This one had a fair bit of success in America, they had popular cartoon in the mornings in the late 80s/early 90s. I think it was my first exposure to anime.

Make no mistake, this was also years in the making

And fear. If you get someone to build up enough fear for everything but you then they feel irresponsible not to vote for you. We, the users of a decentralized Linux forum, are not the type of people to fall into this mindset

I mean it’s not that complicated. Most people struggle, often financially. You have someone promising the world. You have someone who blames the former establishment for your problems and offers simple easy to digest solutions for problems that are much more complicated. All of this is going to sound compelling and frankly he had a number of easy lay ups this electrician race. Honestly the Democrats botched this whole race. It was half Biden who nobody saw as fit and Kamela came in too late, had the weight of any one displeased with Biden’s tenure and let’s face it, was both black and a women, two thighs the US has a historically mixed run with.

Obviously this is a platform of lies but that’s all you need to get in.

Empty screenings are not unusual. I’ve been to a lot of movies where I’m the only one in there.

In 2013 it was around $8. So for a $4044 take your looking at about 505 tickets sold. It’s likely they probably got about 80-90% of this on the Friday and Saturday which is about 18-20 seats per theater per night for the opening.

All that said, yea the numbers are low but it’s not entirely on the movie itself, this is the effect of marketing and availability. We contrast this with something like 50 Shades of Grey which is lower rotten tomatoes and lower IMDB but pulled in about a half billion because they marketed the hell out of it.

Most smaller movies don’t sell out a screening. With 11 screens probably only running for a week it wouldn’t have any marketing. $4044 according to box office mojo so that seems about right.

This is a bit misleading, it was only in 11 theaters before going to streaming so it can’t be compared with a standard wide release film. Like Bird Box was a massive hit for Netflix but you could say it only sold a few tickets (because it only appeared in a couple theatres)

Is there a source on this? Not that I don’t believe it, I’m sure this is exactly what’s going to happen, but if I bring it up in conversation saying “I saw it in a meme” will deflate the argument.

Worst thing about someone watching a reel out loud is you hear the same 15 second sound bite 30 times while they’re reading the comments.