'Fahrenheit 9/11' sets record

The Fayetteville Observer ^ | 6/29/04 | Matt Leclercq

[tdadams]

this particular theater has been cited in half a dozen different articles celebrating the runaway success of Fahrfromtrue 9/11

Funny, when The Passion of the Christ sold out 800 seats during six screenings a day over a three day weekend (a total of 14,400 tickets sold) in my town, it barely made a two sentence mention in the local paper.

[JennysCool]

I wouldn't put it past Moore and Co. to exaggerate the numbers

The Air America strategy at work.

[USNFighting31st]

Look at this at a new angle and 22 million dollars at the box office doesn't seem like much.

Assuming that the vast majority of the people that saw it over the weekend were people that voted for Gore or Nader in 2000 which would equal 53,338957 people. Now take the box office take rounded-up to the nearest million ($22 Million) and devide that by an average of $7 a ticket and you see that less than 6 percent of the liberal to leftist base has seen it. This movie is preaching to the choir, but most members of the choir are missing.


Another thought, if it wasn't in the theater, White Chicks would be #1. Now there is some tuff competition.
Take away all the pre-release hype, and F/911 would of been a major flop.

GO SPIDERMAN GO

[Blood of Tyrants]

The theater had 125 seats. A sellout? Big whoop.

[mass55th]

In Richard Johnson's Page Six in The New York Post today, it states that this theater has only 125 seats. I also heard that in order to get the numbers they wanted, they had to run the movie 24 hours round the clock.

[Sally II]

I absolutely will not see this film. I wouldn't be able to rest easy if I knew that I gave a single dime to support that man. Just have to comment about the breaking box office records, though. Only a handful of movies ever come out in a year that I really want to see. Fahrenheit 9/11 didn't exactly have a lot of competition. And I suspect that most of the numbers represent large groups of joyless Liberal/Progressives, who's minds were already set against Bush and just needed their Michael Moore propagand fix to keep them going. Followed by a few young, naiive, and impressionable non-political types who think that watching an anti-American "documentary" will make them feel smart. Followed by some conservatives who didn't think it was enough to read about it.

Anyhow, I imagine there are a lot of moveon.org people who will see this several times, just because they can't throw enough money at Michael Moore. But it'll be blown out of the water tomorrow, when Spiderman II comes out.

[clyde asbury]

Agreed. I expect Spider-Man II will be much more enjoyable, and early reports I've heard confirm this.

Moore fooled me once when I rented Roger and Me. He won't fool me twice.

[clyde asbury]

I should say, early reports are that Spidey II compares well with the first.

[listenhillary]

I'm sorry my post was not meant to disparage any thing you said. Hope no ruffled feathers remain.

Is she going to tell her husbannd that he's a mis-guided bush-bot? He's been duped by the military and the administration?

[chudogg]

Of course this story is only comprised of anecdotal "evidence", behind it all does reveal a very sad story. The story of Natalie Sorton, proud of her husband and what he is accomplisihing overseas. Only to do a complete 180 because of the parnoid delusions of a ranting far left conspiracy theorist.

[NautiNurse]

Is she going to tell her husbannd that he's a mis-guided bush-bot? He's been duped by the military and the administration?

Lord, I hope not. She will be a misguided soul if she does.

[lowbridge]

This is about the fourth story I've read which interviews "Republicans" who think Michael Moore is just a swell guy and who went to see the movie to get the "truth". Call me cynical, but this has the feel of disinformation, like the people who call C-SPAN claiming to be Republicans and then spouting nonsense only a Democrat would allow to pass his lips.

My thoughts exactly. I'll believe they're Republicans after I see their voter registration forms. (Like Michael Moore claiming he wasn't a Democrat, just an Independent, only to have the Smoking Gun site show him to be a registered Democrat.)

[wai-ming]

...sold out Friday at the Cameo, the only theater in Fayetteville to carry the Michael Moore film

Is the theatre on or off base? If it is off base, then civilians also had access to the movie. And where did those "hundreds of patrons" come from? The military base? Bussed in from other areas, just to make a showing?

Based on Moore's record, I'd take the "record numbers" with a grain of salt. How many idiots does it take to stuff a phonebooth? Fill a theatre?

[Sally II]

Yeah... I saw Roger and Me years ago, too. I also enjoyed most of his TV Nation series ---though at the time I didn't get the bit with the corporate chicken. I get it now. I guess at the time I didn't think that anyone could really be so anti-capitalist.

I confess I was pretty naiive. It wasn't until after 9-11, and the anti-Capitalist conspiracy theories of the Progressives came out in full force, that I realized how nuts they all were. Those people (Michael Moore leading the pack with his post 9-11 tirade on how it was all Bush's fault because of Kyoto and WCAR, etc) were coming up with "reasons" for the attack before Bin Laden actually came out and took credit for it. That's crazy.

[Sally II]

Yeah... I saw Roger and Me years ago, too. I also enjoyed most of his TV Nation series ---though at the time I didn't get the bit with the corporate chicken. I get it now. I guess at the time I didn't think that anyone could really be so anti-capitalist.

I confess I was pretty naiive. It wasn't until after 9-11, and the anti-Capitalist conspiracy theories of the Progressives came out in full force, that I realized how nuts they all were. Those people (Michael Moore leading the pack with his post 9-11 tirade on how it was all Bush's fault because of Kyoto and WCAR, etc) were coming up with "reasons" for the attack before Bin Laden actually came out and took credit for it. That's crazy.

[fso301]

I haven't seen it but when one considers that few theaters in the area show it and this one is an artsy fartsy theater, one shouldn't be too surprised in party faithfull drove long distances to Fayetville to see it.

[KingNo155]

"I'm not pleased at all about the way things are going" with the war, Barnes said. "I trust Michael Moore. He can be out there a bit, but he's for the common man."

What a load of Bull M.Morre is not for the common man! The common man doesn't need M. Moores help and he's not my friend. Me and all the common men I know speak for themselves and don't need any represenatives, we say what we mean and mean what we say and don't need Mr Moore's so-called help. And who wants to be a common man when its leader(Mr. Mooore)is big fat ugly stupid and stirs up trouble?

[montag813]

"I want to see what my husband is fighting for," Sorton said

So go see "We Were Soldiers" instead, you dolt.