’)It’s always a conspiracy with them.
Always a damn conspiracy.
No, I’m not talking about the secret plot by George Soros and Warren Buffet to destroy the U.S. economy with the aid of communists, nonprofit groups, the mainstream media and voodoo priests in order to elect Barack Obama. Oh crap, said too much.
No, I’m talking about the fact that the right-wing “comedy” American Carol got absolutely crushed at the box office this weekend and that conservatives are not blaming a movie that’s got a whopping 15% on Rotten Tomatoes (by comparison Beverly Hills Chihuahua has a 42% rating) for the failure. No. It’s the liberal movie theater owner conspiracy. Even worse, the creators of the movie are fanning the flames over this.
You hear the same thing when right-wingers write their latest conservative book club bulk-buying boosted diatribe and then complain about those liberal book store employees doing all sorts of dastardly deeds like hiding their stupid books. I’m a chronic book store patron and it never fails that the latest right-wing screed gets prominent placement at the front of the store in such conservative enclaves as Harvard Square or Dupont Circle.
The invisible hand of the free market has decided, and like the billionaires on Wall Street begging for a bailout it seems conservatives are not real high on the free market in actual practice.
RELATED: Oliver Stone’s “W” is not going to be a fair movie. It is preaching to the converted like me. I would like to see a straightforward movie done on the Bush presidency (and Clinton as well) but the trailer looks funny and I’m probably gonna go see it anyway. On the other hand Frost/Nixon looks really good.
Looky here, stupid. The Eastport 16 theater in Portland, Oregon did in fact sell me tickets to a show other than the one I ordered: An American Carol. I looked at the ticket, saw theater number 5 in large print on it, and went to theater 5. An American Carol was not playing there. I looked at the ticket more closely and found that they had sold me a ticket to a different movie. An American Carol was playing in a theater on the other side of the complex. My only inconvenience was I had to do all that extra walking. What bothers me is that this is an obvious political dirty trick, and that it is a financial fraud, depriving the makers of An American Carol of their rightful revenue. The movie was not that funny, but it sure did show how evil the liberal idiots in this country are. I learned nothing, because I already knew about the things the movie spoofed. It is indeed a pity that so many supposed Americans are being led down the path to communism.
It’s TRUE!!! I bought a ticket to go see that “American Carol” but the ticket stub said it was for “Dubya Does Dallas…. And Detroit, And Denver, And Duluth, And Des Moines, And Dayton, And….”
Classic victim complex. War on Christmas, liberal media, etc., etc.
Well, I’ve heard that the Academy Awards people have already agreed that they won’t give American Carol an Oscar. That just proves there’s a conspiracy!!!11!!
A guy in my office said this morning that “American Carol” beat “Religulous” at the box office this past weekend. When I pointed out that “Religulous” debuted on 530 screens and “Carol” on 1600, he got all red in the face and accused me of “spin”. He was even more angry when I explained how that meant “Carol” lost money, while Maher’s movie didn’t. Heh heh…
By the way, I haven’t seen either movie. I probably will wait for both to go to DVD.
Modern republican “free market”:
Profits – privatized
Risks – socialized
Supply – monopolized
Competition – consolidated
It’s obviously a liberal conspiracy that reaches all the way from Rev. Wright down to the minimum-wage squeaky-voiced teens at the monstroplex!
Say, according to the good folks over at Sadly, No, the author of this conspiracy theory (to whom OW links, above) is Joy McCann.
Is she the “McCann” who visits here from time to time?
The Ishtar of political satire movies. Sure, they say it’s crap now, but in twenty years, who’ll be laughing then?
the people that went to An American Carol all dressed in empty chair track suits
IMO the best right wing political film is the anti-communist “The 5000 fingers of Dr T”
It wasn’t even that right-wing per se. Ted Geisel was pretty liberal. Just didn’t like communism much, which is fair enough.
[...] Oliver Willis, I learned today about a terrible conspiracy carried out against the poor producers of An American [...]
Is she the “McCann” who visits here from time to time?
Question swirl.
Though it would explain a lot.
What bothers me is that this is an obvious political dirty trick, and that it is a financial fraud, depriving the makers of An American Carol of their rightful revenue.
So despite the fact that all you had to do was walk from one end of the theater to another, this dirty trick somehow has deprived this movie of millions of dollars. You also admit that it’s “not that funny”, which seems a more likely explanation for it’s failure.
Honestly dude, is EVERYTHING somebody else’s fault?
What.
Xanthi – as ludicrous as this conspiracy theory is, your comment misses the point. Little Miss “the Hun” is positing that the many legions of good people who queued up to watch “American Carol” bought tickets, walked into the theater, had the ticket torn by the pimply ticket-taker, and walked into multiplex#17 and indeed watched it. But what she is saying is that the nefarious communist teens in the ticket booth sold them a ticket to “Beverly Hills Chihuaha”. In this way, 827 million people might actually have seen “Carol” last weekend, but the f**king dog movie unfairly got all the credit because that’s what the ticket stub said.
If Ben Stein’s steaming turd “Expelled:No Intelligence Allowed” had played near me, the only way I would have considered seeing it would have been by doing the converse of this imagined process. I would have bought a ticket to Wall-E or something, and gone to see Expelled in the complex, just so my $ didn’t register on the film’s books.
I only saw clips and it give me douche chills. For the love of all things holy, the movie tanked because it is a “comedy” that isn’t funny. End of story.
The movie was not that funny, but it sure did show how evil the liberal idiots in this country are. I learned nothing, because I already knew about the things the movie spoofed.
You know what is funny? You plunked down $10.50 to see it.
Ok, you’re going to have to help me out here, I don’t understand wingnut. If the librul theater owners wanted to hurt “An American Carol” why didn’t they just not carry the movie rather than carry it and sell tickets to something else?
I love how the party of ‘Personal Responsibility’ always whines and moans about liberal conspiracies against them.
This is nothing new. Theatre chains have been doing this to Spike Lee’s movies since “Malcolm X.”
So if millions of teenagers working at the box office were ordered to process American Carol tickets as something else, don’t you think one of them would have spilled the beans?
Let them whine. Legions of Teh Stupid proclaiming “They’re tryin’ to cook the books!! Lookie’ hare’, mah ticket sez “Admit One”! That ain’t whut I’m tryin to go see!”
I remember Glenn Beck and other right wing radio hosts bragging about buying tickets to other movies then seeing Michael Moore’s films so they could blast them but did not want to give him any money. If fraud did occur I think that is where people would have gotten the idea.
I was at a 12 theater multiplex the opening weekend and walked in to An American Carol as my movie was not starting for 15 minutes. There were only 3 people in the theater and the movie seemed awful for the 5 minutes I watched it.
I can report that the theater was clearly marked, The film was listed on the marquee outside and the times in the left biased liberal newspapers were correct. I live in liberal Sonoma County in California so you would not expect it to draw well. I can’t imagine any of the high school kids who work in the theaters around here would care enough to go to the effort to try and tank a film. maybe at a theater in a liberal college town that employs college students.