Fahrenheit 9/11 pulls huge numbers on Friday

[lokheed]

Pundits expected the top movie this weekend to be the Wayans Brothers crap-fest White Chicks, followed by Fahrenheit 9/11, primarily because of the vast difference in the number of screens each is playing on.

The pundits were wrong.

The initial estimates for Friday's box office are in, and the total's are staggering.

Fahrenheit 9/11, playing on only 868 screens nationwide, took in an estimated $8,200,000 yesterday. By comparison White Chicks, playing on 2,726 screens nationwide, took in an estimated $6,760,000.

There may be hope for this world after all.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Michael Moore's mockumentary is preaching to the choir. Nothing but more Liberal pornography for their election year circle jerk. Just imagine if Charlies' Angel III had come out this past weekend. We'd all be singing a different tune.

Calling this a documentray is like calling Apocalypse Now a documentary. Mel Gibson's The Passion probably has more factual basis than Jabba's latest offering...

You know who we are.

[lokheed.livejournal.com]

You know I beleive I already said, and I quote, "It's also not a film that is going to change anybody's opinions. Either you already dislike the Bush administration and the movie will support your opinions, or you approve of the Bush administration and the movie will play as a liberal screed distorting the facts and drawing unsupported conclusions."

So what exactly did you add to this conversation other than crude masturbation and fat jokes? Not much.

[(Anonymous)]

Just trying to let a little sunshine in...

What's wrong with crude masturbation and fat jokes?

"So what exactly did you add to this conversation", you ask? That is my point. You don't want anything added to the conversation unless it is an affirmation of Moore's brilliance. No modicum of objectivity will be tolerated. Any recognition Moore's crackpot, propagandist intention to mislead will be dismissed out of hand with you simply pointing to your earlier post, "You know I beleive I already said, and I quote, "It's also not a film that is going to change anybody's opinions. Either you already dislike the Bush administration and the movie will support your opinions, or you approve of the Bush administration and the movie will play as a liberal screed distorting the facts and drawing unsupported conclusions."

[lokheed.livejournal.com]

"You don't want anything added to the conversation unless it is an affirmation of Moore's brilliance."

Funny, I distinctly remember already being critical of one obvious case where Moore invented controversy (the Disney distribution non-controversy) and posited my opinion that the whole Bradbury controversy was most likely contrived as well. I'm not even particularly a fan of Michael Moore's. I haven't read any of his books, I never saw Bowling for Columbine, and I only vaguely remember watching Roger & Me once about a dozen years ago.

If you want to criticize the movie, by all means do so. You might try doing it with a wee bit more civility, though, if you want to be taken seriously.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry if I came off a little harsh, and I didn't mean to be uncivil. Forgive me if I mistook you for one of those people who were already totally committed to voting against George Bush in the upcoming election, and found Moore's film to be chock full of "information" that just sounded so good it had to be true. Must have been the "There may be hope for this world after all" that mislead me.

I can not criticize the movie. I will never see it and have never seen or supported any of Moore's work--ever. I can, however, criticize Moore. I'll never put a dollar into the pocket of a man who calls his fellow Americans the "dumbest people on the planet" when he travels overseas. I find Moore and his distributor (Front Row) treasonous because they'll accept help from Hezbollah in releasing the film overseas (I will dig up the link to the news article for you, with quotes from the film's distributor if you request, right now I need to get ready for jury duty very early in the morning).

Moore has been a bastard long before Farenheit 9/11. I don't dislike him because of this film alone. My contempt for him goes back many years. Moore counts on his audience being uneducated about what he's showing (ain't too difficult considering what Americans choose to watch every night) and willing to accept everything in his movie verbatim. Hook, line and sinker.

I don't know. Maybe he's right. Maybe Americans are some of the dumbest people on the planet. I hope to God he's wrong.