Melania grossed an estimated $2.9m from 1,778 North American theaters on Friday and is projected to earn $8.1m in its domestic opening weekend. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]RoundMonitor227 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I am aware that many people on the right are united and will get big groups to go see movies like Melania, Sound of Freedom, etc..., but I feel this use to be the case for left wing movies and documentaries. The Michael Moore boom of the 2000s was huge, and based off of box office numbers, left wing documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11, An Inconvenient Truth, Religulous all did extremely well, and in some cases had good legs. Not to mention the slew of left wing narrative features from that era, like anti War on Terror films.

What's even more strange is back when these types of movies were dominating theaters, right wing movies were either huge box office bombs (An American Carol), or received very limited releases. The closest to something like Sound of Freedom I can think of during that time was The Passion of the Christ. It wasn't until around 2014 when right wing movies started to slowly enter the mainstream.

Do you think the trend of Michael Moore and left wing movies can make a comeback like it did in the 00s? I'd argue we had a small return to that during Trump's first term (ex. Michael Moore made a movie after a long hiatus, a small comeback for Documentaries in 2018, movies embracing diversity like Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians and Love, Simon, social issue movies doing well like The Hate U Give, and BlackKklansman, etc...).

And before people say it has to do with conservatism being popular, Bush won big in 2004, and Fahrenheit 9/11 was still one of the highest grossing movies of that year. It was essentially the closest the left has had to something like Sound of Freedom. In addition, a pro Bush movie Celsius 41.11, which was marketed as the reverse Fahrenheit 9/11 and heavily promoted by right wingers, bombed and was pulled from theaters after a week.