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Whoops, I heard it last knight, but it seems I was way off! I got the last number right, but it was only $8 million the first day. Sorry about that. :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3844573.stm

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The correct box office prediction is approximately $21.8 million for its opening weekend.

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Does anyone know if it's being shown in Cinemark theaters at all? That's all we have around here, and there aren't any showings for it.

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In other news today, it seems Bush has created an attack add to minimize the Fahrenheit movie. The ad depicts John Edwards, John Kerrey, and Howard Dean speaches along with Aldolph Hitler. The uber-liberal site move-on.org also posted a similar ad on their site, only attacking Bush, which was latter removed from the site because move-on thought it was in 'bad taste'. The Bush people refuse to remove their new ad. Lets see how this plays out....

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Bill: I couldnt get tickets anywhere in a 20 mile radius until Sunday, save for really early and late showings.

I thought the movie was really great, and Michael Moore made some good points regardless of your political convictions.

It was very interesting hearing the soldiers speaking, and the letter from Mrs. Lipscomb's son.

To the people that think Moore is directing his criticism towards our soldiers fighting, as the end of the film, and Mrs. Lipscomb's comments on the topic of protestors, you can tell that most people do not dislike the soldiers, but instead the people giving the soldiers their orders. Almost everyone I know supports our soldiers and recognizes that they joined the armed forces to protect our country.

Myself, and almost every person I know who oppose the war do so because they believe that we are not fighting for any reason worth sacrificing the lives of 800 something odd young men and women.

I will support the men and women of our armed forces until the day I die. However, I cannot and will not stand for them to be sent off to their deaths for absolutely no reason beyond a personal vendetta or some other misguided reason.

Cory
Cory

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That's exactly how I feel. I know that these people are out there fighting for the country they love. I have no grudges against the soldiers, I certainly wish them no ill will, while I am totally against the war and the concept of war and fighting in itself. Just like Cory, I support the troops, just not what they are commanded to do.

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I kept saying "don't post in this thread" and "don't get involved," but against my better judgement here it is.

We always hear about the soldiers who are opposed to the war, but what about the soldiers who believe in the cause? Sure a film maker can dig up soldiers who have bad things to say about the war, but anyone can dig up soldiers who have good things to say. My girlfriend's best friend just got back from Iraq and she's in favor of the war. She could care less that they found no WMDs. She saw bodies of innocent women & children that Sadam's people killed. She also got to interact with the families that are grateful for the US presence. She believes that the military intervention is a good thing and so do many others.

There's always another side of the story. Bush doesn't want you to hear from the disgruntled soldiers and Moore doesn't want you to hear from the proud ones.

Mike

ps Bill, you're starting to scare me. You've been in DC for so long that you sound like one of those talking heads on TV :D

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Hey all we should care about is if the Iraqis are happy and they are happy with the new government. Just not happy with us though.

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I thought about going to see the movie this past weekend. However, I have an extreme distaste for radicalism in politics, be it liberal or conservative. So, I decided not to go. I consider myself a Democrat in political affiliation, and I'm fairly liberal-minded, but... the aforementioned distaste for radical politics has kept me out so far. Is this something I should see anyways, or am I going to just be irritated?

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I would say so. All opinions and bickering aside, it's pretty interesting. In any case, the movie itself doesn't have anything I would call "radicalism," nor does it explicitly put forth any leftist ideas. One thing is clear; the point of Fahrenheit 9/11 is to make the viewer think about his/her ballot on the basis of "exposing" the Bush Administration. If you go into the theatre to be entertained by a political essay, then you will find it enlightening at least part of the time. Of course, if you don't want to listen to what Moore has to say, then by all means, go watch Shrek 2. :)

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Okay, that sounds slightly more appealing. Maybe I'll go see that later, then.

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Ooh, I'm so happy right now. :D :D

I just found out that one of my local theaters has started showing Farenheit 9/11. I'll either go see it sometime this week or next, I was thinking I'd have to wait until it came out on video.

And the numbers for the movie's earnings over the weekend have been updated, it made around $24 million.

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I just saw the movie last night at 10pm, it was s disturbing movie to say the least. its disturbing in the fact that so much of the population fell for the stuff (sorry) that was being fed to us, myself included. With the technologies that we have today there is no reason at all that there is any question about what was in Iraq, thats why i bought in. Think about it, in the 60s during the Cuban Missile Crisis we were able to tell if the soldier standing next to a missile was Russian or Cuban, over 40 YEARS ago we could tell that! The classified technologies that the govt. has at its disposal leave absolutely no room for this scale of a mistake. The only think that i learned from the movie was all of the connections between the bush family and the Bin ladens, you wonder why there is so much focus on Iraq and Sadam, rather than Afghanistan and Osama, the one actually behind it all. Fahrenheit 9/11 just amplified my hatred toward B..bush.
I am ashamed to have him as our president, but sadly i cannot vote for 2 more years, so can't vote against him.
You too should be ashamed to have this disgrace as the President of our Nation. Clinton has an affair with a woman, and comes close to being kicked out, bush sends hundreds of troops into an unnecessary war, fails to find bin laden or clean up Afghanistan before he enters Iraq because of WMD that he knew very well weren't there, and what happens to him? The whole thing angers me beyond belief, so before i break something i am done.

Sorry about the language, I didn't realize there was no filter....

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Actually, just for the sake of clarity, Bush sent around 118,000 troops to Iraq :rolleyes:

I bet half of the movies revenue this weekend came from the west coast, and California in specific, because from what I saw, it was in far higher demand than any other movie here.

Cory

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well i was planning on saying something of the effect "to die", but i thought that would be unnecessary, i am not trying to sound like a politician.

And our theater here on the east coast had a special line you had to wait in for the movie, i have never seen that before for any kind of movie here...