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Group: mn.politics · Group Profile
Author: Jacqueline.DeepSearchJacqueline.DeepSearch Date: Jul 14, 2007 20:27
On Jul 13, 5:01 pm, "ClassWarz"
WorkingClassHero.Progressivism> wrote:> gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1184345833.185149.189580@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
> || ClassWarz wrote:
>
> | > Insurance scamsters who profit off the sick are battling Michael Moore's
> movie
> | > for every foot:
> | >
> | >
> | >http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10031
> | >
> | > quote
> | >
> | > July 12th, 2007 7:30 pm
> | >
> | > Michael Moore fans impatient to see 'Sicko'
> | >
> | > By Jim Haug / Daytona Beach News-Journal
> | >
> | > Michael Moore fans must feel like they have been denied treatment for the
> | > pre-existing condition of living in Volusia and Flagler counties.
> | >
> | > "Sicko," the ball-capped muckraker's expose on health care, opened June 29
> but
> | > has yet to come to a local theater.
> | >
> | > It won't make it here this weekend either.
> | >
> | > "I'm so irritated," said Maxine Kronick, a fan from Flalger Beach who
> appeared
> | > in Moore's first film, "Roger and Me."
> | >
> | > Kronick said she "called up the corporate office of Regal Cinema and
> screamed:
> | > 'Where's 'Sicko?' "
> | >
> | > Theater owners say they're not trying to censor a politically charged
> movie
> | > that promotes socialized medicine.
> | >
> | > Instead, Dick Westerling, a 1969 graduate of Seabreeze High School and the
> | > senior vice president of marketing for Regal Entertainment Group in
> Knoxville,
> | > Tenn., blamed the lack of availability on the movie's limited release.
> | >
> | > After a first weekend in New York, "Sicko" was released nationally to 441
> | > theaters, Westerling said. In comparison, a big Hollywood movie,
> | > "Transformers" opened at 4,000 theaters.
> | >
> | > Lion's Gate, the distributor of "Sicko," is adding more prints. Westerling
> | > said the movie will eventually make it to smaller markets like Daytona
> Beach,
> | > but he could not say when. His company owns Ormond Beach Regal Cinema 12.
> | >
> | > Daytona Beach did get Moore's previous film, "Fahrenheit 9/11" when it
> opened
> | > in 2004. The anti-George W. Bush movie sold 4,517 tickets locally on its
> first
> | > weekend, according to Bob Cunningham, general manager of N&S Cinema 6.
> | >
> | > But the independent theater has since gone out of business.
> | >
> | > Kronick said she might go to Jacksonville this weekend to see "Sicko."
> | >
> | > Kronick remembers when Moore was a journalist in Michigan in the 1980s
> | > mortgaging his house and taking out loans to make his first movie, "Roger
> &
> | > Me."
> | >
> | > "He asked me to be in it," said Kronick, who was the director of special
> | > events for the city of Flint, Mich. "I thought it was a lark."
> | >
> | > In "Roger and Me," Kronick was interviewed about city tourism, conceding
> to
> | > Moore that "you can't make Palm Beach out of the Bowery," and for her
> decision
> | > to leave Flint for Israel. The movie then made fun of her sense of timing.
> | >
> | > As Kronick recalled, "I go to Israel and the Intifada (Palestian uprising)
> | > starts."
> | >
> | >
> | >
> | >
> | > end quote
> | >
> | >
> | > Call your local theatre/cineplex...tell em' you'll boycott em' forever for
> | > censoring your film choices.
> | >
> | >
> | > ClassWarz
> |
> |
> |
> | Moore is a biased lard asshole, but that doesn't mean you can censor
> | his movies. Who needs freedom of the press when you can have money?
>
> Maybe someday you'll see the bias in rightwing corporate media?
>
> ClassWarz
>
> |
I don't watch corporate media, thanks. I just think a documentary
shouldn't contain a narrative every 5 minutes. I mean the movie is
about health care not Micheal Moore. He won't be changing anyone's
mind who has any political conflict with him. I mean if you were
conservative and watched a documentary about health care as a
concerned citizen but someone is talking the whole way through about
things like how sexy and smart Hilary Clinton is, would you honestly
have any sort of trust in the rest of the film?
Good documentaries contain truth, not over-the-top politically charged
dribble. It was a very good film minus the Moore
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