No Box Office Love for Moore

[ArlJim78]

What a shame. Micheal Moore's latest crockumentary, Capitalism - A Love Story, tanked big time at the box office (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/04/michael-moores-capitalism-bust-box-office)last weekend. It finished tied for 7th place and this is after a huge media blitz advertising campaign.
I wish he'd move his sorry ass to Cuba where he fits in better and would be worshipped as a hero.
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"Michael Moore's purposefully controversial and politically polarizing documentary Capitalism: A Love Story was distributed by Overture Films and wound up in 7th place. It went wide into 962 theaters this weekend after opening on September 23rd in a limited release of 4 theaters. The pic about the financial crisis made $1.6M Friday and $2M Saturday (+33%) for a $5M weekend and $5.4M cume. Just for comparison purposes: Moore's most recent Sicko did $4.4 mil its opening weekend from only 441 theaters (and that was with him guesting on The Tonight Show and announcing he'd been subpoenaed by the Bush administration for the health care documentary). And his Fahrenheit 9/11 did $23.9M its opening weekend from 868 venues.) So, as much as the left loves Moore, and the right detests him, and he always uses the ensuing controversy to self-promote, the money angle is only what interests me. The fact is that Capitalism: A Love Story looks like its domestic total will fail to crack $20M and end up his worst performing film since his Oscar-winner Bowling For Columbine in 2002"

[Lefty]

Well now, the pipples not only Obama but they're also onto the hypocrite, MM.

[Tom]

Maybe that's why he hates capitalism! :lol:

[46zilzal]

Almost a sold out performance and a standing ovation at the end yesterday when I watched it.

Funny stuff and enlightening to discover at Goldman-Sachs financial coup de'ta occurred with all parties falling in line.

[Tom]

Did you buy a ticket to see it?
If you did, you are supporting capitalism.

A standing O for a movie???
Life must be pretty dull up there in the Great White North!

[bigmack]

Quite the rebel hanging outside office buildings with a megaphone. Is it irreverent or irrelevant? Both.

Zilly see's Moore like a Moonie views Sun Myung. One day we might see him selling flowers for Moore at the airport. Now that's capital capitalism!

[riskman]

Michael Moore is a man who doesn’t want you to be free to buy the products you want, to hire whomever you want, or even to defend your own person, property, and family. We would be smart to acknowledge that, and never fail to remind everyone of why he is so wrong about everything.

When you see his movie, it just puts money in his pocket to spend on advancing economic ignorance.

[46zilzal]

Michael Moore is a man who doesn’t want you to be free to buy the products you want, to hire whomever you want, or even to defend your own person, property, and family. We would be smart to acknowledge that, and never fail to remind everyone of why he is so wrong about everything.

When you see his movie, it just puts money in his pocket to spend on advancing economic ignorance.
Economic ignorance like all of the top goons in the Treasury Department were Goldman Sachs employees? that ignorance?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/business/10rubin.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE6DF1631F932A05756C0A9609C8B 63&sec=&spon=&emc=eta1
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/business/15lehman.html

On and on documented

[bigmack]

Economic ignorance like all of the top goons in the Treasury Department were Goldman Sachs employees? that ignorance?
Dig deeper. Informing yourself through a Moore film is like getting your news from the back of a box of Raisin Bran.

Heck, even Rolling Stone can inform you better.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine

http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/player/28915225

[Tom]

And on and on you ramble.
What do your links have to do with anything?

[boxcar]

And on and on you ramble.
What do your links have to do with anything?

He probably feels that if he posts enough of them, some day he might get lucky and find his missing link.

Boxcar

[Tom]

Missing Link! :lol:


BTW, I was not referring to Mac, who got in between! ;)

[Java Gold@TFT]

The funniest thing is that people like Moore and Zil don't understand the difference between capitalism and Laissez-Faire Capitalism. This country was founded on Laissez-Faire Capitalism which basically states that the government should stay the hell out of private economc affairs. That philospohy completely died during the FDR era if not before then.

Zil, since you like to supply links maybe you can google the differences between the two terms and enlighten evryone on just how misinformed Roger is while you Canadians applaud an American film maker who supports your socialist ways.

[jballscalls]

haven't seen the movie yet, but in an interview on Stern's show, Moore said he obviously loves capitalism, he hates what the big corporations and wall street has done to it. he claims they've bastardised the word. The movie is about their love affair with it.

he did say that this will be his last documentary and that he wants to make a romantic comedy script he wrote.

[Tom]

Romantic comedy?????

Him and a Quarter Pounder?:lol:

[delayjf]

To my knowledge, banks have been buying / investing in debt like mortgage backed securities for years and that over time they have been a safe investment - until the housing bubble burst.

What MM doesn't seem to grasp is that the problem was not MBS, the problem is that they tanked and the real question is WHY DID THEY TANK??? BECAUSE TOO MANY PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED TO BUY HOMES WHO COULD NOT AFFORD THEM.

[Tom]

Now how do you suppose Barney and Dodd would react to MM's ambush journalism about THEIR role in this?

Oh, what am I thinking.....MM is not looking for truth, just shock value and a paycheck. One might call him a ho.

[46zilzal]

To my knowledge, banks have been buying / investing in debt like mortgage backed securities for years and that over time they have been a safe investment - until the housing bubble burst.

What MM doesn't seem to grasp is that the problem was not MBS, the problem is that they tanked and the real question is WHY DID THEY TANK??? BECAUSE TOO MANY PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED TO BUY HOMES WHO COULD NOT AFFORD THEM.
As the movie shows these people invested in debt derivatives that they simply did not understand nor were able to trace.

[Tom]

Then shouldn't he make a movie about STUPIDITY? :D


Hint - part of "risk" is that you should know what you are investing in.
You know,like all those people who signed mortgages that CLEARLY spelled out the term, if they could read. Many of those were FORCED on the lending institutions by the democrats. That is your root cause. Strangely absent from the latest cartoon by Mr. Frumpy.