« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?  (Read 2094 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline CC27

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5120
  • Reputation: +1183/-29
Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« on: October 02, 2009, 01:36:40 PM »
Quote
NAO  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Oct-02-09 02:22 PM
Original message
Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
   
I'm wondering how Michael Moore's new film, "Capitalism: A Love Story" will do on it's opening day (Fri Oct 2). Will it will be packed full of excited activists like F911, or if it will be slow and sparse?

There have been no TV ads in my city (Tucson, AZ) and the only exposure has been Moore on the talk show circuit.

Over the course of this afternoon and this evening, we will see how it does.

Anyone who's been already...let us know how well it was attended and the feel of the audience during and after the film.


 :whatever:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6682408
« Last Edit: October 02, 2009, 01:39:03 PM by CC27 »
Logged

Offline Freeper

  • Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17779
  • Reputation: +1311/-314
  • Creepy ass cracker.
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2009, 02:15:56 PM »
Somehow someone who made a lot of money under capitalism making a movie bitching about that system seems kind of hypocritical.
Then again John Lennon sang about "imagine no possessions" yet he kept all his stuff.
Logged
I may not lock my doors while sitting at a red light and a black man is near, but I sure as hell grab on tight to my wallet when any democrats are close by.

Offline BEG

  • "Mile Marker"
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17277
  • Reputation: +1062/-301
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2009, 02:18:18 PM »
.
[youtube=425,350]RVLMSvWyBNA[/youtube]

Logged

Offline Texacon

  • Super
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12311
  • Reputation: +1250/-55
  • All The Way!
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2009, 02:19:23 PM »
Too bad Mikey's broke and can't afford publicity.   :whatever:

KC
Logged
  Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.  Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

*Stolen

Offline BEG

  • "Mile Marker"
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17277
  • Reputation: +1062/-301
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2009, 02:21:29 PM »

Quote
timeforpeace (1000+ posts)           Fri Oct-02-09 02:24 PM
Response to Original message
1. Doesn't matter, his rep is such that he would make millions with a piece of shit.
   

Quote
Buzz Clik   (1000+ posts)           Fri Oct-02-09 02:25 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. That really wasn't the question posed.


Quote
Electric Monk (79 posts)             Fri Oct-02-09 02:48 PM
Response to Reply #1
11. Your handle and avatar don't fit you very well at all, I've noticed.
   
On behalf of John Lennon, I'd like to ask you to change avatars. Thank you.
Logged

Offline Chris

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1476
  • Reputation: +522/-16
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2009, 02:29:15 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on October 02, 2009, 02:19:23 PM
Too bad Mikey's broke and can't afford publicity.   :whatever:

KC

The fat bastard is getting plenty from CNN.
Logged
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

Offline Odin's Hand

  • is your new god!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5486
  • Reputation: +366/-25
  • Quarters Champion
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2009, 10:10:05 AM »
Quote from: Chris on October 02, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
The fat bastard is getting plenty from CNN.

It seems like he making a guest appearance on Larry King Live every other week.
Logged
"Hell is full of good wishes and desires"~St. Bernhard of Clairvaux

"Brave men are found where brave men are honored."~Aristotle

"Generally speaking, the "Way of the Warrior" is resolute acceptance of death."~ Miyamoto Musashi

Offline Karin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17547
  • Reputation: +1630/-80
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2009, 10:10:41 AM »
Apparently, Moore's movie has tanked.  I think it was because the hypocrisy was so blatant, people couldn't stomach it.  Here is the last entry from this thread, a very small bonfire.  No further response.  

Quote
dysfunctional press  (1000+ posts)      Sat Oct-03-09 01:23 AM
Response to Original message
19. people were "fired up" after sicko- how well has that panned out?
 did fahrenheit 9/11 prevent buscheneyco from staying in power in 2004?

capitalism will yield the same result- more money for moore, and temporary hard-ons for his minions.
Logged

Offline Ralph Wiggum

  • It's unpossible that I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18575
  • Reputation: +2046/-49
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2009, 10:14:27 AM »
Quote
...capitalism will yield the same result- more money for moore, and temporary hard-ons for his minions...

 :rotf:

A DUmmy tells the truth. :-)

I've seen promos for it quite frequently on ESPN & other sports channels.  Don't know why they targeted that audience.  Obviously, it didn't work. :evillaugh:
Logged
Voted hottest "chick" at CU - My hotness transcends gender

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1278/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2009, 10:15:40 AM »
Dysfunctional will soon be introduced to a granite sandwich.
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline Chris

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1476
  • Reputation: +522/-16
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2009, 10:34:16 AM »
Quote from: Odin's Hand on October 05, 2009, 10:10:05 AM
It seems like he making a guest appearance on Larry King Live every other week.

CNN's Headline News channel gave Joy Beyhar her own show and he was her first guest.  Between her and that ridiculous Jane Velez Mitchell, it looks like they're trying to beat MSNBC to the Worst Channel on Television award.
Logged
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

Offline Ralph Wiggum

  • It's unpossible that I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18575
  • Reputation: +2046/-49
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2009, 10:40:29 AM »
I'll take "sparse and apathetic" for $1000, Alex.
Logged
Voted hottest "chick" at CU - My hotness transcends gender

Offline Celtic Rose

  • All American Girl
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4150
  • Reputation: +303/-32
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2009, 10:45:10 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on October 05, 2009, 10:40:29 AM
I'll take "sparse and apathetic" for $1000, Alex.

One of the DJ's on the alternative music station I listen too said she went to see it, and fell asleep  :rotf:
Logged

Offline GOBUCKS

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24186
  • Reputation: +1812/-338
  • All in all, not bad, not bad at all
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2009, 11:36:52 AM »
Quote
Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?

Box office results have answered that question. A total flop.

With a muslim in the White House, it's hard to get the lunatics fired up.

And, with a muslim in the White House, they can't afford to buy tickets.
Logged

Offline Ralph Wiggum

  • It's unpossible that I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18575
  • Reputation: +2046/-49
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2009, 11:43:04 AM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on October 05, 2009, 10:45:10 AM
One of the DJ's on the alternative music station I listen too said she went to see it, and fell asleep  :rotf:

 :-)

I listen to an "alternative" music station often, and they were talking about it a lot on Friday.  Didn't hear a thing about it today.  Typical libs, all talk, no action.
Logged
Voted hottest "chick" at CU - My hotness transcends gender

Offline DumbAss Tanker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 28493
  • Reputation: +1707/-151
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2009, 11:48:37 AM »
How about hypocritical, boring, bound for the $1 DVD bin, and possibly carrying an anti-Semitic subtext?  That's just what I gather from reports of course, I am too much of a Capitalist to spend $10 on a ticket when there are so many ways I could use to oppress the Third World and our own downtrodden...possibly new steel heel plates for my down-treading boots, for instance...
Logged
Go and tell the Spartans, O traveler passing by
That here, obedient to their law, we lie.

Anything worth shooting once is worth shooting at least twice.

Offline Ralph Wiggum

  • It's unpossible that I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18575
  • Reputation: +2046/-49
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2009, 11:56:45 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on October 05, 2009, 11:48:37 AM
How about hypocritical, boring, bound for the $1 DVD bin, and possibly carrying an anti-Semitic subtext?

Linkage?  I hadn't heard that.
Logged
Voted hottest "chick" at CU - My hotness transcends gender

Offline Lord Undies

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11388
  • Reputation: +639/-250
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2009, 12:13:22 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on October 05, 2009, 11:56:45 AM
Linkage?  I hadn't heard that.

You wouldn't automaticaly expect it?  How can capitalism be properly slammed without slapping around the Jews behind it?  Those greedy Jews.  Those nasty awful Jews invented capitalism, don'cha know. 
Logged

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2222/-127
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2009, 12:18:51 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on October 05, 2009, 11:56:45 AM
Linkage?  I hadn't heard that.
Quote
The most striking thing in the movie was the religion. I think Moore is seriously motivated by Christianity. He says he is (and has been since he was a boy). And he presented various priests, Biblical quotations, and movie footage from "Jesus of Nazareth" to make the argument that Christianity requires socialism. With this theme, I found it unsettling that in attacking the banking system, Moore presented quite a parade of Jewish names and faces. He never says the word "Jewish," but I think the anti-Semitic theme is there. We receive long lectures about how capitalism is inconsistent with Christianity, followed a heavy-handed array of — it's up to you to see that they are — Jewish villains.

Am I wrong to see Moore as an anti-Semite? I don't know, but the movie worked as anti-Semitic propaganda. I had to struggle to fight off the idea the movie seemed to want to plant in my head.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/10/some-thoughts-on-seeing-capitalism-love.html

I found this quote from Moore to be so very stooopid and proof that he knows nothing about capitalism.
Quote
Moore said: “Well, capitalism did nothing for me, starting with my first film.”
 â€œYou know, I had to pretty much beg, borrow and steal,” he said. “The system is not set up to help somebody from the working class make a movie like this and get the truth out there.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54833

Um , Michael, capitalism is all about people willing to take a risk with their own money to invest it in some product that they think will return a profit on their investment.  That is exactly what you did, by "beg, borrow and steal" to get your movie done.
 
 
Logged

Offline Ralph Wiggum

  • It's unpossible that I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18575
  • Reputation: +2046/-49
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2009, 12:24:56 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on October 05, 2009, 12:13:22 PM
You wouldn't automaticaly expect it?  How can capitalism be properly slammed without slapping around the Jews behind it?  Those greedy Jews.  Those nasty awful Jews invented capitalism, don'cha know. 

I kinda assumed that he'd blame it on the "Neo-cons", but wasn't sure where he went with it exactly.

Thanks for the info, thundley. :bow:
Logged
Voted hottest "chick" at CU - My hotness transcends gender

Offline The Village Idiot

  • Banned
  • Probationary (Probie)
  • Posts: 54
  • Reputation: +96/-15
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #20 on: October 05, 2009, 01:00:59 PM »
he presented various priests, Biblical quotations, and movie footage from "Jesus of Nazareth" to make the argument that Christianity requires socialism



<p>
Socialism is the exact opposite of what Jesus was preaching.
Logged

Offline GOBUCKS

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24186
  • Reputation: +1812/-338
  • All in all, not bad, not bad at all
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #21 on: October 05, 2009, 01:16:34 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on October 05, 2009, 12:24:56 PM
I kinda assumed that he'd blame it on the "Neo-cons", but wasn't sure where he went with it exactly.

Thanks for the info, thundley. :bow:

"Neo-con" is just a euphemism democrats manufactured to use in place of "Jew", to avoid sounding
like the anti-Semitic bigots they are.

It's astounding that democrat candidates get big majorities of the Jewish vote, despite the anti-Semitic,
anti-Israeli, anti-business philosophy of the party.
Logged

Offline jinxmchue

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3841
  • Reputation: +114/-26
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #22 on: October 05, 2009, 01:38:22 PM »
Quote
dysfunctional press  (1000+ posts)      Sat Oct-03-09 01:23 AM
Response to Original message
19. people were "fired up" after sicko- how well has that panned out?
 did fahrenheit 9/11 prevent buscheneyco from staying in power in 2004?

capitalism will yield the same result- more money for moore, and temporary hard-ons for his minions.

Wow.  Damn.  Ouch.  Hilarious!
Logged

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2222/-127
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apatheti
« Reply #23 on: October 05, 2009, 01:49:25 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on October 05, 2009, 01:38:22 PM
Wow.  Damn.  Ouch.  Hilarious!

Not only that but that post was a thread killer. No other replies after wards.  :rotf:
Logged

Offline DumbAss Tanker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 28493
  • Reputation: +1707/-151
Re: Anyone seen Moore's "Capitalism"? Packed and fired up or sparse and apathetic?
« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2009, 01:55:23 PM »
Thanks thundley, I hadn't been back to the thread for awhile but I see you thoroughly handled the subtext issue.  I had picked up a reference to it on DUmmie FUnnies I believe.
Logged
Go and tell the Spartans, O traveler passing by
That here, obedient to their law, we lie.

Anything worth shooting once is worth shooting at least twice.
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »