Pack the Theaters for ‘Capitalism, A Love Story.’
It’s Saturday, and if you’re looking for something to do this weekend that will be entertaining and send a statement, check out Michael Moore’s newest movie “Capitalism, A Love Story.”
Below is an email I got from Michael Moore about the movie and the opening last night. If you are planning on seeing the movie, please do it this weekend. Attendance during the opening weekend will determine how many smaller cities and towns will get to see the movie in the coming weeks.
Much to my surprise, it is showing in Anchorage at the Century 16 at 1:35, 4:40, 7:40 and 10:45 today and tomorrow. So grab a friend or eight, and a tub of popcorn and join your fellow rabble rousers for a rollicking good time!
To find out where it’s playing near you, click HERE! If you live in one of these cities, the people in smaller markets are counting on YOU!
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Thank you, all of you, who packed the theaters across North America last night to see my new film. The movie houses were rockin’! The national movie exit poll company announced this morning that the audiences in America gave “Capitalism: A Love Story” a rare “A” rating! Wow, thank you! In most multiplexes where “Capitalism” played, it was the #1 or #2 top-grossing movie there for the evening. That is nothing short of amazing.
For those of you waiting till next week to see it, I can’t say this strongly enough: Do not put off going to see “Capitalism: A Love Story.” It is not just a movie. It is a referendum that is being closely watched by the CEOs of America. Let me tell you bluntly, the suits on Wall Street are closely watching to see how this movie does this weekend. So, too, are the members of Congress. If “Capitalism” has a huge opening, it will send shivers down their corporate spines, telling them loud and clear that the American people are mad as hell and are not into taking it any more. It will put all the bosses on notice that the vast Obama-voting majority has awoken from its silence and are out in full force.
But if the attendance is just “ok” or “so-so,” then they will be relieved knowing that there is not a popular groundswell of opposition out there — and then they can go about their business as usual. I’d like to send them a different message.
Treat tonight and tomorrow as if it were election day. Blow their minds on Monday morning when they show up at their executive suites, switch on CNBC or Fox Business News, and learn that America turned out in droves to participate in a raucous denunciation of Wall Street and everything it stands for. I often hear people ask, “What can I do to make my voice heard?” Your answer is at the nearest theater showing this movie. Trust me, packing these movie houses tonight and tomorrow will eff them up in an overwhelming and profound way.
Last night, there were many reports of spontaneous cheering throughout the film in nearly all the theaters. Theater managers reported difficulties in getting people to clear the theater lobby afterwards because groups of total strangers assembled to passionately discuss what they just saw. One manager wrote to me and said, “It’s a good thing we carry Gummy Bears and Junior Mints at the concessions stand instead of pitchforks and torches! These crowds were ready to march over to the local Citibank and do something!” Another manager said a crowd in the lobby formed around the little Chase ATM machine next to his popcorn stand and started to “yell at it.” Jeez! (Click here to see some of the cell phone photos fans have sent from various theaters around the country last night.)
Here’s what I’ve heard the most about last night: Audiences were stunned and shocked by many of the things I reveal in the movie — stuff that the networks have refused to show them — even though they have the footage! They purposely withhold this news from you, the public. And because I dare to show it, some networks now refuse to license any of their footage to me. So I get my hands on it and put it in the movie anyway. I truly don’t care. I’m sick and tired of the truth not being told to the American people — and I am willing to suffer whatever the consequences come my way because I showed it to you. Fortunately we have “fair use” laws in this country that have kept my hide out of court so far. There is something so patently wrong with not being told what Wall Street and Corporate America are up to. If you go see “Capitalism” tonight, you’ll see what I mean. You will alternately have your head spinning and then find yourself laughing your ass off!
Much more is riding on the success of this movie than the amount of popcorn that is sold. If we do well this weekend, the studio will expand the film to smaller towns next week. Don’t put off seeing it! Click here to find out where it’s playing and order your tickets now. Call some friends and make a night of it. My crew and I have put nearly two years of our lives into this and I am honored that it has been so well received. Join in on the fun of giving AIG, GM, Bank of America and all the other thieves the shellacking they deserve. And send me a photo of you and the crowd there tonight! I’ll post it and personally send it to the heads of all the financial institutions and the members of Congress. They need to get a clue — right now — and I’d like you to help me send them that clue!
Thanks again, and I’ll see you tonight at the movies!
cool. will do.
Love that man. And sometimes I worry about his safety. He is getting bolder with every movie. In a country boasting freedom of speech, those hiding the facts sure want to shut him up.
He picks the best subject matter, but then he is so obnoxiously biased in his presentation that he loses credibility. He cherry-picks his facts instead of being honest about it. Then he can’t convert anyone to his way of thinking; he just maintains his base. I don’t know anyone else who does that…oh wait a minute……
I’ll sell my soul for tickets. Any takers??
Our one theater in our isolated area is run by fundies. Sicko was finally shown after strong community lobbying, but only on limited odd days and times, like 8pm on a Thursday. Nonetheless, attendance was excellent. So I guess it’s time to rally the troops for Capitalism: A Love Story, as well. Also.
Will there be an open thread available for living blogging Shannyn’s radio show tonite? She starts at 9 or 10 eastern?
Mr. Forty Watt and I will go tomorrow.
I hope we can have a thread where people who see the movie this weekend can post their reviews and reactions.
My dear Spouse and I are going tomorrow morn.
we’re going tomorrow.
AKM, you say to click here for the list of theaters, but the link seems to be missing. Thanks.
Hi! We went to the matinee and I thought it was not just fascinating, entertaining, and brilliant…but scary. A MUST SEE.
just checked the list, and it is available in the next town over. hopefully, I will be able to get there tomorrow.
It’s playing in Altoona!!! Spouse and I have a movie date for tomorrow afternoon. (Suspect the theater will be empty….Repub county)
I am going to see Zombie Land instead.
hmmmm, we seem to have some trolls tonight, go away.
Nothing at all close to me here in red neck MO.
Will go tomorrow
Saw the movie today. Greed rules. Michael Moore speaks and we should listen. Interesting old film that includes FDR’s address to the nation. Please see the movie, it’s eye-opening for those who want to know and for those who want to understand how we got to where we are today. The movie follows ‘Roger and Me’ and Moore’s book, ‘Stupid White Men.’ Serious subjects that affect us as a nation are addressed re capitalism vs collective survival and the deliberate destruction of the middle class.
It is a good thing that Michael Moore made this movie at this particular time. IMO, we have arrived at a place where opinions must me backed up by pertinent fact and where the lying liars must be called out. For the pitifully frightened and the conscientiously bigoted few who are allergic to fact, foxnews works.
See the movie. Change happens.
Lord have mercy on those who tragically ‘want their country back.’
I really hadn’t planned to see it. But I have a friend who is a screen writer in Hollywood and she told some of the same thing a few years ago. If a film succeeds, it’s because it has a good showing the first weekend – that’s what the bean counters look at, not the overall money made. And that is the problem with a lot of smaller films – they don’t make as much because they aren’t shown in as many theaters, so then they never make it to the big multi-plexes.
So if there is a movie that I do want to see, I try to go the first weekend. Or sometimes if there is a big block-buster coming out that I don’t want to see, I will pick something else. Voting with your dollars is what counts when it comes to movies.
Once again, information that it’s essential for people to have if they are to form intelligent opinions and make informed decisions, is being ‘filtered’ through some actuarial formula contrived (and carried out) by some “Grand Pooh-Bah” entity. No one really knows and/or understands who “they” are, but we all suffer the consequences of “their” decisions about which people get to know what, and when those people get to know it…if ever at all. That sucks. Big time.
Odd, isn’t it, the very thing needed to get this film into smaller towns/theaters, is the very thing the movie is about: capitalism, pursuit of the almighty dollar, run amok. If the movie does well on its opening weekend, others will get to see it; if it doesn’t do well, they don’t. The irony doesn’t escape me. beth.
Going today at noon! Thanks for the heads up.
Saw it Saturday afternoon with about 20 other folks. There was a Notre Dame home game so I’m sure that sucked the attendance dry in this town.
The folks that need to see this: conservatives or faux news watchers, won’t see it. Moore has been labeled a liberal from them and they have turned the right wing against Hollywood effectively enough to keep Moore from spreading his message to the people that need to see it.
And Moore’s message is clear – he shows how the R’s and D’s both had a hand in the bailout of Wall street. He is an equal opportunity basher in that regard.
The trailers of the movie are scenes from the very end of the movie. I would shed a tear only to laugh out loud the next minute. Just like a romance, it’s powerful and emotional.
I’ve recently purchased Sicko and his 9/11 movies for my collection. I haven’t seen the columbine movie yet. That will be my next purchase of Michael’s docu-dramas.
Just returned from the theater from seeing CAPITALISM. The matinee audience broke into spontaneous applause for it at the end! I loved the FDR portions esp. There are very moving moments such as families are dislodged and workers are displaced and Katrina footage. AGH. We have so much work to do. I am so angry now about the bailout for the financial institutions. And the Democrats handed it to Paulson against the will of the people! (As a lifelong Democrat, that infuriates me.)
Went to the late show last night, 10:30 P.M. Great movie. I love Michael Moore’s documentaries, and I admire his guts and enthusiasm. He shows America how it really is. Parts of the movie were sad – people losing their homes. I loved the part of the Window and Door manufacturing people having a sit in for 6 days at the plant until they got their money. The part about the corporations getting life insurance policies on their employees was sickening. The families should sue those companies. What has happened to America? Why all the greed? Why all the hate? And, yes, it would be nice to see some rich people sitting on the roofs of their damaged homes once in a while – losing everything they worked for. At the end of the show people clapped. Many sat around discussing the show. “Sicko” should be played again. Sure hope the politicians go to see it – especially the crooks that Moore exposes.
Went to the 5 p.m. Sunday showing at a suburban theater — sparse attendance there but it was showing at several other theaters in the Portland OR metro area where it likely got more of an audience. Applause and cheering at various points — and a standing O at the end.
For those who might be interested in the lyrics of the Woody Guthrie tune that was heard as the final credits rolled I posted them at http://bluebanshee.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/woody-guthrie-song-at-the-end-of-capitalism-a-love-story/
We went to see it this afternoon and the theater was full! The audience was very responsive throughout and clapped at the end (some were standing up!). I loved it. I only wish the people who won’t see this would actually watch it and give it a “think”. I was brought to tears and pizzed off at the same time.Oh my.
Went to see in Anchorage. Was about half full. Very good. I will look forward to seeing it again. It was interesting to note that we were a capitalist country before Reagan. Then the top tax rate was 90% and we had very happy rich folks but also a thriving worker class that also could enjoy a happpy and full life. the question was asked- how much money does a person need? Maybe capitalism has been replaced with greed. Are we now the country of greed? Michael Moore is maligned too often for what he tries to do. I see a person honestly trying to make our country a better place. See the film instead of listening to what the spinners are telling you.