Posted on 05/24/2004 7:00:08 AM PDT by Valin
What eats hollyweird is that Gibson's file, with whatever film flaws may be claimed, made record amounts while a partisan poison pill like moore is only a niche maker with limited appeal in the best of circumstances.
Hollywood does not want to accept the fact that not only are their views a far left minority, they have also been proven consistenly wrong for society time and time again.
My favorite scene involving Quentin Tarantino is the one where George Clooney backhands him.
so will Miramax distribute it overseas?
Looks like Weinstein and Moore share a love for Krispy Kreme donuts as well as a hate for America.
I'm hearing all this bs rhetoric from the lefties that Moore's film will influence the election. I'm not buying it. I can't imagine any decent American paying to see this tripe. He's preaching to his insane choir.
I have an idea.
Michael stay in France
Do one of your patient ed documentaries on how France surrendered during WWII.
On second thought, maybe the doc not such a good idea, you would find a way to blame bush & 50% of the people would believe your fat sorry A$$
Re your post 24, I too am puzzled as to the audience for such tripe. I suppose there is--probably aging hippies and college professors (I repeat myself)--but I'll bet all I have that it is very, very small.
Lies, and the lying Franken's who tell them.
Tilda Swinton in another movieland name to boycott. (She was in "The Beach" with Leo DiCaprio.)
If you look up the history of this fest on the net you'll find that some pretty good films got the top award in the past. Still, the US dominates (18 awards total) which says something since the US hasn't in the past 40 years produced as much art cinema as many other small countries. We put out "commercial vehicles" and "products", and even this forum judges films by their attraction to the mob (i.e. the box office receipts.) And the presence in Cannes of such "giants" of art as Sheryl Crow and Larry Ellison, with his yacht in tow no less, tells you it's become a totally americanized county fair for the rich.
It's a shame though that Bush hating seems to trump everything else.
I don't know. I doubt it, for two reasons:
1. Ebert already repeated the Big Lie I cited above, so little else in his story is to be believed.
2. I recall that a different (non-Miramax, non-Disney) firm is distributing it in the UK.
Perhaps Miramax has some minor rights in countries where it can get no big bidder, i.e., a right to distribute if no native company will do so. But the short answer is "no," I'm betting.
What a joke. The "voiceless" people in this country are the ones who support President Bush! And when it comes to the film industry, even Mel Gibson, who has a consistent track record of making hit movies, couldn't get his movie funded by Hollywood.
The funniest thing about this article is how Tarantino is self-righteously proclaiming that politics had nothing to do with Moore's award. Meanwhile, his own jurors are contradicting that proclamation. And Roger Ebert doesn't even call them on it.
Tarentino just went off my list.
I love his films; own a few. But no more.
Abyssal is proper.
Abysmal has a more descriptive connotation, but is overused.
sorry I took so long to reply.
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