Socialism and Christian-Bashing Bomb at Box Office

[Grim17]

More good news this weekend!

First we find out that Sarah Palin's upcoming book hit #1 on Barnes & Noble, as well as Amazon, just hours after a release date was announced. Then to top off the weekend, we find out that the newly released anti-Capitalist and Anti-religion movies are crashing and burning at the box office...

It doesn't get much better than this.

...Michael Moore's CAPITALISM tanks!

Disney's re-release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 as a 3D double feature managed a decent $3.7M on Friday, and it will finish with an in-line-with-expectations $13.7M for the frame. Surrogates, also from Disney, will limp to a fourth-place second-weekend finish as a $2.3M Friday will translate to about $7.5M for 3 days. Ricky Gervais has launched his second consecutive box office bomb as The Invention of Lying (Warner Bros) only mustered $2.2M or so to start the 3-day. The comedy should finish #5 with approximately $6.5M for the weekend.

Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It (Fox Searchlight) starring Ellen Page is a disappointment with about $1.7M on opening day and a likely $4.4M opening 3-day, but the biggest disappointment of the weekend is Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story (Overture). After a $57K per theatre average on 4 screens last weekend, the picture broke to a wider 962 locations with terrible results. The "documentary" only sold an estimated $1.3M in tickets to start the weekend, and it will finish at about $3.9M for a PTA of less than $4,000. That soft opening will almost certainly make Capitalism Moore's weakest-grossing movie since 2002's Bowling for Columbine ($21.5M domestic gross).

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It seems that the left is having a rough go of it since Obama took office.

When it comes to books, so far this year, every single one released by liberal writers has for the most part, bombed... While books written by conservative writers such as Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin and 2 from Glenn Beck, have dominated the best sellers lists.

Then of course there's the polls which show that the American people are not only losing confidence in the Obama administration, but also with the liberal agenda as a whole.

Those of you on the left have got to be scratching your heads and asking yourselves, "What the hell happened?"

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[Goshin]

Why anyone would watch Micheal Moore is beyond me.

 

[Cold Highway]

Where is the anti-religion movie?

 

[MKULTRABOY]

Did you ever think that its possible that conservatives have a confirmation bias that causes them to seek out sources that support their views.

Whereas liberals don't need to.


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[ScottD]

You do know that Moore's movie also bashes Obama, right?

 

[MKULTRABOY]

You do know that Moore's movie also bashes Obama, right?

What of it?

 

[the makeout hobo]

Dude, I'm a liberal, and I can't stand michael moore. I suspect I'm not the only one.

 

[Ward]

Dude, I'm a liberal, and I can't stand michael moore. I suspect I'm not the only one.

Your not, I know quite a few liberals that despise him just as much as a conservative would.

 

[the makeout hobo]

Your not, I know quite a few liberals that despise him just as much as a conservative would.

I mean, I remember watching bowling for Columnbine and thinking the entire time "well this is all very interesting, the man is good at mentioning completely unrelated point and making scary innuendos about them, but where's the point, man?"

 

[Cassandra]

I mean, I remember watching bowling for Columnbine and thinking the entire time "well this is all very interesting, the man is good at mentioning completely unrelated point and making scary innuendos about them, but where's the point, man?"

As with most film makers, some of his movies have been better than others. Sicko was very well done and well researched. Moore stayed behind the camera and allowed other people to speak for themselves. I thought he was pretty far off the mark with Fahrenheit 9/11. I did not like it. In any case, the new movie has very good numbers for a Moore documentary from what I can tell, online. I will definitely see it.

I cannot imagine why anyone would watch or read anything from Glen Beck who is neither funny nor truthful. Its sad really. Makes me think of the old saying that a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its shoes on.

 

[Agnapostate]

Michael Moore's movie is ultimately hardly anti-capitalist, as I understand it, and advocates social democracy and electoral reformism. But legitimate anti-capitalists already knew that of him.