Posted
8:17 PM
by Gene
And in more lack of cultural ghostbusting:"The Fighter" played extremely well by most reports, and every member I spoke to who saw it immediately declared it a likely Best Picture nominee and Christian Bale a sure Supporting Actor contender. But the crowd was reportedly very sparse, with perhaps as few as 200 people in the 1,000-seat Goldwyn. ("127 Hours" had a similarly small turnout a few weeks earlier. [SIC]
Pete Hammond said that one of his "spies" reported "virtually no applause at the end," although one member I spoke to attributed that to the fact that movie ends with loud music (muffling the applause from a sparse crowd)....Well, noise might deter applause -- but so could the movie.