Hundreds buy DVD of Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' at AAFES stores

[lebkuchen]

It's selling well in the local base bookstore, even though AAFES has placed it on the bottom shelf.

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Moore’s movie never made it to an AAFES theater marquee. Exchange officials said in mid-August that Moore’s decision to start selling the DVD on Oct. 5 made it unprofitable for them to show it for such a limited time.

Instead, AAFES-Europe placed an order for 5,000 copies of the movie on DVD, said Army Maj. David A. Accetta, an AAFES spokesman in Europe.

When it went on sale Tuesday, business was brisk. In the first three days, AAFES sold nearly 1,800 copies.

“One of my friends told me it’s something I should look at,” Charles said.

In Giessen, where Odell and Charles are stationed, roughly half of the 210 copies at the exchange were sold, according to store manager Greg Hall.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=24842

In the Pacific...

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=24811

Not shown in base theaters, Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11" arrives on DVD

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The highest-grossing documentary in movie history, winner at the Cannes Film Festival, hailed in Boston but banned in Kuwait, “Fahrenheit 9/11” never made it to Yokosuka Naval Base theaters — or to any movie theater located on a military base.

But the DVD version of Michael Moore’s cinematic indictment of the current commander-in-chief and his administration came in the doors at the base video store this week — and went right out again.

Employees of the store, operated by Softland Video, said all 22 copies it received Tuesday were checked out that day, and when they came back, they went out again. The movie was available for home viewing last week at most overseas military bases.

Francis Anglada, a retired petty officer first class who now works for Morale, Welfare and Recreation, got the last one in stock on Thursday around 11:30 a.m. He’d been waiting a long time to see it, and said it was a “scandal” that it never showed in base theaters.

“If you look at all the evidence,” Anglada said, “there’s no reason they couldn’t have gotten it in time.”

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[acmavm]

1. Hmmm. At military exchanges and selling out? Doesn't sound all that

great for Fearless Leader.

The troops are the ones taking the hits. The troops see first hand that they were sent there without reason. Give these guys some credit. Only the GI Joe types are buying the Saddam was an imminent danger crap. And they may not be buying that excuse either. They might just be the kind that think there's some kind of 'glory' on war, like Patton.

[MaineDem]

2. Hundreds?

Looks like thousands to me. 5000 ordered, 1800 already sold?

Oh well... The point is that people are buying it.

[NVMojo]

3. * can run but he can't hide

[lebkuchen]

4. Amazon sells it for a little more than a dollar cheaper

$19.99 at AAFES. A lot of people would have probably already ordered it off Amazon, especially soldiers in Iraq.

F9-11 is #1 DVD today on Amazon.

[JPZenger]

5. If you rent it, return it right away or loan it out

We need to make sure as many people as possible see F911 before the election. If you rent it, either loan it out to someone who hasn't seen it yet, or return it as soon as possible so someone else can rent it.

The DVD includes many extras. I suggest jumping first to the best one - the Condolesza Rice testimony before the 9-11 Commission. It made me even more angry - especially to find out that the infamous title of "Bin Laden Determined to Attack inside the U.S." was classified and the 9-11 Commission at the time was forbidden from revealing that title.

[PaDUer]

6. Has gone through my entire family..

I took my dgt'n'law w/ me to see the film when it first came out and she was speechless, as were the hundreds of other people, D's and R's included, and she rented the DVD to be seen by the rest of her entire family as they passed it from one to the other..My dgt'n'law's brother was next to have been sent to NYC when 911 happened because many from his volunteer fire company were already there. There's no way any of them would ever vote for * and the best part was, the one cousin was a * supporter..

[shrub chipper]

16. My copy went back to College

with our daughter, who is an RA at Indiana University.

She plans to show it to the other RA's who have yet to see it.

[JaneQPublic]

7. It's at Navy commissaries, too

I heard F 9/11 went on sale this past week at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, MD, although it was cheaper at the local Wal-mart.

[jmowreader]

8. This "limited time" excuse is a load of shit

Base theatres are different from civilian ones in two respects:

* They play the National Anthem before they show the movie

and

* They play a different movie every night

AAFES doesn't build multiplexes. You'll never see an "AAFES 12" on a military base for the simple reason that there's not the patronage to support it. (Fort Bragg has about 130,000 eligible customers--which seems like a lot, but there are also four civilian theatres in Fayetteville and one in Spring Lake. Bragg is also one of the two biggest bases in the continental United States--Fort Hood is the other, and they don't have multiplexes either.) To handle the varying tastes of its patrons, AAFES does something a little different--rotate the movies they play in the theatres.

[underpants]

10. Right - our local second run theatre showed it

I can tell you from AAFES theatres in Hohenfels, Graf, and Wildflicken they can show anything they want and the place will still be packed....there is nothing else to do.

AAFES found themselves a nice little excuse but it looks like the MARKET says otherwise. Good for those military families.

[txindy]

9. kick

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. But the troops are behind the fearless leader, so say the

righties....

;-)

Troops are not Stupid fearless leader

[donheld]

12. AAFES = Army and Air Force Exchange Service

for those like me who are initials illiterate.

[donheld]

13. AAFES = Army and Air Force Exchange Service

sorry i stuttered but i didnt think it took

[flying_blind]

17. hehe

[KittyWampus]

14. You Mean They're Not Retroactively Banning DVD Players?

[tabasco]

15. In the military, decisiveness is valued personal trait.

GIs will watch Bush sitting stunned in that classroom and realize what an incompetent CINC they have. Bush lacks any of the values that the military holds sacred, such as courage, honesty, and loyalty.