As all of the regular readers here probably know from my recent incessant whining, I\u2019ve been horrendously bogged down with work.\u00a0 Even on weekends, there is stuff I have to get done and it will only get worse for the next month or so.<\/p>\n
Woe is me; woe is me!<\/p>\n
But at the same time, I\u2019ve been wanting to go see Matt Walsh\u2019s movie \u201cAm I Racist.\u201d\u00a0 I asked Camera Girl if she wanted to go with me and she rolled her eyes and shook her head.\u00a0 So that complicated things because just abandoning her on a weekend to trek across state lines and eat up half a day seemed a little selfish to me.\u00a0 So, I was shocked when on Thursday she asked me if I wanted to go see the movie.\u00a0 Apparently, she figured it might cheer me up ahead of my marathon work schedule to go to this movie over the weekend.\u00a0 I guess she really does like me.\u00a0 So, I went on line to see what hours it was playing.\u00a0 Well, it wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 The movie had gone from about a thousand theaters, down to something like four-hundred.\u00a0 And since Dunwich really is in the middle of nowhere, there wasn\u2019t a single theater within a hundred miles of me.<\/p>\n
Woe is me; woe is me!<\/p>\n
When I stopped shaking my fist at the sky, I looked up the box office history for the movie.\u00a0 The movie was only banking twenty- or thirty-thousand dollars a day at that point but it had earned over twelve million dollars over the course of its run.\u00a0 And when you consider that the movie only cost a quarter of that to make, I was quite impressed by Walsh\u2019s accomplishment.<\/p>\n
Last year Walsh made a documentary called \u201cWhat is a Woman\u201d that was very effective at highlighting the insane and dangerous transgender movement that has convinced most of the medical establishment that it\u2019s okay to treat children with puberty blockers and sex hormone therapy as a precursor to amputation of their genitalia.\u00a0 And this documentary was watched by many millions of people on-line.\u00a0 But this new movie was different.<\/p>\n
This was something that people had to go to a movie theater to watch.\u00a0 They had to plunk down cold hard cash.\u00a0 And for that money they expected to be entertained.\u00a0 And they were!\u00a0 The reviews and rating by the people who actually went to the movie were extremely high.\u00a0 It was a hit with the people who went to see it.\u00a0 But the mainstream media boycotted reviewing it.\u00a0 And this was after it opened in the top four box office spot.\u00a0 And not against other documentaries.\u00a0 This was against all the movies in theaters.\u00a0 It was a financial success, but they refused to review it.<\/p>\n
So, I didn\u2019t get to see it.\u00a0 Well, eventually I\u2019ll see it online.\u00a0 So that\u2019s okay.\u00a0 But the bigger story here is that finally, finally, someone is making movies for our side of the street.\u00a0 And I hope the Daily Wire makes a ton of money doing it and I hope that gives ideas to a bunch of other \u201ccreative\u201d people who want to make money but can\u2019t seem to get people to go to the stuff Hollywood has been putting out lately.\u00a0 Who knows maybe it\u2019ll inspire Disney to make the imaginative leap and think, \u201cDidn\u2019t we used to make money hand over fist with that traditional stuff back in the stone age?\u00a0 It looks like people still like that racist, sexist stuff.\u00a0 Maybe we could do that again and make money for a change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, calm down!\u00a0 Small steps, small steps.\u00a0 Okay, now I\u2019ve got a grip again.<\/p>\n
But I have to confess I am encouraged.\u00a0 This is the sort of stuff I\u2019ve been waiting years for.\u00a0 With the entry cost for making professional-looking motion pictures at historic lows and good writers, directors, actors and other movie trades unemployed because of DEI it doesn\u2019t seem that it should be that difficult to make a profit if you give people a good story and stick to entertainment instead of hectoring them.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n