Posted on 09/13/2004 10:25:52 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
'Michael Moore Hates America' huge hit
10-minute standing ovation for documentary at film festival
By Ron Strom
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
"Michael Moore Hates America," a documentary that challenges the leftist filmmaker, received a huge response at the American Film Renaissance festival in Dallas, packing out two showings and eliciting a 10-minute standing ovation.
"That crowd response was bigger than anything I've seen in a theater in my life," Jim Hubbard, the co-founder of the festival, told WorldNetDaily. The festival ran from Sept. 10-12.
Hubbard said demand to see the film was so high, the theater was bursting at the seams during the second showing.
"We really packed them in," he said. "We were having to turn people away."
Hubbard says he is confident the man who made "Michael Moore Hates America," 27-year-old Mike Wilson, will secure a theatrical distributor for his work.
"They're going to get distribution," he predicted. "This thing is just too huge."
Wilson was in attendance for both showings, Hubbard said. "[The moviegoers] were treating him like a rock star."
Added Hubbard, "He really peeled the hide off of Michael Moore."
In one scene, the American soldier who lost both arms in Iraq and who was shown in Moore's Bush-bashing "Fahrenheit 9/11" said he was taken out of context in the left-wing documentary.
According to Hubbard, the soldier said in the new film he had planned to be a technical engineer and could no longer do so because he lost him arms. He emphasized, however, that if he had to do it over again, he would, because "what we're doing in Iraq is important." The soldier said he was furious about the way Moore had portrayed him in "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Hubbard noted, "Moore used the south of France [Cannes Film Festival] to launch his left-wing documentary, and we used the heartland of the country, Dallas, Texas, to launch the counterpunch. There are two conflicting moral views right there."
Other films that were popular at the festival, which Hubbard says was the first conservative film festival in the nation, included "Is it True What They Say About Ann?" a documentary about columnist Ann Coulter, "Confronting Iraq" and "Michael and Me," another film responding to Michael Moore.
"Stolen Honor," a film that tells the stories of former POWs who felt betrayed by Sen. John Kerry's 1971 testimony accusing American servicemen of war crimes, also was well-received, Hubbard said.
Hubbard says there were between 3,000 and 4,000 tickets sold altogether for the 17 films that were screened.
That's a lot of peeling
I will pay my hard earned money to see this, probly more than once.
I will pay my hard earned Money to see this film. Probly more than once.
(I dont know what the heck happened there!??!)
September 13, 2004 - The Amazing Morning After…
We premiered yesterday at the AFR Festival in Dallas. It was a smash hit. Both shows were oversold, packed houses. There were dozens of people standing in the back, and did so for the entire show because there were no more seats. I want to apologize to the people with tickets who were turned away because the theater oversold the show… I had no idea that would happen, and I'm sorry.
It was so cool to be at both shows… to finally hear the laughter and applause of the audiences. To see the standing ovations. I was so humbled by the fact that people enjoyed the flick. And for me, that's all this is about.
Some of the last year and a half has been fascinating, some of it fun, some of it painful, and recently, it's been emotionally exhausting. But being in the theater with those audiences yesterday, and talking with people afterward… people who have believed in me from the beginning and never gave up, even when I wanted to… reminded me why I got into this in the first place. And I want to thank the people who were at the premiere. You were a part of the fulfillment of my little American Dream. It meant the world to me that you showed up.
Meanwhile, we're still working on distribution. I'm on my way to LA from Dallas to meet with the folks who are repping the film, and then heading out to Toronto on Wednesday before that film festival ends to meet with more distributors. But I can tell you that after yesterday and the response we got from the crowds, there is a big market for the flick. The ride is really just beginning.
Take care,
Mike Wilson
Director, Michael Moore Hates America
Can't wait to see this BUMP. Paging ICON Pictures!
Why is this not getting publicity? The film maker needs a PR man.
I doubt it will be playing across the country. The Hollywood liberal mafia will put a quash on it sending it straight to DVD/Video. I mean look at the hell Mel Gibson had to go through for Passion of the Christ. That thing almost wasn`t even released in this country, and I doubtthey would even take a look at a movie that bashes their own messiah, fat bloated puke pig vomit human puss ball Michael Moore.
bump
bttt
Ever see any pics or films of how they used to skin whales?
BTTT.
michael moron hates America ping...
But just getting it nominated would be worth it to hear some liberal hollyweird actor/actress announce "Michael Moore Hates America" as one of the nominees at the Oscars.
Bump for the good guys!
BUMP!
bump
Theater owners want Green.
How about doing the Big Fat Greek Wedding thing? Show it t indepent theaters?
This has too much potention to ignore the profit for hollyweird.
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