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Roger Fleabert – 2016 Movie Review Conspicuously Absent
This is pulled in it’s entirety from Free Republic.
This is Roger Ebert’s website. For the weekend of Friday, August 24, 2012, he has written reviews of seven new movies:
Premium Rush /Hit and Run /Red Hook Summer/ Cosmopolis/ Robot and Frank/ Chicken with Plums/ Nobody Else But You
All seven of those reviews are actually dated Wednesday, August 22, 2012.
As I sit here writing this, it is Friday evening, August 24, 2012, and his website does not have a review for 2016: Obama’s America, which is the #1 movie in the country.
I suppose it’s possible that the movie was not available early for critics in Chicago to see. If that’s the case, then his review should be up tomorrow, August 25, 2012. (Update: It is now Saturday, August 25, and he has still not reviewed the movie. But it is early in the day – perhaps he needs more time.)
Over at one of Roger Ebert’s blog entries, I asked him:
Roger, when will I get to have the privilege of reading your review of the new film “2016: Obama’s America”?
He answered:
At such time as it opens theatrically here.
I responded with the following. Since I just submitted it, it has not yet been approved by Ebert:
So you’re saying that the movie which is number one all over the country is not playing in any theaters in one of biggest cities in the country? I can’t recall that ever happening before.
Actually, it’s playing at FOURTEEN different Chicago theaters:
Showtimes
AMC Showplace Galewood 14
5530 W. Homer Blvd, Chicago, IL
10:15am 12:45 3:15 5:45 8:15 10:45pm
AMC Showplace Village Crossing 18
7000 Carpenter Road, Skokie, IL
11:40am 2:10 4:50 7:30 10:10pm
(I’ve redacted the 12 other theaters – bfh)
http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/first-box-office-anti-obama-movie-1/
FIRST BOX OFFICE: Anti-Obama Movie #1
By NIKKI FINKE
August 24, 2012
FRIDAY 2 PM: The anti-Obama movie 2016 Obama’s America went into wider release around America today and is opening right now in first place at the domestic box office. That’s quite a feat since the Rocky Mountain Pictures political documentary is still playing in only 1,090 North American theaters – or about 1/3 as many theaters as big-budget actioner The Expendables 2 (3,355 theaters).
Like I said above, I suppose it’s possible that the movie was not available early for critics in Chicago to see. If that’s the case, then his review should be up tomorrow. (Update: It is now Saturday, August 25, and he has still not reviewed the movie. But it is early in the day – perhaps he needs more time.)
Nutjob
August 25th, 2012
He might’ve been 1 of the 19 capped last night, or maybe he’s busy filling out his wellness survey.
jwm
August 25th, 2012
I won’t watch it!
Iwon’tIwon’tIwon’t!
and you can’t make me, so nyahhhh.
JWM
Maudie N Mandeville
August 25th, 2012
It’s sucks. It’s a waste of celluloid. It’s a travesty of a file. It could only appeal to a child-like intellect.
–Roger Fleabert
ps: and I still haven’t watched it.
Chalupa
August 25th, 2012
This movie’ll make him choke on his jujubes.
Buck Ofama
August 25th, 2012
If liberals can’t or won’t see anything, it doesn’t exist.
F.D.R. in Hell
August 25th, 2012
Lucifer is so proud of his Anti-Christ becoming a movie star. He’s showing “2016″ continuously on the Big “Pergatron” Screens on all Nine Levels.
Who is this Roger Ebert fellow?
All I found was a picture of him…
http://www.lasvegas-nv.com/brett/madame.jpg
squatch
August 25th, 2012
Who the hell is Roger Ebert ?
Diann
August 25th, 2012
I’m sure if Ebert saw the film, his jaw would hit the floor ….
No. Wait.
Maybe not
AbigailAdams
August 25th, 2012
Perhaps he was so overwhelmed by Jeff Foxworthy and GSN’s debut of “American Bible Challenge” (check your local listings) on Thursday night that he’s still dealing with THAT. American Bible Challenge garnered 2.3 M viewers, a blurb at the Blaze reported. The largest audience of its 17 year history and over a half million more than its most popular show. Nah, I’m sure that isn’t the reason.
Hybrid Lemon
August 25th, 2012
Does Roger’s Speak & Spell have Arabic?
KMM
August 25th, 2012
Just maybe Roger couldn’t get a seat. I’m sure that he tried to buy a ticket.
(Does he need to buy a ticket, or is he entitled to a free pass, a man of his stature and all? Are tickets just for the little people?)
FYI Theaters now playing
August 25th, 2012
2016themovie.com
Click on – theaters – for where it is now paying
MM
August 25th, 2012
I just went over to his site, man, lots and lots of obscure new releases and I mean at least 25 or 30-but ANY mention of one of the biggest movies of the week, 2016? HAHAHAHAHA
Diann, that was the laugh of the week you naughty woman.
LadyGun12
August 25th, 2012
I’m going to see it this afternoon.
Diann
August 25th, 2012
I haven’t been to a movie theater since 2008. I rarely go because, hell, it costs too damn much. But I went to see this last night. It was worth every penny.
Whiterok
August 25th, 2012
Does anybody REALLY care to read an Ebert review of this movie? Seriously?
CrustyB
August 25th, 2012
The man is probably in the twilight of his existence and he spends his last few years shilling for Democrats and insulting Sarah Palin on Twitter. I’d punch him in the jaw, if I could find it in the bio-waste container.
scribble
August 25th, 2012
Saw it last night. Excellent. The theater was packed and the audience applauded at the end.
And as serious a film as it is, the audience laughed at the right parts also. I am optimistic about November.
Redgrandma
August 25th, 2012
That multiplex in Chicago that has 2016 is up on the northwest side of the city. None of the other theaters ( and there are dozens) in the heart of the city and downtown have the movie. My hubby and I will have to go to the burbs where LOTS of theaters are showing it. The last time we went to the River East 21 here in Downtown Chicago was when Grand Torino was playing. There was a gang fight of about 40 “youths” in the lobby. Haven’t been to a theater since.
Rivertour
August 25th, 2012
Just returned from the matinee. I hadn’t even heard of the movie before this post. We went immediately.
The place was packed. Most of the viewers were over 50. Some, I’m sure were liberal based on comments overheard leaving the theater. IMO, this movie should be required viewing before voting in the fall. I’m sure some will leave their with their biases intact on both sides. What I would find hard to imagine is that anybody could question the directors path in which he took in explaining Obama’s ideology. What a great documentary. So glad I heard it here first.
Absolute muddjuice
August 25th, 2012
I’ve found that I never rely on a critic review of a movie. They are mostly liberal folks with a screwed up since of what is good and what is not so good.
Egbert sucked even before he went all elephant man…..
My apologies, that was insensitive……
simply enraged
August 25th, 2012
@Diann: Not only do you have great taste in flowers, you might be nine of the 10 funniest women I’ve ever read! Wish you lived in MT – I might have been able to buy you a beer, a shot or a coffee or three sometime.
MaryfromMarin
August 25th, 2012
@whiterok–
I want Ebert to review the movie, so that BFH can fisk the review.
(rubbing hands together in anticipatory glee)
Diann
August 25th, 2012
enraged,
I’d take the coffee! You don’t want to see me after beer.
the aardvark
August 25th, 2012
What do you expect from a guy who either wrote or coproduced the movie, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls as if the first VOTD wasn’t trashy enough.
Ralph
August 25th, 2012
Here’s what some people from his ahem, “Hometown” thought of the film…
Corona
August 26th, 2012
Eberts’ fat slack-jawed face can’t comment on truth. Thus is his fucked up fate in the history of his promised life in the USA. He fucked up royally, and his fucked up face is America’ reminder of that every day. Peace out you goddam freak.
berlet98
August 26th, 2012
“2016: Obama’s America”–Antidote to Obama’s MSM
It’s very satisfying when others affirm what you think, say, and write. At the same time, it’s very unsettling when what you think, say, and write reveals that the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, D.C. is as dangerous a fraud as he is a mystery to the American people.
We know for certain that Barack Hussein Obama is the man behind the newly-famous Reuters photo because his face is obscured by a teleprompter screen and we also know this president rarely speaks without the aid of a teleprompter to tell him what to say.
Obamians are incensed over Reuters’ publication of the picture because it graphically suggests Obama, who has been billed as a brilliant constitutional scholar, may actually be a block-headed, over-achieving ideologue committed to changing the nation into something few Americans supported last time around and fewer support this time around.
Just wait until the Obama team collectively ramps up its scripted indignation over a film few if any of them will ever see yet all of them will rip to shreds as partisan Republican trash anyway because, well, because that’s what they’re trained and paid to do and what the DNC orders them to.
“2016: Obama’s America”, a film described by Scott Paulson of CBSDFW as “disturbingly necessary”, is based on Dineesh D’Souza’s 2010 best seller The Roots of Obama’s Rage. Those deep roots and that seething rage are shown to govern his every thought and every policy. Playing in only a third of the theaters “Expendables 2″ is being shown, “2016: Obama’s America” is giving Stallone’s flick a run for the top spot for current movies.
And, Obama can’t blame Bush.
Seeing the movie and reading the book before November 6th will be a disturbing experience for anyone concerned over America’s future. It is an absolutely mandatory experience for any readers or viewers who believe things are all but perfect in the nation now and will be positively idyllic by 2016. Both the film and the book are also disturbingly necessary to counter the pervasive propaganda fed to us by the president’s mainstream media.
We should finally put to rest the ancient canard that the MSM is . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=27723.)
reddecaesari
August 27th, 2012
saw the movie last nite.
the theatre was packed with young AND OLD.
there is hope. afterwards, 3 young men were behind me on the escalator and i asked them if they voted for him last go around. they said no. and the film reaffirmed their votes.
Jose Verde
August 28th, 2012
There is not too much thinking going on in the comments area. I am sure that is why this country is in the condition it is in. Well, I saw the movie – and it was very good.
It was not what I expected. I expected a 90 minute diatribe against Mr. Obama. IT WAS NOT. It was an interesting, low key, explanation of Mr Obama’s life history – much of it taken from his own book – in his own words. It was well done – not slick and flashy – just clear and concise explanation of what motivates Mr Obama. The theory put forth by Mr D’Souza does easily explain the strange decisions that Mr. Obama is making. In the end – Like him or hate him – you will know more about him once you leave the theater. I no longer see Mr. Obama as evil or a socialist – Now I believe he is just coming from a different historical framework as compared to a typical American. A Non-American Framework. I just don’t think we need a man with his thought framework making decisions for America. It is frankly quite scary. If you intend to vote – for Obama or not – you need to see this movie first – then vote as you wish. Use Your Brain, Man!