doodledee

That new Michael Moore movie is out and it's breaking records and for some reason everyone is surprised. Well I'm not. And I'm also not a filmmaker. But I'm still fairly confident that if I made a super controversial movie about a topic that people are already nutso worked up about and then I had a public fight with Disney about distributing it and then I received a suffocating amount of coverage from every major media outlet in the country and oh, before I forget, I also win the top award at Cannes, well in that case I'm pretty sure my movie would also be popular. Duh.

Seriously - duh. The only people who didn't think this movie would be a smash are the people who are convinced that pro-Bush forces are trying to 'censor' it. And - go figure - they're also the same people who spent last weekend waiting in huge lines to be the first to see it. Gotta get there before the government shuts down the theater, natch.

I think the whole thing is a scam by Moore. He went through the whole fake-censorship thing with his last book, too. Ended up finding some other group to publish his book and - surprise! - it was a huge hit. He ends up a working class hero who stood-up to The Man. Who knows if any of it is even real? My hunch is that it's not. When the secret revenue sharing agreement between Moore and Disney surfaces, don't be surprised.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Sets Documentary Record [myway]