I’ve only heard about this movie because some of my conservative geek groups have been talking about it and hoping that it completely bombs.

Looks like we got our wish.

According to this, the movie Miss Sloane  – a feminist wet dream about a female gun-grabbing lobbyist “making it in a male-dominated field” – earned a pitiful $1,922,300 nationwide for the entire weekend. Turns out that Americans don’t go to the movies to hear preachy leftist screeds written by glorified political organizations with an obvious agenda –

Miss Sloane, the gun control thriller starring Jessica Chastain, over the weekend posted one of the worst performances of the past 35 years for a movie in wide release.

The movie pulled in $1,167 on average at the 1,648 theaters across the country it was shown in. It made $1,922,300, meaning it was the 11th-highest grossing movie in the country. It is number 79 on Box Office Mojo’s list of Worst Opening Weekend by Per-Theater Average since 1982.

That means Miss Sloane earned less money per theater than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, and Gigli.

The funny thing is that critics are even panning this movie (not all critics, of course. The movie still ended up rating 69% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), and not necessarily because of political reasons. From the Washington Post –

There are little things that feel wrong in the movie — a PAC that raises just $15 million from three million donors, for instance, suggesting an average giving rate of five dollars per donor — as well as one big thing. The massive new background check law that forms the heart of “Miss Sloane’s” conflict is, simply, an absurdity. It is pitched as the sort of law that would “close loopholes” and stop mass shootings, despite the fact that background check laws have been unable to stop recent killings and proposed expansions of background checks would have done nothing to stop them. I found it hard to care about the machinations surrounding the bill since no one really addresses the fact that the bill itself is an empty nothing.

OUCH. .. read more here