Posted on 05/23/2004 3:09:50 PM PDT by LadyShallott
Fanciful boy wizards and green ogres, move over: Hollywood's about to get serious. As election season heats up, several politically incendiary films are heading to the big screen.
From Michael Moore's (search) anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" to the disaster flick "The Day After Tomorrow," Tinseltown is putting out several movies that touch on hot-button political issues.
Election experts are skeptical about films' ability to impact the outcome of a race, but they say these movies do have the potential to rile voters and help mold debates.
"I think we can overstate the impact of how many people might see [these films] ... but they can help shape views over time. They have a more subtle impact," said Center for Voting and Democracy (search) Executive Director Rob Richie.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" and John Sayles' upcoming movie "Silver City," which stars Chris Cooper (search) as a politician who is a thinly veiled mockery of President Bush, are specifically taking aim at the current administration. Both Moore and Sayles have said that getting their films into theaters before the election is a priority. Although Disney recently backed out of distributing "Fahrenheit 9/11," few believe the film will have trouble finding another studio to put it out. "Silver City" is slated to debut on Sept. 16.
Political watchers say the famously left-wing Moore, whose film depicts the president as bungling and explores the ties between the Bush and the Bin Laden families, will be preaching to the converted.
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I guess the title should read Michael Moore is LEADING the pack. No pun intended with the heading comment. :)
Everyone though he was a champion when he started, but he's just anohter blow hard
I don't know too many people who would follow Michael Moore, especially if he is upwind of them.
I am amazed that anyone likes him. The fact that he won Cannes made my stomach turn. I could just picture the elated celebration and gnashing of the teeth by liberals. Lord help us stay the course, we are going to need it.
Hollywood is the place that SOROS can keep feeding the millions under the table to fatten the ROTTEN LIBS war against our President, and its legal. Who says millions can't buy an election?
I just wonder how long it will take for them to recover. Never in my house.
Here are the box office figures for Sayles' last four movies:
Casa de los Babys $475,940 total gross
Sunshine State $3,064,356 total gross
Limbo $2,016,687 total gross
Men with Guns $742,032 total gross
I see that the communists have once again infiltrated Hollywood.
Reagan cut his teeth standing up to communists in Hollywood.
Goebells knew the power of the media.
They're baaaa-ack!
ping
Sunshine State $3,064,356 total gross
Limbo $2,016,687 total gross
Men with Guns $742,032 total gross
I never even HEARD of any of these movies, so I guess your point is made. I will continue to watch my DVD's of The Patriot, and We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, unless Hollwouldn't offers something compareable.
He's not even from inner city Flint like he plays up.....but suburbia. Davison to be exact.
That's like someone from Roseville saying they are from Detroit.
I think you can fit the audience for a typical John Sayles movie in a phone booth. His films don't get huge releases anyway.
My favorite John Sayles flick, BTW, is Battle Beyond the Stars.
This is going to be very...um...entertaining. ;-)
The New York Times used to be pleasantly surprised as well, when Joe Stalin won another election. Does it surprise anyone that the neocommunists perform as obediently as did their soviet predessors?
LOL! Isn't that the truth!
It is called "persistence of image"
Google "goebbels" for references.
I stopped going to the movies quite a while back, and here's yet another reason to justify staying away from a theater.
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