Posted on 06/30/2007 10:39:05 AM PDT by VA Voter
Snip...Michael Moore's documentary Sicko did $1.3 mil Friday from its 441 theaters, good enough for 9th place. It could finish the weekend with $4 mil.
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A Mighty Heart starring Angelina Jolie collapsed completely, managing only 14th place with $470K Friday.
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You also remind me to mention the animated short before the movie. That was hilarious.
He truly does die hard. LOL!
A Mighty Heart collapsed because of Jolie’s “overprotective” lawyer and the subsequent boycott of a lot of folks. I say it and thought it was incredible.
What, you liked a movie about how it was Daniel Pearl’s fault for getting his head cut off by those wonderful Pakistanis?
Ratatouille was not a favorite of mine either. Meet the Robinsons earlier this year was a disappointment also. But most everyone else just loves them, so maybe its just a few of us.
Bruce does say it at the end, not going to spoil the line.
Yeah, even the local media around here have been doing their best to BOOST the Michael Moore dung. Just like they did with the Angelina movie.
I thought that "Cars" would bomb from the premise until about a week or two before it opened, and then the ads changed my mind, and I went and enjoyed it.
Ratatouille just never got there for me (from the ads and trailers and whathaveyou -- haven't seen it yet). Dreamworks (IIRC) thought they'd have a big success with a cartoon about a rat that gets flushed down a toilet and lives in the sewers. It failed miserably. So now Pixar makes a movie about a rat. What were they thinking? And it makes food??
Here's a hint, Pixar: kids don't watch cooking shows. Kids don't want to be master chefs. Maybe they'll help Mommy cook or Daddy grill or Uncley ... you get the picture. And why RATS? Okay, the penguins are in OVERKILL mode right about now, but at least they're Cute. We're talking about Rats!
If my son pesters me, I'll take him, but I don't think he will. He used to laugh at the "You don't know what it is, but you're eating it anyway." line on the commercial, but that's old now. This will probably be wait for video or Disney channel.
And the funny thing is that they had to put a pronounciation guide under the title in the ads. Why make a kids movie with a title that they can neither pronounce nor spell? Remember Madagascar, anyone?
I'll take a shot and guess that only the new openings are listed in the headline.
That film celebrates excellence at the expense of mediocrity with an underlying tone that it's ridiculous folly to try to level the playing field for everybody.
Quite radical coming from Hollywood, but, hey, if we can indoctrinate these ideas into our children . . .
No, wait. No indoctrination needed. I actually teach amd emcourage my kids to be their best.
He said it at the end? Well there you go. That’s how much I care about some goofy line.
This in shown in massive full effect this week on CNBC. This is a channel that is supposed to be dedicated to reporting financial and market data.
Not only did they have Michael Moore walking around wall street with dozens of MSM reporters in two, but leading the pack was Maria Bartiromo of CNBC. There was a report that Michael Moore was going to walk through the NYSE.
Later on the CNBC show "fast money" which has 4 major stock and futures traders discussing the markets with a CNBC commentator named Dylan Ratigan in the middle bringing up the topics and controlling the flow.
On that show, they showed film of Michael Moore walking in front of the NYSE and his interview with Bartiromo that afternoon. They started talking about Michael's annoucement that everyone should just sell all their stocks in HMO's to start a revolution in socialized health care. The guys started ripping this idea to shreads, but Dylan Ratigan started shilling for Michael Moore trying to talk about how this might be a good thing. The 4 guys started looking a bit confused. One guy mentioned that he was at the NYSE at that time and the NYSE refused to let Michael Moore enter. Dylan went nuts and started yelling that, "Moore was supposed to be allowed in, but didn't get permission far enough in advanced!". More confusion on the set. One of the guys works at the NYSE and was saying that it wasn't true, that the NYSE flatout refused to let Moore in because Moore was planning to try to hold a press conference on the floor with all the MSM he had in tow about his plan to get everyone to sell all HMO stocks and disrupt trading taking place. YOu really think the NYSE was going to allow such a thing to take place???? espcially in the middle of an open trading session?
You could see the tension building as Ratigan was showing his liberal views, and the traders were sitting their in somewhat disblief of what they were hearing knowing Ratigan was supporting Moore and supporting his attempt to get in the NYSE. We all know what Michael Moore was up to. A cheap publicity stunt to promote his movie.
It was the hottest argument between Ratigan and these guys I had ever seen. Ratigan was sounding like Al Franken as he started to yell louder and louder over everyone else, and when being faced with a loss of the argument, pulled the "ok, next topic".
The bad part of the dialogue was obscured by a sound effect, I thought it was pretty clever.
The media is the mouthpiece of the Looney Left. The Looney Left's unofficial doctrine, the politically correct (corrupt) manifest, forwards the same amoralism as the Communist Manifesto and Islam's Quaran: ends justify the means. Lying, cheating, and killing in advancing P.C. are vitues in the minds of the Lonney Left. Unmasked, they are Hitler, Stalin and Osama bin Laden and their followers.
Oh right. I forget about that.
I saw 1408 a couple days ago and was pleasantly surprised. It is based on a Stephen King short story and plays like a good episode of the Twilight Zone mixed with a bad acid trip. Normally I avoid anything with John Cusack like the plague, but he managed to pull this one off pretty well.
“Why is a NINTH place movie listed THIRD in a headline?”
Because it is from a biased left coast daily attempting to promote a sinking, sicko documentary.
Perhaps Moore would like to contribute all the profits of his moral lecture to the “unhealthy people” he used to make the documentary.
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