You could not get a better example of the utter disconnect between America and the entertainment industry elites than the reaction to the new Dennis Quaid movie about Ronald Reagan. The fans love it. The critics don’t just discount it… they hate it.
I interviewed Dennis Quaid two weeks ago in Ronald Reagan’s hometown of Dixon, Illinois, at the Midwest premiere of the film, and he said the movie was a “passion project” for him because Reagan was his favorite president.
Well, it appears that millions agree with Quaid. The audience score for the film at Rotten Tomatoes is 98 percent. And what about the critics?
Per NewsBusters:
Our old colleague Kristine Parks at FoxNews.com notes the new movie Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid, is strongly liked by audiences with a 98 percent audience score on the site Rotten Tomatoes. But the critics are liberals, and among them, it only had a 26 percent score.
Compare that to the 2016 movie Southside with You, a biopic which gushed over young Barack and Michelle Obama. Both were positive movies, but the Obama film received rave reviews and a 91 percent score by critics (71 percent audience).
Christian Toto told Fox News: “Film critics, by and large, lean relentlessly to the left, and they let that flavor their reviews. So, when a Michael Moore film hits theaters, the response will be glowing, by and large, regardless of the content. The recent projects tied to progressive heroes like President Barack Obama (Southside with You) and Ruth Bader Ginsberg (RBG) are similarly hailed even by those who use the term ‘hagiography.’”
But of course.
Who expects more?
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