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Scairp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:17 PM
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LOL! See how GREAT the RW answer to F9/11 is doing @ theatres
Maybe if they start paying people to go see this silly movie the numbers would be better. I would say this is a pathetic excuse for a film, but that's just my opinion.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=americasheartandsoul.htm
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:19 PM
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1. Ninety eight screens, LOL
Watch for it soon to hit DVD, and then bundled as a give-away with the Passion, just to get rid of the overruns.
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Quahog Donating Member (704 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:20 PM
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2. What the heck is "Americas Heart And Soul?"
Never heard of it. Distributed by Buena Vista? WTF?
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:23 PM
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4. "Buena Vista"??? It looks much more like "Mala Vista"!
:crazy:
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:20 PM
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3. I DON'T recall Disney EVER making a movie that was worth seeing!
Why don't they just pack it up and close shop?
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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:23 PM
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6. Yea, uh.... the blackhole...
remember that one?
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:57 PM
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9. As I said, I don't recall ever seeing a Disney movie that was...
worth making.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:58 PM
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10. And Tron..
I actually liked Tron because of the cutting edge computer graphics and Jeff Bridges. The Black Hole was just hideous, it actually looks like it was made 20 years before it was.
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 02:00 PM
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11. I liked Black Hole.
But then again, I was 3-years-old when I saw it.
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West Coast Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:23 PM
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5. It was playing on one screen in the same theater where I saw F911...
Edited on Thu Jul-08-04 01:27 PM by XanthaS
which was playing on 4 screens. I saw a couple of people go into the movie. There was a woman with a Southern drawl (I don't live in the South) and her little girl who was wearing red, white and blue ribbons in her hair.

(edited for typo)
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Kid_A Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:32 PM
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7. Here's a hilarious review of the movie...
from the Onion AV Club:

"Posed as counter-programming to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which was developed and forcibly sold off by Disney subsidiary Miramax, America's Heart And Soul represents apple-pie mythmaking at its most insidiously thoughtless. Rarely has the country been more polarized and politically charged, yet Schwartzberg and his studio masters pretend like everything's A-OK, as if helicopter shots of purple mountains' majesty and amber waves of grain will somehow erase the shame of Abu Ghraib. With flop-sweat on its brow, the film works hard to sell the cornpone idea of America back to itself, but are there really any buyers for this lemon?"


"Arbitrary in number and sequence, the two dozen or so mini-profiles zigzag frenetically from gorgeous landscapes to diverse urban centers, weaving what amounts to a crazy-quilt tapestry. (And, if there's any doubt, Schwartzberg shoots an Appalachian woman literally weaving a tapestry!) A few of the subjects would be interesting if more than five minutes were devoted to them: They include a Vermont dairy farmer who stages a musical version of Dracula, a daredevil New York City bike messenger, and a Methodist minister with a broadly inclusive congregation. Other profilees seem chosen for geographical convenience alone, so Schwartzberg can catch magic-hour views of Monument Valley, Telluride, and Napa Valley."

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mainer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 01:39 PM
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8. PEOPLE Magazine had an awful review of it
"Some people may enjoy it, but they're probably the same people who hum to Muzak. One and a half stars."
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