Quote:America, prepare for another Oscar-worthy performance from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
If you weren’t dropping a kidney stone or having a wisdom tooth extracted, I have an entertainment suggestion for you. Now playing in theaters across the frozen plain is an AOC’s new documentary, titled “To The End.” She stars in her blockbuster of a doom-and-gloom documentary and narrates the 2-minute trailer.
The trailer opens with the urgent twangs of a guitar, like the beat of a racing heart. AOC begins by telling us “Fighting for change politically requires faith.” It then jumps into vignettes and clips of people holding signs and yelling (there’s a lot of yelling). The soundtrack seems to be playing gospel music that is reminiscent of the civil rights movement…
“ain’t nobody gonna hold us down. Gonna climb that mountain…”
A young woman tells an MTV reporter that “we are building an army of young people to stop the climate crisis and create millions of good jobs for our generation.” It’s a line she likely has cranked out thousand times without any pushback.
It’s also vapid. She and her cohort army aren’t going to stop the climate from changing, and they are not going to create millions of good jobs.
It moves on to more people carrying signs (and more yelling). Also more shots of AOC looking “smart” wearing her oversized glasses while making silly pronouncements like “Some of us actually have to live in the future that you all are setting on fire.”
The film highlights climate activists like Rhiana Gunn-Wright making overbroad and silly pronouncements like:
As long as you can poison people without consequence, there will always be a loophole that the fossil fuel industry can exploit.
Gunn-Wright leads research at the intersection of climate policy, public investment, public power, and racial equity. While her voice plays the above, she’s driving a car. The interior of the car surrounding Ms. Gunn-Wright contains a whole lot of fossil fuel plastics.
The trailer goes on to yell some more and carry more signs and make more silly statements and cuts to a couple more clips of AOC agitating and making silly statements.
Critics gave “To The End” glowing reviews. Even the few “bad” reviews were apologetic for not liking it. 83 percent of critics gave it positive reviews like “‘To the End’ is set to ignite more Americans to take action.”
Yeah…maybe not.
“To The End” made an average of $80 per screening. AOC has her fans but, apparently, all of them have seen her act and the rest of America isn’t interested. Even if she had a point, releasing a film at the start of a cold winter while you claim the earth is burning up seems, well, ill-timed.
I spent two minutes of my time, bringing you this “review.” It’s two minutes I won’t get back.
Quote:Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was featured in the climate change documentary “To the End” that opened in theaters Friday.
The documentary, which ran in 120 theaters across the U.S., took in $9,667 at the box office, according to data from Box Office Mojo.
The Daily Wire further reported:
A climate change documentary aimed at promoting Green New Deal initiatives — and featuring Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — gave new meaning to the term “Box Office Bomb” with its dismal opening weekend.
Director Rachel Lears is behind the documentary, titled “To the End,” which debuted over the weekend in 120 theaters. The total box office haul for opening weekend was a less-than-stellar $9,667, according to Box Office Mojo.
Lears’ previous offering, Netflix’s “Knock Down the House,” also prominently featured Ocasio-Cortez and earned high marks from critics — Rotten Tomatoes gave it a critic score of 99% fresh. Viewers were not as kind, giving the film a rating of just 11%.
“To the End” has already garnered a critic score of 83% on the film-rating site, but at the time of publication, too few audience members had voted for the viewer score to be posted.
Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) did the math on the depressing opening-weekend numbers, determining that the per-theater average was even worse than the overall box office take.
“This is it the end, my friend,” they tweeted on Monday once the numbers were in for the weekend showings. “Roadside Attractions’ documentary on climate change, TO THE END, ‘starring’ AOC, was voted out of the box office — just $9,667 in 120 theaters, $81 per. Yes, $81 per.”
In contrast, the 2006 climate change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” featuring former Vice President Al Gore, pulled in $281,000 on its opening. The documentary was wildly profitable, earning more than $24 million for its creators.
Would only watch if she pulls her cans out. She's just trying to be a multimillionaire like Gore. According to Gore's movie I am underwater right now. People have become so stupid. Wonder how they react when Putin lobs a nuke on Ukraine? That should end the world a couple of years sooner than they said.
(12-14-2022 12:51 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote: Would only watch if she pulls her cans out. She's just trying to be a multimillionaire like Gore. According to Gore's movie I am underwater right now. People have become so stupid. Wonder how they react when Putin lobs a nuke on Ukraine? That should end the world a couple of years sooner than they said.
You just want to date her
(This post was last modified: 12-14-2022 12:53 PM by gdunn.)
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