Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Catholic story found glory at the box office!

Thanks to well-planned advance screenings and aggressive social media marketing, "For Greater Glory" found a glory spot in the TOP 10 on its opening weekend. This, without the mega-sized billboards and bus stop ads of, say, the latest version of Snow White--and despite the fact that, with only 757 theaters compared to Snow White's opening weekend in 3,773.

Even though "For Greater Glory" has some real weaknesses as a movie (among them, too many noble speeches), it deserves the box office glory it won this weekend. And all of you who went to the theaters in a show of support for films with a moral core also deserve kudos!

1 comment:

Ruth Ann Pilney said...

My husband and I went to see it on Sunday, and both of us liked it and found it touched us deeply. I would even be willing to see it again, and I never do that with movies, generally speaking.

At the conclusion of the film, when the credits started rolling several members in the audience shouted in unison, ¡Viva Cristo Rey! !QuĂ© viva! I was pleasantly startled by that.

I do not think it is for children or even for youth, because of its R rating, which I think it deserved because of its violence. The violence was intrinsic to the story, but its too harsh for the young to see.