Six Days in August D.O.A.?

[Marcus]

...it would still be possible, if I chose, to devote a substantial portion of this blog to responding to its incomprehension, its consistently hostile spin, its unsleeping malice, and, very often, its sheer mendacity. I don’t choose to do so...

He thinks he doesn't spend a substantial portion of his blog responding to comments posted here???

[I Have Questions]

...it would still be possible, if I chose, to devote a substantial portion of this blog to responding to its incomprehension, its consistently hostile spin, its unsleeping malice, and, very often, its sheer mendacity. I don’t choose to do so...

He thinks he doesn't spend a substantial portion of his blog responding to comments posted here???

He mentions this board more frequently than he mentions his film

[drumdude]

He thinks he doesn't spend a substantial portion of his blog responding to comments posted here???

He mentions this board more frequently than he mentions his film

His blog is probably more profitable than his film!

[Dr Exiled]

According to the film’s Facebook page, the Blu-ray is currently in production, and will be in stores on December 15.

Gag gift anyone?

[Morley]

According to the film’s Facebook page, the Blu-ray is currently in production, and will be in stores on December 15.

Gag gift anyone?

Especially when recognizing that "gag" has another meaning.

[I Have Questions]

After running in theatres for 53 days, the film that is rumoured to have cost >$2.5 million to put out, has recouped less than $390,000. The return on that for Interpreter will be less than $200,000.

Peterson has now squandered maybe more than $3,000,000 of donations on two failed movie projects. It’s spectacular. If Interpreter is serious about making movies, they need to find somebody more qualified to run the project. Peterson should be allowed nowhere near it. If Peterson is serious about producing movies (rather than serving a senior mission), perhaps he should spend some time utilising the resources made available by the Producers Guild of America, and work at a more junior level on unrelated movies projects (assuming other Producers will let him anywhere near their movie) to learn the trade.

[Tom]

I am pleased to report that Six Days is holding on in Kaysville. The Kaysville Theater/Theatre will be showing the film nightly on December 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11.

If you go, be sure to remain in the theater for the credits, which are accompanied by Rob Gardner’s exquisite and aching arrangement of John Taylor’s soul-destroying hymn about the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, “O Give Me Back My Prophet Dear.” The hymn is one of the most passionate, pulverizing, rapturous, ineffable, spellbinding, unearthly, ethereal, excruciating, atomizing, delicious, tormenting, euphoric, mesmerizing, decimating, hypnotic, entrancing, harrowing, intoxicating, torturous, captivating, exhilarating, agonizing, and heavenly pieces of music I’ve ever had the pleasure and pain of experiencing. In short, if hearing the hymn doesn’t lay you out cold on the sticky Kaysville Theater/Theatre floor in a veritable three-day coma like Alma the Younger, you’re a soulless plebe. Here are the lyrics in English:

O give me back my Prophet dear,
And Patriarch, O give them back;
The Saints of latter days to cheer,
And lead them in the gospel track.
But ah! they’re gone from my embrace,
From earthly scenes their spirits fled;
Those two, the best of Adam’s race,
Now lie entombed among the dead.

Ye men of wisdom tell me why,
When guilt nor crime in them were found,
Why now their blood doth loudly cry,
From prison walls, and Carthage ground
Your tongues are mute, but pray attend,
The secret I will now relate,
Why those whom God to earth did lend,
Have met the suffering martyr’s fate.

It is because they strove to gain,
Beyond the grave a heaven of bliss;
Because they made the gospel plain,
And led the Saints in righteousness.
It is because God called them forth,
And led them by his own right hand
Christ’s coming to proclaim on earth,
And gather Israel to their land.

It is because the priests of Baal
Were desperate their craft to save;
And when they saw it doomed to fail,
They sent the Prophets to the grave.
Like scenes the ancient Prophets saw,
Like these, the ancient Prophets fell;
And till the resurrection dawn,
Prophet and Patriarch-Fare thee well.

And—dare I say—the majesty of these words does not begin to approximate the sheer beauty of the text in Scottish Gaelic (Google translation):

O thoir dhomh air ais m' Fhàidh ghràdhach,
Agus a Phatriarch, O thoir air ais iad;
Na naoimh anns na làithibh deireannach ri gàirdeachas,
Agus stiùir iad ann an slighe an t-soisgeil.
Ach ah! dh'fhalbh iad o m' chulaidh,
Bho sheallaidhean talmhaidh theich an spioradan;
An dithis sin, a' chuid a's fearr de shliochd Adhaimh,
A‑nis laighidh am measg nam marbh.

A dhaoine glice innis dhomh carson,
'N uair fhuaradh ciont no eucoir annta,
Carson a nis tha am fuil ag èigheach gu h-ard,
Bho bhallachan a 'phrìosain, agus talamh Carthage
Tha do theangaidh balbh, ach deanaibh urnuigh,
An diomhaireachd a dh' innseas mi nis,
Carson a thug d i a air iasad don talamh,
Tha iad air coinneachadh ri na thachair don mhartarach a bha a’ fulang.

Is ann a chionn gu'n d' rinn iad strì ri buannachadh,
Thar na h-uaighe tha nèamh de shòlas ;
Oir rinn iad an soisgeul soilleir,
Agus threòraich e na naoimh ann am fìreantachd.
Is ann a chionn gu'n do ghairm D i a a mach iad,
Agus threòraich e iad le a làimh dheis fhèin
teachd Chriosd a shearmonachadh air thalamh,
Agus cruinnich Israel gu an tìr.

Is ann a chionn gu robh sagartan Bhàail
B' èiginn an ceird a shàbhaladh ;
Agus an uair a chunnaic iad gu'n do dh'fhailnich e,
Chuir iad na fàidhean chun na h-uaighe.
Mar seallaidhean a chunnaic na seann fhàidhean,
Mar iad so, thuit na seann Fhàidhean ;
'S gus an èirich an aiseirigh,
Fhaidh agus a Phatriarch—Go maith dhuit.

I shall never forget—even if I abide in this terrestrial realm for a thousand years—the first time I heard the hymn sung in Scottish Gaelic. I was attending a sacrament meeting on a chilly and windswept evening in Glendale, Utah, on Sunday, December 23, 1973. The ward—filled with Saints of Scottish heritage—was in a celebratory mood, marking the 168th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith with talks and song (and birthday cake afterwards). It was a night to remember forever.

Merry Smithmas!

ETA: for some bizarre reason, this board insists on changing the perfectly valid word "D i a" (spaces inserted to avoid the issue) to read "Denver International Airport." I am fairly certain that Elder Taylor never dreamed of such a place.

[drumdude]

It made a whopping $11 on Monday. I’m guessing 2 matinee tickets at $5.50 each.

[I Have Questions]

It made a whopping $11 on Monday. I’m guessing 2 matinee tickets at $5.50 each.

Does that count as a “private view”?

[drumdude]

Dan has just released the eulogy for the film, praising the work they have done and saying the team is looking for a scapegoat to pin the poor performance on.

Dan has ruled out the mediocre plot, the 2 dimensional characters, and the boring subject matter. A more palatable explanation would be a sign that cinema as a whole is dead.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241204210 ... ss-on.html

Six Days in August did not, I readily admit, do anywhere near as well at the box office as we had hoped and expected it to do. We’re still trying to understand why that was so. And we’re not the only people who are wondering about where theatrical movie-going stands right now. Here’s a quintet of relevant links:

Forbes: “Is The Death Of Movie Theaters Upon Us?”

This might be a good explanation, if it weren’t for that pesky first film, Witnesses. It had the same director, many of the same actors, same cinematography, same executive producer… and it performed much better in the middle of a global pandemic. Where cinemas in the US were either shut down, preventing patrons from sitting next to each other, or mandating masks to be worn the entire film.

The numbers are illuminating of this point. The domestic box office for this year was almost double 2021 when Witnesses released:







Dan and his team may have to do some more soul searching for a better scapegoat.