"Fahrenheit 9/11" has broken all NYC movie attendance records

[Bozita]

Factoid is from ABC Radio news. (KGO at 2am EDT)

Ain't freedom great?

[FlemingsGhost]

1. And BushCo is returning to the scene of the crime soon!

"Let's Roll"

[TriMetFan]

2. If this is True.

All I got to say is WOW!

Bush you are history.:nuke:

[AgadorSparticus]

4. welcome to DU trimetfan. hope you enjoy it as much as i have.

:hi:

[AgadorSparticus]

3. HOT DAMN! I'm going to see it Friday in freeperland. can't wait.

:kick:

[loveable liberal]

5. bushs intent was to be a one timer

with a republican congress it was the ultra-rich's only chance to destroy what progress has been made. it will take 20 years to rebuild what has been broken now. wait til these stinking baby boomers start dying and wanting decent health care/long term care...they'll try and suck the life out of any generation they can.

[NightOwwl]

6. Hey, I'm a stinking baby boomer

and I want Bush out of there as much as you do. :crazy:

[AgadorSparticus]

7. welcome to DU Night Owwl!

:hi:

[loveable liberal]

15. oops sorry.....

i keep thinking of my uncle when i mention baby boomers...i should know better. My uncle is a guy who was in the marines in 1962 for a couple years...never saw combat, mind you. complains about people who "suck off the government teat", yet during his whole life, his father, my grandpa, was a federal postal employee, who fed and clothed my uncle until he was 18, then he went into the military, another 2 years being funded by the government, then was a county employee for 33 years. and he has the nuts to be irritated by people relying on government. He's the same guy, by the way that says, "you dont know freedom unless you've served in the military". My other uncle saw combat in vietnam and he's not a fascist?

didnt mean to offend caring and thoughtful baby boomers out there...my apologies.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Generational Generalizations are just that...

I'm a member of the litter of born-in-the-60s puppies... who have given the world (you're welcome!) Matt Drudge and Ann Coulter.

And Jack Black and Janeane Garafolo.

There are good people, and ass-clowns, of all ages.

[HootieMcBoob]

38. 1961 in the house!

I'm glad I got to experience the 60's and 70's as a kid. The things I learned then helped me survive the right wing onslaught of the 80's and 90's. It's also helped prime me for our own progressive revolution of the 00's.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. Yeah, having been born in the late 60's, myself,

..I think my outlook and aesthetics were heavily influenced by early 70's children's tv and education, which (if you remember) seemed to include an awful lot of really weird 60's drug fallout (a la Sid & Marty Kroft) in addition to some pretty solid liberal values that you could never get away with giving to little kids across the board nowadays. I mean, if someone came out with "Free To Be, You And Me" for preschoolers nowadays, the usual culture war goons on the right would go absolutely ape.

[Bhaisahab]

32. that's a good story loveable...

and welcome to DU! :headbang:

[leesa]

36. It seems the ones who complain the most about sucking the gov. teat

are the first in line for public handouts. I have a conservative brother who goes on about the "welfare leaches", but he has a job in which he drives truck most of the year but is laid off in winter and gets unemployment during those months, and he remodeled his kitchen using some sort of state funding program.

[NightOwwl]

43. Apology accepted loveable liberal

:hi:

[drdtroit]

8. How true -

Sadly my generation went from caring and sharing to leasing and fleecing.

[FlemingsGhost]

10. Hey, Dr! How's tricks?

Still making "adjustments to the human spine"?

[drdtroit]

24. Actually

More involved in the tonal resolution of some serious rhythmic and harmonic distortion.
Thanks for asking
Peace out.

[Bozita]

13. "from caring and sharing to leasing and fleecing" -- 5 Star phrase

Thanks, drdtroit.

[drdtroit]

26. You're welcome

:toast:

[anarchy1999]

40. You need to make it a bumper sticker, just add Bush/Cheney 2004

on top. Can I use it?

Bush/Cheney 2004
Caring and Sharing to Leasing and Fleecing
Let's Roll and Bring it on!

[pretzel4gore]

33. read 'papa john' by john phillips...

of the fine old quartet, the 'mamas and the papas'.....
no illusions about the 'counter culture'
better if the 60's never happened.
i consider ALL old geezers my age freepers, and most are :(....

[merh]

9. Bush's intent was to be a one timer? Did I miss something?

I always thought his intention was to have the office 8 years to show Poppy up. And actually, I thought he wanted to enact executive order that would allow him to hold office forever (he doesn't care about the constitution or amendments thereto, his executive orders will do).

Said Farmer Brimley to Babe "that'll do pig"

[SoCalDem]

22. Gee ..and after working only 45 years (or more)

and taking care of our snot-nosed "kids", THEIR kids, grandma & grandpa (who never thought they would outlive THEIR savings).. WOW , how greedy can we get, to expect to see some fruits of our labors..

Your pal St. Ronnie of Raygun, boosted our FICA bigtime to "amass a surplus" that would not only take care of the then-retired, but would create a pool of cash for OUR retirement.. We also faced double digit interest when we boought OUR first houses (unlike the cheap interest that you young'uns have now ).. Reagan also took most of the tax deductions away from us...(Did you know that you used to be able to deduct interest payments on everything that you paid interest on?? There were lots of other "tweaks" to the tax code that ripped off lots of people...(this was all ostensibly done to create that magical surplus needed for the boomers' retirement)

Is it really all our fault, that corrupt republicans come along every 12 years or so and rob the piggy bank??

So "cry me a river", and be prepared to pay YOUR share.. WE paid OURS..

[Tansy_Gold]

34. Amen! SCD, AMEN!

Oh, yeah, and may I add to your statement:

Don't forget that us bad bad boomers are the ones who saw 58,000 of us killed in an ugly and unnecessary 10-year war that came into our homes every night over dinner with Uncle Walter, saw the gains of the civil rights movement end up with 1 out of 4 African American men in jail at one time or another in their lives, saw the gains of the gay rights movement start falling apart when homophobia in high places allowed HIV/AIDS to be ignored for years and years and years, saw the war on poverty dwindle from implausible but still possible dreams to a barely-funded Head Start program, saw the first elected president of our generation hounded and attacked and brutalized for at least six of his eight LEGAL years in office. . . . . .

Many of the boomers tried, and tried, and tried, and now it's their fault they got burned out and defeated on so many issues?

I don't fuckin' think so!


Tansy Gold, born in 1948 and still goin' strong

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[merh]

11. How many of the theaters in NYC are Loews theaters?

The Carlye Group is buying the chain.

[TlalocW]

12. What Michael Moore needs to do now...

Is have some sort of outdoor free showing of F/911 every night of the GOP convention, as close as possible to the convention site.

TlalocW

[AgadorSparticus]

14. yes, at central park! what a great idea if doable. nt

[leftynyc]

37. Actually Bryant Park would be closer and they

do show movies outside in the summer on Monday nights. That would be perfect.

[merh]

16. No, he needs to make the DVDs/videos available asap

Just imagine how many people would buy these for friends and family members and how many "freepers" would watch them in the privacy of their own home. The message would get out much quicker and to many more than can see it in theaters if he released the dvds/videos. Too many states don't have theaters that will show it and now they are trying to buy up the theaters. rethugs stink!

[TlalocW]

18. He can do both

But imagine huge crowds of people showing up for the showings at the exact same time that the GOP convention is going on. Then - just by happenstance - after the movie, the people there could be offered protest signs and organized to march over to the GOP convention? :)

TlalocW

[merh]

25. I heard that there is a movement to get Bruce Springsteen to do a concert

during the same time as the convention, to take away the Gops thunder and that the agent has reserved the place and is just trying to get enough signatures on the petition to encourage Springsteen to hold the concert. I hope he is successful.

[dmr]

19. Moore said he'd release it before the election

don't know when though.

I agree with your statement: ... many "freepers" would watch them in the privacy of their own home.

Maybe some will come out of the closet once they see Bush* and the Neo-Cons for what they really are.

[merh]

23. yeah, that would be nice, but just as I am pretty locked into my

liberal, tree hugging, bleeding heart, humanitarian, liberal ways, so too are most freepers. It may make them stay home on election day. That would please me. They don't have to vote for a liberal or a Dem, just say "NO" to Bushco and stay home on Nov. 2.

[neuvocat]

42. I LOVE THAT IDEA!!!

It may break fec laws, but you never know...

[anarchy1999]

20. We need a link, we need to verify, not that we doubt it to be true?

Link please.......

[Bozita]

21. Bernie Ward mentioned it in the last half-hour

Gotta hunch that you'll get those links soon.

[Bozita]

27. Here it is -- Reuters -- "breaking single-day records"

There's a voting option at the end.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040624/ts_nm/leisure_fahrenheit911_dc

Top Stories - Reuters
'Fahrenheit 9/11' Turns on Box Office Heat

Wed Jun 23,10:14 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" turned on the box office heat in its first day in theaters breaking single-day records at the two New York City theaters where it played.


The movie, which aims a critical eye at President Bush (news - web sites) and his prosecution of the war in Iraq (news - web sites), sold $49,000 worth of tickets at the Loew's Village 7 theater, beating the venue's single-day record of $43,435 held by 1997's "Men in Black," according to distributors Lions Gate Films and IFC Films.


At the Lincoln Plaza theater, "Fahrenheit 9/11" took in more than $30,000 to top the $24,013 set by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2000.


A spokesman for Lions Gate Films said the company debuted the movie in the two theaters to help build good word-of-mouth -- friend telling friend -- publicity ahead of the wide debut on Friday when it plays in 868 theaters in all 50 states.

more...

[ContinentalOp]

30. Wow!

That's absolutely outstanding!

[anarchy1999]

41. Oh my, we have 10 tickets for tomorrow night, dead center, Dallas.

This is going to be rich! And we have eight friends we are taking. We are all twitter painted. Remember when.....?
On edit: I feel like bouncing? :bounce:

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
:bounce: :bounce:

[the Kelly Gang]

29. love it, love it, love it

[Stocat]

31. I cant stop watching the preview

Anyone else having this problem I am just transfixed watching the preview over and over again....Its already so powerful....I can not aboslutley can not wait to watch this movie. Hell I might even pay for another sitting.

http://www.fahrenheit911.com/trailer/

[Carl Brennan]

35. We should thank the Frepers for doing their part

in drawing so much attention to it. :evilgrin: