There are some people one this thread who were probably singing a different tune when they heard of campaigns to prevent "Passion" from being shown in theaters.
Let Moore have his speech, and either ignore it or tell the world why he is wrong. But don't try to censor him just because you don't like him.
Me, I'll refrain from judging the movie until I've seen it myself.
Again - EXACTLY RIGHT!
Which is why we write on our website:
"Please join us in telling the movie theater companies below your opinion as it relates to their attempt to profit from the showing of “Fahrenheit 9/11.”"
That's the best way to go about it indeed just as you stated. Speaking OUR opinion.
That works fine when it comes to television shows, because television ratings are not precise; they are more like a scientific poll. The money producers get for TV shows is upfront, and your viewership, regardless of whether you like it or you don't, is not counted if you are not a "Nielsen family."
On the other hand, when it comes to motion pictures shown in a theater, the only way you can "judge" it is after you have already put your hard-earned dollars in the coffers of the filmmakers, and if you are indeed offended by the product, guess what? You're not getting that money back. It's theirs now. Your adverse judgment doesn't mean jack squat to them, because you've already paid them to give your opinion.
For example: I am not going to see the new movie Saved!, the satire that supposedly is "sweetly subversive" in targeting Christian youth. The filmmaker, a former parochial school student, goes to great pains to insist the movie doesn't "bash" Christians, but from everything I have seen and read of the movie, I believe it presents a caricatured subculture of comically stupid anti-Semitic gay-hating judgmental "Christians" (the 'bad' ones) and contrasts them with sweet, cool, Christians who are accepting of Jews (as if that was unusual), teen pregnancy and homosexuality. (the 'good' ones).
Now, I can only guess at what the movie looks like as a whole, but the critics and the filmmakers (including R.E.M's Michael Stipe, who co-wrote "Losing My Religion") all say, "See it, and judge for yourself," fully knowing that if I do see it, and verify my suspicions, I will have had to have paid them to do it, thus coaxing money out of me that they wouldn't have gotten if I had just trusted my instincts and ignored the movie.
Sorry, I am not going to be suckered into that.