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In Reply to: Re: Brokeback Mountain and Believability posted by Steve O on February 5, 2006 at 06:47:57:
..."OTOH, who could have imagined that a film about “gay cowboys” could have become as mainstream as it has?"Say what?
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By mainstream I mean: The film is widely playing in megaplex theatre complexes nationally, not just the arthouse theatres where something like this usually ends up. It's become the subject of "cute" editorial cartoons and serious editorials. Audiences of widely varying backgrounds are paying good money to view it. It's received generally good reviews from professional film reviewers and yes, I know, the goodness isn't unanimous. It's placed in the top 10 for a couple of weeks for either revenue or attendance (forget which). Rush Limbaugh has acknowledged its existance. It's even paid back it's (admittedly low) production costs. To me, that's mainstream...apparently not you...cie la vie.
c
And I quote: "Documentary box office: Hmm... Penguins has earned more than Brokeback, Crash, Capote or GNGL. Granted, an anomaly... nt"Is the intended conclusion that the films you note are not all that mainstream or not that popular? My conclusion is that Penguins was extraordinarily popular. It's been around longer too hasn't it? Seems by your own grant, you've cited an anomalous example to support your position on "mainstream" films.
...that it is.Nor is Penguins, even though one gush read, "First documentary to become mainstream!"
I wasn't aware that rate-of-being-watched was a criterion.
But, you quibble.
clark
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