etc etc. The reason the bus tour was halted when it was, was because Palin had jury service.

Regarding this film, I don't think anyone seriously expected a film about a politician, any politician to be a sellout when you have the likes of the latest harry potter with all the hype and budget to promote it released at the same time. I personally wasn't hopeful about the undefeated , as ,again it's about a politician and people just don't normally find politicians that interesting. I think the only people who would be interested in it would be those who already actively support sarah palin and journalists.

I also think it would have been better done as a documentary for release on TV networks. I understand the reasons for the film,sarah certainly hasn't been given fair and balanced coverage by any of the media. There have been numerous times when things were made up or exaggerated,regarding something she had said or what supposedly happened during the last presidential election. I think it is right she respond,but personally I thought a film was the wrong way,and a waste of time and money.

This is because most of the public are stupid and shallow. They just would not be interested enough . Now if it was a film,for instance about bill clinton's numerous affairs and alleged rapes and hilarys alleged invollvement in the coverup done in a fictional sense , or perhaps a film where a white redneck former alkie born again christian president gets it on with his intelligent black female national security advisor those in my opinion would get peoples interest. Plenty of sex,cloak and dagger stuff,interacial sex still contreversial to some ,if the films had decent actors ,well done story line that would sell even today . Not a former vp candidate who while still is well known is just trying to right a few wrongs. No one cares,sadly.

[Ben]

Yes. It was amazing. I mean, I've never had such a good sleep -- ha ha ha!

‪Gov Palin speaks at movie premiere of The Undefeated in Pella‬‏ - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQOdj_Nu_U)

[trish]

Hey arnie antichrist. Gandhi (a movie without sex and cloak and dagger antics, about a politician) did rather well at the box office, and still does well in the rental market. Given that Sarah is better looking, Christian and certainly wiser and more compassionate than Gandhi, it's really kind of a mystery her movie is such a flop. She must've hired the wrong grip. You know the grip and make or break a movie.

[russtafa]

if she was a tgirl and lived in Aussie i would vote for her

[Ben]

if she was a tgirl and lived in Aussie i would vote for her

She appeared to be okay as Governor of Alaska. She was Alaska's first female Governor. And, too, its youngest. At the tender age of 42.
Sarah Palin is probably a very nice person. I've no idea.
I deeply respect her position on abortion. Albeit I disagree with it.

[russtafa]

if every political party and politician thought the same politics would get very boring

[arnie666]

Hey arnie antichrist. Gandhi (a movie without sex and cloak and dagger antics, about a politician) did rather well at the box office, and still does well in the rental market. Given that Sarah is better looking, Christian and certainly wiser and more compassionate than Gandhi, it's really kind of a mystery her movie is such a flop. She must've hired the wrong grip. You know the grip and make or break a movie.

The fact you now suffer from PDS (Palin derangement syndrome) makes you say the funniest things.

How an earth is there any comparision at all to be made between Palin and Gandhi? In fact while Iam fan of Palins you seem to be her superfan to make that kind of comparison. As Gandhi is one of the lefts greatest icons, a man of 'non violence' and took on the 'evil' British. Of course a film like him would sell (although I think if it came out right now it wouldn't as it came out in 1982, and this is the modern age of 24 hr media and dross like celebrity x factor ) ,because it ticks all the boxes.

Try again.

[Silcc69]

Well for one as usual the media are not giving the full story regarding sarah palins movements or indeed anything about conservatives,especially conservatives from minority groups within politics, blacks women etc etc. The reason the bus tour was halted when it was, was because Palin had jury service.

Regarding this film, I don't think anyone seriously expected a film about a politician, any politician to be a sellout when you have the likes of the latest harry potter with all the hype and budget to promote it released at the same time. I personally wasn't hopeful about the undefeated , as ,again it's about a politician and people just don't normally find politicians that interesting. I think the only people who would be interested in it would be those who already actively support sarah palin and journalists.

I also think it would have been better done as a documentary for release on TV networks. I understand the reasons for the film,sarah certainly hasn't been given fair and balanced coverage by any of the media. There have been numerous times when things were made up or exaggerated,regarding something she had said or what supposedly happened during the last presidential election. I think it is right she respond,but personally I thought a film was the wrong way,and a waste of time and money.

This is because most of the public are stupid and shallow. They just would not be interested enough . Now if it was a film,for instance about bill clinton's numerous affairs and alleged rapes and hilarys alleged invollvement in the coverup done in a fictional sense , or perhaps a film where a white redneck former alkie born again christian president gets it on with his intelligent black female national security advisor those in my opinion would get peoples interest. Plenty of sex,cloak and dagger stuff,interacial sex still contreversial to some ,if the films had decent actors ,well done story line that would sell even today . Not a former vp candidate who while still is well known is just trying to right a few wrongs. No one cares,sadly.

Damn you seemed to have forgotten about Faux News eh!? As for the showing hmmm if Rush Limbaugh can dominate the airwaves then surely Palin could have a better showing in the theaters.

[arnie666]

Damn you seemed to have forgotten about Faux News eh!? As for the showing hmmm if Rush Limbaugh can dominate the airwaves then surely Palin could have a better showing in the theaters.

Again talk radio is rather different to the movies.I would wager big time that if sarah palin started her own talk show on say fox or cnn , (ala huckerby or for even more ratings she became a kind of oprah figure) it would get huge ratings. Especially if she brought piper palin on now and again. All the media loves piper,even the guardian was gushing over her during the last bus tour. I doubt she will go down that route for now though as in my opinion she hasn't given up on the idea of running for president.

Whoever told her to make the film gave her bad advice .admittedly but I contend that if any mainstream politician made such a film it would flop.

As for fox news, she may work for fox,but fox if you take your blinkers off has all sorts on there as political commentators and hosts even if overall it is a very right wing network. Have you listened to Bill O'reilly recently? he has been critical of palin and especially the tea party. Compare that to mscbc ,who according to cenk the turk has the ear of the whitehouse and doesn't want to give that up by having any critical noises regarding the president or the whitehouse. So they kicked him off primetime. Every other network both foreign and domestic apart from fox had annointed Obama. And in the main still do despite how crap he has turned out to be.

Palin would be dense to regard Fox news as friend, the media only will help a politician if there is something in it for them and will drop them hard. They employed palin because foxes viewers would watch her , both the rightys and the leftys in fact anyone interested in politics (we all know the left watch fox as well) and she will make them money. CNN and even mscbc would have jumped at the chance. Money first politics second.

[Stavros]

How long before it becomes a cult film?

[Prospero]

Surely Ms Palin is already a cult? Among devotees of the Church of the Sacred Blithering idiot.

[Faldur]

I thought that church already had a pope?

Pope Nancy - Church of the Sacred Blithering Idiot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSko2ixEB8U)

[Faldur]

Now had Palin listened to me, she would have had Zombies.. lots of democrat zombies that ran around eating other peoples money and when they couldn't find money they settled on rich persons brains, (that is anyone earning more than $22k). Of coarse 48% of the population was spared from them, well if you call being a zombie spared..

http://www.datelinezero.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/franken-the-liberal-zombie.jpg

[trish]

http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/showpost.php?p=974565&postcount=190

[hippifried]

Well, I don't give a shit about Sarah Palin, but It's good to see that Prospero finally put his real picture in his avatar.

[onmyknees]

It continues to fascinate me the libs obsession with Palin . Who started this thread? A Palin troll. Who chimed in? Other Palin haters. Frankly I've always thought you all were far more obsessed with her than most conservatives. Witness Bill Maher, Silcc and the easily hooked Trish. She bites on a bare hook as long as Palin's in the title bar !!!!!! . .

Here's the deal with the documentary....an independent film maker , certainly sympathetic to Palin decided to document her life from the days as Mayor of a small town, her role as a mother, professional woman through her election to governor. It's not, and wasn't intended to a commercial enterprise for widespread release. HBO, PBS and other independent film makers undertake similar ventures all the time. No big deal. I'll guarantee you that none of you have an ounce of intellectual curiosity. You'll mock her, you'll demean her but you won't spend 30 seconds watching the film...even if it was free. You see it's easier for you to get your bilge off far left sights, who's word you take as gospel, yet to open your mind just a crack and let some contrary information in....you'll refuse. I'm not suggesting that buy watching the film you'll suddenly have a political catharses, but the narrative you've been fed by a left wing press is largely garbage. You know nothing about her days as governor, her battles with country club Republicans, her negotiations with energy companies, her commitment to her family....none of it....which is precisely why I have zero respect for any of you. It's like you're told to hate her, so you do. You sound as dumb as those man in the street interviews ! LOL..You're useful idiots to the liberals...stay that way.
Ben had perhaps the fairest assessment of her....I also wouldn't vote for her in the primaries, but I'm not a registered Republican, but I do respect her as a person, and her accomplishments, and that you've shot every piece of ammo in your nasty rhetorical arsenal at her, and still she smiles....probably pitying you all !

...Silcc...are you going to be plunking down your credit card to join Barry's 50th Birthday virtual celebration? Oh BTW...it's a birthday party AND a fund raiser so it may set you back a few hundred, so have your credit card ready..... I suppose that disqualifies you....right? Chucky Cheese doesn't pay all that much...LMAO
And you think a film on Palin is tacky?

[Silcc69]

It continues to fascinate me the libs obsession with Palin . Who started this thread? A Palin troll. Who chimed in? Other Palin haters. Frankly I've always thought you all were far more obsessed with her than most conservatives. Witness Bill Maher, Silcc and the easily hooked Trish. She bites on a bare hook as long as Palin's in the title bar !!!!!! . .

Here's the deal with the documentary....an independent film maker , certainly sympathetic to Palin decided to document her life from the days as Mayor of a small town, her role as a mother, professional woman through her election to governor. It's not, and wasn't intended to a commercial enterprise for widespread release. HBO, PBS and other independent film makers undertake similar ventures all the time. No big deal. I'll guarantee you that none of you have an ounce of intellectual curiosity. You'll mock her, you'll demean her but you won't spend 30 seconds watching the film...even if it was free. You see it's easier for you to get your bilge off far left sights, who's word you take as gospel, yet to open your mind just a crack and let some contrary information in....you'll refuse. I'm not suggesting that buy watching the film you'll suddenly have a political catharses, but the narrative you've been fed by a left wing press is largely garbage. You know nothing about her days as governor, her battles with country club Republicans, her negotiations with energy companies, her commitment to her family....none of it....which is precisely why I have zero respect for any of you. It's like you're told to hate her, so you do. You sound as dumb as those man in the street interviews ! LOL..You're useful idiots to the liberals...stay that way.
Ben had perhaps the fairest assessment of her....I also wouldn't vote for her in the primaries, but I'm not a registered Republican, but I do respect her as a person, and her accomplishments, and that you've shot every piece of ammo in your nasty rhetorical arsenal at her, and still she smiles....probably pitying you all !

...Silcc...are you going to be plunking down your credit card to join Barry's 50th Birthday virtual celebration? Oh BTW...it's a birthday party AND a fund raiser so it may set you back a few hundred, so have your credit card ready..... I suppose that disqualifies you....right? Chucky Cheese doesn't pay all that much...LMAO
And you think a film on Palin is tacky?


blah blah silcc blah blah

onmyknees you absolutely kill me *waits for the conservatives to come in* is all that typed in. Now IDK why you on such a long winded rant. I mean I guess that it's in your blood that if I mention Sarah Palin then you have to hurl every single insult my way. Which is pathetic by the way. Because I know how much I am on your mind to type all of that buffoonery.

[Ben]

It continues to fascinate me the libs obsession with Palin . Who started this thread? A Palin troll. Who chimed in? Other Palin haters. Frankly I've always thought you all were far more obsessed with her than most conservatives. Witness Bill Maher, Silcc and the easily hooked Trish. She bites on a bare hook as long as Palin's in the title bar !!!!!! . .

Here's the deal with the documentary....an independent film maker , certainly sympathetic to Palin decided to document her life from the days as Mayor of a small town, her role as a mother, professional woman through her election to governor. It's not, and wasn't intended to a commercial enterprise for widespread release. HBO, PBS and other independent film makers undertake similar ventures all the time. No big deal. I'll guarantee you that none of you have an ounce of intellectual curiosity. You'll mock her, you'll demean her but you won't spend 30 seconds watching the film...even if it was free. You see it's easier for you to get your bilge off far left sights, who's word you take as gospel, yet to open your mind just a crack and let some contrary information in....you'll refuse. I'm not suggesting that buy watching the film you'll suddenly have a political catharses, but the narrative you've been fed by a left wing press is largely garbage. You know nothing about her days as governor, her battles with country club Republicans, her negotiations with energy companies, her commitment to her family....none of it....which is precisely why I have zero respect for any of you. It's like you're told to hate her, so you do. You sound as dumb as those man in the street interviews ! LOL..You're useful idiots to the liberals...stay that way.
Ben had perhaps the fairest assessment of her....I also wouldn't vote for her in the primaries, but I'm not a registered Republican, but I do respect her as a person, and her accomplishments, and that you've shot every piece of ammo in your nasty rhetorical arsenal at her, and still she smiles....probably pitying you all !

...Silcc...are you going to be plunking down your credit card to join Barry's 50th Birthday virtual celebration? Oh BTW...it's a birthday party AND a fund raiser so it may set you back a few hundred, so have your credit card ready..... I suppose that disqualifies you....right? Chucky Cheese doesn't pay all that much...LMAO
And you think a film on Palin is tacky?

I think it has to do with John McCain picking her as his running mate. He could've chosen Joe Lieberman. Or, well, anyone. But he chose her. And people felt that she wasn't qualified enough. (The same applies to Barack Obama. I mean, he was a junior Senator from Illinois. But he, along with Sarah Palin, are pretty ambitious.)
Anyway, both Palin and Obama didn't have experience. I mean, looking back to previous presidents: George H.W. Bush was a Congressman, a UN Ambassador, CIA Director and Vice President before becoming President. Reagan was the Governor of California for 8 years. Carter was a State Senator and Governor. Ford: a Congressman for over 24 years. Nixon: Senator and VP.
Anyway, Sarah's inexperience and, frankly, lack of intellectual depth frightened people. (This doesn't mean to say she's stupid. She, like Bush Jr., is intellectually incurious. Whereas Obama is bookish. He came across as thoughtful and articulate. Sarah didn't. Politics is all about how you present yourself. In that sense: it's entertainment, it's acting.)
She should've completed her term as Governor. And then run as, say, a Senator and then, well, who knows. The sky's the limit -- :)
Sarah Palin is probably a nice person.
And, again, I deeply respect her opinion with respect to abortion.
And I fundamentally disagree, respectfully disagree, with her on public policy issues... :)

[KCBob4TS]

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