Boo's at my local theatre at Farenhet 9/11 trailer

[romantico]

Just saw the New Harry Potter film this morning(The best yet!)& they showed tons of trailers! One of them being Farenheit 9/11.Now, there were mostly kids in the audience with their moms & there were about 3 or 4 mom's booing in the front row when thetrailer started.

Anyone think there could be fights this weekend when they show the trailers?

[Vickers]

1. Hey, fuck 'em.

Stepford chicks, I'd wager.

[sampsonblk]

17. Fuck them twice

I hope there are fights too. That will create more publicity. More newscasts will end up showing clips from the movie and the trailer.

[VolcanoJen]

63. Fuck 'em Thrice.

I'll be applauding this weekend, when I hope to see the trailer on the big screen. :D :D :D

[trogdor]

24. theater employees, more like it.

Think about it for a minute. How many of the major chains really want anything at all to do with a Michael Moore film? ANY Michael Moore film? How better to generate a good reason NOT TO show it than to say, "well, this film is poison. We had people booing the trailer, forchrissakes!" Mothers my ass. :tinfoilhat:

[Finbar]

2. Who's gonna start the fight, the 4 year old?

[bossfish]

3. I hope there are fights....

I've been pissed off for four years. I'm ready to get in someone's kitchen over Bushco.

Where are you located?

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Freepers were at the Harry Potter movie?

I thought they considered those movies "Satanic"? :evilgrin:

[TexasSissy]

31. I thought so, too. They should be reported to Falwell.

And searched to ensure they don't ALSO have possession of that gay Teletubbie (the one with the purple purse, as Falwell put it).

[Mike Daniels]

59. Actually, Harry's pretty popular in FR land

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1146910/posts

The link deals with an article where the author tries to point to HP leading kids to witchcraft and all that.

The majority of the replies from the FReeps call BS on the author's central POV.

You may be surprised to know that many Freeps seem to love the Simpons, Family Guy and South Park as well as jazz, classical and other forms of music and cultural entertainment.

Not all of them are open mouth breathing hicks.

[redqueen]

5. Possibly... was there any cheering?

I think any of us attending movies where trailers are shown should all cheer and drown out the bozos... oops I meant boos (well, to be honest, I really meant bozos). :)

[jean]

6. Those boo's can be countered with cheers

[tabasco]

7. Poor wittle babies!

- Seeing their fantasy world crumbling down around them must be very stressful.

[marzipanni]

30. LOL, I was thinking the same-

they are clinging to the unravelling apron strings of Bush*s "more dignified" oval office.*

* http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4636.shtml

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. Gee, those Moms should be arrested for Child Abuse.

Afterall, if they let their children live under the Bush Regime and think it's o.k then they are UNFIT PARENTS!

[jackstraw45]

9. What state are you in?

Just curious....

[romantico]

38. Connecticut

10:00 am showing & I had to go the bathroom once & when I came back I even walked down to see where the boo's where coming from & there were ALL MOM's with their kids!(I'd say about 3 of them)

[jackstraw45]

40. Good...a Kerry state

Just LOVING that those booing will have their state go to KERRY in 2004.

They should move to Crawford Texas. :)

[redqueen]

43. Crawford's mayor endorsed Kerry. :-)

Please, stop torturing us Texans! We want those shrubs sent back to Connecticut where the BFEE first started its evil plotting!

[jackstraw45]

47. Sorry..didn't mean to mess with Texas...

but I have a feeling you're stuck in one of the (hopefully) few Bush* states in 2004.

Either way, I LOVE the fact that those moms are in a DEM state. Love it.

[redqueen]

50. Don't have to rub it in, ya know

Geesh... like we don't have enough problems with his blockheaded protege Goodhair Perry. ;)

It is nice to know that many, MANY bush party loyalists are in for a rude shock!

:evilgrin:

[PROGRESSIVE1]

62. I know and I am proud of my Connecticut Heritage!

All polls show Bushler with a 20% + deficit against Kerry.

[jackstraw45]

10. "In the front row..."

You mean these are the same idiots who come to the theater a minute before showtime and expect to get good seats?

Dumb freepers....

[Kid_A]

11. They put the Farenheit trailer with Harry Potter?!?

That seems like an odd combination. But if anyone boos the trailer, be sure to cheer louder just to piss them off.

[AntiCoup2K4]

27. Actually it's great marketing.

Yeah, it's a kid movie, but it's a popular movie, and a lot of parents will be watching it with their kids. And I'll bet most of them won't be Freepers.

[Protagoras]

12. During Harry Potter?

You know there is NO movie I'm looking forward to more than F911 but I also think that it's important to gauge your audience correctly when you place a trailer in front of any given movie. I don't really think F911 fits well in front of Harry Potter or Shrek2 etc...likely to provoke an unthinking backlash over reflective thought.

Put it in front of adult dramas and action flicks fine...but Harry Potter? really? That just seems like a damn odd (and wrong) choice....almost wonder if that was deliberate.

[Guava Jelly]

66. Hey a harry potter Slot is a good thing

More people will see the trailor..its who was it that said there is no bad publicity

[chimpy the poopthrower]

68. I was thinking the same thing

Actually, I might be a little annoyed if I took my child to see a kid's movie and they showed that trailer. Even though, like you, I'm really looking forward to seeing it myself. Until they reach a certain age, I don't think kids should have such serious issues to worry about all the time, especially at a movie which is such an escapist activity. I certainly would want to protect smaller children from seeing the torture images, for example. I'm not saying those images are in the trailer. I haven't seen the trailer, and I have no idea what's in it. I just think kids should be exposed to politics gradually. They're not responsible for Bush.

[grasswire]

78. chimpy?

I used to think that way. But then European friends alerted me to the fact that this protecting of American children is unnatural and unhealthy. The world over, children witness war and violence in their lands. Adults of other lands (who wish to God that childhood could be innocent) resent our sheltering our children from the sight of injustice and malevolence. Now I say it's better to raise children to know it and to repudiate it. They aren't going to live in a land that's free of it.

[chimpy the poopthrower]

82. I see what you're saying, but I disagree.

I don't have children, but if I did, I would not let my children see those images until I thought they were old enough to handle it. I'm sorry that children in other parts of the world have to witness war and violence, but I can't believe that it's good for them. It is the war and violence itself that is unnatural and unhealthy, in my opinion. Heck, there are images I won't let myself see, because I think it serves no purpose and would probably give me nightmares. Obviously, children cannot and should not be shielded from everything. I actually think by the time they reach adulthood, kids in this country could be a lot better educated about politics than they are. But I just think you have to teach them gradually and in age-appropriate ways, not dump everything on them all at once. Kids today already have more stresses than I think is good for them.

[Az]

13. Seeing HP tonight so will make noise if the 911 trailer plays

Going with a pack of liberals so we will raise the roof if necissary.

[amber dog democrat]

14. They better get used to it.

Brainwashed / Dogmatized folk can't escape from disagreealbe things forever.
These are juvinile people.
I want to say to them,
Face it, the myth of Bush the leaeder is toppling but its hard for you to know wnen to get out from under.

There are people who still miss Pinochet.

[seabeyond]

15. i am concerned in amarillo

texas. think i will first see if it even makes it here, lol

[Ilsa]

25. All my right wing email comes from family in Amarillo.

My late mom's family. Out of respect for her, I don't bash them to pieces, just quietly delete or "Snope" them.

[rumguy]

16. Let's rephrase that to reflect reality

Three or four evil POS fascists booed it.

[EldreEdda]

18. Looking forward to it

I'm looking forward to see this movie. It didn't win the Cannes price for nothing! And btw, only one in the Cannes jury was French. :)

[redqueen]

29. Hi EldreEdda!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[EldreEdda]

34. Thanks!

Thank you! :) I'm Norwegian btw, so be nice to me :)

[redqueen]

49. Oooh neat!

A Møøse once bit my sister ...

;)

[EldreEdda]

54. OH!

Hehe, really?...;) I hope she's alright! ;)

[redqueen]

70. lol... no... sorry

I just can't control my urge to post Monty Pythonisms... and the word "Norwegian" was irresistible bait! :)

[EldreEdda]

55. My own thread

Btw, how many replies do one need before one can make a thread?

Thanks. :)

[redqueen]

71. I'm not sure, actually.

But I can tell you'll be there soon! :D

[ET Awful]

75. The persons responsible for the above post have just been sacked

n/t

[vicman]

19. Possible, I suppose...

but booing seems to be taking on a subtley different meaning in our society today. What you heard was, most likely, some kind of knee-jerk reaction contemptuous of free speech. But I bought the new Lou Reed live album a couple of months ago, and some members of the audience are heard clearly booing Lou after his arrival on the stage and into the first few songs of the record. Now why in the hell would anyone pay good money to go see an artist just to boo him? By the end of the record, no boo's are heard. Seems Lou might have won the evening. There's much evidence - via current news reports of commencement addresses - that loud and obnoxious booing is a newfound tool of a vocable few who believe that it is worth the attempt to instigate a Pavlovian crowd response which could be capable of short-circuiting the expression of any opinion the vocable's disagree with. Opposing views are simply shouted down with no danger of even being heard, let alone thought about.

On edit: does anyone have a memory of a scene in "Cabaret" in which sweet-faced brownshirted kids hijack a public picnic?

[jus_the_facts]

32. Mayhap they were sayin'...."Looooooooooou!"......not boooooo........

....it coulda been that but only sounded like a boo....heard it like that at many sportin' events as well...like say..."Mooooose!" at a Yankee game for pitcher Mike Mussina! :D

....also the boo's for the trailer coulda been for bush* not the movie itself! :shrug:

[AntiCoup2K4]

39. Springsteen fans have been doing that for years....

Tom Petty said that the first time he ever played on the same bill with Bruce Springsteen, he couldn't understand why thousands of people seemed to be "booing" The Boss. He later realized that they were saying "BRUUUUUUUUUUCE".

[vicman]

45. You may be right

but, on the CD, it doesn't sound like it to me.

Your second thought would be nice. I first saw "Bowling For Columbine" in a packed theater in NYC. The audience was so stunned by the facts paraded across the screen and by the sheer eloquence of Micheal Moore's storytelling that there was no capability to boo at the appearances of Charleton Heston or other Republican "worthies" on the screen.

I guess my contention is, throughout my life, I have observed that positively-focused people, sincerely trying to understand reality and working for change beneficial to the most human beings, never boo anything or anyone or even resort to expressions remotely resembling those disgusting sounds. They applaud enthusiastically when public statments make sense, but they don't try to drown out lies. Are we fighting with one hand tied behind our back? Maybe... but this has always been the definition of true courage for me.

[KansDem]

60. Perhaps what you heard was "Buuuuuuuuuuu(sh)..."

As in "(Let's get that goddamn) Buuuuuuuuuuuuuush (outta office!!!)"

[TheBlob]

36. Boo's would have been wiped out in post production

I'll bet you a weeks pay what you heard was:

"Louuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

[vicman]

52. I hope you all are right

I'll sleep better tonight thinking the youth of our nation hasn't gone completely off the deep end.

Self-serving factoid: during the tour where David Cross uttered the words in your signature, I was with him for the Dallas and Austin shows (and he definitely WAS booed during those shows - I was in the back and there was NO mistaking it). I complemented him on his courage for just stating the obvious. He replied, "I'm not courageous. The courageous people are the ones who go out and protest, get their heads busted by the cops."

Your quote comes from the late summer of 2002. Brave lad, no?

[TheBlob]

58. Hey how 'bout that

I said almost the same thing to David Cross about six months ago.
I saw him on the subway and when we both got out at the same stop I thanked him for speaking out on that CD.

He said it was no big deal, and that a lot of people were speaking out.

I responded "Not in 2002 they weren't!"

Nice guy by the way - AND a "DUer"

[10376173]

37. Lou...

Are you sure that those Boo's weren't Lou's.

[vicman]

48. Listen to

"Animal Serenade" and see what you think vis-a-vis the above poster in regards to uncertain crowd excretions. But it's surley not Lou, I can gaurantee.

[Divernan]

20. They're spoiled GOP princesses - not working moms with kids in daycare.

So they have the luxury of taking their pre-school age kids to weekday movies. They SHOULD be booing a film that exposes Bush - he's the best thing that ever happened to the idle rich! We know that they're rich enough to stay home - they probably have a chapter of FOBB - Friends of Barbara Bush.

[seabeyond]

23. wow

i didnt know i was soooo , hm......evil

i thought i was just taking care of and loving and teaching and nurturing my children. go figure

[Divernan]

41. It's the booing that makes them worthy of criticism.

I have friends who have sacrificed years of professional level incomes to stay home with their kids in the preschool years. That's admirable parenting for those who can afford it. I was thinking more of the women I saw in Bryn Mawr on a snow day last year. They had brought all their kids and nannies (and every one of them had nannies) to a local ice cream palace. The moms talked to each other, ignoring the kids. The nannies struggled to control them - and the kids were running around, screaming and generally acting up like mad - I think in the vain hope of getting Mommy to give them even a glance.

[seabeyond]

42. i know a lot of liberal mommy's do the same

hear you. an issue close to heart

[redqueen]

51. DAMN that makes me mad!

I work for very well off executives and some of the wives don't work, but still send the kids to daycare!!!!!

What in the hell is WRONG with these 'mothers'?!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[shrike]

57. Been going on for generations

Where do you think the Mary Poppins character came from? Women who could afford it hired governesses/nannies for various reasons: so they could devote time to running complicated households, donate their time to charities or simply have time to themselves. These were not working women; they were married to wealthy men.

Hell, in days of yore "Well-bred" women did not nurse their own children. Babies were given over to wet nurses who lived apart from the family. Parents who did this had little contact with their offspring during the first few years of life.

[redqueen]

73. I know, but slavery went on for generations, too

Most of us seem to have figured out THAT wasn't the best way to do things.

Remember the ending of Mary Poppins? Little message there, I think. :)

[redqueen]

33. Check yourself

Spoiled? I sacrificed to stay home with my kids. You're unfairly criticizing an awful lot of moms with your overly broad generalization.

And pre-school? It's summer, dude. :eyes:

[Divernan]

46. School busses still on the road in Pennsylvania & Maryland

this morning. I think it's the last week of school here. See my reply above. I am not generalizing about all stay at home Moms, but it's a safe bet that the booers are staunch Republicans.

[redqueen]

53. I hear ya

Sorry... got a little defensive there. *blush*

No doubt those women were bush party loyalists, and deserve whatever mocking anyone can dish out.

[sampsonblk]

21. This is GREAT!

I have a Bush-loving friend who is going to see Harry Potter tonight. This is the shit! I can't wait!

[Imperialism Inc.]

22. Was it the final preview or was it in the middle?

If it is in the middle and I hear any of that crap I will be standing up and applauding through the rest of the trailers.

[TexasSissy]

26. Those were mature mothers, weren't they?

Good thing they were there, to show the kids how to act in a public forum.

[freetobegay]

28. I would have cheered loudly!

[ronnykmarshall]

67. Same here.

In SF, people have this habbit of hissssssssing at previews. Sometimes for dumbass reasons.

My stalk responces: "Sounds like steam escaping" "Must be snakes in here" or the one when some asshole hissssed during a pre-view of "Evita" (shoot me I LOVED the movie) "Oh Hissssssss my ass!".

[NewJeffCT]

35. Does anybody know if F911 is before every cut of Potter?

I might have to actually see it in the theater, then!

[EldreEdda]

56. Definitely

I think you should. I really hope it arrives in Norway quite soon!

[in_cog_ni_to]

44. Hell, I just might go see Harry Potter

just so I can CHEER when they show F911! Knowing repubs...they will be at the trailer showing...just to cause problems.

[GiovanniC]

61. I'm Going to Harry Potter This Weekend

With a moderate Republican I've been dating. (Yes, you heard me correctly - I'm dating a Republican).

After many conversations, I have converted her to "go McCain", in other words, she still counts herself as a Republican but she can no longer stand Bush. I'm working on getting her to change the rest of her tune. I personally believe she's just a small soul-search away from being a Democrat. Maybe F-911 will be the thing to push her over the brink.

[Justice]

64. Packed Theater - Only 3 or 4 Mom's?

That means everyone else didn't boo - so I'd say * watch out!

[Guava Jelly]

65. I am gonna clap and scream my @$$ off

When i see the trailor.
screw the repukes

[The empressof all]

69. This pisses me off

I saw Harry last night (midnight show) and they did not show the trailer. Oh poooo

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

72. I watched Super Size Me last week..

When they show Bunnypants' photo people started booing and hissing. Now that was encouraging.

[redqueen]

74. Yeah, but it's a documentary

How many republicans see documentaries? at the theater?

I would think T-3 and other non-thinking-related movies would be more their speed.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

76. I know. Iknow. You just had to burst my bubble.

I guess the other question is. How many are actually literate?

[spanone]

77. Ignorance being passed on from generation to generation.

[robbedvoter]

79. Potter's director: "Bush is Voldemart, Fudge is Blair" (clearer in vol V)

Alphonso Cuaron is very cool, R.K Rowlins as well...
And also, Connecticut is W's home state - the one he LOST in 2000 and will again. I guess I should get one of those Bush is Voldemart signs - as soon as someone posts the website - when I go to see the movie!
Here:
http://www.goats.com/store/tshirts.html

[ElementaryPenguin]

81. Right on! I remember reading about Cuaron saying that!!

My daughter (11) already thinks Voldemart is BushCheney!

[keithyboy]

80. They just didn't want their kids to hear the truth and see what a jerk

Bush is.