Sicko 'n stuff

I saw Sicko this weekend and found it really interesting and amusing (oddly enough, but Michael Moore is good at injecting humor into his flicks). What I didn't realize was that the movie is not about the uninsured in the US, but rather about the insured - and what the insurance companies do (or rather, don't do) to them.

Do your part to help send a message to the rotten politicians - let them know that this is something that people care about. They do listen to $$$ and if they see record numbers of people going to see this movie, they'll start paying attention. Look at how they're all talking "green" suddenly...I'm sure it had nothing to do with "An Inconvenient Truth", right? (Also, I think you'll enjoy it.)

According to Michael Moore's mailing list, "Sicko" more than doubled what industry insiders had predicted it would do for the weekend and, as I predicted, it did indeed have the second largest opening weekend in film history for a documentary (after Farenheit 911). It also had the second highest per screen average for the weekend (after the Pixar animated film, "Ratatouille")... Of course, if you live in Lincoln, NE; Bangor, ME; Reno, NV; New Haven, CT; Columbia, SC; or Oklahoma City, you didn't get to see "Sicko" this weekend either. But thanks to the massive turnout in the 440 theaters who had it, the studio has decided to expand "Sicko," TODAY (Tuesday, July 3) to 200 more theaters! And this Friday, they will add another 100 cities.

I also watched Mission Impossible 3 this weekend (on tv). It was okay, but part of it was fantastic! (I know you're shocked. But I mean it.) Philip Seymour Hoffman beats up Tom Cruise! Totally worth watching the whole flick for that scene.