Comments on: Invisible Conspiracy Dooms “An American Carol”

By: independantvoter

independantvoter — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:29:55 +0000

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.

By: PD100

PD100 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:10:10 +0000

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!”

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:47:30 +0000

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?

By: Randy Brown

Randy Brown — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:39:32 +0000

This is nothing new. Theatre chains have been doing this to Spike Lee’s movies since “Malcolm X.”

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:41:32 +0000

I love how the party of ‘Personal Responsibility’ always whines and moans about liberal conspiracies against them.

By: Enlightened Liberal

Enlightened Liberal — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:07:04 +0000

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?

By: Duros Hussein 62

Duros Hussein 62 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:39:52 +0000

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.

By: White Whale

White Whale — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:42:33 +0000

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.

By: Rheinhard

Rheinhard — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:16:29 +0000

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.

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:04:26 +0000

It is indeed a pity that so many supposed Americans are being led down the path to communism.

What.

By: Xanthippas

Xanthippas — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:01:24 +0000

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?

By: Duros Hussein 62

Duros Hussein 62 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:59:10 +0000

Is she the “McCann” who visits here from time to time?

Question swirl.

Though it would explain a lot.

By: Conspiracy! | Saalon Muyo

Conspiracy! | Saalon Muyo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:52:59 +0000

[...] Oliver Willis, I learned today about a terrible conspiracy carried out against the poor producers of An American [...]

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:50:02 +0000

It wasn’t even that right-wing per se. Ted Geisel was pretty liberal. Just didn’t like communism much, which is fair enough.

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:28:52 +0000

IMO the best right wing political film is the anti-communist “The 5000 fingers of Dr T”

By: jr

jr — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:19:36 +0000

the people that went to An American Carol all dressed in empty chair track suits

By: Strangely Enough

Strangely Enough — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:17:08 +0000

The Ishtar of political satire movies. Sure, they say it’s crap now, but in twenty years, who’ll be laughing then?

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:14:59 +0000

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?

By: michael

michael — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:17:08 +0000

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!

By: The Reality-Based Dave

The Reality-Based Dave — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:55:42 +0000

Modern republican “free market”:
Profits – privatized
Risks – socialized
Supply – monopolized
Competition – consolidated